Need help improving this photo.
Nov 24, 2018 03:52:29 #
Can anyone out there in Hedgehog land help this photo with your awesome equipment and knowledge. Posting 3 versions. Someone wants a 14x16 print of this for Christmas but not real happy with how it looks. Wish they had chosen a sharper photo from my collection. Help if you can....please.
Nov 24, 2018 05:53:51 #
Nov 24, 2018 06:07:15 #
There's not enough tonal contrast in the photo for black & white. Everything in the photo has almost the same tones. I would use a color version of the photo. I see that you used Windows Photo Editor. If you have the RAW file, download Nikon Capture NX-D from Nikon's website and do your editing with that.
Are you using the .jpeg files out of the camera? If so, go into all of the Picture Controls - neutral, standard, vivid, monochrome, and all of others and increase the sharpening to level 6. Nikon sets the default sharpening for the Picture Controls very low.
Check your camera and lens combination for back and front focusing issues. I can't see where the critical focus is in any of the photos.
Are you using the .jpeg files out of the camera? If so, go into all of the Picture Controls - neutral, standard, vivid, monochrome, and all of others and increase the sharpening to level 6. Nikon sets the default sharpening for the Picture Controls very low.
Check your camera and lens combination for back and front focusing issues. I can't see where the critical focus is in any of the photos.
Nov 24, 2018 12:09:47 #
Grannysweet wrote:
Can anyone out there in Hedgehog land help this photo with your awesome equipment and knowledge. Posting 3 versions. Someone wants a 14x16 print of this for Christmas but not real happy with how it looks. Wish they had chosen a sharper photo from my collection. Help if you can....please.
This is my version. It's the best I could do with a jpeg and an unsharp image. Hope it helps a little.
Nov 24, 2018 16:44:53 #
kpmac wrote:
This is my version. It's the best I could do with a jpeg and an unsharp image. Hope it helps a little.
Looks better!Nov 24, 2018 20:27:27 #
kpmac wrote:
This is my version. It's the best I could do with a jpeg and an unsharp image. Hope it helps a little.
Very much better. Thank you. I tried to get her to choose the color photo but she insists on the black and white. It was not one of my best photos for sure.
Nov 24, 2018 21:37:54 #
This one s tough .. even for me ..
Nov 25, 2018 03:57:17 #
Dr.Nikon wrote:
This one s tough .. even for me ..
You did really great. Thank you for all the hard work. Maybe she will get a good Christmas gift after all..... Thanks again... You are amazing.
Nov 25, 2018 07:11:41 #
Do you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? You can get the Nik plugins. Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 is really nice for black & white conversions. I used Silver Efex Pro for this shot.
Nov 25, 2018 07:32:12 #
Grannysweet wrote:
Can anyone out there in Hedgehog land help this photo with your awesome equipment and knowledge. Posting 3 versions. Someone wants a 14x16 print of this for Christmas but not real happy with how it looks. Wish they had chosen a sharper photo from my collection. Help if you can....please.
Really nice shots. I don't really think you will get a decent one out of this, not sharp and too much noise. Dr. Nikon did wonderful job but that is all you will get and probably when you get to 14 x 16 will not look that good. Sorry. Thanks
Tom
Nov 25, 2018 10:38:05 #
Nov 25, 2018 11:33:45 #
Grannysweet wrote:
Can anyone out there in Hedgehog land help this photo with your awesome equipment and knowledge. Posting 3 versions. Someone wants a 14x16 print of this for Christmas but not real happy with how it looks. Wish they had chosen a sharper photo from my collection. Help if you can....please.
Try this,,,
Nov 25, 2018 17:02:31 #
Grannysweet wrote:
Can anyone out there in Hedgehog land help this photo with your awesome equipment and knowledge. Posting 3 versions. Someone wants a 14x16 print of this for Christmas but not real happy with how it looks. Wish they had chosen a sharper photo from my collection. Help if you can....please.
I often edit my own photos but it's hard to change a photo to suit someone else. To make it all fit to the size you want crops the picture quite a bit but here are my efforts. There's a huge foreground in your photo and that makes it a little more difficult to fit it to 14x16.
Nov 25, 2018 22:18:09 #
Nov 26, 2018 20:42:04 #
Hi, I saw this request just yesterday and I couldn't help but have a go at it! My attempts use your first image, one colour, one black and white, uncropped apart from straightening.
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