Using the Olympus OM-D E-M5 iii

I love using modern software to stylize digital images, and you don't have to travel to Switzerland to get interesting nature photos for that work. Here are some of my latests shot with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 iii and the M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8 prime lens.

A view of a pocket park in a Round Rock, Texas neighborhood.

200 iso f9 1/400 sec, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 MAX

Here is a Rock Rose, cropped for close-up.

200 ISO f3.5 1/250 sec, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 MAX: Color Film - CF10 Fujifilm Velvia 50

Sometimes adding a texture gets a distinctive look. Cropped for close-up.

200 ISO f1.8 1/4000 sec, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 MAX: Inked texture

In the park I spotted what's left of a personal-size flag tangled in the limbs of a dead shrub. Cropped for close-up.

ISO 200 f1.8 1/250 sec, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 MAX: masked, filter - High Key B&W Warm.


Adjacent to our building are several crape myrtle shrubs in bloom. Here's a close-up with faux-film stylization of one of my favorite black and white films from long ago.

200 ISO f4.5 1/4000 sec, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 MAX: plugin - Nik Silver Efex - Kodak ISO 32 Panatomic X with Border IB12 Type 11.


 

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