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Some RF 16 snowy landscapes

Started Jan 4, 2022 | Discussions thread
Alastair Norcross
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Images reprocessed with less microcontrast
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Prompted by complaints about halos in some of the images, I decided to reprocess them with a lower microcontrast setting. Microcontrast is Photolab;s equivalent of Lightroom's clarity. I think it's basically mid-tone contrast. On my default preset I have it set to a fairly small amount: 15. But for these I bumped it up to 45. It did result in the appearance of sharpening halos around the tree branches against the sky. I didn't apply any unsharp mask sharpening, but just stuck with what DXO does in its lens corrections. Anyway, here they are with the lower microcontrast setting. I think they do look better (thank you to the posters for prompting me to do this), but something like this can be pretty subjective, so others might prefer the original versions:

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