r1ch wrote: You would need to post a raw+jpg un edited. Without it we cannot tell if it is normal, a settings issue, a lens issue or something else. You cannot compare your image to someone else's. They could have a sharper lens than you. They could edit it an run it through an AI sharpening program.
r1ch wrote: If you have a sharper lens than someone else, no matter what Essef does, his image will never be as sharp as your or if he doesn't know the best settings for sharpening images for the web, his images will not be as sharp as yours.
r1ch wrote: In JPG, Canon takes the raw data off the sensor and it applies a picture style which is color, saturation, contrast, noise reduction and sharpness. The jpg image looks good because Canon has baked it. But if you shoot raw, you must do all these edits or else the image will not look good, you need to apply sharpening and noise reduction or you can get soft images.
r1ch wrote: Are you shooting hand held or tripod? Always tripod. Rollei C5i.
Hand held without a fast enough shutter speed can cause soft images.
Automatic modes can be set to auto ISO. ISO set at 100 99.9% of the time.
Are you using a preset for sharpening? On the camera? I have it on manual.
What image editor are you using? Cyberlink Photo Director
In most editors when you go to export the image after editing and or size reduction, it will ask you if you want to sharpen the image and will have presets like the ones below.
Sharpen for Matte paper High/medium/ low
Sharpen for Gloss paper High/ Medium/low
Sharpen for screen High/ medium/Low
There is a check box for 'sharpen after resizing'. Never took notice of it tbh. I seldom resize. Is that wrong?
Have you tried screen? Not not sure what you mean
There are other reasons for low sharpness. I can because of AF not being
celebrated, problem lens but those issues are a lot less likely.
Esseff wrote: Here is a link to Dropbox folder… Looking forward to feedback!!
Esseff wrote: Nothing special, just a quick snap of the garden. This is really just about settings and/or hardware issues. Looking forward to feedback!!
r1ch wrote: Hi Sebastian, so first, I noticed that this lens has image stabilization. You may already do this but make SURE it is turned off when you are using a tripod. Also if you have any filters like circular polarizer or lens protector (UV Filter) take them off.
r1ch wrote: Second. I cannot stress enough how important exposure is. I have only looked at your first
image because that is all the time for now perhaps tonight I will get to
the second one.
The first image is overexposed. If you are going to use manual mode, You must check the histogram in the back of your
camera EVERYTIME you take a picture and make sure you are not over
exposed
r1ch wrote: I used Topaz Sharpen AI for sharpening. I used On1 Photo raw editor
to recover highlights.
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