Makapu'u Lighthouse

[Scorpio]

I played around with Lightroom a bit for the first time last night, and here's what became of it. C&C are very welcome... knock yourselves out ;-)

[CliffordPhotography]

I really like the crop you did. Did you do any color work?

[strmrdr]

like the over saturated sharp look.
2nd is over sharpened.

[Scorpio]

Thanks! I appreciate the input.

Cliff- Yeah, I basically used the 'Direct Positive' preset, which seems to heavily saturate and sharpen the image, I'm assuming to emulate slide film. Tweaked it a bit, and that's what I came up with. Is the second one the one you're referring to? They both crops of two different shots.

In the interest of improving my PP skills... question: at what point would you consider an image over sharpened? I've seen what happens when you waaaay over sharpen things, but where do you draw the line?

[strmrdr]

when the sharpening interferes with the small details and or halos and artifacts appear.
In the second shot the trees are showing the first and the water the second.

[strmrdr]

I circled some of the over sharpened areas.
There are a couple small areas in the first in the trees but its minor.