W/NW: Post processing saves the day

[greyelm]

I was playing around with my old Leica Hektor 135mm attached to my Lumix GF1 when I snapped some birds in my back garden. At my age hand holding an equivalent of 270mm is not a good idea. Post processing with Lightroom 3 of a small crop (5% of original) gave me this below, for me it 'saved the day'. Let's see some of yours.

 

[krötenblender]

Yes, I sometimes have that. This one was a few days ago:

I often shoot while riding my bicycle (I call that "Drive by Shootings", you know... 🙄 although I'm not nearly in the same class as David Bradford). This car just passed by when I came back from work and I was fast enough to get the shoot, but not good enough to catch it in whole and as perfect as I wish I had. But at home I put the image on my iPad and played a little bit around with a new image processing app, I just installed, and this is, what I got. Now I'm quite pleased with it. Just a little bit of cropping, some colour-filters, done. The cropping did most of it. The original is just boring.

 

[ornate_wrasse]

I took my R-D1 to the local rodeo and took this shot. It came out much too dark to be useable:

Enter Capture NX software. Normally I use this software to process raw NEF images taken with my D300. However, this time I used Capture NX to improve the image, which was shot in jpg only. I was able to lighten it considerably so that, while it wasn't a top quality image, at least it was useable:

I conclude, therefore, in keeping with the topic of this thread, that "post processing saves the day".

Ellen