Here’s another example of using an Olympus camera’s built-in Dramatic Tone Art Filter to do funky things. When you play back the image on a larger screen back home, you are bound to go Wow!
I originally framed this shot on the Olympus E-PL2 in a 16:9 widescreen format. Due to the tight composition, it is impossible to crop down to a square. Hence the letterbox.
Hazy days and Mondays always get me down (not). Recent Olympus cameras have a built-in Art Filter known as Dramatic Tone. Although the effect is indeed dramatic for certain subjects, I don’t use it much. The reason is that I cannot control any of its parameters and the result is totally unpredictable. Still, that could be its very attraction for many users and it does cast a magical spell on days like these. This is a dramatic, hazy view of Kuala Lumpur from a hilltop.
