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INTO THE LIGHT I – Flying Threesome's Joint Venture

            ► █░▓    NINE DAYS AFTER, let's revive the first day of the spring in Holland! The end of it above the canal Van Steenenhoek prompted me to put the recently acquired E-M1 on a handheld sunset ordeal. This is taken exactly 15 minutes before the astronomical sunset that happened at 271° obscured by the clouds.

But the camera did fine, the torture was for me to come. I was struck-and-stuck by the first edit. Developed from RAW and edited in Affinity. Checking the jpeg, the latter is infinitely sharper and has more detail in the blow-out section of the image. Additional sharpening of my raw in IrfanView (unsharp mask + sharpen) helps as usual, but not fully and the blown-out section remains as such. The details there cannot be retrieved. Perhaps it is my very modest hardware, but this was discouraging to do further development with this software. On the other hand, the RAW has obvious potential. But makes me doubt my own capabilities. Most of all, sharpening seems to be the problem, and fringing, although I use the proper procedures within Affinity, like Detail Refinement, Clarity, Unsharp Mask and High Pass filter.

But we don't give up lightly! Tried, collected, one more time. This time I took chromatic aberration not for granted. Found out that it had strangely ruined my first edit causing excessive fringing. Skipped it, and came with this image in the end. I am confident now I can handle sharpening better, but not quite. The problem was that I was way too offish and restrained with the sliders - I would go to 10 when it needed 40 or 60, for instance. But this would still benefit from additional sharpening. 

Olympus OM-D E-M1, Olympus M.40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R "plastic fantastic" wide open at 40mm, F/6.3 (aperture priority), ISO 200, WB Auto, 1/320 of a second, underexposed ⅓ of a stop.

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Taken on: March 20, 2024

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