Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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? > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >