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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 289875" data-attributes="member: 9240">I'm glad you like the photo.&nbsp; I stumbled on this place this weekend and went back this morning.&nbsp; This was taken on a very bouncy bridge, and to get it clear I had to shoot on self timer with a 20 second delay taking 2 photos, because the first photo would still show the effects of the bridge recovering from me walking off after pressing the shutter button (press, walk smoothly off the bridge, wait a full minute while making sure no bears were coming, go back and check the exposure).Here's the original photo and I've desaturated and darkened all the areas that really aren't in focus, or close to in focus...[ATTACH=full]82079[/ATTACH]The rest is all a product of sharpening and detail extraction.&nbsp; I used Perfect Effects 8's Dynamic Contrast filter to boost the details.&nbsp; This does a great job of making small things pop, and yes, it can fool you into thinking out of focus areas are less soft.&nbsp; To sharpen I applied a High Pass Filter to a duplicate layer (pixel radius was likely 2.0) using a Vivid Light blend mode, adjusting opacity to make it as natural looking as possible.&nbsp; I find that using the high pass method (either with Overlay or Vivid Light) gives a much more pronounce sharpness, though you have to play with the radius depending on the various levels of detail.&nbsp; I'm using this much more now in place of Unsharp Mask, which I used to use all the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 289875, member: 9240"] I'm glad you like the photo. I stumbled on this place this weekend and went back this morning. This was taken on a very bouncy bridge, and to get it clear I had to shoot on self timer with a 20 second delay taking 2 photos, because the first photo would still show the effects of the bridge recovering from me walking off after pressing the shutter button (press, walk smoothly off the bridge, wait a full minute while making sure no bears were coming, go back and check the exposure). Here's the original photo and I've desaturated and darkened all the areas that really aren't in focus, or close to in focus... [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]82079._xfImport[/ATTACH] The rest is all a product of sharpening and detail extraction. I used Perfect Effects 8's [I]Dynamic Contrast[/I] filter to boost the details. This does a great job of making small things pop, and yes, it can fool you into thinking out of focus areas are less soft. To sharpen I applied a High Pass Filter to a duplicate layer (pixel radius was likely 2.0) using a Vivid Light blend mode, adjusting opacity to make it as natural looking as possible. I find that using the high pass method (either with Overlay or Vivid Light) gives a [I]much[/I] more pronounce sharpness, though you have to play with the radius depending on the various levels of detail. I'm using this much more now in place of Unsharp Mask, which I used to use all the time. [/QUOTE]

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