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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Processing Balloons Over St Kilda Road

I took a nice shot of hot air balloons over St Kilda Road at sunrise this morning. And finally I'd decided to play around with some settings and filters and carefully compare the results over the same photo. Not sure how I never got around to this before.

As it turns out (further to some noise reduction and sharpness experiments last night), it actually seems like it's best to not use any noise filtering, and not attempt to fiddle with sharpness settings at all. As long as the ISO is very low, things come out fine without any need to twiddle those things. And for cityscapes and general daylight photography (where I don't need a particularly fast shutter speed), the camera essentially gets it perfectly right by default.

Other than this, I've also played around with a couple of art filters, saturation, and other settings. Here are the results:

No Processing

Auto Tone Correct

Maximum Sharpness Applied

Saturation +20

Pin Hole Filter

Pop Art Filter

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