85mm or camera not sharp

Joe300 wrote in post #13527829
Here is my web site>>> www.joelaroccaphotogra​phy.com

Just my opinon on your website but... the watermark you are using is the most obnoxious one I have ever seen. I can not see how your customers could feel welcome to look at their pictures when they visit your website.

As far as your sports photography I think you need to take a few shots of stationary objects to ensure everything is working like it is suppose to and then practice, practice, practice.

Good luck and remember to have fun.

John

jwp721 wrote in post #13529538
Just my opinon on your website but... the watermark you are using is the most obnoxious one I have ever seen. I can not see how your customers could feel welcome to look at their pictures when they visit your website.

As far as your sports photography I think you need to take a few shots of stationary objects to ensure everything is working like it is suppose to and then practice, practice, practice.

Good luck and remember to have fun.

John

John,
LOL! On a side note, yeah I had some local players copy my photos for their twitter page profiles without asking me.. its a copy right thing..
I just posted the watermarks on there for a few weeks but will remove it later.. going to put a small copy right logo and with company name
down on the bottom of the photo's.
it is very possible it is user error, I will keep shooting testing, indoor volleyball, basketball, low light and tracking players may not be as easy.
I have got some great pointers here and hope to try them out next week.
the ones that bug me the most is the ones where the bball players are standing there and it look like focus is on the uniform but the faces are soft OOF.. I do have some good bball and volleyball shots but...
my outdoor sport stuff I dont think is to bad.
thanks,
joe

Joe300 wrote in post #13528131
http://joelaroccaphoto​graphy.com/p409765747

these are all right out of the camera.. no PP no resize image..

***Kitacanon, I just did a USM to your specs and it still looks OOF on the face...
for the crops here, while in crop tool I did a 'Front image' and set image crops. SaveAS then resized with windows xp resixe tool and posted...

thanks
Joe

With USM, on my screen at least, the lettering is sharp and crisp...her head was moving more than her body I guess....

Keep in mind two things:
1. there is NO SUCH THING as straight out of camera....without identifying what the sharpness setting was in the camera....and
2. you have to resharpen the image EVERY time you resize the image and sharpening should be done as the last step before saving.

How are things going on this??? I looked up the site and saw a few from the 22nd and they look sharp and in focus, Was it a technique or a lens issue?

kjonnnn wrote in post #13621068
Just for the sake of those who over analyze everything, when used, "straight out of the camera" usually means the the photography did no post processing THEMSELVES. They just moved the image from the camera to their computer and are showing you that image AS IS.

"AS IS" means nothing if you don't identify the in-camera settings:
resolution
contrast
sharpness
saturation
white balance

....and just moving the image from the computer to the net must entail resizing and compression as well, so there is no such thing as posting images to the net "AS IS" and that the user did in fact do post processing...

And....resizing REQUIRES RESHARPENING since resizing reduces the sharpened image as it came SOOC...

Many photographers have no knowledge that when shooting JPEGs, these parameters are THEIR POST-PROCESSED images...and if shooting RAW files, the conversion factors and variables in DPP and other converters are all part of the post-processed images that eventually get to the web...