Thanks…
You probably need to add some sort of license, like a Creative Commons indicator or something else.
Since there are no noise-profiles for this camera, it’s more of a balancing act to get the denoising right. I think this helps a lot in how much sharpening is needed.
If I do this as I usually do images, I ended up with a default instance of ‘local contrast’ at the end (nothing changed, so the laplacian mode at default settings). In front of that (so under it) is a ‘local contrast’ in bilateral mode, with the contrast set to 3, and then adjusting the ‘details’ slider to balance the noise. I couldn’t really push it high.
As for diffuse, I enabled the default ‘demosaic: AA’ preset, and moved it under (so before) ‘input profile’ (I guess that’s still the correct spot for this?). I added another instance with the ‘lens deblur: hard’ preset, and kept it at the default spot, which is just above ‘color calibration’, but before/under ‘filmic’.
Exported at full resolution, then resized down to some output settings with a bit of sharpening applied to the final output, before saving as JPEG.
So these JPEGs are meant to be viewed at 100%.
P1050979.RW2.xmp (25.0 KB)
(PS: I added a bit more sharpening after the resizing, as I normally would. I guess I’m trying to compensate to your sharpening level
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Compared to the preview-JPEG that’s inside the RAW file, I think (as in, in my opinion) this is sharpened just fine.
The example you gave in Still need 'sharpen' module after D&S ? - #34 by n01r has artifacts of trying to over sharpen things (haloing around the ‘RUSH’ text, the sailor itself (particularly the legs) and the left side of the sail (the blue part against the sky)).
The shot is just quite blurry. It’s a compact camera that is trying to do a 500mm equiv zoom on a somewhat-moving subject. So, I’m guessing you shot wide open at f5.6, at a quite zoomed range on a lens that’s not known to be sharp.
Also, it’s known that this model applies over sharpening to its JPEG files.
Now, since that might come over as negative, let me sort of rephrase it:
You tried to take a difficult shot with a bridge-camera, and the result is probably at the limit of your gear, but not as good as you hoped. So you try what you can to get the most out of the shot. Nothing wrong with that.
But that means you’re trying to get more sharpness out of the file than your camera / lens recorded, so you are over sharpening in this occasion, because you ‘have’ to. So yes, you apply more sharpening than - for example - I would in my ‘normal’ shots.
But I also had shots like this, where I wish the result was better, but I have to make due. Do what you can in that case :).
(PS: The ‘contrast equalizer’ also has different ‘deblur’ presets. The large-radius strength 3 preset might be a replacement for the older ‘sharpen’ module in this case?)
An easy way to get ‘more’ out of diffuse quickly, is for me to still use the ‘demosaic AA’ preset, but increase the iterations. It quickly goes into ‘too much’ territory. In your case, setting it to 3 is already too much, IMHO. But then you can use the uniform-mask to change the opacity of the effect, to bring it back in line where you would want it.