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It's the model.

 

General comments:

 

Work on improving your scanning process. This image is not sharp.

 

Try working with the model more. She's great.

 

If you want to do landscapes, you have to be very dedicated. There is probably about 5 minutes worth of good light on sunny days, per day, in the morning and evening. In between, and the images don't have the power of magic light.

As an amateur, I wonder why this picture isn't that sharp---it got

unbearably worse when I enlarged it to 8x10. I used an Olympus stylus

zoom 80 P&S camera. Thanks for your comments.

I don't think its soft because of scanning. Yes, you can do good scanning and you can do bad scanning, but in general, you'll get something close to what you see and its unusual for the default scan to look soft like this.

 

You may have stumbled across the resolving power in your lens, or maybe the camera wasn't perfectly still when you took the photograph.

As evidenced by the smeared water the shutter speed was probably too slow to be hand held (less than 1/60 for a 50mm lens). If you were on a tripod it's possible you accidentally bumped the tripod as you you shot. Either way enlarging an image will ALWAYS reduce the quality of the image.

hit it on the nose. You were shooting with ASA 200 film, my guess is handheld. Though the light might have looked available enough in your eyes, the Olympus P/S might have choosen a slower shutter speed for a correct exposure. At the mercy of your own equipment! Regardless, take your wonderful friend back there to that wonderful scene and if at first you don't succeed, try try again!

Yep it's probably motion blur caused by a rather long exposure. I just want to add that the film choice is not the best either; resolution of Gold 200 is rather low, if I remember well, which doesn't make it a good fit for enlargements.

Olympus stylus zoom 80 P&S = App. cca f11 + 200 asa film + low light = unsharp picture. Using a original Stylus (f2.8, sharper lens) gives much better results. And / or try to use a tripoid.