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Last year we were fortunate to attend the Olympics on super saturday (Jess Ennis, Mo Farah etc), although we went in the morning session, something to savour one of the most memorable days.
The previous day we visited the NaturalHistory museum. I only had my Olympus Pen with kit lens. Over all it was OK, tho I'm not enamoured by its noise levels in the shadows (I had to use quite sophisticated methods to remove). This was three sets of HDR brackets one stop apart (well exposure blending to be accurate), all hand held and blended to remove moving people.
I wanted some human content, to give context (there are 2 actually, see if you can spot the other), whether Darwin would see this as an evolution of the Homo Sapien species is open to question. (for those that dont know that is a statue of the Great man down below).
This is a bit of preparation for a forthcoming trip where I hope to get some similar image.
| Brand: | Olympus |
| Camera: | Olympus E-PL1  Check out Olympus Image Space! |
| Lens: | OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 L |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 3 Aug 2012 - 2:09 PM |
| Focal Length: | 14mm |
| Aperture: | f/4.5 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/320sec |
| ISO: | 250 |
| Title: | Evolutionary |
| Username: | 
Nick_w |
| Uploaded: | 28 Jan 2013 - 12:35 PM |
| Tags: | Architecture, Natural history museum, Photo journalism, Portraits / people |
| Votes: | 62 |
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One of my regular haunts. You've certainly done it justice here. But how on earth did you get a shot with only one person in it (statues aside)? It's crawling every time I go there. 
Pity you didn't put the mono up here as a version. I don't have another channel. 
Chris, I will load it in its own right at a later stage (just spotted a very minor thing that needs tweeking).
As for only one person well I cheated.
I took a total of 9 images (3x -1,0,+1) then I blended each set, to retain highlight & shadow detail. There were quite a few people moving about, but between the three sets they were all in different positions, apart from this guy who didn't move a muscle. (if you look carefully there is another person- i could have removed him but I think he adds to it - maybe not at 1000px). It sounds tricky but its not, from loading the resultant three layers up - EDIT>Align Layers, to removing unwanted personnel took less than a minute (there was a bit of a leg of one guy I had to clone - that took far longer, and I doubt anyone would have seen it 
). I saw a tutorial years ago on it in an American photo mag, and have used it a couple of times.
Quote: That little camera done well or was it the processor of the image
Its Ok Les and great when travelling light, but when I get it on screen at 100% (as I do when looking for minor niggles) I can tell the difference, I had to do some noise reduction, then mask it for the shadow areas, or I would have lost detail.
When looking at it I kept thinking "oh for my proper camera" - maybe next time, but for camera and lens it cost less than a third of a Nikkor lens I can't complain.
I love the warmth of the light here - but the guy in the garish clothing will probably look better in a mono version 
Anne
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