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Old 16-11-2005, 13:23   #4 (permalink)
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Sorry, it just looks soft to me.
This kind of thing needs to be absolutely 'pinners' to work effectively.

I reckon we've got another three days of good, bright weather in the UK (depending where you live), so forget the Photoshop stuff; forget trying to save it in Post-Production - get out and shoot it again.

If we can't get a sharp image of a leaf - one that's stuck to a tree that isn't trying to run away, there's no hope for any of us

The hardest thing for any of us is to be told our images are no good.

It's also the best way of improving ourselves - Paul Delmar at Sheffield Uni just ripped our images up every day we were there - and we're professional photographers with years of experience under our belts.
All you'd hear from him was : "Out of focus; soft; out of focus; soft; soft; etc." It was shattering, especially as you sometimes couldn't see the problem yourself.
One poor guy had his critique thus: "Every single compositional error that can be made in photography is evident in this image! How long did you say you've been a photographer?"

Harsh. And the re-shoot had to be done in 10 minutes - and it always involved photographing people. "Go and take an image of a Clinical Biologist! Be back here in half an hour..." and off you'd go...
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