Leaning Gate is an image I selected for inclusion in assignment 5. Below are a number of sharpening iterations.
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| Image as taken |
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| Image as submitted |
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| Image corrected as per feedback from my tutor |
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| Image over sharpened |
The acceptable or appropriate degree of sharpening applied to any image is very subjective. Feedback from my tutor would indicate that a number of my images could do with a touch more sharpening. I would certainly agree that sharpening, as well as defining edges, also adds life to a flat image.
Clearly the last version is very, very badly sharpened and hopefully nobody would actually sharpen their images this much. However, it does remind me of some of the HDR images that populate the web nowadays... So, beauty and art is definately in the eye of the beholder.
