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Etkin Gurel
 

Contour on Digital Photo


 
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contour problem1

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Etkin Gurel

 
 
Hi im using Nikon D2x and takin advertisement photoes in Turkiye..And some times I have a contour problem on my photoes exactly in diffent light or color.Sometimes when im shooting furniture photoes im having the same problem.How can I get better photoes without these contours.How can I solve this problem...


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February 08, 2006

 

Andrew Laverghetta
  Wow, that looks interesting, I haven't seen anything like that before. Are you familiar with the controls or options on your camera? Try setting everything to the default setting or to "0" (zero) or turn stuff off. It seemed like it might be some kind of sharpening issue but it would seem that it should be like that in other places as well, not just the contour of the face. Try to isolate when this happens. Maybe recreate this situation somehow and take it with different JPEG and raw (NEF?) settings to see if in camera controls may be creating it. Beyond that, I'm not sure without being able to fiddle with it myself.


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February 09, 2006

 

Christopher A. Vedros
  I was thinking that oversharpening could be the culprit, also.

Was the second picture cropped after sharpening? Most things I've read say that sharpening should be the last step in your image processing.

The second image almost looks like it was masked and pasted on a different background. But I've seen oversharpening cause artifacts like that. I think it shows up on the contours like that because it is a high contrast change from the face to the background.


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February 09, 2006

 

John G. Clifford Jr
  Are you shooting in JPEG mode? Shoot in RAW mode. If you must shoot in JPEG, turn off any in-camera sharpening.

If you are really doing professional photography (and not just snapshots), then shoot in RAW mode only, and learn to do your post-processing on a computer instead of letting the camera do it for you.

When post-processing (improving an image with image editing software such as Photoshop), sharpening is the VERY LAST THING that you want to do. Color correct, resize, etc., and then, once the image is the final size you want then, and only then, sharpen it... and then save it to print.

Most likely, if you are preparing images for advertising purposes and you will not be doing the ads yourself, the customer may want the images UNSHARPENED so they can sharpen them to their taste. Check with your customer and see what they want.


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February 10, 2006

 

Etkin Gurel
  Andrew,Chris and John you are all so kind people.First of all im very sorry for my bad english :(
Then yes im working as a professional advertisement photographer.If u have time please visit www.pozitifstudio.com to see my other works and I need comments from both of you. Yes im using digital for 2 years.I started to work with digital equpment with nikon D70 and im using D2x for two months for my works.And im lived that problem with D70.and in my homepage I shoot all photoes with D70.So that is so nice to see your helps for me.Yes im always using RAW (NEF) format couse I must prepare my works for my customars desires.And it may happen from sharpening problems.Me and my customers always wants sharpen photes from me and im using my cameras sharpen function on high sharpen.I ll try so give sharpen after I shoot my topic and try to give sharpen on my programs.Im using capture editor.And that problem always in different colours.first and second photograhs are in the same frame.I croped them to show and share my problem.Again and again I must thank both of you for all your helps...


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February 11, 2006

 
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