At 05:26 PM 8/11/2005, P. J. Alling wrote:
Well, yes I know about who Pullman was. It's not just the layout of the square. Looking at the original, it looks like a noise reduction program was used on the image at high settings and then it was over sharpened, (at least that's what it looks like from the halos around so many objects), to combat the softness the noise reduction imposed on the image. This resulted in a cartoonie artificial look. It's not a bad image, in fact it's a very good image, just looks less like a photograph than I think it should.
There was no noise reduction program used. When I converted to JPEG, I turned off color and luminance noise reduction in Photoshop's Camera RAW plugin. However, you're correct about the sharpening. During the conversion from RAW, the image was set for maximum sharpness which resulted in the halos you see around so many objects. I know this is extreme, but I liked the look of the very sharpened image better than the look of the slightly blurry alternative. On most of my images, I don't set the sharpness nearly so high during conversion from RAW. I often don't sharpen at all during the conversion. For some reason, this one image seemed more interesting to me with the extreme sharpness setting.
I was hoping that when viewed from an appropriate distance, the halos wouldn't be noticed. ;-)
take care, Glen
