Sandwich Time
by tlawrigg

Comment:
Could use a little sharpening

Down by the river
by Pixelstate

Comment:
Image

Geese & Mist — Sunrise
by Bear_Music

Comment:
This image is amazing, I love the trees in the background and the banding lines that the rest of the foliage creates. My only criticism, and this is my personal taste, is the border, I do not think this image needs the double border around it, maybe the smaller inner border but the outer one seems to contrast too much with the color and composition, taking away from and not adding to this national geographic quality shot.

Greg

Smile
by facesastheycome

Comment:
Neat

Summer Colors
by glad2badad

Comment:
Purple Milkweed, I took some shots of that yesterday

Chain falllllllllllllling
by tmhalling

Comment:
Lensbaby?

fisherman-1-IMG_3589.jpg
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Killer shot, I see that purple spot too. I think maybe that is a photoshop brush from the dodging and burning.

Cliff at Jelico Rocks Morgan County KY
by goldenhawkofky

Comment:
Ok

flower-Pray word.jpg
by kenskid

Comment:
Good shot but ragweed looks much uglier than that. What you have is something in the dandielion family...

View from Chimney Rock Lookout Red River Gorge (Half Moon)
by goldenhawkofky

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: That's a pretty scene. You will get much better sharpness if you don't stop down so far. When you use very tiny apertures (you used f/32) the lens does not perform so well due to various forms of diffraction. Optimum sharpness for that lens is probably at f/11 or f/16.

Thanks for the insight on lens performance and small apetures, I understand realize what you are talking about now and maybe intuitively at the time because most of my other shots were at an apeture of F/22 or larger after this one and I changed my ISO back to 100. The rest of the shots just did not have the type of light that this one had.

The grain, (not sure if it is the lens or the camera)hindered my sharpening in photoshop. Using unsharp mask, when I would increase the amount past 150 or decrease the threashold below 5 or 6 I would get a snowstorm of white points all over the image, that is with a radious of .5.

I was really fighting with time, I saw three different stages of light while I was setting up.

twm122 - yeah I am getting in a few before the GTG, that is a very easy drive from natural bridge probably around 15 minutes or something



Message edited by author 2006-04-06 09:15:07.