From the shore

[mseawell]

Antelope Island as the light fades...from the shore.

Fuji X-T4
Fujifilm 55-200
Adobe Lightroom
SEP/ST

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

While the image is lovely, it appears, as presented here, oversharpened, with halos, noisy, and "crunchy."

[mseawell]

Funny! I printed it and yep...crunchy. I like crunchy peanut butter or almond butter I will admit, not so much on my pictures!

Ah well! Good to hear the truth from a friend!

M

[guido]

Always good to check an image at 100% to see how things are holding up...

[francois]

Superb composition and treatment but I'm with both commenters, sharpening is on the hight side for me. That said, if the print is OK, then keep it as it is.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Funny! I printed it and yep...crunchy.

Have you tried to soften it back down a little to see if that helps?

There are several ways you can do this, such as using minus clarity etc, or the way that I prefer if I have gone a little too far into the 'crunchy' zone with my output sharpening, is to duplicate the layer in PS, then add a little Gaussian blur until it looks slightly too soft, then using the opacity slider to back off the upper layer until I get something I can live with - or an even simpler method, is to dupe the background layer as before and then run Despeckle on this new upper layer once or or even twice and then do the layer opacity blending thingmy again until you are happy.

Dave

[RSL]

Of course, if you've kept the original raw file (though I convert mine to .DNG), which you should, just go back to the original and start over with the whole thing. If the original is too noisy, the other life saver is PhotoLab's denoising process. By far the best I've ever used, and I've used a bunch of them.

[maddogmurph]

Reminds me of a shot I have in Nepal of this fisherman... nice and simple. Conveys peaceful feelings.

[mseawell]

Thanks all for the kind remarks and suggestions!    Me being me started over and I have an image that has a nice soft feel to it, just like the moment!

Mark