but presumably a 3-4 pixel radius? That’s way too strong for my eyes, my intent is to apply capture sharpening that’s transparent i.e. I usually use radius 30-40 on Merrill images probably closer to 30 than 40 Or it could be DPR's compression rearing its head again. When you say "is there a focus/DOF issue as well?" Do you think that both images are soft? I detest over-sharpened images so mine are rarely as 'sharp' as others shown here. Stopping the lens down doesn't really affect centre sharpness until f/8, and by f/11sharpness across the field is very even. Peak centre sharpness of that lens comes at f/1.8 but the edges and corners lag behind. I also applied a High Pass layer in PS, that was Radius 0.2, Layer Opacity 50% and Soft Light.įocus was on the felled tree, right of frame my 18-35mm has back focussed here. Hi Mike, RL-D settings were Radius 0.5, Iterations 50, Masking 0. What were the RL-D settings? I've used f11 on the Merrills and I don't recall it being this impactful. You should be able to see if there is a focus issue in the original image. I was only wondering if the lack of "sharpness" was due to more than diffraction perhaps a little focus blur, but since you value sharpness less than I it might just be personal preference. I like iridient and particularly it's RL-D but the lack of layers sometimes results in less than optimal images because it impacts the sky due to its global application. I usually use radius 30-40 on Merrill images probably closer to 30 than 40 Iridient's on off switch for sharpening makes it really easy to judge its impact. And that's a 2 shot merge using a 3rd party RAW converter (vs SFD's 7!), plenty of life left in the old F20 I think that the Iridient file has better detail acuity. I prefer the aesthetic result of the SPP conversion but. And whilst f/11 isn't the sharpest aperture, it offers equal sharpness across the frame. the Iridient file has 0 noise reduction, the SPP file the minimum that the software allows. Photoshop: SPP / Iridient files merged (Luminosity mask) to produce a file with a theoretical 50% noise reduction, individually edited to taste.RAW edit: SPP and ID files processed to taste, X3F shot +2EV from baseline developed -2EV to match exposure.RawDigger: find X3F with zero OvExp, this is the baseline.Shooting: Spot Meter shadow region +1EV and 5 shot -EV AEB.Iridient Developer (RL-D, zero NR) > PS (ACR colour grading to taste) SPP (0.2 X3F Fill Light, 0.00 / -2.0 Sharpening, 0.00 Luminance & Chroma NR) > PS (High Pass and ACR colour grading to taste) Question 1: which Merrill X3F converter can extract the most detail? Being a climber first and photographer 2nd, a tripod rarely makes the pack a 3kg camera and lens combo is already breaking the principle of travelling fast and light! But with the impending lock down, I thought that it'd be prudent to create some post-processing homework, and thusly the tripod completed the Nantlle Ridge (a beautiful 14km route with over 1200m of ascent and a couple of easy scrambles).
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