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September Apples
5 September 2019
In May they were just Apple Blossoms but now, as we await autumn on Sept. 23, those bright blossoms have become apples nearly ready to pick.
September Apples. Captured with a Nikon D300 at f8, 1/125 second and ISO 250 at 95mm on an 18-200mm Nikkor. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw with a post-crop vignette.
As they grew into recognizable fruit, we unleashed an Olympus 12-100mm f4 Pro on them. We liked that shot but the lens was only here for testing.
So the other day we took the Nikon D300 and Nikkor 18-200mm zoom out to the apple tree for an update.
The interesting thing to think about is the importance of Raw processing software to develop either image into something as crisp as an apple.
On a Micro Four Thirds camera, 12-100mm is the equivalent of a 24-200mm zoom, which is a bit short of the 18-200mm range of the Nikkor (which, on the APS-C D300 amounts to a 27-300mm equivalent). We were happy to see, though, that our expensive circular polarizer fit on both lenses.
Both images got the same post processing treatment. Adobe Camera Raw. We didn't dip into Piccure+ for either of them. We didn't feel we had to.
And, frankly, we haven't miss the Olympus 12-100mm (which, to clarify, we greatly enjoyed) with the Nikkor 18-200mm around. We'd be kidding you if we pretended we could tell which lens took which image.
The interesting thing to think about is the importance of Raw processing software to develop either image into something as crisp as an apple.
We've never seen a lens review that mentioned post processing software. And we haven't read any hardware reviews that advised us to shoot Raw to take advantage of how far Raw software can push the data.
But the secret to these images is not the hardware. It's the software.