Helpful Posts: Inspired by recent posts by James and (Alaska) Dan about sharpening without increasing noise, I tried the following with this image of a cactus that I took in California a few days ago. The steps were:
Tonality adjustments and B&W conversion in LR.
Move to Photoshop. Create a high-pass layer. pick a large radius for some dramatic sharpening of the edges. Apply nose reduction to the high-pass layer. Blend with the hard light mode. Move back to LR. Do a bit of general noise reduction to smooth out grain on the flat surfaces.
C&C welcome, of course--about both the processing and the image.
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Thread: Cactus: PP experiment
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24th March 2015, 12:09 AM #1
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24th March 2015, 12:10 AM #2
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
Nice conversion and editing.
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24th March 2015, 02:13 AM #3
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
I have no idea what this particular plant looks like so it's hard to comment on the processing. It does look nice and sharp w/out artifacts or noise. If the real leaves are that smooth then it's darn well done.
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24th March 2015, 06:49 AM #4
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Nicely done, Dan..... and good conversion to black and white....smooth.........
Now I have to put up my turn on this ... so far I have taken my shot... that is as far as I had gone...will do some work in the yawning...
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24th March 2015, 09:59 AM #5
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Dan, tonality is great and really crisp, ... no halos either
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24th March 2015, 05:01 PM #6
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Very nice conversion and PP work looks good
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24th March 2015, 08:01 PM #7
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
While this shot looks nice enough, it's really hard for me to say how successful the treatments have been without knowing what you started with.
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25th March 2015, 12:10 AM #8
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
good point. Here is the original, imported into Lightroom, with only two changes: lightroom's default capture sharpening (25, radius 1.0), and conversion to black and white.
Originally Posted by AlwaysOnAuto
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25th March 2015, 01:28 AM #9
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
Great concept, Dan. Great eye. I hope you continue to work it.
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25th March 2015, 01:49 AM #10
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Good subject well processed, Dan. The prickly contrasted with the smooth, and black against white.
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25th March 2015, 11:07 AM #11
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Re: Cactus: PP experiment
Thanks, all. Most of what I got on that trip are obvious discards, but I have a few more to play with.
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