It's often better to apply USM locally. Or, for that matter, sparingly. But it's a nice shot. Paul On May 13, 2007, at 11:33 AM, William Robb wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: Bad Bokeh > > >> Yes, but it's not bokeh. His nose isn't completely out of focus. It's >> just sharpening artifacts on highlights. That's where they frequently >> show up. > > This is where I frequently have found problems with sharpening. > It's not the > completely out of focus stuff that is a problem. For lack of a > better term, > partially unfocused areas give sharpening software grief. > What buggers things up is when you have a partially unfocused > background and > you hit the entire image with USM. > Quite often, I am finding that what was a nice background suddenly has > double image (bokeh) simply because it wasn't out of focus enough > and USM > had enough to work with. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
