tip...
Hi,
Get the exposure right from the first time... in most cases a slight over exposure of 1/3 or 1/5 will get you there. Noise will not be an issue.
If you have to sharpen the pictures, here is a little but very good trick....
- convert you picture from rgb to lab mode;
- upsize you picture to double its size;
- go to the layers pallet, select the lightness channel, do your sharpening, be moderate... depending on files size different sharpening setting are used, for my 10 mpx nikon D 200 files i use : amount 250-300, radius 0.5, treshold 1-3... gives the best results on those files. Also, don't just use these setting on all files, it depends from camera to camera. The nikon d 200 has the tendency to produce soft images when all images setting are kept nutral. Best is to keep you sharpening in camera to neutral and shoot raw...!!!
- resize your picture back to its original size, convert back to rgb.... and voila... tell me this isn't working, it's not producing halos or sharpening artifacts. The reason you are not getting more noise and artefacts is because you will only sharpening the layer that contains the less noise, the lightness channel.
Euhm, this is one of my best well kept secrets, so keep it here on this forum..lol.
Patrick.
ps : shouldn't we start a separate forum with only good tips.?..
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