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Love the roses, very nice!

• PaulHoule 2y ago
  The path that got to that was funny. One day I went out to take pictures in the Monkey Run Natural area and was planning to take my Zeiss wide angle lens but instead I packed the kit lens from my camera which has a nice range of focal lengths but has really ugly bokeh. I developed a style that involves a very small aperture for wide depth of field (f/22 if I can get away with it) that uses DxO's noise reduction if that means cranking the ISO too high (got DxO at the recommendation of other photogs because I was having trouble shooting volleyball indoors) and boosting microcontrast to make up for the small aperture softness and using color grading to brand the image. 'Ugly' turns into 'opinionated' and even though it is digital end-to-end it comes across like a picture you'd find in an old book that was taken with a huge view camera and a long exposure.