Greenshank

This is my first post on this forum. I have been watching it for a whiel and the shots are stunning. I am fifteen and this is a shot of a Greenshank taken about two weeks ago at Rutland Water. It looks a bit soft to me now, althouhg it was sharp at full size.....

Nikon D300s
Sigma 50-500 f4-6.4
Manfrotto Tripod and 393 Head
1/400s
F8.0
ISO640

Oscar

Oscar welcome to the forum,very good first try as you say a little soft but i am sure you will get some advice and help on here.
Keith.

Very nice composition.
Regarding the softness this method works for me on web images:

Resize the original unsharpened image to 720 px.
Convert to sRGB - this dulls the picture a little
Increase the saturation +20ish to bring the punchiness back.
Unsharp mask sharpen at amount 100%; radius 0.2; threshold 0 - apply this stage another 4 times to the image.
Save for web

Hope this helps.

Simon

Thanks Simon - would I be allowed to do that now and post again today?

Oscar

Welcome Oscar nice shot to start with just a tad more sharpening and a bit more punch, I am sure you will get to grips with it when I first started posting my images were to soft, so with advice on here you soon know how far to go, I don t think you can post up another image on this post unless you are a member

Good to see you posting here, Oscar. I'm going to have to get my courage up to do the same!! Good shot!

Welcome here.
Nice shot. Looks forward to your next one.

Nice one Oscar

theres some good avice here.Please try a re-post to let us see the difference

Hi Oscar


a very nice first post

Try following Simons advice and repost, you should see quite a difference

Okay, here is my repost, following Simon's advice.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4951976830_fd143374ac_b.jpg

Oscar

anyone know how to do a repost??

Oscar