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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 12, 2014, 10:46:58 am

Title: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 12, 2014, 10:46:58 am
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7399/13799308823_228782dce7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n2p4KD)Pelican (https://flic.kr/p/n2p4KD) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/people/20843597@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Alan Klein on April 12, 2014, 11:21:39 am
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.
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Johnny_Johnson on April 12, 2014, 11:24:28 am
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
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 12, 2014, 11:35:39 am
Quote from: Alan Klein on April 12, 2014, 11:21:39 am
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  :)
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 12, 2014, 11:44:22 am
Quote from: Johnny_Johnson on April 12, 2014, 11:24:28 am
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?

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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.
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: cjogo on April 12, 2014, 12:38:55 pm
Great shot --- toning and framing perfect for this one ~!
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 12, 2014, 03:08:29 pm
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%).
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 12, 2014, 06:05:19 pm
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.
Title: Re: Wildlife From the Street
Post by: francois on April 14, 2014, 07:23:10 am
It's a beautiful portrait and sharpening seems fine to me.