Thanks for all the advice. Digital photography sure is a journey of discovery.

It seems I have been paying too much attention to what I had read elsewhere about leaving sharpening to last.

Time for more experimentation I think.

I am still relatively new to digital photography. I am now using silkypix to process raw files, and have a question about sharpening

I use Silkypix for the raw conversion to TIFF, and then crop and resize and save my jpegs in Adobe Elements. At the moment I dont apply any sharpening in silkypix , I leave it on the natural setting. This is because i have learned that sharpening is best done as the last process before saving as the final image. So I take the TIFF file, open in Elements;crop;resize, and then apply unsharp mask before saving as jpeg.

Can anyone tell me if I am doing this right, or does anyone use another method that they feel works better ?

Peter

Here are 2 more images of the same raw file , all processd direct in silkypix, the first at the emphatic sharp setting, and the second at the exagerate sharp setting. I applied an unsharp mask (140;0.8;1) to both.

Let me know what you think.... I will get the hang of this sharpening if it kills me !

I have just posted in the general forum about sharpening tecniques , because I am thinking on the same likes as you. I was pleased with my shot but feel there is something lacking !

I dont know if it is my sharpening technique, or the fact my picture is taken in dull shade, but i too was taken aback by the great lion picture.

I have been doing digital for 3 years now , and still need to learn more.

Peter

The secret is in the silkypix processing !!!

I just let the camera do its thing on matrix metering.

ps nimitz..... love your entry for this weeks competition.

One from this afternoon in the garden with the K10 and DA* 300mm



Peter

Lovely picture... you have got the focus (and oof) so perfectly spot on.

Cabstar, those a great images. I think i can see Jack the Ripper lurking in one of them.

Good luck to you.

Thr wrong side of £200 ! .. but in my defence it was in mint condition !!