Nice DOF with a regular 70-300mm

I am pleasantly surprised at the DOF that I got with this shot. At 150mm ... C&C welcome. I am still not catching truly sharp images with my XTi.

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aram535 wrote in post #5797844
I am still not catching truly sharp images with my XTi.

This looks pretty good to me. Are you shooting RAW or JPG? If JPG, what Picture Style? What post processing are you doing?

Edit: Also, is this cropped in any way or is this the full image?

I am curious as well, great capture.

It was a RAW file - cropped. PP in LR first, than photoshop, but the PS PP was only to repair a leaf that was eaten half way through.

LR history says:

- Imported
- Temp changed to 5800
- Preset Creative - Direct Positive

Here is the original from RAW:

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You will (almost) always need to sharpen your images in post when you shoot RAW.

If you do end up shooting JPG I would highly recommend you shoot with a custom Picture Style that has the Sharpening turned off, and sharpen them yourself in Photoshop.

To me, this image is plenty sharp. I'm detecting halo's around the flowers that are most likely introduced due to JPG compression so be sure to do your sharpening before you convert to JPG.

LeuceDeuce wrote in post #5799015
You will (almost) always need to sharpen your images in post when you shoot RAW.

If you do end up shooting JPG I would highly recommend you shoot with a custom Picture Style that has the Sharpening turned off, and sharpen them yourself in Photoshop.

To me, this image is plenty sharp. I'm detecting halo's around the flowers that are most likely introduced due to JPG compression so be sure to do your sharpening before you convert to JPG.

Yeah I knew that, but after I applied a unsharp filter it didn't look any better, so I left it off.

Man my eyes must be going because I don't see the halo, I see the jpeg artifacting but not a halo around the flowers. I'll below it up in PS to double check the original just to make sure though. Thanks.

aram535 wrote in post #5799169
Man my eyes must be going because I don't see the halo, I see the jpeg artifacting but not a halo around the flowers.

If you haven't sharpened at all, then the halo is caused by the JPG artifacting. It becomes much more pronounced if you actually sharpen the image now. That's why I would do my sharpening before you export to JPG. Once you export, then any sharpening you apply is also sharpening the artifacting.

Again, the sharpness of this image is very good. You're worrying too much
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LeuceDeuce wrote in post #5799015
If you do end up shooting JPG I would highly recommend you shoot with a custom Picture Style that has the Sharpening turned off, and sharpen them yourself in Photoshop.

Very nice to know. I have felt the same way in regard to my XTi not getting the sharpness that I hope for on every shot. But, I have also realized that alot of the sharpness on any pic has come from PP.

I will have to set my Pic Style though.