Two recommendations: drop your shutter speed and don't go above 40 in NR Luminance.
With that wide a lens you should be able to handhold at 1/60th or 1/100th anyway. That will buy you back a stop of lower ISO. NR Luminance 100 is a guaranteed watercolor effect. Keep the Detail sliders at 50 too. But you can safely take the Color slider to 100 with no softness risk. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Eric, a few questions: >> - what was your shutter speed? >> - were you shooting handheld? >> - what aperture? Wide open? >> - what Lightroom NR settings did you use? > > Thanks, Bruce. Shutter speed was 1/180, not quite wide open (4.0), and yes I > was shooting handheld. > > The Lightroom settings I take to be pertinent were under Detail: Luminance > 100, Luminance/detail 40, and color 50. > >> Aside from the other considerations, I have found that backing way off >> on the NR is very helpful. You just _have_ to accept some noise, and >> the defaults on most NR packages are too aggressive. The K-5 and K-3 >> actually produce fairly film-like noise so leave the Lightroom NR >> Luminance slider low and crank on the Color slider to get rid of the >> colour artifacts. That will leave you with more apparent sharpness. > > I will give that a try—and take it to heart for the future. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > > - Mary Oliver > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
