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Re: [OM] Driven to Abstraction - now sharpening

Subject: Re: [OM] Driven to Abstraction - now sharpening
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:39:56 -0700
On 9/29/2021 7:37 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>>

On 9/26/2021 12:41 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
I'm just wondering how the fancy deconvolution and AI sharpening tools work 
with pinhole, zoneplate or whatever.
If I want the kind of not hard, but highly detailed image common in old LF 
photos... I think the Nikon SOFT filters are a good thing to try.
I prefer an old, beat-up skylight or UV filter. Then stick your finger in your 
ear, and rub earwax on the filter to get the effect you want. Depending on your 
age, complexion, diet, and desired effect, oil from the side of your nose may 
work well, too!

I had hoped to be specific enough to avoid this. Vaseline, nose grease, pantyhose, and so on and on and on . . . are perfectly valid ways to soften images. Even shooting through a glass lightly. Nos 2-4 here are shot while having breakfast in a restaurant,  through the upper part of a textured plastic tumbler. <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Seattle/September%202015>

No 1 is light through the glass on a wood table top. In case you are 
interested, this is the glass
used. 😁 
<https://www.cambro.com/Products/beverage-service/tumblers/laguna-tumblers/>

When I asked where they got the glasses, and showed the pix, they gave me one.

The various blur options in editors are also perfectly valid ways to soften 
images.

Howsomever — to get "the kind of not hard, but highly detailed image common in old LF photos" that I spoke of, they don't work at all.

None of the many old FF, manual Focus lenses I have can do the combination of deep DoF with low edge contrast, but good detail, of many old LF lenses. The Canon and Minolta soft focus models come closest.

Even recreations, for FF, of old designs aren't really the same. The Zenit-Petzval, for example, does nice swirly bokeh, but not the look I am talking about. Way faster than the originals may be a problem?

The Nikon Soft filters are simply unlike any others for this purpose.

I can imagine using blur selectively in situations where a particular 
texture/pattern of detail in one part gets ugly.

You can pile the ear wax up in some areas, and burnish it thin in others to get the 
Photoshop "selective blur" effect.

Then throw the thing in the dishwasher before your next outing.

I guess it all depends on where you get your joy: at a desk, staring at a 
computer screen, or in the field, making it look the way you want it *before* 
tripping the shutter?

May I choose a third alternative, combining all and none of the above?

Horses For Courses Moose

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