I took this picture before my dlsr camera in jpeg. With very high magnification on sony f707 with 1.4 multiplier and 5x magnification.
Anyway I really like the framing and the coyote but it is soft.
The following is my best fix:
I would like any suggestions on technique to unsoften the softness
Any other comments would be appreciated too.
To play with original http://web.mac.com/stoness/Stoness/Scott.html and go to bottom and hit button "Link to my full resol... for download" and then hit coyote download. Sorry for so long but my account dynamically links for the download spot.
Scott,
This is the best that i could do on it.All i did was push the sharpening to the max in DPP and see where that took it.and i also made some curve adjustments, saturation and contrast.I think that there is only so much you can do with this file .You have to sacrifice something.
-Jim
I took the full-sized image and set WB and exposure in LR. I then edited a copy with LR adjustments in CS3 to apply smart filters: usm and blur - sharpened, masked coyote, and then Gaussian blur with soft light blend for the background.
Lastly, I used a paint-with-light action to put what at the time I thought was some snap into the coyote.
Looking at it now, it's probably overcooked - at least for my tastes.
I took a go at it. I did my typical work flow. I opened it in Aperture which converts it to a 16 bit file, Adobe RGB color space, does some initial sharpening, and then I set saturation, contrast, shadow and highlight recovery, and levels if it is needed (it wasn't here). The from aperture I load it in CS3 and I do further adjustments including curves, cloning, cropping, and importantly here final sharpening. For this shot I just used a lot of unsharp mask. Then I covert it back into an 8 bit flie, sRGB color space, and jpeg, resize and post to the web. Anyway, here is the best I could do:
Thanks Steve. It looks way better than mine. I can see detail in the snow in your version. And he looks sharper. Do you you remember your settings on sharpening?
Nov 19, 2007 at 08:55 AM
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Mainly I used unsharp mask amount 500 percent, radius .5 pixels, and threshold 0. There are a lot of sharpening rountines out there, but I still find 90 percent of the time that a simple unsharp mask adjustment does as well as anything. I hope this helps.
Here's my attempt at it. I started off with a "local contrast adjustment" in PS using USM on a new layer set at "luminosity" mode with settings at: amount 30%, radius 50 pixels and threshold 0.
Next was the usual colour/contrast with levels, curves, selective colour, saturation and shadows & hilites. Ended with a mild hi-pass filter sharpen set at 1.5.
Thanks Steve for the opportunity to practice on a great capture. Did the coyote ever see you?
I don't know if I have an alien monitor or my eyes are just tired, but none of the adjusted images come close to the original. In the "corrected" versions that I see, the image is either washed out, too contrasty, lacks detail, or loses the subtle colors. The original might use a little sharpening, but "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Scott, I think your original image beats them all.
Thanks Bill and teejack. I have played and played with the image and concluded that I am glad I have a better camera and will have to go looking for another coyote to pose.
Bill the coyote was walking down the road in the winter. He had stopped to eat someone's banana skin along a hiking trail and he was watching me from about 200 feet.
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in photoshop - save for web - make the longest width 800 and move the quality down until the jpeg is slightly less than 170 (170 being the limit of size for uploading on fm).
But just make sure you give it a new name or you will lose your full resolution version.
Scott Stoness wrote:
...in photoshop - save for web - make the longest width 800 and move the quality down until the jpeg is slightly less than 170 (170 being the limit of size for uploading on fm)...
