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How is this SD1m portrait photo shot ?

Started Feb 1, 2022 | Discussions thread
paulsch
paulsch Regular Member • Posts: 276
Re: Nothing wrong with Foveon Skin

High resolution versions of a couple of the above photos here:

https://medium.com/ice-cream-geometry/an-ode-to-the-sigma-merrill-506dd0864169

If I want to smooth Foveon skin a bit, I export at 2x resolution and apply some skin smoothing plugin in Photoshop - the extra resolution helps the algorithm and skin looks great. But mostly I'm happy with Foveon skin - skin tones and sharpness - even if somewhat over sharpened by Sigma's algorithms.

The portrait taken with the Merrill sensor in the linked article (“An ode to …”) has just an amazing, wonderful picture quality. It is pictures like that, that make me think there is something very special to this kind of sensor.

Obviously the person behind the camera is at least as important. Also the lenses are important etc. But still, IMHO those sensors can produce images that give a very realistic impression and have are particular intensity.

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