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 10/29/2004 04:46:49 PM · #1
I'd like to hear your opinions on this football shot, especially in regards to the way it has been edited. Is it sharp? too sharp?



Thanks in advance.
 10/29/2004 04:48:06 PM · #2
I would say it looks over sharpened. E.g., the halos around his right shoulder and the way his left arm 'floats' again due to sharpening halos.

There are quite a few other parts like that, such as the right leg and the over exposed spot on the helmet that has odd artefacting from the sharpening you've used too, I suspect.

The socks also look slightly weird, either you used flash and there was a lot of UV soap powder used or they have what look to be oversaturated 'blue white' colour going on ? Not sure what that is :)

Message edited by author 2004-10-29 16:50:15.
 10/29/2004 05:35:16 PM · #3
I agree with Gordon, there do appear to be some faint halos. Try sharpening with a smaller redius, and shapen in increments until it looks good.
Some other tweaks you may want to consider:
- Move the white balance slightly cooler
- Enhance the local contrast a bit
- Desaturate reds slightly
- Increase sat slighly on greens/blues
- Burn BG slightly to emphasize the subject
 10/29/2004 06:02:01 PM · #4
yep, over sharpened. I'd like to see the original to see how it looks. Other than that, nice job, especially on watching your backgrounds!

Dan
 10/29/2004 06:43:49 PM · #5
Thanks all for your input. Here's the original (downsized only).



Some of the halo effect may be due to remants where I cloned out people in the background. No flash, bright sunny day. Yup, the helmut and sox were over exposed, I tried to fix them but only made it look worse.

Thanks again.
 10/29/2004 06:58:55 PM · #6
Originally posted by coolhar:
Thanks all for your input. Here's the original (downsized only).



Some of the halo effect may be due to remants where I cloned out people in the background. No flash, bright sunny day. Yup, the helmut and sox were over exposed, I tried to fix them but only made it look worse.

Thanks again.


looks like the focus was on the ref. I hate that when it happens to me, youd have a really great shot only to see it was focused on something else.
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