Saturday Night in the Flats, Veterans Memorial Bridge, Cleveland (aka Detroit Superior Viaduct)

The lighting and clarity is absolutely stunning. I don't "see" the sawtooth edges at all.. Beautiful image Walter!

I would like to thank everyone for visiting and commenting on my photograph. Regards.

A glittering night excellently captured & presented.

I will not be posting anymore photographs here until the administration takes an active roll in eliminating the rampant abuse that is denying the fair use of this site to its honest members.

PhotoNet was at one time, for me, a place to encounter many fine people and a place to share the joy that I have found through photography. This decision is very hard for me to make, and will no doubt make some happy, but I can no longer tolerate the abusers.

It's so sharp that my eyes start hurting. 6x7 format and USM up and down can sure enlarge a long way! Beautiful color and reflection, Walter.

 

BTW, I hope it's not true about the last posting here. Exactly what happened this time around? Phantom low-ballers again? Don't give in to those photographic terrorists, Walter. If you quit, they win. Don't let them!

Beautiful and outstanding image. Seems to have correct USM. However, you can try apply "6" at the Threshold.

A great image Walter! As you admit though, maybe a tad over-sharpened here. I visited the plfotoart site upon your invitation and was duly impressed! Your shots of the lily pads and the sunset ("Eternal") both display exquisitly there.

 

I hope you re-consider posting here Walter, as I for one have appreciated your enthusiasm and fellowship!

 

Best regards,

 

Barry.

Stunning image

The good thing is: they are running the site not our country.

Good point Yongbo! Regards.

Great image..Walter...perfect that's the only way to describe it...!!!! 7/7

Walter, this is a beautiful night shot. Love the angle of the bridge and the reflections. I am sorry you will not be posting any more photographs, but I do understand your frustrations. Cheers, Sondra

great rich colours - oversharpening is a difficult problem that I have wrestled with myself...I don't see the problem here...but only you have seen the full sized digital original file.

 

What amount do you reduce by as you work the file down in steps?

 

Also, someone had told me that the current versions of the image editing softwares handle resizing better and that it is not necessary to do this step by step reduction. I am using Paint Shop Pro 9. What are you using?

Hi Bill. I, too, have read that the step-wise routine is probably not necessary anymore; this was just part of an experiment. The procedure that I used was a modified version of one found in the Digital Darkroom threads. I'm afraid I don't know who the original poster was. Here is the procedure:

"...Flaten initial 1350 pixel file, then sharpen @ 500%,.3 then fade USM to 80%, then downsize to 800 pixels

Sharpen 800 pixel file @ 375%,.3, fade 80%, downsize to 400 pixels

Sharpen 400 pixel file @ 250%,.3, fade 80%, downsize to 200 pixels

Sharpen 200 pixel file @ 150%,.3, fade 80%, downsize to 100 pixels

Sharpen 100 pixel file @ 75%,.3, fade 80%, then convert to JPG.

It may look oversharpened along the way but by the time you get to the final size and convert to JPG, it looks very sharp with no artifiacts..."

I use Photoshop CS. Thanks for the visit. Regards.

Beautiful composition and lovely colors. Looks oversharp on my monitor but pleasing to look at. Reflection in water is very nicely captured. The V made by the bridge and its reflection gives a very aesthetic appeal to the image.

 

Kind regards.

Walter, can you just put some of us on a mailing list and email your low-res images directly to us for critique?

Hello Walter.

 

That is a wonderful camera that you have there, and with it you have taken a wonderful photograph. I have no real experience with night-time photography, and certainly none with colour film. The reason why, is that I know how very difficult it is to produce anything close to what we have here!

 

Regards, Nick.

visually very attractive, and i like the composition here a lot -- the bridge leading to the buildings facing in the other direction, particularly the rounded building, is very attractive.

 

you probably know all this, but like you i've tried sharpening experiments. here are my insights: usm i repeated small amounts while in rgb will quickly show. it helps some to apply in the lightness channel of lab colors, with the photo at full scale, and to use fade to reduce the applications accordingly each time. it also helps a lot to apply usm selectively using layers, either through a layer mask, or by using usm in the background layer, then erasing on the top layer selectively. again, using fade or the opacity filter in layers can help modulate whatever you do. when an area is unavoidably oversharpened, it helps to use the same layer functions as i describe in the previous sentence to apply a very light gaussian blur that reduces the usm effect in a particular area. finally, neat image application can help sometimes.

for the visits and comments. I hope the new Gallery is successful. Regards.

To me, this is the better of the two bridge photos posted right now, Walt. Excellent work as usual.

Thanks Lannie. I prefer this one too. Regards.

About your original comment about sawtooth jaggies...I see them as well. Speically in arches of the bridges...Although it does not look bad. What resampling are you using to downsize? I tend to use single step Bilinear and then apply slight USM. I have also heard that Irfanview's downsampling algorithms work much better then photoshop...although I don't see much difference. Very nice photograph.

Very good angle of the bridge, Walter. it is solid metal ,but the pastel colors are giving it a soft appearence . Reflections and far away tower and buildings are giving all of it a poetic bearing. Very beautiful.

Perfect.

Walter WOW! its Fantastic really great picture!

 

DK.