[HUG ] Re: IMG: Recent Trips

Thanks Stefano. Good to know. I'm beginning to think I don't need it at all, 
given the sharpness of the equipment. I'll do a trial of large print with and 
without based on your experience and see what happens.
Take care,
Bob

 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Stefano Kovacs <stefanok@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 6:47:09 AM
Subject: [HUG ] Re: IMG: Recent Trips

Bob,

I enjoyed your images very much. I prefer the second version, I also  
thought that the first images seemed a bit oversharpened.

I also use the Photokit Sharpener plug-in, but only for prints and  
only at sizes A4 or larger. I think that the plug-in was designed for  
files from digital cameras with a so-called anti-alias filter. I find  
that files from the Nikon 9000/8000 (which I believe is what you use  
too) need very little sharpening if any.

I never use the input sharpening modules in the Photokit plug-in (what  
they call "Capture Sharpener"). For output, as I said, I use the  
"Inkjet Output Sharpeners", but only for largish prints and often I  
lower the opacity of the layer created by the plug-in to about 75%. I  
also think that for images viewed on screen the "Web and Multimedia  
Sharpeners" tend to oversharpen (at least on medium format film  
scanned with the Nikon).

Stefano

On 29 Jun 2008, at 05:06, Bob Adler wrote:

> Nick and all,
>
> Mark Rabiner also commented that my images seemed oversharpened, so  
> I re-did them without using a program that I normally use. It's a  
> set of CS3 actions by PixelGenius. I use 2 of the actions; one is a  
> capture sharpener which I right after opening the .dng file in CS3.  
> The other is an output sharpener, which sharpens the image for the  
> type of output it's going to (web, print, press, etc...)
>
> The redo excluded the output sharpener part. The new images are now at
>
> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
>
> If you'd like to compare the images before and after this redo, that  
> is at:
>
> http://www.raflexions.com/LPK2
>
> The pre-redo images are usually the first one in the series (and  
> always the one with the title and caption below).
>
>
> I'd be very appreciative of comments as to whether or not the new  
> images still appear to be overly contrasty (or any other critiques!).
>
> Thanks in advance very much for your help,
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
>

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