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Brent Higham 3

I met Brent when he sought dental treatment from me. We are still friends….

Anyway Brent is a very good photographer and he has a great eye. I always look forward to seeing his photographs.

Brent sent me an image of a swan and asked me my opinions on some filters he used post processing.

Personally I am not that keen on “art ” filters and prefer photorealism. I asked Brent to send me the raw file and I will have a go with his shot.

Brent has a Pentax K3 and for an APS-C camera the sensor is very good. Its amazing how much information I could retrieve from his file. Substantially more colour information when compared to my Olympus OMD sensor which is 4/3rds size but considered comparable to the larger APS-C file. Thats what the internet reviews say!

So here is my interpretation of his capture. I used Lightroom and Viveza (Nik Software). I think Brent hates it…

Brent Higham

The Original

7 March 2014

Pentax K3 iso 100 250mm f8.0 1/800sec Pentax 60-250 f4

Brent Higham

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The Real Brent Higham

Brent took this photo a while ago and I always loved it. So here it is untouched by me…

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Canterbury Plains

19 May 2014

February, 2010. Road trip with my eldest daughter Jessica.

I was driving her to Dunedin with a car full of furniture for her flat.

I spotted this scene while driving along the Canterbury Straight towards Ashburton. Having overtaken a few slow moving vehicles the decision is “do I stop for a photo and have those overtaken cars, over take me ?”.

Male Ego or Photographic Interest is the decision.

A quick U turn and 20 minutes later a photographic history of that spot in time had been recorded!

I think it was worth the delay in the journey. (Jessica was very patient……)

Canterbury Plains

Canterbury Plains Redux

Well, peer pressure forced me to revisit the picture. I cropped back the cloud and desaturated the cloud so there is less distracting colour. Then I increased the vibrance of the whole scene. Happy Brent and Richard? I think you were both “right”.

Canterbury Plains

As a matter of interest I thought I would show everyone the original scene I saw .

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