OK, the birds in the tree in the front yard say they are discriminated against in favor of the backyard birds.
Here is a House Finch in the tree on the line of my yard and next door out at the curb.
In this one I also found that all these years I have been using "sharpen" wrong in lightroom. Here I used all the correct steps.
80D, 100-400 mk II @ 400, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 100 hand held at about 30-35 feet
About time I get my picture taken!
(
Download)
Beautiful image. Really great detail!!
Really great shot of the girlie bird! We have lots of these here, too. But more to the point, what is the diff in how you used Sharpening? Trying to master this, myself.
Yes, I'm with AJFRED, what is the correct way to sharpen?
Nicely done by the way!
AJFRED wrote:
Really great shot of the girlie bird! We have lots of these here, too. But more to the point, what is the diff in how you used Sharpening? Trying to master this, myself.
Thanks.
Under "detail" I had just been sliding the amount slider. That is the global setting, it trys to sharpen the entire image. Turns out that if you hold down the Alt key the image goes very contrasty B&W and as the slider goes over the parts that are highlighted change. When the highlights are on the parts you want to sharpen you let go of Alt and slide the "Amount" slider to sharpen those highlighted areas only.
Guess I really need to read the directions in detail and watch some more tutorials instead of experiments with sliders.
Photolady2014 wrote:
Yes, I'm with AJFRED, what is the correct way to sharpen?
Nicely done by the way!
Thanks, see the reply to AJFRED just above.
Oh, I learned this by accident. I was watching a history video on YouTube and let my cursor stop on top of a thumbnail on the page - it was a 30 second tutorial on how to use "masking" in LR "Detail" and ran automatically when my cursor stopped on it.
If this guy (I didn't even get his name I was in such a hurry to open LR and try it.) has more of these super short tutorials out I need to find them. I usually avoid tutorials because so many are just plain badly done. They may know the subject but not how to organize a lesson and how to present a lesson. As a former classroom teacher I cringe at some of them and cannot watch them for very long. They ramble, repeat, jump around over the subject, get distracted to other things, fragment the lesson etc. One the guy even stopped to comment on his cup of tea he was drinking then went back to the lesson but skipped a step that would have been in the gap where he was commenting on his tea.
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Gonna have to play with this some.
robertjerl wrote:
Thanks.
Under "detail" I had just been sliding the amount slider. That is the global setting, it trys to sharpen the entire image. Turns out that if you hold down the Alt key the image goes very contrasty B&W and as the slider goes over the parts that are highlighted change. When the highlights are on the parts you want to sharpen you let go of Alt and slide the "Amount" slider to sharpen those highlighted areas only.
Guess I really need to read the directions in detail and watch some more tutorials instead of experiments with sliders.
Thanks. br br Under "detail" I had just... (
show quote)
Nothing wrong with experimenting. Thanks for the info.I have Not tried this yet but, if I remember correctly, it only affects the white area, yes? Great pic.
I'll have to try this. Thanks for the tip. So, do you NOT use the general sharpen slider at all?
Oh, and the image is really nice.
[quote=robertjerl]Thanks.
Under "detail" I had just been sliding the amount slider. That is the global setting, it trys to sharpen the entire image. Turns out that if you hold down the Alt key the image goes very contrasty B&W and as the masking slider goes over the parts that are highlighted change. When the highlights are on the parts you want to sharpen you let go of Alt and slide the "Amount" slider to sharpen those highlighted areas only.
Guess I really need to read the directions in detail and watch some more tutorials instead of experiments with sliders.[/quote
Half asleep when I posted note edit "...hold down the Alt key...and as the "masking" slider...
I probably have this mixed up, fighting off a cold or my allergies, don't know which.
tcthome wrote:
Nothing wrong with experimenting. Thanks for the info.I have Not tried this yet but, if I remember correctly, it only affects the white area, yes? Great pic.
That is what I got from the tutorial, only the white/highlighted areas are sharpened.
AzPicLady wrote:
I'll have to try this. Thanks for the tip. So, do you NOT use the general sharpen slider at all?
Oh, and the image is really nice.
Thanks
I do just do the global slider often but more often I send the image to PS and my last step there is "smart sharpen" before saving back for posting or printing from LR.
If you want to reply, then
register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.