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Gigue

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A happy spring dance that I spontaneously captured today across the street and duly slid in Color and Analog Efex for Sliders Sunday. There's a bedding of snowdrops in one of the front gardens in my street which reliably announces spring's arrival each year. Not that we needed that hint this past week because it has been beautifully warm and sunny, and only the chilly wind was a reminiscence of winter. Alas, temperatures will drop considerably again next week but let's be fair, March has only just begun.

One of my favourite filters in Color Efex is "Brilliance and Warmth" which has the "Perceptual Saturation" slider. The latter often brings out the most unexpected hues in an image. For a natural look, it's best to use it carefully, but here, it brought a cheerful, "bouncy" note to the image, and since it's Sliders Sunday, I went in a little bolder with that particular slider than  I usually would. 

The colour burst also corresponds well with the weirdly-coloured chromatic aberrations of the 20mm F/1.4 lens that I couldn't completely remove in LR. I don't know, if I got a de-centered or otherwise faulty copy back in 2020; in every other respect, the lens is beautiful, so I decided to see the chromatic aberrations as a special "characteristic" of that lens.

 I also added a hint of fine, small grain in LR because LR Raw Denoising (not that the original image had been that noisy) made the image look too clean and therefore, a little "clinical".

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!

Taken on: February 9, 2025

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Camera: OM Digital Solutions OM-3, f/1.4, 1/10000 sec, 20mm (=40mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	OM Digital Solutions OM-3
Lens:	OM 20mm F1.4
Aperture:	f/1.4
Exposure Time:	1/10000 sec
Focal Length:	20mm (35mm equivalent: 40mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.2 (Windows)
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