Thx, Ronny! Love to Nitro.....
Fantastic page:
Joshua, your Venice series is stunning !
Helena send some of your northern light...you capture it just beautiful, so effortless !
Doug, super colors.
René, these Stockhorn pic are super.
poffelus: nicely seen.
Werner_Utsch wrote:
Thx, Ronny! Love to Nitro.....
Fantastic page:
Joshua, your Venice series is stunning !
Helena send some of your northern light...you capture it just beautiful, so effortless !
Doug, super colors.
poffelus: nicely seen.
Another portrait of my wife with the Voigtlander 75/1.8. A nice lens, but would have been a lot nicer if the focus throw had been a bit longer.
Does anyone have a good method for sharpening in Lightroom? I am seldom fully satisfied with how the jpegs turn out. They are either too soft, which is the case in this picture, or too sharp, which has been the case for some of my other, and often more contrasty, photos. These options, where you can export with "low, standard, and high" sharpening when exporting don't really do it for me.
Sony A7 + Voigtlander Heliar 75/1.8 at 2.8 (ISO 1600).
After a leave of absence of a few weeks away from this thread, coming back is like coming home. Just this last page is a fireworks of talent: Joshua, Werner, Ronny, Helena, Dale, Nuno, René, Philip... wow! Hat off to you all!
3 shots with Zeiss Milvus 85
OleAndre wrote:
Another portrait of my wife with the Voigtlander 75/1.8. A nice lens, but would have been a lot nicer if the focus throw had been a bit longer.
Does anyone have a good method for sharpening in Lightroom? I am seldom fully satisfied with how the jpegs turn out. They are either too soft, which is the case in this picture, or too sharp, which has been the case for some of my other, and often more contrasty, photos. These options, where you can export with "low, standard, and high" sharpening when exporting don't really do it for me.
Sony A7 + Voigtlander Heliar 75/1.8 at 2.8 (ISO 1600).
Ole,
Your wife is very lovely and I didn't mean any disrespect with that.
You are not referring to sharpening of portraits of women, are you? I would exercise extreme caution with sharpening of portraits of women . In general, I would use 50+ but apply some softening effect by lowering the clarity, if I do it only in LR. If I process more in Photoshop using Nik Software for a more refined look, I lower the tonal contrast to -50. Again for portraits of women here. When converting to JPG for posting though I use the option of low sharpening.
I've also been lucky in picking up a secondhand Loxia 50 - they come up very rarely here in NZ - and I went for a quick walk around the University campus this morning. I was surprised how much field curvature it has until stopped down - at infinity, mine is sharpest in the centre of the image at F/5.6 with focus slightly before infinity, but the zone of sharp focus curves back towards the camera at the edges, so that sharpest focus at the edges at F/5.6 is focused hard on the infinity mark. Fortunately at F/8, it sharpens up beautifully right across the full image plane. I've been impressed with its close focus performance at F/2 or 2.8, where the Canon nFD 50 that it replaces was quite soft. I had no trouble getting some magenta fringing on high contrast edges (last image) but LR dealt to them very easily. Overall, looks as good as everyone says it would be, and I love having viewfinder reporting of aperture and populated exif data John
Library...
Campus artwork
Closer up
Distance focus at F/5.6 - central buildings are sharp, but at the edges, sharpest focus is in the lake...
Into the light - magenta fringing on edges of sunlit branches, but dealt to in LR
Excellent photos everyone, the thread is always a pleasure
Sorry for the kid shots--had a shoulder issue and winter weather, so not much getting about lately...
OleAndre wrote:
Another portrait of my wife with the Voigtlander 75/1.8. A nice lens, but would have been a lot nicer if the focus throw had been a bit longer.
Does anyone have a good method for sharpening in Lightroom? I am seldom fully satisfied with how the jpegs turn out. They are either too soft, which is the case in this picture, or too sharp, which has been the case for some of my other, and often more contrasty, photos. These options, where you can export with "low, standard, and high" sharpening when exporting don't really do it for me.
I have a very similar work flow to Joshua. With Lr with a lens like the CV 75/1.8 I would not use any sharpening or clarity to begin with. If the lighting is contrasty I would reduce the contrast between -10 to -20, increase sat to +5 or +10 to enrich the image. Then look carefully and increase sharpening at 100% with radius 0.5 and look at the effect with the ALT key. Sometimes you don't want any. Typically with the Batis 85 and FE 35/1.4 I use very little sharpening and no clarity. With the 50L and 85L II I use radius 0.5 and about 55 to 80. In essence it is very lens dependant. For portraits I sharpen for 100% view, so I there is little chance of over sharpening. With beachscapes/landscapes I sharpen for intended viewing size.
Also I often export quickly into PS from Lr as the adjustments are more refined. I really like the Color Effex Pro 4. One of my favorites is the "contrast only", and only use the "soft contrast". This is very powerful for portraits with flat lighting and adds dimension and shape subtlety and of course with layers in PS you can adjust the final effects. Another powerful addin is Imagenomic Portraiture when used subtly. Again with PS layers its effect can be made barely visible.
In effect my work flow only takes about 1 to 1.5 min per shot. Any longer I become bored with series of shots.
Arrrrg. Got this one posted in the wrong forum (Alt). Anyway my closest from the blind. Nothing the last two days since I recently relocated it, will take a day or two for them to adjust. Yes oversharpened overdenoised whatever Me, just happy, I've seen this type of shot from raptor centers/rehab/zoos/etc. but this is the closest I've gotten to a wild RTH.
Sony ILCE-7RM2
70-400mm F4-5.6 G SSM II
/5.6 200.0 mm 1/1000 1000
Yes the Batis 85 is one very nice lens 
John
