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perfect exposure, and great light, so warm and quite togheter. you used a lens that i'm trying to understand in this days.... one thing, if i can. i dont see enough sharpness, did you loosed a little bit of definition in reducing pic?

I've walked this way many times in the past and you have captured the feel of the color and light here...however, I would like to see the focus be a little sharper, otherwise...nice job!

 

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Dick

Andrea and Dick--Thank you both for taking the time to leave some remarks on my picture. I really appreciate your comments! Both of you commented on the sharpness/focus. I can't say for sure, but I'm fairly certain this is a compression/JPEG issue. I admit I'm not an expert on focus so it's very possible that my focus is off. However, my lens is shut down pretty far here (f/18 or 20 I think) so I should have good DOF. On the flip side, I know absolutely nothing about post-processing. Here is what I did with this shot--I took the RAW file, did an automatic conversion to JPEG, reduced it to a small size and posted it...no sharpening, special compression compensations, etc. This is really just straight out of the camera shrunk down. I *think* that is the problem, although I must say that since I'm not a focus expert, there could be some problems with that as well. In the past I've had focus and sharpness critcism on many of my shots but when I've printed them various sizes up to 24x36 they have looked great. What do you guys think? Thanks again for the comments. Regardless of the problem here, you guys have inspired me to learn a little more about focus as well as compression of images.

It really is a beautiful image. Do your RAW files look crisp to you on your monitor? Have you played with the lens to be certain that it is truly focusing correctly on the camera sensor? You may want to ask the tech experts in the forum section about this issue if it is a consistent problem for you. Good luck and I hope to see some more great images from Charleston. Go to the market on a Saturday...lots of interesting people and colorful stuff to shoot!

 

Dick