Canon T3i Not taking Crisp Pictures- HELP

Hello

I have a canon t3i and just bought a canon 85mm f/1.8 and went out to take some portraits but the pictures are not as crisp as I thought they were. I shot in Raw for all of them and also not in automatic I used Av, and Tv settings ( still learning). I opened them in Lightroom and when I zoom in they are blurry and even after I think they look a little fuzzy, not crisp. I have no idea why. Can someone please explain to me how I can take crisp pictures with my camera or if I am doing anything wrong?

Here is a couple examples

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Did you apply any sharpening? THey actually look pretty good.

I did in lightroom. Thanks lol. When I export them out of Lightroom is there some settings that I should be applying? Could it also be my monitor?

One thing that would help us all is to post an image with the EXIF information intact. That can tell us all your camera settings as well as indicated the exact point of focus. We will then be able to give you much better assistance.

How do I do that? Is there a thread that shows how to post them that way?

If you scale them down for web view, you need to add sharpening after the scaling down. I normally go through a mild USM (1.0, 0.35) after I scale the photos down to 1024x683 for web viewing.

EDIT: You do that in a pixel editor like Photoshop, GIMP or others

I can't see your images...but some thoughts on how to get the best sharpness. Generally, all lenses have some apertures in which the center of focus is the most sharp. At fully open, they tend to be softer (even the area that's in focus)...so defaulting with an aperture of f8 or f11 is a common recommendation. Make sure you have the camera set at a low ISO. Low ISO gives less noise and higher dynamic range (range of colors)...all good for resolving power.

Lastly, well just simple physics dictates that an image is never going to be blazingly sharp....getting some softness from the lens glass and quality of the camera's sensor is inevitable. Post processing can change that Lightroom has some good filters for selectively sharpening edges (and not introducing noise in broad areas of the photo).

EXIF would help a little bit so we know what settings you were using. Perhaps upload full res to flickr or somewhere we can blow them up as well.

They look really green to me.

They need to be linked they are too big, but even still the EXIF info is not attached to the picture.

I agree with iadubber that they have a green cast to them.

ok sorry Here are the links

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …2612d.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=0

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …362c4.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=1

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …c7533.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=2

There are settings for applying output sharpening in the LR Export dialogue. You have choices for the final viewing device, Print or Screen, and amount, High Normal etc. There is also one other setting that is used in calculating the amount of sharpening that is applied, and that is the value for PPI. Although it makes no difference in the way you will use the file after export it is good to set the PPI value to be the same as that used by the final display device. For screen use I normally use 100 PPI as that is fairly average for modern computer monitors. For print I use whatever value the printer will be using.

You cannot preview the output sharpening in LR as it is effectively applied to the image after any resizing that is done during the export process. Once you have used it a few times and got used to it's effects the no preview ceases to be an issue. This saves you having to open the image in a pixel editor to do the sharpening manually.

I also usually apply sharpening in the devlop module, although I tend to use quite high amounts, often between 60 and 100, but I also use very high levels of masking, 90 or above. This limits the application of the sharpening to only edges in the image. If you click and hold the masking slider and also hold the Alt key down the image will change. The black areas are masked and receive no sharpening while the white areas get sharpened. This is identical to the way a layer mask in Photoshop looks.

You can also load a local brush with positive values of sharpening and it will add extra sharpening to the areas to paint in. If you use a negative value it will reduce the existing sharpening from the global adjustment.

It is important to remember that RAW files have no sharpening applied, unless you do it in the RAW processor. In camera JPEG files usually have quite a bit of sharpening applied, even when sharpening is set in the camera to it's lowest level.

Alan

KristyM wrote in post #16953440
ok sorry Here are the links

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …2612d.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=0

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …362c4.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=1

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …c7533.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=2

The first thing you should do is stop using photobucket as a hosting site, their compression destroys photos. Flickr is free for 1TB of storage and they allow you to upload and store original resolution photos and it creates several resizes for you automatically with much better compression.

That said, these shots look slightly underexposed to me as well as the white balance being a little off. Try exposing using spot metering on the subject's face and play around with white balance in post, all the images look too green to my eyes. Are you shooting in raw or JPEG?

KristyM wrote in post #16953440
ok sorry Here are the links

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …2612d.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=0

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …362c4.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=1

http://s1294.photobuck​et.com …c7533.jpg.html?​sort=3&o=2

I think photobucket strips off all EXIF informations that some are asking. Look at the image properties and post these values (for every photo): shutter speed, ISO, aperture. The photos look kinda greenish to me too.

Your pictures look terrible for a T3i.