Mini Competition #586

This is an open-themed competition that is open to all CiC members.

ENTERING. Add your image in a new post below. Make sure to change your post title to a name for your picture (click the "Go Advanced" button). Only one entry per person. For help posting images, go here.

VOTING. When this competition reaches 10 entries, a poll will be automatically added and any member may then vote. After 2 days, voting ends and the winner is determined.

Once voting begins, a new competition will be automatically started.

Good luck!

Notes: Please do not request feedback or comment on other images until after voting has closed, as it could be unfair to other entrants. Photos must be your own, and never entered into one of our prior competitions. We also ask that only recently taken or edited photos be used as entries (in the spirit of motivating everyone to continually improve).

PS: Make sure to also vote on the previous competition here.

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Have you got something for me!!

Thanks all again. I'm getting a bit spoiled this way. Two winners out of one early morning session.
A tie should be OK with me. What a lovely picture Frank....

But I've got a question for you. Did you change your PP? I got the idea (but who am I...) that your pictures are now over sharpened. For me it's a degradation of the pictures, they are really so beautiful.

Thanks all, once again.

Pierre

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Originally Posted by Pjerry

Thanks all again. I'm getting a bit spoiled this way. Two winners out of one early morning session.
A tie should be OK with me. What a lovely picture Frank....

But I've got a question for you. Did you change your PP? I got the idea (but who am I...) that your pictures are now over sharpened. For me it's a degradation of the pictures, they are really so beautiful.

Thanks all, once again.

Pierre

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Hi Pierre, Congratulations on another Win! You are really getting good at this! :D

Thank you for asking, Pierre. Yes, Into the Maw is oversharpened, but not intentionally so. Actually, I had to minimize the sharpening as much as possible owing to the fact that this particular image was already 'oversharpened' SOOC in the camera's JPG conversion! Any cropping or contrast adjustments made it worse and I couldn't find a way to reduce the 'black halos that surronded every drop of water that was suspended in air' in PS. This is one good reason to shoot RAW! For more info, particularly for anyone that has a clue how address this issue, please take a look at - https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...hread13138.htm

Congratulations Pierre, You are there!

Thanks Dale, appreciate it.

Thanks Frank. I shoot most of my pictures as a SOOC and always in JPEG. My teacher "forbid" to shoot in RAW, because the pressure to get right out of the camera would than be to low. Whenever when I am becoming a good photographer I may switch back to RAW :rolleyes:. My camera has the default setting of sharpening +2 (default from Nikon ????, why not zero than :) ). In the PP I sometimes give it an extra sharpening. But I have never had the problem of over sharpening, not in RAW, not in JPG.

Pierre

I've read your thread now Frank. I'll hope this will resolve the issue, like I said, your pictures are so beautiful.
As a starter myself in PS, I can't help you. I'm right now in chapter 2 of the book :D (a real good book of Deke McClelland). The only drawback of the book is that it don't treats with "Camera RAW". A strange name program of Adobe, because it also works very well with JPG.

Great shot Pierre. Congratulations on this win.

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Originally Posted by Pjerry

My camera has the default setting of sharpening +2

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Perhaps we should move any future comments on this subject to the https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...hread13138.htm thread. The camera I used had built-in JPEG sharpening of +, Normal, and - and was set to Normal. I had not noticed this behavior in previous images so it may be image specific.

Thanks Anne.

I have noticed it before Frank. But you're right, this isn't the place.