A Branch Brook Park Fall

Branch Brook Park, Fall, Converted with SilkyPix 4.0

Branch Brook Park, Fall, Converted with Adobe Lightroom 3

A Branch Brook Park Fall. This photo shows a bit of the restful and inviting fall foliage in Branch Brook Park, Belleville, New Jersey. The fall colors in this scene are more subtle than bold, and full of texture and pattern. This was captured on the Belleville side of Branch Brook Park (Newark, Belleville, just past the baseball fields. I placed the camera very low to the ground to get a more foreground detail

Digital camera sensors seem to have a hard time with fall foliage when shooting raw. The images usually tend to look drab, with little contrast. To get a good image usually requires enhancing contrast, adding saturation, especially to the reds. oranges, and yellows, and being careful not to over-sharpen so that images look realistic. I converted the same raw Canon 10D using SilkyPix 4.0, and Adobe Lightroom 3. The SilkyPix image shows the default colors using the “Film Color V2″ setting (a vivid color profile that is said to mimic Velvia, and by manually getting the best color I could from editing the raw file in Adobe Lightroom 3 after a bit of tweaking. Which image is preferable to your eye? While Lightroom is a very capable and flexible program, the default selections in SilkyPix make it very to get vivid images in seconds.