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Whitethroat - Sharpening advice

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Posted by Michael John O' Ma on June 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM
Whitethroat - Sharpening advice
From the amazing site at Tacumshin Lake, Wexford. In one eveing session - little gulls, forster's tern, marsh harriers, buzzard, hobby and plenty of these.

40D, Sigma 500mm 4.5

Cheers,
MJ
Posted by jack chapman on June 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM
lovely shot, the light, pose, background are all great only it looks quite soft too me, not necessarily focussing may just need to be sharpened a bit more
Posted by Ian Macdermott on June 12, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Got to agree with Jacks comments .






Ian
Posted by Michael John O' Ma on June 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Cheers lads,

I agree; I have always struggled with sharpening - advice would be great. I have run the shot through noise ninja and will repost.

MJ
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on June 12, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Michael

Some of the best descriptions I've read regarding the various sharpening techniques/filters/uses came from Scott Kelby's book 'The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers'.

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Lee Newman on June 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Very nice pose, perch & comp with agood bg.
Well captured.
I use CS3 & after resizing for web go into filters & click on sharpen, then click on sharpen in the sub menu. I am told that this is a very basic way of sharpening an image but it works for me until i can learn more.

Lee
Posted by Rob Howard on June 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Hi Michael,

I downloaded your fantastis shot and gave it an extra 6 rounds of USM at rates 100, 0.2, 0

HTH

Regards

Rob
Posted by Danielle Nichol on June 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I got this from a canon leaflet. its a guide to start with :- smart sharpen, 0.3, 250, lens blur

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Posted by Michael John O' Ma on June 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Cheers for the advice all; here is a second attempt

MJ