Post-Poned

Hi friends! Glad to see you again. Todays post, and possibly Thursday's post also, will be held for another date. As a result of schedule complications and heavy workload, the time allotment I had set aside to write about image focus was made non-existent. Incoming posts will hopefully be made by Thursday, but next Tuesday at the latest. Thanks for stopping by, and hope to see you again soon!

Intro to Sharpness - With Blur

Today's post talks about sharpness, which I talked about a little bit in my last post. If you want to reference the last post while you read this one, you can open it by clicking here. If you read Tuesday's post about sharpness, you might not really understand how sharpness works because I used simple gradients and swatches to demonstrate it's effect. Today we'll take a quick look into how sharpness affects a photograph as opposed to simple shapes.

Here's the picture I took on my phone for Tuesday's post. If you click on it, it will enlarge and you can get a pretty good idea of some of the detail that's in there. It's really easy to tell that the image is fairly sharp, meaning that it has a decently high intensity of sharpness. Now that you've seen it in its normal state, check out this image below, and notice how it changes when there is a very

Intro to Contrast Part 3 - With Sharpness

Hi friends, and welcome to the marvelous month of March! I hope everyone has been enjoying 2016 so far.

So, in last weeks post about contrast I mentioned sharpness and how it relates to contrast. Today I'm going to go a little bit deeper and explain some more about both.


Contrast sort of has what you could call "levels of intensity." These levels could be described as an area where contrast exists, but may be more or less exaggerated depending on how rapidly a shift in value occurs.

Sharpness is the word artists and designers use to express how rapidly a shift in value occurs. Take these examples below and then let me explain how they work.

In the very top section, there's a 100% black swatch, and a 0% black swatch (the white is represented as 0% black because, in the field of printing, ink is applied to paper at anywhere from