Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Cones picture: I share Jim McIntyre's opinion who wrote that the cones are a ubiquitous part of the kids hockey training - so I left it in the picture as it's a part of the information. But I wonder what you did that the face and the helmet looks so smoother than before (pic http://gallery.leica-users.org/TESTS/nanos_1_copy2 ) - cant be unsharp masking alone, did you use another filter (maybe, in german "St?rungen entfernen", dont know the photoshop term in english)? Goalkeeper picture: The high format is probably the better solution for this. I rarely crop large to high format (except for web). But 'gradient' seems to harsh to me, and 'sharpening' (or both together) makes it much grainier than it should be. I dont mind about "real" grain on low light 1600 or 3200 ASA shots, but I think it must not be artificially pushed on a 400 ASA that did not show grain. But thanks for having a look and contributing. And thanks to Ted, Jim, Sonny, Raimo, Richard, Phong, Peter, too. Didier >Hello Didier, >I took the liberty of changing a few parameters on my 2 favourite shots of >the ones you posted recently. I already mentioned cloning out the red >pylon on the Nanos image, personally I think it makes quite a difference, >I also did a bit of noise attenuation and high frequency sharpening. > >I also tried a couple of new crops and changing the balance on Bambinis 3 >and sharpened the centre a bit (probably too much). > >I hope you don't mind what I did to them, please feel free to hack and >bash any of my shots any time you feel like it. >http://gallery.leica-users.org/TESTS >Let me know what you think >Best regards >Douglas