art filters

Ok - Today I read most of the book for my new Olympus OMD EM10 camera and tonight I went out and took a few photos to try out this camera. It has quite alot of art filters that you select if shooting JPG and it gives a in camera effect. This was an art filter that is selected prior to taking the photo and is called Dramatic tone.
which drastically lift up the details in the shadow region, while toning down significantly the brightness in the highlight region. Basically what the filter is trying to do is to balance up the dark and bright areas, but at a very extreme margin that the image will most likely turn out looking very unnatural. The lighting balance has been heavily manipulated, and the colour saturation has also been boosted, along with the overall contrast of the image. The overall outcome is a very punchy, strong, vividly surreal looking image.

This is JPG straight from the camera with no alterations apart from slight straighten.. Quite funky I might say