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Adjusting sharpness When do I adjust the sharpness? From just zero, to a negative or positive etc.?
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Michaelle Walcutt |
Cathy, I am assuming that you are speaking of adjusting the sharpness "in camera", correct. If so, I generally tend to leave my sharpness on neutral (no + or -) and do all final sharpening in Photoshop. That way I have control over what I see when it is sharpened. If you don't have a good post processing application with the unsharp mask feature, then most of the time you would want your images to be as sharp as they can be so set the camera to have a + sharpening. In some high contrast situations this can cause abberations, so you may want to go back to the neutral position. The only time I would think that you would want to use the - sharpen feature would be for special effect situations where you want a softness to the image. Never having used the - sharpness option on my camera (I do post processing work in PS), I cannot tell you what the outcome would be. The best thing to do is to take some time and shoot a single subject with the various +/- sharpness option and compare the images. Do this with many single subjects including a low contrast subject (where all items in the image are relatively the same brightness level), a high contrast subject (maybe a subject in full sun), a close up subject (use the macro feature) and a landscape or wide-angle shot... as said before, compare all of the images and then you can begin to understand what the settings do and what your personal tastes are. I hope this helps. Michaelle
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Well, personally, I use PS to do all my sharpening and blurring. I usually just make it really sharp, then if I don't like it, I dull it somewhat. I would propose this, "do what you think looks good!" If you like something super sharp, crank it up, if ya want it to be a little bit blurred for effect, tone it down some. Follow your guts is what I'm saying I guess, lol. Sry I couldnt be much more help, Aloha,
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