Softball Pic fire away

Try as I may, I cannot get straight horizons, so I feel your pain. Shooting off a monopod with the 300, I always seem to wind up with a crooked horizon. And I am aware and try to get it straight. It is so easy to adjust the horizon in Lightroom, that it has become a natural thing for me when looking at each image...check the horizon, crop for composition, adjust exposure, sharpness and noise reduction, etc. Some of it is done in a batch operation at the beginning of each set of images.

Goog luck and keep on shootin'.

mine seems to get softer and more outta focus when I straighten
does this happen to you or anyone else

burnet44 wrote in post #14092889
mine seems to get softer and more outta focus when I straighten
does this happen to you or anyone else

Yes, it loses sharpness because you're asking the program to rearrange pixels in a different way. Anything other than just rotating it 90* or something will compromise image quality, which is why it's important to get horizons correct initially. You can sharpen the image to regain some of what you lost but if you have to heavily correct the horizon you won't get it all back.

Harleypugs wrote in post #14091852
Do you sharpen you shots at all in post? The reason I ask is I had a couple 40D's and they produce soft shots. They just do. The files do take sharpening well though.

I sold my 40D's because I was never really happy with them. I know people say to work with what you have....but I shot 10's of thousands of shots with mine before I gave up on them. Your mileage may vary.

I was very happy with my 40D, but I had to sharpen from time to time. The reason I got rid of it was so that I could carry the same type of battery and worry about 1 type of menu system.