Adam Quinn - Editing Advice

[dlowwa]

Nikon D50

That should be more than capable enough of taking photos acceptable for here, if used knowingly.

[Adam Quinn]

As mentioned, if you decide to take photos in poor light conditions, not even a full frame top notch 20k+ USD worth of equipment will bring you acceptable photos.

So as previously mentioned even when I do shoot in good lighting, my photos aren't sharp enough, so if it must be down to the editing as I've had photos on the same day accepted, it took me a full day of trial and error to get the VS A330 acceptable, once again thanks to dlowwa for helping me with that.

I do camera raw filter and high pass filter, should I just increase the amount of sharpening I do with both and add noise reduction with the camera raw filter too?

[Adam Quinn]

That should be more than capable enough of taking photos acceptable for here, if used knowingly.

I already have two photos on JP so it must be capable

[Adam Quinn]

So for number 4
I've increased the sharpness more than I usually would and here we go

[dlowwa]

So as previously mentioned even when I do shoot in good lighting, my photos aren't sharp enough, so if it must be down to the editing as I've had photos on the same day accepted, it took me a full day of trial and error to get the VS A330 acceptable, once again thanks to dlowwa for helping me with that.

I do camera raw filter and high pass filter, should I just increase the amount of sharpening I do with both and add noise reduction with the camera raw filter too?

Each individual photo will need to be processed separately, so it's difficult to make blanket statements about which steps to take. Personally, I usually apply sharpening after converting from raw, but I might not if the image is sharp enough straight out of the camera. I typically never apply any noise reduction at all, although I usually don't shoot at a very high ISO.

So for number 4
I've increased the sharpness more than I usually would and here we go
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Tail is soft, but otherwise sharpness is ok.

[Adam Quinn]

Each individual photo will need to be processed separately, so it's difficult to make blanket statements about which steps to take. Personally, I usually apply sharpening after converting from raw, but I might not if the image is sharp enough straight out of the camera. I typically never apply any noise reduction at all, although I usually don't shoot at a very high ISO. .

I always shoot raw, edit raw export jpg. I now shoot at 200 but noise is sometimes visible.

Just to relieve some of the demand, for future use what am I looking for to check if my images are sharp?

[dlowwa]

Just to relieve some of the demand, for future use what am I looking for to check if my images are sharp?

Hard/clean (sharp) wherever there are transition areas. If you look at the previous image, the transition areas in the nose area (cockpit windows, etc..) are clearly defined, while the lines/transitions on the tail are not.

[Adam Quinn]

Hard/clean (sharp) wherever there are transition areas. If you look at the previous image, the transition areas in the nose area (cockpit windows, etc..) are clearly defined, while the lines/transitions on the tail are not.

Is this a better sharpen on the tail around the sun?

Opinions on these please

G-EUPE

G-VYGL

G-LSAG

[dlowwa]

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Opinions on these please

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1. borderline, but might be acceptable
2. dark
3. contrast
4. soft/almost blurry

#2 fixable, 3 & 4 probably not.

[Adam Quinn]

1. borderline, but might be acceptable
2. dark
3. contrast
4. soft/almost blurry

#2 fixable, 3 & 4 probably not.

1. Anything I can do to make it better than borderline?
2. Is that to do with brightness?

That's probably all for now, the rest of that day I used 1/25 for panning handheld, none of them turned out well at all, huge amount of dust and rest are overexposed. I panned 1/100 on the two LH A321 earlier in the thread and they look quite nice so next time I'll do the same but in much better light hopefully! But thank you for your help once again.

[dlowwa]

1. Anything I can do to make it better than borderline?

You could do localized sharpening on the tail, but not sure how much that will help, as I bet it was just really soft/blurry to start.

2. Is that to do with brightness?

Yes, 'dark' implies a lack of brightness/exposure.

[Adam Quinn]

You could do localized sharpening on the tail, but not sure how much that will help, as I bet it was just really soft/blurry to start.

Yes, 'dark' implies a lack of brightness/exposure.

Opinions?

[dlowwa]

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Opinions?

Both still likely soft rejections, and possibly dark as well.

[Adam Quinn]

Both still likely soft rejections, and possibly dark as well.

Think this is much better in terms of brightness, I've redone the histogram and set the white point.



Same as above



Cheers
Adam

[dlowwa]

Think this is much better in terms of brightness, I've redone the histogram and set the white point.

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Same as above

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Cheers
Adam

Exposure acceptable for me. Softness issue remains.