Hey, this thread could be subtitled "Why you should always examine your shots at 100% for sharpness and detail"!
So, I've been trying to update recent shoots and get things posted on the Web and whatnot, so I was working today on a shoot from 10 or so days ago, a walkabout with flowers and some urban shots with the 5D Classic and the 24-105.
I came across a nice little arrangement of some kind of lilly planted behind a mailbox (Exif doesn't matter for this story):
I thought it was kind of cute and took a few shots of the flowers:
And moved on.
Today I got to this little set and began to mess with the shots. Because of the bright sun highlights, I really didn't know if I was going to beable to do a lot with them, but I figured I'd give it a go.
After tweaking them all in Lightroom, I went to sharpening them, choosing one and zooming to 1:1 (100%), quickly hitting a setting I knew would work (about 100) without paying a lot of attention to the fine details since I could see that they were going to be sharp enough...
Until I got a close look at those fine details...please scroll down...
So, besides being funny, the moral of the story is check those fine details before you submit a shot for a prize-winning competition
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