Street Flowers

[Don Schaeffer]

A Leaking Rose


Merely A Weed

[reverberation]

That second shot was taken with a Kodak Z740?

[GB1]

Good DOF on the first shot. Both seem a little oversharpened.

GB

[Don Schaeffer]

both were taken with a Z740 (using a .7x wicon). I have heard th oversharpening crit before. I do tend to sharpen to bring out detail. Sometimes recucing to 640 X 480 eexaggerates the effect.

[Frog]

I like the first one a lot.

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks Froggy

[Jodanna]

Don...I'm just learning photography and hardly know how to work my camera but I know when I like a picture and I love the first one. The first thought that came to my head was how clear and sharp the picture was. I love it!

[Greg McCary]

I think maybe even a lower angle on them both would work too. Nice use of the sidewalk and train tracks. Good pictures Don.

[livin4lax09]

don, do you use photoshop? if so, you can use the unsharp mask tool to your advantage. The threshold slider is specifically so you can control what parts of the image are sharpened and what aren't. this will allow you to bring out detail while not oversharpening the entire thing. or you could work in layers using masks.

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks Jodana and Greg.

Brent:

I have an early version of photoshop (vers 6). I have never gotten used to it. I prefer my old program called Photosuite. There are lots of controls in it that work a different way. I cut out areas of a photo, sharpen those, copy the altered areas to the buffer, then re-paste the altered areas into the original, controlling transparency. I can also soften any part of the image. I do find the sharpening adds subtle textures to the image which I like.