old shed

[NE Time]

found this just outside of Golden. just started shooting raw and don't know why it took me so long, ? do you like or dis like

[NE Time]

lost some sharpness in the post how do i correct this for posting ??

[opus13]

i like.

shooting in Colorado is so tough because of the lack of saturation in the natural surroundings. theres just so much dust everywhere that all you see is variations of beige :/

tweak the levels and saturation to make it shine. maybe some soft vignetting to make the center pop.

lost some sharpness in the post how do i correct this for posting ?? i find it helpful to sometimes over-sharpen when downsizing for web. sharpen the full size first.

[bbulldog]

what a state they are in

[chauncey]

There's a lot of those old line shacks in Colorado. Unfortunately most of them don't make good photographs, but the handhewn ones are a bit better. Or take it when there's snowcover.

You can improve it using opus's suggestions and maybe a better crop, but that's about all you can do.

You've had enough snow this past winter, try later in the year when things turn green.

[Epix]

This scene was tailor made for HDR. Nice find.

[vpnd]

i like it

[LeuceDeuce]

i find it helpful to sometimes over-sharpen when downsizing for web. sharpen the full size first.

Sorry gotta disagree with this info. Resize your image before you sharpen for output always. Once the image is the size you want, then sharpen it.

[Naturalist]

Brighten it up and convert to B&W or Sepia and you'll have a winner!

[NE Time]

thanks for the imput will try some of the sugestions

[NE Time]

i down sized properly i hope and added a little saturation and sharp mask

[JakPot]

hey nick, they look a little underexposed to me. here's my edit

[Bill Boehme]

lost some sharpness in the post how do i correct this for posting ??

I really love the texture in the image. The colors in the image appear to be somewhat flat and that might be due to working in a wider gamut colorspace such as Adobe RGB and then saving as a jpg without first converting it to sRGB. Since most browsers are not color managed, they treat everything as sRGB. The color shift might be the reason that the image looks as if it has lost some sharpness. Another possibility would be if you have the image hosted on a photo gallery site that offers views at various sizes, the downsizing algorithms that most of them use is oriented towards minimizing file size at the expense of image quality. I use PBase and some of my large images really take a sharpness hit on the downsized views.

[opus13]

Sorry gotta disagree with this info. Resize your image before you sharpen for output always. Once the image is the size you want, then sharpen it.
why would you do that? if your target output is a smaller web size (600*900 say) you have less data to work with, and sharpening becomes less precise.

[LeuceDeuce]

why would you do that? if your target output is a smaller web size (600*900 say) you have less data to work with, and sharpening becomes less precise.

You have less data but you still have edges. Why sharpen an image at 2400x1600 and then throw out the sharpness by sampling your image down? Even you say you're compensating for this effect by over-sharpening before you downsize. Every image at every size requires a different amount of sharpening. Would I apply the same amount of sharpening to an image that was 600x900 that I would to an image size 1800x2700? No. But I also wouldn't oversharpen the large image so that the downsample algorithm can magnify any of artifacts in the image.

This applies to output sharpening only, and not to input or creative sharpening.

[Bill Boehme]

OK, I was right about the color space that you used -- it is Adobe RGB. I reworked the image to brighten the grassy foreground and add more saturation to the sky. During the process, I saw why the image lost some sharpness -- it is due to very deep jpg compression. The sky began to block up as soon as I started to edit it. My editing probably made the sky worse ... my opinion is that it is almost impossible to manually improve a sky by painting, blurring, pasting, etc. Anyway, after editing, I converted the file to sRGB before saving and for better or worse, here is the results.

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BTW, LeuceDeuce is right about sharpening. It is the last thing that you should do before saving. Also, if you plan to print an image, after resizing it to the print size, sharpen the image again. Sharpening for print normally should be much more aggressive than printing for viewing on the screen. It may look awful on the screen, but the only way to judge how a print will look is to ... [insert drum roll here] ... look at the print.

[LeuceDeuce]

Of course I gave this image a go myself, but the blocking was so intense that I couldn't produce a result that I'd like to share :) Not using Paintshop Pro here at work anyways. Not enough gas in the tank with this editor.