That's some really sweet light, Steve. The clouds are just perfect, too. However, it looks significantly oversharpened, even creating what appears to be some color noise. Can you back off on the sharpening and repost?
Hi Rick, I used Marc's sharpening method at 1200 ppi and did one simple level of resharpening before going down to 720 ppi. Here is a repost straight to 720 ppi w/o sharpening - except at the original size. It looks soft to me, but let me know what you think.
Great color and sky! I was just there possibly during the same time. What day did you you take the shot? Where from? Because of the trees in the foreground it looks like one of the roadside pullouts around Jenny Lake. There were good clouds almost everyday for us( 6/14-18).
Regarding image sharpness I would say take the original in photoshop, then use sharpened image as a layer and adjust opacity until sharpening artifacts are no longer visible. I would guess the best result will be somewhere in the middle or 50% opacity.
Derek, this was actually taken about 8 years ago around Memorial Day. I've been going through old images recently and came across two that I thought of in a panoramic sense, but didn't have the software until recently to merge them together. As best as I can recall, I think this was taken around Jenny Lake.
Thanks for the positive feedback. Todd - I have the same feeling you do about the sharpening. Just a tad over, so I didn't bother with creating a sharpening layer and adjusting the opacity for just the web post.
Posted by Kalin Wilson on July 4, 2007 at 11:39 PM
May just be a limitation of having so much detail and having only 200kb to work with. Something between the first and second would seem just about right. Either way, gorgeous light and quite a scene to go with it!
Posted by Doug Andrews on July 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Man I love shots of the Tetons. The color in this is wonderful. I agree with Todd on the sharpening I'm seeing on my monitor.
Looks good to me. Can someone tell me where to find "Marc's sharpening technique"? Ive played with high pass and luminosity layers but cant seem to find something that consistently works.
Posted by Doug Andrews on July 5, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Stan, I think its basically sharpening before final resizing. I've been using a similar technique myself for years and it works quite well. As to Marc's sharpening, I believe he resizes to around 1000 pixels on the long side, does his sharpening as one would normally do, and then resizes again to his final size (say 700 pixels on the long side). I may have missed some of the particulars, but I believe thats the gist of his technique.
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12 repliesGreat color and sky! I was just there possibly during the same time. What day did you you take the shot? Where from? Because of the trees in the foreground it looks like one of the roadside pullouts around Jenny Lake. There were good clouds almost everyday for us( 6/14-18).
Regarding image sharpness I would say take the original in photoshop, then use sharpened image as a layer and adjust opacity until sharpening artifacts are no longer visible. I would guess the best result will be somewhere in the middle or 50% opacity.
Thanks for the positive feedback. Todd - I have the same feeling you do about the sharpening. Just a tad over, so I didn't bother with creating a sharpening layer and adjusting the opacity for just the web post.