I still have a little fever and a running nose, but today I couldnāt avoid going out on the terrace to water the sage. And while I was out there, in the cold, I shot a quick photo of my bitter orange tree from above. By now the oranges are almost ready to make the marmalade.
The sharpening or denoise* used and the lack of definition on the close range** part of the image is a little bit unsettling for me but I take the time to comment because I like the exposition and the colour rendering. Did you use colour balanceās channel mixer or colour zone ? (or maybe a LUT)
- for example clouds at the right side of the ear of the cow
** Grass at the bottom of the image is quite āmushyā 7.1 aperture seems appropriately small though.
From the metadata I read that you shot @ 1/800 200Iso F7.1 maybe given the m4/3 sensor a 100ISO 1/200 F10 would have mitigated some of the imperfections, I donāt know the diffraction performance of your lens thou.
Overhaul without pixel peeping the picture is quite appealing 
Just looking on my phone at the moment but I love the graphical quality, clarity, balance and color separation of this image. Everything is just there, in the correct proportion. Middle of the day? Yes. āHarshā light? Well, yes, technically. Does it matter? Not a bit. Golden hour light wouldnāt have the same impact.
I like this shot, looking forward to seeing it on my computer.
[update] On my calibrated monitor it has a bit more LUT-ish look than on my phone. The sky is slighly more cyan-ish (cyanical? LOL), the cowās brown a tad brighter and the grass more light golden. Who knows whatās happening to it on my phone (Google Pixel 4a), but it still looks good on both.
I love images like that, puts the works of man into glaring perspective. This is not a new image, but is my best example of that:
Thatās a 100-ton steam locomotiveā¦
Thanks for the thoughts! The denoise was just the profiled denoise in dt on default - but I agree itās a bit mushy, especially in the sky? It somehow has been exaggerated there by the color calibration adjustmentsā¦ yes, I did use it, primarily to darken the blue channel.
Thereās also a very small hue tweak in color zones.
Metadata - I usually find the f8 region best with that lens - itās the 14-150 superzoom, which is marvelously convenient, but it does come at a cost of quality.
ISO200 is the base on the EM5ii IIRC - you loose dynamic range at iso100 for some reason.
Iām flattered, because it was quite literally a snapshot with one arm out the window of a moving car. 
@lphilpot thanks too! It is a bit LUTish - Iāve got a slight craze for a slightly cyan sky at the moment. Iāll probably look back and shudder sometime in the futureā¦
I guess you have a good eye for quick snapshot
You COWard!
Edit: @clind just for comparison, hereās the OOC jpgā¦ I just had a look at it. I think the mushy sky came from pushing the contrast so hard with the channel mixer stuff possibly.
That human presence passing through the scene, between the main branches of the tree, and almost invisible, is quite evocative. Nice.
Thatās a more natural rendering and the colors look quite realistic. Iāll have to look at both for a few days to know if I like one more than the other, though. I like the crop of the original a bit better. This one is too tight on the left to my eyes.
Interesting no? I didnāt crop it - thatās the in-camera processing
How does the camera automatically crop the image, that is, without the user specifically selecting a crop? Iāve never seen that behavior from my cameras (Canon).
I presume itās the lens correctionā¦ in fact maybe I can turn it off in-camera to check. The dt lens correction doesnāt crop as much though. Editā¦ I can turn off vignetting correction, but apparently not distortion correction. All this in relation to the jpgs of course.
Thatās why Iāve not run into this - Iāve always shot raw only. 
Ha, well I still shoot Raw+jpg but itās pretty rare I use the jpgs now. Itās only a year or two ago that I was primarily jpgā¦ how things can change! 