How to Enhance Texture and Detail with Intelligent High Pass Filtering
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Taking sharp pictures is a must if you ever want to be taken seriously. It doesn't matter if you're just taking holiday shots or you go shooting on weekends, or if you're a paid professional who has to deliver quality results. Image quality is directly related to sharpness and detail, and these cannot be overlooked.
There are a lot of ways to get a sharp, final image. First of all, the photo has to be flawless straight out of the camera. To make sure you have plenty of detail in your pictures, follow a few simple guidelines. Try to stay away from wide open apertures like f2.8. Most lenses that have a constant aperture will produce decent results even at wide open values, but for the best results, stay in the range of f8 and f11.
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Try to use the lowest possible ISO speed in each situation. Ideally, ISO 100 or less will give you the best results. A fast shutter speed is also necessary to prevent any motion blur from camera movement. Anything above 1/160th should be fine. It also helps to turn on any stabilizing systems on your lens or in your camera.
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Shooting RAW should be the obvious choice, but if you have to shoot jpg, at least make sure you stick to these guidelines.
After that, it's a game of getting as much detail as possible in post processing. There are a lot of techniques and independent Photoshop and Lightroom plug-ins to help you maximize details, but we want to share a very effective method using only Photoshop.
Here is the demonstration made by Michael Woloszynowicz.