Wildlife From the Street

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Pelican by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr

[Alan Klein]

Hi Slobodan:  Nice shot.  Haven't seen many of these on my street.  Glad to see you're back.  Hope all is well with you.  Alan.

[Johnny_Johnson]

Looks over sharpened - is that just me?

Anyway, I clicked on it to see a larger version and was taken to your Flickr stream. While there I came across an image that I don't remember seeing before - "At the Rockefeller Center", August 13, 2013. The young woman is unbelievably beautiful and the image is a wonderful capture of that. Is it your daughter, all grown up now?

Later,
Johnny

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Hi Slobodan:  Nice shot.  Haven't seen many of these on my street.  Glad to see you're back.  Hope all is well with you.  Alan.

Thanks, Alan. Neither have I on my street... it was in La Jolla (San Diego), California 

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Looks over sharpened - is that just me?

Interesting... to me, it looks detailed, as it naturally is (the bird). It is a significant crop from an 8 Mpx camera (Canon 20D) so I did sharpen it a bit more, but not to the point that I would see it as over sharpened. Not trying to defend it, just curious... do others see it as over sharpened too?

Anyway, I clicked on it to see a larger version and was taken to your Flickr stream. While there I came across an image that I don't remember seeing before - "At the Rockefeller Center", August 13, 2013. The young woman is unbelievably beautiful and the image is a wonderful capture of that. Is it your daughter, all grown up now?

Many thanks for the compliments! Yes, it is my daughter, 14 at the time.

[cjogo]

Great shot --- toning and framing perfect for this one ~!

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

As for the sharpening... what we see in the OP photo is probably Flickr resizing/sharpening algorithm. I am attaching a direct comparison between a totally unsharpened file (i.e., not even LR default sharpening) and my final version (which is very close to LR's Landscape default) at 1:1 (i.e., 100%).

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Another fine shot, Slobodan.

Curiously, on LuLa as the image comes up it looks just right for sharpness, but when I click it, which takes me to Flickr, where it looks extremely fuzzy, even though your own portrait on the same page looks just right. I suspect Flickr is doing something weird.

[francois]

It's a beautiful portrait and sharpening seems fine to me.