Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Sharpening filter use - was: full sized samples
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:14:17 -0500
References: <C6486B00.4F464%mark@rabinergroup.com> <1F3EF6AC-3E59-4C85-8C5D-AFF417C00C67@mac.com> <36172e5a0906010815h33e312eaj8a35cc13851ac328@mail.gmail.com>

I don't sharpen much but I do use the clarity adjustment in LR2.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Like the other LUG print group members I have George's prints on hand. I
> can
> attest that they are always technically superb too.
> I do use different capture sharpening routines, basically one for landscape
> like shots and another for portraits. My view is that all digital Raw files
> benefit from some capture sharpening.
> I use a separate output sharpening routine dependant on the end use. Web is
> one treatment, print another. I use the PKSharpen plug-in.
> LUG print group members may have opinions on whether these work well and
> others have larger prints on hand from me too. Printing to 12 inches x 18
> inches, my M8 Raw files are demonstrably superior to those from my scanned
> Fuji pro films. Those need significantly more output sharpening too. There
> are a lot more optical steps in that instance, obviously.
>
> 2009/6/1 George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>
>
> > Yes, of course, I make prints.
> >
> > You may ask members of the LUGprint group about my print quality.
> > The group (about 15 of us) just received a set of prints this past week.
> >
> > comments on the current set of prints are currently being posted at
> > <http://lugprints.blogspot.com/>
> >
> > I have made darkroom prints professionally
> > since I was 16 years old and working in a commercial photo studio;
> > where I began at 14 as the weekly cleaning guy.
> >
> > I've printed enlargements from every format
> > from 35 mm through 8x10
> > both negatives and transparencies
> > using cibachrome, color neg, b&w;
> > as well as 11x14 and 12x20 contact prints.
> >
> > I've printed for both reproduction and exhibition.
> > I have printed b&w in my own darkroom up to 30x40.
> > as seen here <http://www.imagist.com/art/jellich/interior_02.html>
> >
> > I have sold portrait, event, commercial
> > and fine art prints of my work
> > since 1968.
> >
> > Most recently I've had a 13x19 print
> > accepted for the juried show "Wisconsin Photography 2009"
> > opening this fall.
> >
> > Regards,
> > George Lottermoser
> > george at imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >
> >  On May 31, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >
> > Do you make prints?
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark William Rabiner
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>
> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:49:06 -0500
> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Subject: [Leica] M8 Sharpening filter use - was: full sized samples
> >>>
> >>> I'd love to hear from M8 (and DMR) shooters
> >>> on their use of "sharpening."
> >>>
> >>> I don't use, or think about, sharpening
> >>> beyond what comes out of the M8 and DMR RAW files
> >>> into Lightroom.
> >>>
> >>> How about other M8 and DMR users?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
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