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Wayne, I think that last unsharp mask is too coarse. Try instead a smart sharpen, r=0.2px a=100%. Then repeat it until you get the detail you want. Step back a bit if you see that it's becoming over sharpened. The first USM is a strange choice as well. A radius of 35 pixels will smear the image rather than sharpen it.. Did you perhaps mean 3.5?
My flow sharpen action (for landscape 1024px width target) consists of:
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LR (default sharpening settings)->PS
Sharpen x2
Resize (3000 width)
USM, r=0.5, a=150%
Resize(2000 width)
Smart sharpen, r=0.3, a=77%
Resize (1024w)
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So far that is automated but after the script I optionally add one to three Smart sharpen r=0.2, a=100%.
And yes, Samuli's description of his workflow is really great - I learned a lot from his description.
Here is a comparsion the method you described (A) and the one that I use (B). I added two smart sharpens at the end of B. Open in separate tabs and flip between them:
Method A
Method B
In my experience if you are using Canon or Nikon glass, the way you resize the images is not critical. With Zeiss glass however you get typically a lot of fine detail that gets lost if one isn't careful how the resizing is done. The standard bi-cubic interpolation resize really kills detail by averaging pixels..
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One observation though - I think you are over sharpening the images a bit - or more accurately sharpening with a too large radius in the end. If you look at the otherwise beautiful sunset shot you can see that the rocks have been over sharpened but without bringing out the fine detail. 