Springing Forth

[Shadowman]

Spotted this scene while finally enjoying what feels like Spring.

Springing Forth by JOHN, on Flickr

[JBW]

Perhaps it is just my eyes and or computer but on my screen the impression is one of way over the top graininess. I'm guessing that it is a shot of the trees with their buds bursting out? I love the concept but it is very hard to look at.

[Shadowman]

Perhaps it is just my eyes and or computer but on my screen the impression is one of way over the top graininess. I'm guessing that it is a shot of the trees with their buds bursting out? I love the concept but it is very hard to look at.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for commenting, not sure about the graininess but capturing foliage has always been a challenge for me, seems that light has a tendency to bounce amongst the greenery losing detail. Perhaps the last image in this thread gives a better view.

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[Manfred M]

I'm with Brian on this one John. The "graininess" he refers to looks like over-sharpening to me.

Some parts of images with such fine detail require virtually no sharpening at all. In a lot of my work, water, sky, grass and trees (and skin in portraiture) are parts that I mask out when I sharpen.

[Shadowman]

Good thing about my workflow I can go back to my Capture Sharpening setting and only thing different applied was used radius of 1.0 and amount of 143 in ACR masking at 0, I typically set sharpening to radius 0.5 and may go as high as 150 and usually apply some masking but didn't for this image. I usually do apply different editing methods when foliage is part of the composition.

[DanK]

Good thing about my workflow I can go back to my Capture Sharpening setting and only thing different applied was used radius of 1.0 and amount of 143 in ACR masking at 0, I typically set sharpening to radius 0.5 and may go as high as 150 and usually apply some masking but didn't for this image. I usually do apply different editing methods when foliage is part of the composition.

If the scale is the same in ACR and LR, 143 is very high.


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[xpatUSA]

Good thing about my workflow I can go back to my Capture Sharpening setting and only thing different applied was used radius of 1.0 and amount of 143 in ACR masking at 0, I typically set sharpening to radius 0.5 and may go as high as 150 and usually apply some masking but didn't for this image. I usually do apply different editing methods when foliage is part of the composition.

Seems as if you like it pretty sharp, John. Certainly lots of staircase aliasing on the light-colored branches at left (when viewed at 400% nearest neighbor).

[Manfred M]

Seems as if you like it pretty sharp, John. Certainly lots of staircase aliasing on the light-colored branches at left (when viewed at 400% nearest neighbor).

I agree with Dan. That setting is quite high for import sharpening. I tend to not go that high even with my for my in-process sharpening.

Import sharpening defaults in ACR / LR are 25% with a radius of 1 for my camera. All you are trying to do at that step is to counteract the effects of the de-mosaicing process in the raw converter and impact of the camera's AA filter (if it has one).

I tend to turn off the sharpening in ACR / LR or use the default setting, depending on the scene. Any scene with serious noise reduction, I don't sharpen at all until I have completed the noise reduction step.