new pics
- Thread starter Wendy
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
Nice pictures - both above and below!
One thing I see is a lot of noise in your uw shots. This could be a few things (I doubt it is the original image itself unless you are shooting at really low image quality) such as 1) oversharpening the photos in your software or 2) making them OK for posting. If it is #2 you might try doing the Save For Web with a max side of 640 pixels and medium...that's what I have been using and am finding that it works pretty well for most images.
But I like 'em!
One thing I see is a lot of noise in your uw shots. This could be a few things (I doubt it is the original image itself unless you are shooting at really low image quality) such as 1) oversharpening the photos in your software or 2) making them OK for posting. If it is #2 you might try doing the Save For Web with a max side of 640 pixels and medium...that's what I have been using and am finding that it works pretty well for most images.
But I like 'em!
Wow! Not even the internal strobe?? You do have some nice colour there even so. Are you doing the manual white balance thing at all? Some have had great luck with that with no stobe/flash.
I know what you mean about the learning curve with software! I'm glad I have made never working on the original a total non-negotiable in my workflow coz I have stuffed some things up pretty good. and sometimes don't realise until someone tells me (my monitor can be a little touchy sometimes so what I see is not always what others see!)
Keep em coming!
I know what you mean about the learning curve with software! I'm glad I have made never working on the original a total non-negotiable in my workflow coz I have stuffed some things up pretty good. and sometimes don't realise until someone tells me (my monitor can be a little touchy sometimes so what I see is not always what others see!)
Keep em coming!
Very nice. As you mentioned, sharpening is a little overdone. But I really like the effect on the 'tired cave diver', especially with the sepia coloration. Looks like an old photo.
The beach scene with the fence and sand dune is most excellent!
The beach scene with the fence and sand dune is most excellent!
fishnchips
Contributor
Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.
Dee:
My boyfriend is so tired of me taking his picture, he wants me to show him how to use the camera so there will be pics of me for a change. The tired cave diver photo was a candid shot.
I have not yet done a manual white balance. I read how to do it, just haven't. I have just been doing the auto fix with my software. Otherwise my ocean pics are very blue and my fresh water pics are very green.
I may take down some of those pics and put up the same pics without as much sharpening. I save everything to disk, before and after shots.
Wendy:
Don't do it! You'll never get your camera back...better to give him yours and upgrade to a nifty new camera LOL
Wendy..
Do you use photoshop for sharpening? If so, a technique called "Lab Color Sharpening" may be what you want. You basically separate out the lightness channel from the color and just apply sharpening to that channel. In my opinion it works way better than normal unsharp mask and doesn't sharpen the color channels.
If you do use Photoshop, let me know and I can round up the specific steps for creating a macro/hotkey for this type of sharpening.
By the way...Nice pics. I'm just the opposite on vacation. I take all the shots so there's almost none of me, they're all of my wife, who doesn't dive, or fish.
Do you use photoshop for sharpening? If so, a technique called "Lab Color Sharpening" may be what you want. You basically separate out the lightness channel from the color and just apply sharpening to that channel. In my opinion it works way better than normal unsharp mask and doesn't sharpen the color channels.
If you do use Photoshop, let me know and I can round up the specific steps for creating a macro/hotkey for this type of sharpening.
By the way...Nice pics. I'm just the opposite on vacation. I take all the shots so there's almost none of me, they're all of my wife, who doesn't dive, or fish.
Similar threads
