Entries tagged with “sharpening” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

A reader of my Photoblog 2.0 writes: "I notice that in more than one of your photos you use high f-stop values. Your results look great, despite what I've read about diffraction problems occurring at such small apertures." The reader is perfactly correct on both counts. I do often use small apertures in my macro photos. For example, the photo...

Ethan Salwen talks about about photo capture-sharpening practices in AfterCapture and features O'Reilly author Mikkel Aaland. "There are compelling reasons to apply capture sharpening during the RAW conversion process," explains Mikkel Aaland, a San Francisco-based photographer and digital-imaging expert. "And there are compelling reasons to turn off a converter's sharpening function and wait until the file is in Photoshop." In...

The term bokeh is used to refer to blurring in a photograph. Good bokeh is smooth and pleasing, whereas bad bokeh produces a jagged and discordant effect. This may sound subjective, but pretty quickly you can get to recognize excellent bokeh when you see it in a photo. And the effort of doing so will help you improve your photography....