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Comment by Larry Citra on April 10, 2016 at 7:10am

(Doug) No I didn't know it was a Nik product ....... Interesting.

Comment by Colton Prevost on April 9, 2016 at 6:58pm

@ Larry, I typo'd- it's actually just 50% crop

Comment by Colton Prevost on April 9, 2016 at 6:38pm

LR was used for everything but sharpening and noise reduction. I didn't sharpen on export with this one to avoid over processing. (though I should have, just tried and it looks better)

From my understanding, sharpening on export for your medium (screen/print) takes advantage of working alongside compression, minimizing artifacts but I don't think that's the point of the output sharpener in Nik Collection. (it just saves back into Lightroom)

Instead of using LR's sharpening/luminance I knew I'd be squeezing as much detail as I could out of this so instead used the three plugins from NC, which seem to take advantage of more efficient algorithms. I noticed that what little noise the sharpener created looked more like texture, adding slightly more perceived detail.

Comment by Larry Citra on April 9, 2016 at 6:28pm

Great shot ....... I am amazed you can crop that much and still have an excellent image. Glad to see you got Nik, an awesome piece of software.

Comment by Curt Firestone on April 9, 2016 at 4:21am

Thank you for sharing your applications.  Excellent photo.

Comment by Avril Kirby on April 8, 2016 at 9:14pm

Well processed, great shot. Is that Nik raw sharpener you use? I'll have to have a lesson from you, one Monday.