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Original – Two
common toads during
amplexus, a form of pseudocopulation in which a male amphibian grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process. From head to abdomen the female in the picture is about 95 mm long – the male only 65 mm.
Reason
High resolution and quality, interesting topic (frogs mating)
I could give it a run through GIMP tomorrow. Little late tonight, since a download would take 10 minutes and the upload 20 (my connection sucks)
Crisco 1492 (
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16:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)reply
From my point of view it is an absolute no-no to sharpen out of focus areas. A photograph is not a 3d-rendering and always has narrow depth of field. It would be technically feasible to recover all the blurred detail through deconvolution sharpening, but as soon as you run a standard sharpening filter over the image you end up destroying the photographer's initial work. When I created the image I carefully masked out the pixels within the field of focus and sharpened them using a high-pass filter. Now if you want more sharpness I can increase the strength of the filter, but please don't destroy the photograph just because some people are too technically minded. --
Bernie Kohl (
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17:17, 13 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose If it were to have just one of the jello background and lack in foreground focus, I'd let it slip, but seeing that we're apparently prevented from fixing shortcomings without incurring wrath, I'm going to have to oppose.
Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (
talk)
16:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 22 Mar 2012 at 12:48:44 (UTC)
Original – Two
common toads during
amplexus, a form of pseudocopulation in which a male amphibian grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process. From head to abdomen the female in the picture is about 95 mm long – the male only 65 mm.
Reason
High resolution and quality, interesting topic (frogs mating)
I could give it a run through GIMP tomorrow. Little late tonight, since a download would take 10 minutes and the upload 20 (my connection sucks)
Crisco 1492 (
talk)
16:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)reply
From my point of view it is an absolute no-no to sharpen out of focus areas. A photograph is not a 3d-rendering and always has narrow depth of field. It would be technically feasible to recover all the blurred detail through deconvolution sharpening, but as soon as you run a standard sharpening filter over the image you end up destroying the photographer's initial work. When I created the image I carefully masked out the pixels within the field of focus and sharpened them using a high-pass filter. Now if you want more sharpness I can increase the strength of the filter, but please don't destroy the photograph just because some people are too technically minded. --
Bernie Kohl (
talk)
17:17, 13 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose If it were to have just one of the jello background and lack in foreground focus, I'd let it slip, but seeing that we're apparently prevented from fixing shortcomings without incurring wrath, I'm going to have to oppose.
Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (
talk)
16:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)reply