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Unedited Photos*

Here’s a gallery of unedited photos, but I say that with an asterisks. This camera isn’t your traditional camera so post processing does require you to make a final choice on a starting focus point and aperture. Some come straight out of the camera just fine, but others need some tweaking.

NOTE: You can stop the videos and just click around the image to see the focus change. You can also click and drag in circles to see a 3D effect on some images.

If you show the info bar in the slideshow below you’ll see more info about the shot and what I did to it after the fact:

Here’s some others that I’d like to say a few words about:

This one looked great on the LCD but a little soft on the nearby flower on the computer. I was really bummed out as my wife really wanted to print it but that won’t be worthwhile. Nevertheless, it still is a fun online image for changing the focus and it does have a nice 3D effect.

I couldn’t help but enhance the color on this one a little bit more despite the fact that I wasn’t able to position myself in a better spot to get a more interesting shot. I left the aperture at f/2 so you can play with focus shifting, but I’d probably change it to f/11+ and clean up the distractions if it weren’t for the review.

I was frustrated that this image from a bracketed set looks so bad despite its 1/800 sec shutter speed. I tapped the tree and did a bracketed shot, but none from the set came out. I also couldn’t fix the focus after the fact so it was a total fail. Sadly I had about 20 photos like this that were a complete loss.

I took this shot of my ugly feet as a joke but surprisingly it was one of the sharpest foreground images I had. It’s also a great example of focus shifting, so I’m sad I didn’t get someone with better feet for this shot!

As a 3D image, this is probably my favorite thanks to the leaves at the top of the orange flowers. When you shift the image around they appear to jump out of the screen.

This shot suffers from what seems to be a minimum focus distance issue despite me being far enough away to get my desired results with a typical DSLR and a 70-200mm lens. This was a common problem that plagued a bunch of the 300+ photos I took.

This is what happens when you try too hard to get the perfect orange blue histogram when the camera will have none of it. You start with a blurry picture but you can click on something and things come into focus. I could have fixed this before uploading but I included it an a couple other examples to illustrate this issue.

Here’s a 30mm shot that can take in a lot of scenery, but compare that to the 250mm zoom below…

You can get close with a full 250mm zoom, but the lens doesn’t appear to be up to the task as 1/3200 at ISO 100 results in a very soft image

On the rear LCD, I thought I had nailed this shot as a good focus shifting example, but I was sad to see that the foreground flamingo never really gets crisp sharp. At 1/1600 sec, it should have been!

Don’t use Shade White Balance – it’s pretty hideous!

It should be noted that the for the overly yellow forest shots that I was using the Shade white balance – I regretted that. While I could have fixed that in post-processing, I uploaded what I had taken without any modifications – exactly as they came out of the camera unless otherwise noted. These were the first shots I took so my experience with this camera was as good which is why the shots are overall pretty bad.

The only place I could get high ISO shots on my trip was in this church, but even at ISO 640 here there are lots of chromatic aberrations and noise that left me very disappointed in this camera and lens combo

My apologies that the online viewer doesn’t show the EXIF for the images. Sadly it will only allow minimal captions. There’s also no mechanism for rearranging the order so you are out of luck if you make changes as I did. As a result, it’s important for you to do your upload all at once.

Click here to see a full gallery of images that are way better than mine, or visit https://pictures.lytro.com/lyt-45716874648267/albums/178268 for a full gallery of my images in a web browser. If possible, use the advanced viewer for the best experience.