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Am I over-sharpening?
Some shots from the Richmond Hill Winter Carnival, 2006/02/04. No
snow, but it was overcast, and the Panasonic FZ5 is not known as a great low-light camera. Where it does have an advantage is the 10X optical zoom lens. The pond shots were taken from quite a distance. I took quite a few shots, and made a bunch of awful beginner's mistakes. Some shots came out OK, especially after working on them with Gimp (free Photoshop-like program). The ones that weren't totally embarressing are up at... http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/rhwc2006 I tried out "sharpening" on the images. Certainly looks different. As a beginner, I don't know whether the sharpening is too much. That's my main question about these shots. -- Walter Dnes; my email address is *ALMOST* like Delete the "z" to get my real address. If that gets blocked, follow the instructions at the end of the 550 message. |
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On 07 Feb 2006 05:06:19 GMT, "Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my
real address)" wrote: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/rhwc2006 I tried out "sharpening" on the images. Certainly looks different. As a beginner, I don't know whether the sharpening is too much. That's my main question about these shots. They don't look over-sharpened to me. If you can see "halos" around objects, you've over-sharpened -- but I don't see that here. rafe b www.terrapinphoto.com |
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rafe b wrote:
On 07 Feb 2006 05:06:19 GMT, "Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my real address)" wrote: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/rhwc2006 I tried out "sharpening" on the images. Certainly looks different. As a beginner, I don't know whether the sharpening is too much. That's my main question about these shots. They don't look over-sharpened to me. If you can see "halos" around objects, you've over-sharpened -- but I don't see that here. rafe b www.terrapinphoto.com To me, the original sized images do look excessively sharpened, for example: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/image/55804454/original but if I was viewing on my old CRT monitor rather than my current LCD monitor (without the focus problems of the CRT), I would probably have said it was OK. David |
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Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my real address) wrote:
Some shots from the Richmond Hill Winter Carnival, 2006/02/04. No snow, but it was overcast, and the Panasonic FZ5 is not known as a great low-light camera. Where it does have an advantage is the 10X optical zoom lens. The pond shots were taken from quite a distance. I took quite a few shots, and made a bunch of awful beginner's mistakes. Some shots came out OK, especially after working on them with Gimp (free Photoshop-like program). The ones that weren't totally embarressing are up at... http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/rhwc2006 I tried out "sharpening" on the images. Certainly looks different. As a beginner, I don't know whether the sharpening is too much. That's my main question about these shots. Too much sharpening will result in appearance of a white 'aura' around objects. If you don't reach that point, you probably haven't sharpened too much. |
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They look just right to me on my LCD but I guess some might judge them as a
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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:17:01 GMT, David J Taylor, wrote:
To me, the original sized images do look excessively sharpened, for example: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/image/55804454/original but if I was viewing on my old CRT monitor rather than my current LCD monitor (without the focus problems of the CRT), I would probably have said it was OK. I'm using a 19" CRT, and I don't think I'll be switching to LCD soon. I usually shoot images at 2048x1536 and work on them in that size. I bin them down to 1024x768 for web display near the end. This cuts down ISO noise as opposed to shooting at 1024x768. In linux, you can set up custom modelines to give custom resolutions. I can push my card+monitor combo to 2128x1702 (YES!). This just barely holds a 2048x1536 image plus the image window and status bar. When you can get an LCD at that resolution without taking out a mortgage, I'll consider an LCD. -- Walter Dnes; my email address is *ALMOST* like Delete the "z" to get my real address. If that gets blocked, follow the instructions at the end of the 550 message. |
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Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my real address) wrote:
The ones that weren't totally embarressing are up at... http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/rhwc2006 I tried out "sharpening" on the images. They look fine to me. -- Stacey |
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The photos look ok to me on my CRT monitor.
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Am I over-sharpening?
Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my real address) wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:17:01 GMT, David J Taylor, wrote: To me, the original sized images do look excessively sharpened, for example: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/image/55804454/original but if I was viewing on my old CRT monitor rather than my current LCD monitor (without the focus problems of the CRT), I would probably have said it was OK. I'm using a 19" CRT, and I don't think I'll be switching to LCD soon. I usually shoot images at 2048x1536 and work on them in that size. I bin them down to 1024x768 for web display near the end. This cuts down ISO noise as opposed to shooting at 1024x768. In linux, you can set up custom modelines to give custom resolutions. I can push my card+monitor combo to 2128x1702 (YES!). This just barely holds a 2048x1536 image plus the image window and status bar. When you can get an LCD at that resolution without taking out a mortgage, I'll consider an LCD. Well, as you imply large LCD are already here - IBM have a 9.2MP display: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8578 But I wasn't suggesting that you change, as you seem to have inferred, simply that the LCD will present a sharper picture, and therefore what might look OK on a CRT could look oversharpened on an LCD. (On the CRT, the electron beam hitting the screen has a finite size, and therefore each pixel will be blurred a little. I would expect that when running your CRT at 2128 x 1720, the individual pixels are not as clearly resolved as at 1024 x 768, for example.) David |
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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:17:01 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote: To me, the original sized images do look excessively sharpened, for example: http://www.pbase.com/waltdnes/image/55804454/original but if I was viewing on my old CRT monitor rather than my current LCD monitor (without the focus problems of the CRT), I would probably have said it was OK. I'm looking at them on a 1600 x 1200 21" LCD, and they look fine to me, sharpening-wise. The closest thing I can see to a sharpening artifact is the bass player's left leg in image #55804450. Like I say, I've seen far worse. rafe b www.terrapinphoto.com |
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