Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
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@skry Hah, thanks! My eyes... 😅 This is actually an iPhone 6 image (so the original res for this image is only 2448x2448). I often don't do any explicit sharpening/unsharp-masking (only if in despair), but I generally do rely on minor denoising and use Lanczos filtering when downscaling images for posting online (together this has somewhat of a sharpening effect).
For B&W edits, I often spend most of the time tweaking the weights of the RGBCMY primaries for the grayscale conversion, as well as fiddling with curves to improve contrast & clarity. Sometimes I also use actual "clarity", but only ever subtly (before it starts causing halos)...
In this above image from 2021, I sometimes also re-add weak noise (to add more grain), which when later downscaled also seems to somewhat increase overall roughness/sharpness/texture, which I quite like sometimes...
Karsten Schmidt
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