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Making your own lens profiles.
Apologies for always asking bizarre questions, but one thing I love about this forum is people's willingness to discuss unusual topics.:D I want to try and make lens profiles for two types of laminated windows that I shoot through regularly; is this possible, and does anyone have any idea how I c...
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 00:48
Making your own lens profiles.
Finally found a solution, which is Focus Magic, I don't know why I had not tried it before. I originally downloaded the trial version to try and improve some thunderstorm shots, but had limited success with those. Works a treat on normal aerial shots though, see my thread on Focus magic for a view o...
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 15:10
Focus magic
I have just tried using this program on some of my aerial shots, and I have to say I am absolutely astounded by the results! I have been looking for a while to find some way of improving my aerial pictures, in fact I was going to try and create a lens profile to compensate for the windows, but I thi...
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 14:55
Focus magic
You can also set the angle of the blur, which should be handy with shots from a moving plane.
Posted by Algernon on 27/08/2011 - 15:20
Focus magic
I think the angle of the blur is just for motion blur, which I don't have a problem with from altitude. It's the affect of focus that seems to be the main problem, and this program seems to be the solution to that. There is of course still the ongoing problem of haze, which I still haven't solved s...
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 15:27
Focus magic
I have been using it for a while now .. about the best sharpening tool I could find.
Posted by Mike-P on 27/08/2011 - 15:43
Focus magic
The original looks stunning, BTW. Glad you found something that will help you, might have a look at it myself :) Oh, and were you landing the Space Shuttle at the time ?
Posted by Galoot on 27/08/2011 - 15:44
Focus magic
Just paid for it, I wish I had come across it earlier, as I have hundreds of images to reprocess now! The original looks stunning, BTW. Glad you found something that will help you, might have a look at it myself :) Oh, and were you landing the Space Shuttle at the time ? I wish! I hav...
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 16:00
Focus magic
Looks very interesting, thanks for posting. I use Elements and I can get some grainy/noise from sharpening - is it better controlled?
Posted by Dodge69 on 27/08/2011 - 16:09
Focus magic
Looks very interesting, thanks for posting. I use Elements and I can get some grainy/noise from sharpening - is it better controlled? From the limited experimentation I have done so far, it doesn't appear to introduce any noise at all.
Posted by aliengrove on 27/08/2011 - 16:13
Focus magic
It's an excellent little plug in. I don't think AG's shot is unnacceptably soft, given it's a 100% crop, but look how much extra detail you can pull out.
Posted by Pentaxophile on 27/08/2011 - 17:31
Focus magic
Nice good little plug in you got here. I think there are a lot of plug ins like these out there. Topaz has some very nice misfocused plug in that can help you out also.
Posted by xtian on 28/08/2011 - 17:59
Enhance eyes in Photoshop
Every digital photographer should IMHO at least consider shooting one slide film. This will immediately show you how good your exposure control is and also how attentive you are being to composition. Yes, I did this, and I learned an important lesson... ... never to try again. Certainly, my re...
Posted by ChrisA on 31/08/2011 - 11:35
Enhance eyes in Photoshop
[/quote]We are very good at coming up with excuses! Plus we are incompetent as well! :shock: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :wink:[/quote] Personally, I do not need to make excuses as I never make mistakes in photography. All of my images are perfect straight out of camera - it's just a question of interp...
Posted by fritzthedog on 31/08/2011 - 12:43
Enhance eyes in Photoshop
Slide protectors should be classed as instruments of torture. As should slide shows :lol:. Indeed. Yet with digital, they've come back!! :shock: I had to sit through my brother-in-law's several hundred snaps from his China trip recently. With commentary. :roll:
Posted by ChrisA on 31/08/2011 - 12:52
Monitor calibration - worth it?
I have a huey pro, think it cost around £75, very easy to use. Now when I print or I get prints back from shops they look the same as on the monitor. Would definitely recommend it. Davex.
Posted by davex on 31/08/2011 - 15:55
Monitor calibration - worth it?
I also use a Spyder 3Pro. If your monitor can be calibrated then it’s well worth it. I did use Adobe Gamma (software only) back when I had a CRT but it was a bit hit and miss – much easier using a hardware calibrator. The Spyder 3 system uses the same hardware for a range of different software o...
Posted by Dave_Evanson on 31/08/2011 - 20:40
Monitor calibration - worth it?
An unqualified yes from me too. Before I calibrated mine (Huey Pro), prints I got back from places like PhotoBox were terrible - way too dark, since my monitor was way too bright. Since then I've been a lot happier with prints, in particular with a photo book I did using Blurb. Considering ...
Posted by ChrisA on 01/09/2011 - 08:33
Banish out of focus shots with PinPoint?
An universal focus assist device that will increase your proportion of 'keepers' in even the most challenging of circumstances (e.g. photographing a dragonfly in flight, allegedly). More details here Enter the manufacturers 'One that got away - if only I'd used a PinPoint' competition here...
Posted by prsjnb on 06/09/2011 - 10:06
Banish out of focus shots with PinPoint?
The example image is pretty dreadful, but I also thought we already had focus assist lights in our cameras? Will a green light be better? If so, why to manufacturers always seem to provide red lights? Actually, come to think of it, if some of us are having problems focusing in low red (tungsten) ...
Posted by johnriley on 06/09/2011 - 11:27
