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Exposure : 1/4000
Aperture : 6.3
ISO : 1250
I set a really high shutter speed in case the butterfly would fly, although it wasn’t necessary.- This topic was modified 55 years, 3 months ago by .
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Near perfect shot. A lower ISO would have been a little better and maybe f8 at 1/500 sec.
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Wow, that is a nice shot! I would try lowering the blacks a little, and maybe some additional sharpening, as @tjons mentioned.
Just wondering, how do you resize your pictures? I wonder if it just looks soft as a result of the resizing algorithm. You might try experimenting with different software, and see if you can get better looking results. I personally use FastImageResizer which is really simple and easy to use. You can download it here. It does a great job, and is so simple, as you don’t have to open a program, click ‘resize’, set the dimensions, apply, save, and so on. Just drag your picture over the window, and presto, it’s resized!
Thanks everyone.
I lowered the blacks, and added some sharpening, but I have been very careful about this one because sharpening in my Windows Live Gallery is very cheap and the picture will soon turn very grainy if sharpening is pulled a little too much…
I resized this picture in Windows Live Gallery, but I don’t think the soft look came from resizing because in my original picture the subject is soft on the edges too. To my opinion, I think it may be a lens issue, since I was zoomed to 250mm on my 55-250mm lens.- This reply was modified 55 years, 3 months ago by .
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I would agree it’s a lens issue on the sharpness. I would also agree that this the shot is an excellent one, well composed and well edited.
In the future, try starting at 1/500sec and see if that is fast enough to capture the action. If not go up to 1/1000sec. It would be better to do this than have such a high ISO, which factors into the sharpness as well.
I would also agree that this the shot is an excellent one, well composed and well edited.
I agree with you James, good job @mr-quebec!
I would agree it’s a lens issue on the sharpness.
I don’t know that I agree with that though. 🙂 All that I can see ‘wrong’ with the picture is that the tips of the wings are blurry. That to me just looks like the depth-of-field is too small to get the whole butterfly in focus. The only “solution” would be either: Raise the aperture, or decrease the focal length, either of which will increase the DOF. I would say, considering the focal length used, I’m surprised how much of the butterfly is in focus! And the parts that are in focus, are really quite sharp.
I know what you mean, buddingphotographer. The tips of the wings are not in focus probably because of the low aperture and/or focal length.
But when I talked about soft look, I was referring to the softness of details in focus that were not tack sharp.About the camera settings, I agree that they are not ideal, even though the picture is still good. It is an old picture, and I was then much less experienced.
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