Cloudbow wrote:
Yes, they look over-sharpened to me, too. I like the second image best. The colors, texture, and character of the building and rock wall appeal to me. I like the vines, the rust, the wagon wheel, all of it.
Bev
Thanks Bev! Much appreciated!
Scott Stoness wrote:
Very nice scene with lots of interests. Did you have have sun hitting your polarizer to create this effect. Your right, it looks like too much sharpening.
1 for me would be better with some more negative space on right so it does not look centred.
2 simiarly 2 seems too centred too.
Scott
Good points on the framing! Thanks Scott!
I don\'t remember but I almost never shoot with a polarizer because the camera is older and kinda crappy compared to a new DSLR or something - so i keep it permanently at ISO 64. This makes polarizers difficult to use. So I\'m going to assume I had none attached for these. I probably should have tho now looking at the very granular texture of the trees and such.
hugh wrote:
If you didn\'t sharpen them, I assume you are shooting jpg and your in-camera sharpening is set too high In any event, I\'m OK with the compositions and like the subdued colors. I would, however, suggest you note the Posting Recommendations and limit your image sizes to 800 or so pixels on the longest side so the images can be viewed without scrolling.
hugh
I actually want it to be scrolled if the viewer is on a tiny monitor. But I think those recommendations are now history. Safari\'s Command + and Command - key combinations now scale the images along with the text, tables, and etc. For photography I don\'t think there\'s a better on-line browser than Safari - and it\'s \"better\" by a very large margin. Every color space just works for one.
On the sharpening thing I dunno what\'s going on exactly. These are RAW images brought into PS via ACR with sharpness and noise removal set to 0. Then touched slightly with Topaz Adjust 3, cropped, scaled, color space applied, reduced to 8-bit, and saved as JPG. For #2 I removed a white car and replaced it with a 3D rendering of a bush tho (bottom left). I think it\'s a combination of the PS scaling and the JPG compression myself. Here\'s a clipping from the RAW with no processing other than color space applied, reduced to 8-bit, and saved as JPG:
Even that looks sharpened to me somehow... and that\'s RAW for crying out loud. I suppose it doesn\'t help that my sensor is a tiny little thing either tho.
Thanks for the comments Hugh! (and all!)
Aug 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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This makes polarizers difficult to use. So I\'m going to assume I had none attached for these. I probably should have tho now looking at the very granular texture of the trees and such.
In any event, I\'m OK with the compositions and like the subdued colors. I would, however, suggest you note the Posting Recommendations and limit your image sizes to 800 or so pixels on the longest side so the images can be viewed without scrolling.
I suppose it doesn\'t help that my sensor is a tiny little thing either tho. 