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Hello everyone!
My family and I recently went on vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains and I only got to take photos on our hike up to a waterfall. These two are the only good ones I got. Does anyone have recommendations with editing/composition? Also, is there anything I can do to make the water stand out more on the falls photo?
I have been having issues with my camera’s quality – it used to take much sharper photos. I’ve sent both the camera and lens to be repaired, but nothing ever seemed to help. I’m just working with what I’ve got until I can get everything fixed!
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hey @ephillips, just wanted to let you know James briefly touched on this topic in this month’s webinar (see replay here)! Start at 01:13:21.
If you would like to give more details on the camera quality issue you’re having, feel free!
I stopped at that falls one time! I remember it being a difficult spot. Would you happened to have seen any of these angles?
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I am really sorry to have not replied sooner! Thank you @lenspirationlydia and @jamesstaddon for all of your help – I really appreciate it!
The issues with my camera are quite a long story… While I was out West with my family in 2020, I was noticing my camera being much slower at focusing and making interesting sounds. I also realized that my sensor needed to be cleaned. My camera took A LOT of fantastic photos out there. The first three photos are samples of what I used to get on my camera (#1 butterfly in 2019 or 2020, #2 wild horse in Montana, #3 landscape at Yellowstone).
When I got home from our vacation, I sent my lens off to get looked at (it was still under warranty) and heard back from the people that repaired it that there was debris in my lens and it was also missing pieces (!). When I got my lens back, it didn’t seem much better, so I sent my camera off for a general checkup and for the sensor to be cleaned. Somehow, during that process something happened to my camera and/or lens (whether it was me or the people fixing it, I don’t know). Now, many of the pictures have a greasy look to them, especially when I go beyond 60mm. Photo #4, #5, & #6 is how pictures I take commonly look now, and #7 is a picture I took after everything happened that actually turned out decent (as far as sharpness…).
Any thoughts?
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Oh @ephillips, I’m so sorry! That very same thing happened to me. I have the 70-200mm f/4 and it is the sharpest lens I had at the time. The all of a sudden my photos started turning out horrible! Just like what you showed. Here’s a blog post showing a picture: https://www.lenspiration.com/2021/01/shoutout-to-royal-camera-repair/ A glass element inside the lens could literally be seen and heard moving around inside when the lens was rocked back and forth. I think I remember when the lens element was rocked into the correct position, it would take descent pictures, but then when it was “out of alignment” the pictures looked awful. This would explain why maybe sometimes you’re able to still get sharp photos with the lens. The lens repair place should have been able to fix the problem. If they didn’t, they need to re-repair it for free. That has happened to me too, the repair place not fixing it the first time around.
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