Micro contrast is one half of the equation for getting something to appear sharp, it's the contrast at the level of each individual detail. the other half of the equation is resolving the basic detail. Sharpening in fact does nothing other than increase micro-contrast to make the detail look sharp,
-Adam On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Pasvorn Boonmark <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam, > > I like this type of pictures. Very nicely done. > > I am new to the term "micro-contrast". Is sharpening usually done to > compensate for this? > > Do you have any reference that I can read about? > > Thanks, > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Clarity and Vibrance added in ACR along with vignetting. Smart >> Sharpening in PSCS3. The kit lens is quite good, but low in >> micro-contrast so I bump that in post. >> >> -Adam >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
