Ok - so I admit - sharpening helped. I don't like the artifacts when viewed at 100% but this does look better than before. This photo had 1.5 pixels at 60% using smart sharpen. Which is more than I would normally push a photo - but it really needed it for some reason. I also used a touch of the dodge tool, 50% on shadows over the face area, this photo is also cropped on the original, which rik I hadn't realised I had done before - which results for the weird sizes.
This is a crop (what i would call 100% view of the above)
First macro with extension Tubes
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hmm, i prefer the fist one,puts the spider in context and the cropped version looks softer in the shadowsthartl wrote:
This is a crop (what i would call 100% view of the above)
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Remember your final sharpening should be based on how you plan to view an image. You could start with a high resolution image and if it was destined for a full size inkjet print, laserprint or reduced size web posting you would sharpen differentlythartl wrote:Thanks for the input - I should clarify - the cropped (2nd photo) is only to show the detail the sharpening gave the new version - I wouldn't intend to leave it that way.
Thanks again!
I confess I'm completely lazy on this - years ago I bought some software called PhotoKit Sharpener
http://www.pixelgenius.com/sharpener/index.html
It does everything for me
Andrew
Yea cos images posted for web are usually resized to 800x600 or so pixels. what I do is work on the full size image from the camera, adjust levels etc, then add USM. Then I save that image for uploading to deviant aert as full size. I then reopen the image and resize to 800X600 or so for here.AndrewC wrote:
Remember your final sharpening should be based on how you plan to view an image. You could start with a high resolution image and if it was destined for a full size inkjet print, laserprint or reduced size web posting you would sharpen differently
Andrew
Canon 5D and 30D | Canon IXUS 265HS | Cosina 100mm f3.5 macro | EF 75-300 f4.5-5.6 USM III | EF 50 f1.8 II | Slik 88 tripod | Apex Practicioner monocular microscope