JerryPH
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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First, an overly sharp picture is not always the best looking. Over-sharpening is a phenomenon that is starting to show up here and there... often, too much of anything is not a good thing.
That said, photo sharpness can be aided by:
- Using a quality lens
- Using the aperture sweetspot of a lens. For example, on my Nikon 18-200, at F/11, it is as sharp as the $2000 70-200 Nikkor!
- Using the base or low ISO
- Nailing the exposure. One way means being in manual, using a light meter or histogram, controlling lighting precisely and shooting in RAW, which brings me to...
- When shooting in RAW, PP sharpening is mandatory, and the best sharpening program I have found is NIK software's Sharpener Pro, however you can use other forms of sharpening like CS3's sharpening slider or unsharp mask slider.
For additional tutorials on photoshop sharpening, search YouTube, there are at least 20 the last time I looked. Searching the net gave me at least 100 more tutorials.
Hope that helps.
That said, photo sharpness can be aided by:
- Using a quality lens
- Using the aperture sweetspot of a lens. For example, on my Nikon 18-200, at F/11, it is as sharp as the $2000 70-200 Nikkor!
- Using the base or low ISO
- Nailing the exposure. One way means being in manual, using a light meter or histogram, controlling lighting precisely and shooting in RAW, which brings me to...
- When shooting in RAW, PP sharpening is mandatory, and the best sharpening program I have found is NIK software's Sharpener Pro, however you can use other forms of sharpening like CS3's sharpening slider or unsharp mask slider.
For additional tutorials on photoshop sharpening, search YouTube, there are at least 20 the last time I looked. Searching the net gave me at least 100 more tutorials.
Hope that helps.