A Bit o' Color

DxO OpticsPro Playground

I've been playing with a trial version of DxO's photo processing application OpticsPro 10, and rather like what I see. These are pretty much random photographs from my collection, processed during the first few days of November, 2014.
A Bit o' Color

A Bit o' Color

01 Nov 2014 1 222
Roxand Township, Michigan
All in a Line

All in a Line

01 Nov 2014 2 3 199
Roxand Township, Michigan. I'll admit to some mixed feelings about that farmyard in the background. Playing with some trial photo-processing software today (that would be DxO OpticsPro.)
Feeding the Cattle

Feeding the Cattle

02 Nov 2014 1 1 233
I drove to this location intending to get a shot of the clouds, but as you can see the sky's blown out. So I mostly chopped it. What remains will do, methinks. (Looks better if you lightbox it: Press Z.)
Sky Over Field

Sky Over Field

02 Nov 2014 224
So I moved along a bit and caught the sky!
Grace Highway

Grace Highway

02 Nov 2014 1 216
That's a golf course (Sunfield's Centennial Acres) on the left. Somehow I lived a couple miles from this road for about 20 years without noticing it. Well, I know it's there now.
Corn by the Roadside

Corn by the Roadside

02 Nov 2014 228
About ready to harvest.
A Peculiar Barn

A Peculiar Barn

02 Nov 2014 2 242
At the corner of McWhorter Highway and Shaytown Road, rural Sunfield, Michigan. Not sure what this was originally intended to be, but it's certainly an interesting structure.
Big Wheels @ Hartwick Pines

Big Wheels @ Hartwick Pines

04 Jul 1965 1 171
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. This photo's my father's, taken sometime in the early 1960s; I scanned this from a slide. I've posted a version of this pic before . Some of the difference is that I'm better at this now than I was a decade ago.
A Bit of Color Along the Grand

A Bit of Color Along the Grand

30 Oct 2014 1 217
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Another photo from last week's wander along the Grand in Grand Ledge. I was basically playing with the sliders, here, trying to turn a dull day into something brighter. I think it came out well.
Barn on Mulliken Road

Barn on Mulliken Road

01 Nov 2014 2 1 178
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Another photo from last week, this barn's in Roxand Township, south of Mulliken. The object was to bring out the details in the wood without butchering the color palette. I succeeded, but paid for it a little by losing details on the roof.
Geranium Basket

Geranium Basket

14 Jul 2012 1 190
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Both flower shots were from the same Daily Flower Census, which is what I call my habit of wandering the yard shooting pix. My processing objective in this case was to move the Nikon image toward a Sony color palette. The jury's still out on that, methinks.
Daylilies

Daylilies

14 Jul 2012 177
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Both flower shots were from the same Daily Flower Census, which is what I call my habit of wandering the yard shooting pix. My processing objective in this case was to duplicate the processing I've been doing in Aftershot Pro. I'm able to do that, but it may not be the best approach.
Arcadia Lookout

Arcadia Lookout

27 Sep 2011 222
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. One of the features DxO is advertising for the 10th version of OpticsPro is a technology they call ClearView , a haze removal tool. This is a test: Compare a version I posted of this photo a few years back , processed using Photoshop Elements. The new version's better.
North from Sleeping Bear

North from Sleeping Bear

25 Sep 2011 1 2 260
I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Another photo from the same vacation, again testing the OpticsPro's ClearView feature. It seems to work, even on a JPG original.
Joan with flat rock

Joan with flat rock

07 Aug 2000 1 202
Continuing with my OpticsPro experiment. This is Joan in August of 2000, more or less at a town named Betsy on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. That's Lake Superior in the background. I shot this with my N90s and scanned it from a negative. Still playing with the OpticsPro software. The object here was to recover Joan's face, which is heavily shadowed in the TIF version. Good enough.
Horse

Horse

03 Nov 2014 196
And a neat fence, which features more obsolete farm equipment than some good museums. Up the hill from Webber Dam in Ionia County, Michigan.
Webber Dam

Webber Dam

03 Nov 2014 1 1 276
Everywhere I go I find the Grand River. Or something. Upstream from Lyons, Michigan.
Election Day

Election Day

04 Nov 2014 1 236
They evicted the fire equipment so we could use the fire barn for a polling place. So I took pix of the trucks.
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