[Leica] IMG: A little recital

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Thanks, Mark.  My first version had no sharpening at all, and it needed 
a little, which I realized after seeing Geoff's private comment to me.  
For the final version, I used Capture One's default sharpening for the 
full-sized image. Then I made a mask for the eyes, and sharpened only 
them a bit more. I also added a bit of local contrast through the same 
mask. This was perfect for both the letter-sized print I made, and for 
the screen-size image I posted. Bright-light pictures with the M8 often 
don't need much if any sharpening, and C-One's default is often too much 
for screen-sized pictures. This one had a teeny bit of motion blur if I 
pixel-peeped at 100%, so I used sharpening to clarify and emphasize the 
eyes.

I tend to post pictures at reasonable screen size for a 1280x1024 
monitor, and no bigger.  Saves bandwidth and storage space.  It's fine 
unless you want to pixel-peep.

You don't see any piano because she wasn't sitting at one.  This was a 
head and upper-body shot that will go in a program for a competition for 
which she's on the jury.  The boy played cello without accompaniment.

--Peter

Mark (aka "Rabs") wrote,
> It is a tad frustrating to take my little clicker and click on a nice 
> looking pic hoping to really see it pop up big and nothing happens 
> nothing. Nada. But its big enough to see a sharp pair of lashes on the 
> eye on the left. Her right eye. Sharpening in digital photography is 
> high craft it seems to me. There seems to be lots of ways of doing it 
> right and better than right. You never stop learning. Then they come 
> out with an upgrade. I don't see no piano by the way. I"m drawn to the 
> thread as the word "grabs" has the word "Rabs" hidden in it. Which 
> puts it in my special "Rabs" folder which I look at first. As I think 
> its about me me me. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner