Lavender and Bee : Shot at f2, vintage Helios 58mm 44-2
The vintage Helios 58mm f2 44-2 vintage lens is renowned as a beautiful portrait lens.
It can also do beautiful natural history shots as proven by this wide open aperture (f2) manual focus shot of a bee on our lavender.
Don't you just love the soft bokeh, it was quite hard to capture the shot as the bees whizz around the lavender, but it was just a case of waiting for one to lad on the two lone heads.
No fancy editing, just auto levels , cropping , profiled denoise and a bit of faffing around with highlights and shadows
@quietpurplehaze haze maybe the only term you may not be aware of is profiled denoise. Removing noise is something you do when editing a RAW file . All RAW files contain noise , so you click a button and the ending software knows how to remove the noise based on the camera and ISO . 🙂📷
@phil_howcroft - What do you use to edit your Raw files Phil? I use, for quick facebook or 365 processing, Lightroom on my iPhone. for serious photo editing, Carole and I use the full Lightroom app on a dedicated laptop
@phil_sandford Phil , I use open source software , darktable, rawtherapee and gimp. Open source is like a cooperative of developers who build software for various applications. It's free and cutting edge.
Darktable I use for raw processing and sometimes Rawtherapee. Having developed the raw file I may then send the output to Gimp. Gimp is like photoshop with lots of fancy stuff e.g layers . All my portraits and strangers I use Raw , if I'm just doing a street scene or landscape I may just use the jpeg in gimp as Sony jpegs are superb ( I switched to Sony from canon back in 2017 ) https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.rawtherapee.com/ https://www.gimp.org/
Even my office apps are open source . "Libre office "
I used to have a Linux / Ubuntu operating system but became a Mac book user a few months ago
@phil_sandford pleasure , I do not do much serious editing , I don't do layers or sky replacement , just levels ,cropping , recovering highlights and shadows , maybe clone an object out and sometimes brighten eyes . Only a few minutes for a shot posted .
@beryl thanks beryl , it is a lovely shot :)
Thanks for the explanation Phil! I was imagining it as a French pronunciation rather than de-noise and I shoot jpeg...
Darktable I use for raw processing and sometimes Rawtherapee. Having developed the raw file I may then send the output to Gimp. Gimp is like photoshop with lots of fancy stuff e.g layers . All my portraits and strangers I use Raw , if I'm just doing a street scene or landscape I may just use the jpeg in gimp as Sony jpegs are superb ( I switched to Sony from canon back in 2017 )
https://www.darktable.org/
https://www.rawtherapee.com/
https://www.gimp.org/
Even my office apps are open source . "Libre office "
I used to have a Linux / Ubuntu operating system but became a Mac book user a few months ago