Q116 Images really hold up to cropping - 2 paired examples

[stuny]

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Grand Central Terminal, as I stood off to the side of a fashion shoot

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[stuny]

Near Oxaca, Mexico

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[FocusDot]

On 1/24/2024 at 7:36 PM, stuny said:

Grand Central Terminal, as I stood off to the side of a fashion shoot

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Well, not so sure I would agree with you on that...Rather visible this image is cropped and with decreased quality - at least to my eye...

[newtoleica]

Visible on screen, imagine how bad it would look on a print....

[pcgarner]

I don't agree with the previous comments, but it might be interesting to run the Grand Central image through Topaz. Or a similar algorithm.

Edited January 26 by pcgarner

[bill_murray]

As viewed on my iPad, your point is made admirably.  

[Sparkassenkunde]

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I would say it depends on how large you want to print it. With the mentioned software you might get a decent print quality.

[jaapv]

I think that the issue here is not the cropping, but the postprocessing. There seems to be an overly aggressive denoise step resulting in a plastic skin and general digital look in the cropped image. Adding a bit of grain improves the cropped image, reprocessing from the beginning probably would most likely  be enough to make the original point of this thread. 

For strong crops my workflow is:

Run through Topaz Gigapixel to increase resolution and use Topaz Photo AI to clean up the file before cropping. Gives pretty decent results. Something similar can be done using Lightroom Enhance and -again- Topaz Photo AI, but I think the result is a little bit less.

 

 

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[AussieQ]

At the end of the day, if the user is content with the image quality then its final. I use the crop modes on my Q3 and even at 90mm they look acceptable for sharing online. Unless the photo is mission critical to have printed, I think both photos cropped look great and if the poster didn't mention they were cropped, most observers wouldn't even question the photos. 

 

[stuny]

18 hours ago, jaapv said:

I think that the issue here is not the cropping, but the postprocessing. There seems to be an overly aggressive denoise step resulting in a plastic skin and general digital look in the cropped image. Adding a bit of grain improves the cropped image, reprocessing from the beginning probably would most likely  be enough to make the original point of this thread. 

For strong crops my workflow is:

Run through Topaz Gigapixel to increase resolution and use Topaz Photo AI to clean up the file before cropping. Gives pretty decent results. Something similar can be done using Lightroom Enhance and -again- Topaz Photo AI, but I think the result is a little bit less.

 

 

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Thank you.  BTW:  I didn't use any noise reduction.  If what you see as plastic skin is on her arms, perhaps that's due to the tortilla flour.

[lofercan]

Completely agree with Stuny. With my Leica Q-P I process the framing from the 28mm shot. and I have very worthy impressions. This way I am faster in the shot and I take care of the framing in Lightroom.

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[huwm]

What’s happened to the nuns face in the crop?

[bobtodrick]

2 hours ago, huwm said:

What’s happened to the nuns face in the crop?

Looks fine to me

[lofercan]

On 1/31/2024 at 10:51 PM, huwm said:

What’s happened to the nuns face in the crop?

I do not understand your question!

[huwm]

Looks artificially smooth 

could be my monitor as it looks ok to others