Originally posted by pixieland:
Are the racing and rodeo photos on your website from your Canon or the Nikon? They look fantastically sharp, do you work with them in photoshop or are they all just that great? I believe I am having auto focusing problems and my eyesight isn't good enough to manually focus all the time, everyone says I have soft focus photos like I am doing it intentionally. i'm thinking I may need to go camera shopping. My boyfriend drag races his 1996 Impala SS so he loves looking at your photos and I love rodeos.
Congratulations on all the good stuff coming your way, you deserve it for going out there and making it happen!! |
Thank you very much for your comments...
The drag racing photos are taken with a Fuji S2 Pro using a Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 (it's the old push/pull)...the lens is great but I'm not happy with the camera at all because it is soooo slow (not good for drag racing). But the colours (thanks to the camera) and sharpness (thanks to the lens) are great.
The rodeo photos are taken with my Canon Digital Rebel (which I much prefer, but still a bit slow) using a Canon 80-200 f/2.8L. This lens is my baby, beautifully sharp, beautifully fast AF (considering there's no USM) and nice and rugged.
As for sharpening, I don't do any in-camera sharpening and usually apply USM to my full size photos at settings of 95%, 1.5 - 1.7 radius, 1 threshold. When I resize to website/pc-size (600pix), I apply USM at 95%, 0.3 or 0.4, 1.
Soft-focus issues are often the result of focusing too slowly (fast moving objects, slow AF), a bad lens (bad copy of a good lens or just a bad lens), camera (sometimes causes lenses to back- or front-focus).
Good quality lenses are a great investment...that's why I'm still with the entry-level SLR but have 3 times as much money invested in just two lenses (80-200, 16-35). The lenses will stay with me for years and years... |
