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Camera: X-H2

Lens: Fujifilm 27mm f/2.8 & 16-80f/4  

Settings: Custom Recipe using Classic Chrome as base

Description: I just got my X-H2 and love the colours and dynamic range. 40MP allows me to crop as much as I want and still retain details. Loving it.

I have always been an Olympus user, switching to X-H2 from my E5 and OMD EM5 has been such a bliss! I still love my OMD EM5, but the amount of dynamic range and colour reproduction of X-H2 camera JPEG has blown me away.

Indian summer in NL (own photo, enhanced with Luminar Neo)

II'm trying to get back into photography. Everything is shot on my X-T20 (using the 23mm f/2 or 35mm f/2) and post-processed in Luminar. I try to EDC the camera so I can learn faster

R8 RF200-800mm RF1.4X (4614X3076) (1120mm,f13,1/400,iso1600) Handheld and post processed with Luminar Neo

Shot with an old Pentax Q-S1, 4.65 crop factor. 3 shots into HDR merge in Luminar Neo. I’m happy with this result overall.

Sometimes yard sale/thrift store camera shoppers purchase cameras that still have film in them (or digital cameras with the SD card still inside). This has happened to me several times;when buying an old camera, I always try the rewind lever. More often than not, the film is useless, but sometimes I have found some nice images. Here is a small sample of photos developed from film found in old cameras (an Agfa Karat 35, a Kodak Retina II). I find this fascinating as it provides a direct view of life many years ago. All images have been enhanced a little with Luminar Neo (NO AI enhancements, just contrast/saturation/white balance) after scanning because old film, well, fades.

I found the photos on an old backup I took in Darwin NT (Aust) 2012. I was passing through myself at the time but stopped to take some photos from a vantage point at the end of one of the runways. I know there was some kind military games at the time but I don't know who the planes belong to. They've been tidied up in Lightroom/Luminar Neo (dust spots etc)

The Iris Nebula (aka: Caldwell 4 (C4), NGC 7023) is a wonderful example of an open star cluster associated with a reflection nebula. It is located in Cepheus. It has very dark lanes within the nebular glow. The surrounding field has a dim glow from outlying sections of the nebula. NGC 7023 lies in a region of the Milky Way darkened by dust, within which the nebula is embedded. It is about 6 light-years across, and 1,300 light-years away.

Within the Iris, dusty nebular material surrounds a massive, hot, young star (HD 200775) in its formative years. Central filaments of cosmic dust glow with a reddish photo-luminesence, as some dust grains effectively convert the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. But the dominant color of the nebula is blue, a characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight.

Dark, obscuring clouds of dust are also present and can lead the eye to see other convoluted and fantastic shapes. There is also an open cluster of stars associated with NGC 7023, known as Collinder 427. This loose open cluster is located on the west side of the reflection nebula, within the dark region above the "petal" structure of the Iris.

Taken from North Phoenix, AZ (10, 11 Sept 2026); Bortle +8
I took ~600 images (2 sessions) and used 386, 60s each, gain 60 & 80,
Edited with Luminar Mobile and iPad

been going back and forth on this lately. sometimes a shot just feels like it needs to lose the color to hit harder, other times stripping it out kills the whole mood. do you usually know while shooting, or does it come out in post?

Positive Film recipe, then some minor JPG edits in Luminar. On this trip I took my GR III as my only camera and left my Sony A6600 + lens at home and it continues to impress me with sharpness and portability!

Sony a6700+Sigma 18-50. Happy with the picture itself but could have done a better job at editing.

Edited using Luminar Neo.