Ani - Post processing: Cropped/USM

[MrChevy]

Another shot of Ani, from the camera, cropped, USM 100.0/5.0/10.0. I think a 420 flash mounted on the camera was used with this shot, so have a pretty dark shadow below her chin. Color seems to be about right, but the DOF could have been a little bit deeper, bringing her eyes more into focus.

Not a really good shot, but shows off Ani's smile again http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

1st shot shows the focusing points used taking the shot.

http://www.mrchevy.com/aniimg1243focuspoints.jpg


2nd shot shows the EXIF info from BreezeBrowserPRO for the image. Taken with the 70-200IS lens @ f2.8 1/60 second. Lens at 73mm, Ani 2.32 meters from camera.

http://www.mrchevy.com/aniexifimg1243.jpg

These are the USM settings, all they did was sharpen her eyes and lips a small amount and left the rest of the photo alone.

http://www.mrchevy.com/aniusmimg1243.jpg

Giving us the final posted shot.

Lighting looks pretty even and the background was far enough away to be OOF enough. And yes, I should have cleaned the lipstick off her teeth http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

Comments welcome.

http://www.mrchevy.com/aniimg1243.jpg

[RbrtPtikLeoSeny]

I'd use photoshop to whiten her teeth.

[jukas]

I have a different technique for USM you may want to try. Save your sharpening for last, in Photoshop switch the image to Lab Color. Click on Channels -> Lightness then go to Filters - Sharpen - Unsharpen Mask . This will allow you to only sharpen the lightness channel of the image which I feel gives better results to sharpening the entire image.

I usually use the following:

Amount: 150 - 200%
Radius: between .7 - 1.5
Threshold: 0 - 1

[MrChevy]

I'd use photoshop to whiten her teeth.

Would you do that on her and let's see what it looks like Robert! Thanks for taking a look.

[MrChevy]

I have a different technique for USM you may want to try. Save your sharpening for last, in Photoshop switch the image to Lab Color. Click on Channels -> Lightness then go to Filters - Sharpen - Unsharpen Mask . This will allow you to only sharpen the lightness channel of the image which I feel gives better results to sharpening the entire image.

I usually use the following:

Amount: 150 - 200%
Radius: between .7 - 1.5
Threshold: 0 - 1

Thanks for that tip Jesse! Have used it before. Also have used:

CTRL J (to make a dupe layer)
Filter / Other / High Pass and choose maybe 4
Then change that layer to Overlay and reduce the Opacity until it looks good.
Experiment with the settings.