Hi All, just a note that a photo I took with the little ZS1 is a finalist in a photo contest,

this one is a credit to the Panasonic ZS1, so if you are inclined to vote, look for the lighting picture

https://www.rci.com/RCI/ or search RCI on facebook

you do not need to be and RCI member to vote, and if you are and RCI member ... you have already seen this!

I posted this photo in my gallery a long time ago, here on LIHD

just glad my $200 Panasonic point and shoot delivered this shot!

 

enjoy

Rod M

still hiding it from the spouse ... battery powered up!!!

Here are a couple results, as a followup to the blog i created for the same reason. Many more are unproduced, but right away i found that each raw photo takes a large degree of exposure editing in silkypix.

I do like the deeper starting colors thru the polarizer -

The stich photo below was a complete failure thru the automated program, so i hand-created it in photoshop...each of the 4 originals had different brightness, so i had to insert them as  layers, adjust them, the "merge down" to more on to the next one and clean up the edges.

As an update, i am working thru silkypix to process the LX3 raw files; somethings can be done in this program, but others need some photshop'in.

While I clean up some shots where i used the polarizer i described, here is a cool early evening shot that for some reason had these incredible colors in the sky - with a bright moon in the middle ... My wife is rocking away in the hammock for the time of the exposure.  And yes, it was as relaxing as it looks!

 

a post from the road, the adapter tube and polarizer I have fitted to the LX3 are working great together, glad I tried it out....pictures upon return. the LX3 also tells me I am on day 2 of this trip, kind of a funny feature inside the camera I forgot I set it some time ago. a note, I chose an aftermarket adapter tube to bring me to a 52mm filter thread size, much more common that the 46mm of the panasonic product - which then has allowed me to use my 52mm filters and with a step ring, to use my 67mm CPL and ND filters from my dslr.