Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I only can observe any 'crunchiness' in the kiln interior two shots (which have lots of sharp edges). The first five especially are delicious medium format Velvia to my eye. It may be too that the original superb resolution (plus the contrasty medium) as well as the scanner all contribute to so much minute detail that it needs managing. That's a quality problem to have, right there. Did you notice how many of these are the full frame with no crop at all, too? Bob has the same sharpening regime as I do, so maybe that?s why it appeals to me! Anyhoo it is very much more subtle and superior to anything easily achieved with unsharp mask. When you get down to these low resolution web versions the effect is more distinct, certainly. Actually you can vary that too with choice of edge selection, opacity of that adjusting layer and original capture sharpening routine. Sort of involves a call on how much impact you want on the web versions too. Holding prints in your hands will always be a different story, as you know. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park It does look like instead of unsharp mask you are using a new third party high tech algorithm rich borrowed from the CGI folks SHARPENING FROM HELL!!! AND LOTS OF IT!!! For a whole new look. I'd move back from it by half or two thirds. And would love to see the stuff as well from the FP4. Again less jacked up. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:59:24 -0700 (PDT) > To: Leica Enthusiasts Group <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group > <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park > > After?Yosemite?in April/May, attention turned back to?Big Sur. About an?hour > south of the town?of Big Sur is a?California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you > drive in and?walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring.?The first > time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on. > ? > Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a > beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 foot > high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with a > couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan out > from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are high. Jim > Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat which I > wasn't about to do. > ? > Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in the > late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are?3 of them, each about > 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful overgrown > redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this hill in the > middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and resultant lime back > down is?beyond me. > ? > The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of > place... > ? > http://www.raflexions.com/LKP > ? > Hope you enjoy?these. Certainly worth a walk?if you're ever in the area, > Bob > ? > P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with > various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back... > ?Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.raflexions.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information