Hello.
A photographer on another forum, where i was asking the same, suggested I posted this here, so here goes..
I'm new at this forum, so first, a bit of background.
I've been working as a freelance photographer shooting real estate for some years, and lately I've been taking on some assignments for architects. Coming from low-end real estate photography, my bag of equipment is less than optimal for higher end assignments, but I need to be able to solve the jobs I do take on as well as possible - with what I currently got. Guess what I'm saying is that the level of fine detail in my images is low, relative to what I suspect is the norm for architectural shooters on this forum.
With that said, here's my problem.
When outputting images for clients, I resize them to their specifications. That is, I both upscale the images for print, and downsize them for internet use. It's particularly the downsizing process that's causing me headaches, because with a number of my subjects so far, there is often plenty fine detail that causes moiré artifacts when downsized to a resolution that doesn't resolve the detail. Online search found me
this, and by tuning this method a little I've come to my best result so far.
I do however, feel like I'm a little busy re-inventing a wheel that must exists already, so what I wanted to ask was if any of you knew a tried and tested method for this issue.
I made a flickr slideshow of four versions of the same image that illustrates the problem, it can be found
here.
In
"options", if you turn off
"embiggen" and choose
"slow", and click
"show info", then it should be fairly easy to compare the different results while reading a brief description of how the resizing was carried out.
Here is a tighter view of the facade (also with its problems)
Would greatly appreciate all input.
Regards.
Thorir Vidar
(panografi.com)