Olympus Photo Thread

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Originally Posted by kgosden

Raven,

So I took your response to mean radius =250, Amount=40% & Threshold=3 (default), etc. Based on that I created a 'Raven Sharpener' action. Here is a before and after. It certainly boosts the apparent sharpness and dehazed the image. However, I am not certain it isn't too much in this case. The butterfly was back lit and the hazy quality might be desired as part of the sense of place and time.

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Woah! No, the original seems better and is actually quite good. My method has 6 steps, and none of them gets more than 8% sharpness.
All with threshold set to 0. Maybe that isn't default... I'm still toying with it.
250 pix 4%
64 pix 2%
16 pix 1%
4 pix 2%
1 pix 4%
0.5 pix 8%
Auto contrast

I'd give an example but I'm going to bed.

Different photo example with the new value; before and after. As I played around it seemed about 90% of the difference in this example is from the auto-contrast. The sharpening did add some detail that auto-contrast alone did not. BTW, these settings seemed to have little impact on the butterfly photo.

That looks more like it! They don't have a noticeable impact on all photos, but on some they have a HUGE impact. Case in point: taken from a misty mountain top in China, the city of Tai'an before and after (this was the older method, I don't know if the new one would do the same exactly):

Note that you may have to run the routine two or three times to make the effect of the unsharp mask clearly noticeable, I made it mild on purpose because I didn't always want a sledgehammer effect. The auotcontrast has minimal impact after the first run. I put autocontrast on last so I can undo it with just ctrl + z when it screws up, which happens about one time in ten.

Auto-contrast does have the occasional tendency to over do it at times.

A little soft, but it was a quick grab with the 70-300 this afternoon.

From a street party last night, this guy was a truly, truly terrible singer.

Well, if you can't sing at least you can wear 3 or 4 dead crows.

Who says Olympus can't do high ISO? ISO 1600, 300MM on a 70-300MM. Wish I had a faster lens to push the shutter higher, but you work with what you got.
Developed from RAW in Master 2

And one more... for some reason the EXIFs got stripped out of these pictures, don't know why. 70-300MM at 300MM F5.6, ISO1600, developed from RAW in Master 2