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banehawi (Critique Team)

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18 Feb 2013 - 4:35 PM

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Welcome to EPZ, Mrs C Jones! And thanks Geoff for the vote of confidence too!

If you check out mt Blog here on EPZ you will see some tips you will find useful.

The image is soft, i.e not sharp, here on the site. It may be a sharp original shot, sharper than here. Thats simply because you need to follow a re sizing procedure for uploading images to the web. It goes like this: Set image PPI (Pixels per inch) to 72; set the longest size to that allowed (600 pix here); then save image as new file name at the highest quality; then OPEN the new file; check its sharpness, and sharpen as needed. It wil almost always need sharpening. Then save again, and only then upload.


Your shot setting look OK. What Geoff is suggesting is a smaller aperture, which increases the depth from the camera to infinity that will appear sharp. This isnt bad though when its sharpened, and the focus on the tree is more apparent.

What I would change is ISO, as at 400, its set shutter speed to 1/2000, and at ISO 100, you get a better quality shot (less noise for an enlargement), and your shutter speed would be 1/250, easily fast enough for a 40mm lens on a Pentax.

The picture itself is likely pleasing to you if you are a beginner; its got good colour, a full reflection of the tree. It falls into a category of a record shot, - something you saw when you were there.


I have uploaded a modification that has sharpening applied, and is a little brighter. Scroll up this page and click the modifications tab to see it.



regards, and enjoy the site.



Willie

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