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…

The Original

7 March 2014

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

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