Thanks you very, very much for the tips here. I will give this technique a serious try. Thanks for taking the time to help.
Binh Ly wrote:
lol! i'm surprised the sharpness is still acceptable with all those filters.
Here is an explanation that might be helpful, how sharpness was maintained as much as it was:
This is an image that was about 1/3 to 1/2 cropped out because of all the filters and their obstruction into the image. That crop was not done in ACR (where you will get some artifacting). I used the Canon 1DS Mark II, with an L series lens (24-105) at the sharpest f-stop (f/11) and mirror lockup, and an umbrella to prevent any breeze from hitting the camera throughout the long exposure. I "Capture Sharpened" the image a little bit (this helps to counter the softness that always occurs when you turn a steady stream of photons into squares at the raw stage) in ACR, protecting the non edge areas. I used to not believe in this, but after talking with Jeff Schewe online (Real World Adobe Camera Raw Guru) and then doing some serious testing, I am now a convert. Then, after I was finished making my master image, to make a small web res demo, you see here, I used the "Marc Adamus" sharpening technique (that is what I call it anyways) but I do a few things extra in that process that I believe allows me to get even a bit more fine sharpening than usual (top secret-unless you PM me ).
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