This is my first attempt at shooting the birds around my house. Was getting ready for work this morning and wanted to try out the 50-200+1.4X combo. The bird was in the shade so lighting was poor and had to use ISO400 shot at 280mm, 1/[email protected] hand held using ESP metering. I'm shocked it turned out this well. This is also with aprox 40% of the image cropped out.
Also wanted to post a screen shot of ultrasharpen in action so you can get an idea how it works. This is showing one of the sharpening matrixes it makes of the image. It opens the matrix in the levels screen so you can choose the white and black points to adjust what parts are sharpened and a gausian blur screen after this one to choose how wide the sharpening goes past the edges. The key to this is it sharpens 100% where the matrix is black and 0% where it is white. As you can see it avoids the background totally (doesn't sharpen noise) but goes after the in focus subject. It has screens where you can dial in the width of the glowing edges from which these matrixes are made, the blur of these glowing edges and all sorts of sharpening adjustments.This is a really cool, cheap PS plugin.
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Stacey
Also wanted to post a screen shot of ultrasharpen in action so you can get an idea how it works. This is showing one of the sharpening matrixes it makes of the image. It opens the matrix in the levels screen so you can choose the white and black points to adjust what parts are sharpened and a gausian blur screen after this one to choose how wide the sharpening goes past the edges. The key to this is it sharpens 100% where the matrix is black and 0% where it is white. As you can see it avoids the background totally (doesn't sharpen noise) but goes after the in focus subject. It has screens where you can dial in the width of the glowing edges from which these matrixes are made, the blur of these glowing edges and all sorts of sharpening adjustments.This is a really cool, cheap PS plugin.
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Stacey
