On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Zos, eyebrows are my litmus test for system sharpness. Get a well-lit >> headshot of somebody and examine their eyebrows. You should clearly >> see the individual hairs. Any time I handhold to get such a shot the >> eyebrows are invariably a gaussian smear. You cannot do clean >> retouching of such images. >> >> I can show you a 100% crop of my model's eyebrows from the last beauty >> shots I took using a tripod with my K20D and DA* 50-135. Clear, sharp, >> detailed. I defy you to get that clarity handheld, no matter the >> shutter speed. > > Let's make sure we're testing the same thing. What percent of frame > should the person's head be? Any other requirements?
You want this to be scientific? This is The Internet. :-) Well, the shot I have In Support of Tripod Use is this recent one: http://flic.kr/p/f2Kebj Obviously head fills the frame, landscape. Camera was about 8-9 feet away, 135mm at F8.0, ISO 200. Probably not the best tripod for the task, the ball head is a bit light for the DA* 50-135 + K20D: Manfrotto 190XproB, 486RC2 head. Here's a 100% crop of her right eyebrow and eyelashes: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2254722/PDML/BMW_8026-crop.tif It's an 8-bit TIFF, exported from the original RAW shot in Lightroom 4. Lr's default zeroed settings except WB: flash and the default RAW sharpening of 25. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
