After "The Ultimate Mastering Fine Art PrintmakingWorkshop" (2) and seeing FM member and top print guru Robert B Park's brand new innovative (no one is doing this) sharpening techniques, I have thrown a few of my own innovations at them and the combination has been absolutely incredible. The bottom line is this: image sharpening creates artifacts (artifacting). This means stuff that we do not want in our images. But up to a certain threshold (just like almost everything, like contrast...), there is a very noticeable improvement. But then the improvement sharply stops and if you keep going with it, the image will look worse and worse...
BUT, do you know specifically WHAT it is that we very first see that causes the brain to start to see sharpening artifacting? It is the light side of all the sharpening halos (around micro edges) it creates. Yes, sharpening is artificial edge detection, and then extremely micro contrast being applied to both the darker and lighter side of mini edges.
SO... CONTROL the lighter side of all edge halos, and now sharpening (quality of detail) can be brought further before artifacting can be seen. Of course, excellence in print sharpening is a complex protocol, and Web sharpening is totally different! But the same principle can be applied to both. For those who follow me on Facebook or Youtube, lots of NEW stuff is going to be coming out before the end of the year on this.
Lastly, many do not know how critical noise profile is to ultimate quality detail. This becomes especially true if you want great enlargements. I have a freebie I send out to everyone on my mailing list/newsletter all about this. It usually makes people fall over when they see the examples of how massively even a little color noise (reduced) hinders ultimate quality detail in prints/enlargements!
The image:
Oregon desert playa
Sony A7R2
Canon 24-70@ 30mm
5 seconds
50 ISO (ISO expansion for lower noise profile)
Blue hour under some moonlight
f/11
This is a spot I really liked in the desert playa I found after driving 10's of miles for hours. Most of the processing was quite basic and most of it was done in Lightroom. The bulk of it was extremely subtle work equalizing out slight imbalances.
After "The Ultimate Mastering Fine Art PrintmakingWorkshop" (2) and seeing FM member and top print guru Robert B Park's brand new innovative (no one is doing this) sharpening techniques, I have thrown a few of my own innovations at them and the combination has been absolutely incredible. The bottom line is this: image sharpening creates artifacts (artifacting). This means stuff that we do not want in our images. But up to a certain threshold (just like almost everything, like contrast...), there is a very noticeable improvement. But then the improvement sharply stops and if you keep going with it, the image will look worse and worse...
BUT, do you know specifically WHAT it is that we very first see that causes the brain to start to see sharpening artifacting? It is the light side of all the sharpening halos (around micro edges) it creates. Yes, sharpening is artificial edge detection, and then extremely micro contrast being applied to both the darker and lighter side of mini edges.
SO... CONTROL the lighter side of all edge halos, and now sharpening (quality of detail) can be brought further before artifacting can be seen. Of course, excellence in print sharpening is a complex protocol, and Web sharpening is totally different! But the same principle can be applied to both. For those who follow me on Facebook or Youtube, lots of NEW stuff is going to be coming out before the end of the year on this.
Lastly, many do not know how critical noise profile is to ultimate quality detail. This becomes especially true if you want great enlargements. I have a freebie I send out to everyone on my mailing list/newsletter all about this. It usually makes people fall over when they see the examples of how massively even a little color noise (reduced) hinders ultimate quality detail in prints/enlargements!
The image:
Oregon desert playa
Sony A7R2
Canon 24-70@ 30mm
5 seconds
50 ISO (ISO expansion for lower noise profile)
Blue hour under some moonlight
f/11
This is a spot I really liked in the desert playa I found after driving 10's of miles for many hours. Most of the processing was quite basic and most of it was done in Lightroom. The bulk of it was extremely subtle work equalizing out slight imbalances.
All the best to you and yours!
Oct 16, 2018 at 10:51 PM
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