General Photography Competition #159

[John Thawley]

TehRacer
Speed Of Sound
Salinas International Air Show
28-9-08
Canon 30D

I think you've gone a little too far with the un-sharpen mask or something. There's a white row of pixels that completely trace the outline of the plane.

JT

[TehRacer]

I think you've gone a little too far with the un-sharpen mask or something. There's a white row of pixels that completely trace the outline of the plane.

JT

Where? All I did was crop, contrast, and a slight noise reduction. Maybe my monitor sucks too much to see it. If it bothers people that much I have a version without a little less noise reduction hence no more 1 pixel wide white line. Had to zoom in til about 500% to even see them. Seems that I'm under investigation by the pixel police. Thanks for letting me know though.

[John Thawley]

Where? All I did was crop, contrast, and a slight noise reduction. Maybe my monitor sucks too much to see it. If it bothers people that much I have a version without a little less noise reduction hence no more 1 pixel wide white line. Had to zoom in til about 500% to even see them. Seems that I'm under investigation by the pixel police. Thanks for letting me know though.

Noise Reduction is definitely the culprit. What are you using? Noise reduction will tend to remove detail and then try to sharpen it back in. It's a tricky balance.

I noticed it right away. I only zoomed to try to figure out why it looked odd. That's when I saw the white row of pixels. Not the pixel police at all... nor investigating. Just thought it looked kind of nasty.

If you want to send me the original, I can probably get it to scream.

JT

[TehRacer]

Noise Reduction is definitely the culprit. What are you using? Noise reduction will tend to remove detail and then try to sharpen it back in. It's a tricky balance.

I noticed it right away. I only zoomed to try to figure out why it looked odd. That's when I saw the white row of pixels. Not the pixel police at all... nor investigating. Just thought it looked kind of nasty.

If you want to send me the original, I can probably get it to scream.

JT

I see, good eye buddy. I used Photoshop CS3's noise reduction. If you give me your email I'll gladly send you the original, uncropped and everything. I have to admit it is a pretty piss poor photograph without cropping, though it is kind of hard to follow something going faster than the speed of sound and get off a good shot without Image Stabilizer.

[drakkie]

Drakkie
Ooops... Dredging barge killing new terminal
About a month ago
Maasvlakte, Rotterdam
Pentax K100d Super + 70-300mm
- no editing -



The last new piece of land on Maasvlakte 1. From now on, it will only go further into the sea for Maasvlakte 2! Expect a nice overview of the work on this project on my site in the next months/years.

[Piacki_117]

Piacki117
Ile de Batz
August 2007
Sony DSC-R1