Greg

Thanks for the feedback, all. I do appreciate it.

Back when I was new and full of undeserved confidence, I really thought it was cool to ratchet up the contrast until very little detail remained. The ST has helped me appreciate the art of getting the detail to show through the noise or the blank space.

Greg

Hey, Lenny.

I use Camera Raw’s noise reduction, then I go to AI Sharpen from within Photoshop after I’ve done all I want to do. That was suggested to me by a member here, but I forget who. I have to admit, I don’t know *why* I’m doing it that way. For AI Sharpen, I usually leave the denoise slider at the default of 50%.

Greg

First time for me that a photo has been ignored for four days.

Must mean it is either absolutely perfect or perfectly awful.

Anyway, tell me what you think. I can take it.

Hi, Peter.

Love the red “veins” on the underside of the leaves.

Good shot. I often use Topaz Labs’ AISharpen. It seems very effective with some photos, not so much others. But, I haven’t used it enough to be able to say what kind of photo it helps more or less.

It has three choices to click between and you pick the one that does the best job of…[Read more]

Thanks, Anne. I’ll work on it. Might have a little fun 🙂

I like Anne’s version. Rob’s version has too much empty space and an object that I don’t think I’d recognize as a boat if it weren’t sitting on water.

I see what you mean, Kent. Thanks.

I go back and forth on whether I like all the grass in this image. It sort of gives the photo a messy look, but there can be a fine line between messy and texturally interesting. And I can just imagine sitting down for hours of editing in order to remove the grass! Or am I missing something?

I went back to the original image as it came out of the unknown camera and couldn’t find it. Probably accidentally erased it. Anyway, I can no longer go back and fix the tight crops.

I’m just thrilled that Camera Raw and PS can resurrect an old photo like this to this point, at least.

Thanks, Dahlia!

Thanks, all, for the comments. I’ve noticed that the flowers are quite soft and void of much detail while the rest of the photo seems sharp. Tried to sharpen the whole thing using Topaz AI Sharpen, but it didn’t do much for the flowers.

Going to have to use a localized solution as 3pco suggests.

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That’s why i *like* the B&W: It looks like a failed Escher. Cool.

“…we end up with a different point of view to ponder.”

This is possibly the main reason I’m involved in this site. A new look at something old can leave me with a profound little thrill.

“Well said…” indeed.

Thanks to all for the comments. I’m dealing with my mother’s health issues, so I’ll get back to this and other photos soon.

Greg

Thanks, Rob. Yeah, I had two of the out-of-focus pods on the left and tried to split them with a crop in from the left. Apparently, cropping half-way down one of pods is acceptable. At least it looks a lot better with Frogdaily’s edit below than mine where I’ve got the crop slicing through the extreme left of a pod and the evidence of the other…[Read more]

If it were me in this photograph, I’d have it on my wall in short order. Except, as already noted, the sky looks a tad blotchy or something…

Thanks for the input, @frogdaily. I’m taking an online course on Photoshop and this should make a great exercise, to try and duplicate your edits.