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Friday Slide Show: Ducks, Geese, Swans
6 September 2024
We couldn't leave two tiny blown glass figurines for the salvage guy when we cleaned out Mom's house. Who knows, maybe they're Murano glass. Maybe they were a souvenir of Venice. Whatever else they were, we thought they were charming.
But what were they, we wondered. Ducks? Not with that long neck. Geese? Maybe but they were too colorful. Swans? Maybe not with that stubby beak. Let's just call them objets d'art. That don't fly.
But they do pose nicely.
So we grabbed the iPhone 15 Pro Max and took some macro shots with the 5x zoom. They looked good on the phone but when we pulled them up in Lightroom, they were atrocious. Unusable.
So we tried it again with the Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm II R kit lens and the Lensbaby macro converters (+10 by itself and with the +4 for +14). Ah, much better.
For some reason we have really horrible results with the 5x zoom on that iPhone. We have begun to avoid it and regret when we forget to avoid it. Painfully regret it.
One little problem was entirely our fault, though.
Shooting things that are on daily display, we forget about the effect of atmospheric conditions. Like dust. The iPhone macro shots may have been pixelated but they also captured and magnified every spec of dust. We would have been spotting those images with the Healing Brush for an hour.
So before the reshoot, we washed the little guys, wiping them clean with a pristine microfiber cloth. No dust.
We returned to the M2 MacBook Pro to edit these after getting impatient with Lightroom on the 2017 iMac when we edited the iPhone versions. We're doing just about everything on the M2 now. And it isn't breaking a sweat.
Talk about an objet d'art.
