Bluebells In The Garden

The sun is out and the bluebells around the trees are out as well. The nearest ‘proper’ place for bluebells is Wanstead Park in east London, and sometime within the next two weeks should be a good time to go. Just have to find the time…

For the tech stuff, I took the first shot with a Fuji X100F and the second shot with a Canon R6 with 35mm RF lens.

The third shot is the same photo as the second one but with sharpening dialled right down because I wanted to see what it looks like.

Sharpness and Colour Saturation

With digital cameras with sharp lenses, there is a lot of leeway to dial up or dial down sharpening, and the 35mm RF lens on the Canon is very sharp. Maybe the second photo is too sharp?

I think our ideas of colour and sharpness have changed over the years since digital images became widespread. Can you think back to imagine the eyes through which you would have looked at images in say the end of the last century?

If you were not alive then, then there are plenty of images in books and online to look at.

My feeling is that as the capability to sharpen and increase the saturation of colours became open to all, so our acceptance of them moved along a continuum to more saturated and sharper. 

I think that with the eyes of forty years ago we would find many current images ‘too much’.

Imagine what it might be like fifty years from now.