The Quarter Century Random Discussion for TPBM (25)

Woolburr wrote in post #8037010
And I was just thinking....gee Pete had to go and post those beautiful roses and make my shots look like crap. I sit here and look at these shots on a big monitor while editing....they look sharp, well focused and composed...and then I post them and wonder what the hell happened to that nice shot. Compression has killed a few of my shots...but your roses look stellar Pete. Sid has posted some lovely ones too. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh....​perhaps we really are our own worst critics...or maybe I really do post crap!

Hehe.

To tell the truth, all I did with these recent rose shots is import them, apply a capture sharpen and resize to 1024px and post them up.

o Such is my faith in the 1D Mk II N and Canon 100mm Macro lens.

o Or I'm just way too lazy to post process properly...

You tick the box as applicable...

Gee...maybe I should try sharpening these....nah...I'll just switch back to shooting jpeg only....then they should be sharp already....

Woolburr wrote in post #8037043
Gee...maybe I should try sharpening these....nah...I'll just switch back to shooting jpeg only....then they should be sharp already....

I copied my capture sharpen settings from a book.

Create a new layer, set the opacity to 66%

USM:-
Amount 400%
Radius 0.5
Threshold 0

You're supposed to adjust the opacity of the sharpen layer to suit, but I hardly ever bother.

Being capture sharpen, this is on the full resolution image.

That's basically it.

I have three actions attached to F1, F2, F3

F1 - Capture Sharpen
F2 - Flatten Image (since I occasionally use Viveza and other processing that creates new layers)
F3 - convert to sRGB, resize to fit 1200x1200 pixels and save as a jpg in my drop-box folder to be uploaded.

That workflow is applied to about 70% of my shots I display here.

What a post-processing master-class, eh?

Note:

when one is on one's 2nd day of worshiping the porcelain goddess, it is not a good day to boil el corazon del toro (if I have that correct) for dog treats unggh

Permagrin wrote in post #8037095
Note:

when one is on one's 2nd day of worshiping the porcelain goddess, it is not a good day to boil el corazon del toro (if I have that correct) for dog treats unggh

Ugh...

TMI.

Hope the puking won't extend for another day. Or if it does, please flush...

Permagrin wrote in post #8037095
Note:

when one is on one's 2nd day of worshiping the porcelain goddess, it is not a good day to boil el corazon del toro (if I have that correct) for dog treats unggh

No.. not good. Hope you get better. That porcelain goddess sucks.

I've messed around with sharpening pictures....but they always end up looking weird...so I just don't...these are all RAWS....converted to jpeg by Lightroom with the sharpening set to 0.

Permagrin wrote in post #8037095
Note:

when one is on one's 2nd day of worshiping the porcelain goddess, it is not a good day to boil el corazon del toro (if I have that correct) for dog treats unggh

Does not work well with High Priestess Title.

Gaaaa swine flu Feel better Lisa.

That doesn't sound good Permie...you need to get over that quick...you have company on the way!

that was weird. Lonnie just called and hung up on me Unless Kitteh was calling her oldest and dearest friend.


I think I have food poisoning. Some olives that went off.

Woolburr wrote in post #8037125
I've messed around with sharpening pictures....but they always end up looking weird...so I just don't...these are all RAWS....converted to jpeg by Lightroom with the sharpening set to 0.

I read that capture sharpening is only very slight. It just counteracts the softening caused by the anti-aliasing filter on the sensor. So, on that basis, I don't mind using it as the starting point for pretty much all my shots. It's certainly slight enough not to be immediately noticeable (especially when the sharpening is done on the full res file).

For creative sharpening, I'll do what I can to only apply it to very specific areas of the image. I don't like the "oversharpened" look either. I'd rather things look softer rather than unnaturally sharp.

Permagrin wrote in post #8037139
that was weird. Lonnie just called and hung up on me Unless Kitteh was calling her oldest and dearest friend.

Or maybe it was Lonnie's ass calling you...

short5 wrote in post #8037127
Gaaaa swine flu Feel better Lisa.

HOCK! No little piggy tails, see? Not the flu!

Lisa! Hope you feel better really really quickly!