I am not a big fan of the fish net over the facade of the New York Public Library. It's just not good for photography. I am sure the pigeon there concurs.
Technical nobody really cares:
I applied curve to adjust the exposure. And I found in general the D7000 jpeg files pretty easy to work with, and no post sharpening other than in camera sharpening +6 is needed. The 105mm f/2.5 AI lens offers plenty of sharpness, that's if you can hold and shoot it steady. With the D7000 16MP, I found any fault in focus and camera shake very revealing. It's almost impossible to shoot close and handheld with this 105mm lens, as steady as I am, when viewed 100% the image is simply technically faulted--obviously not in focus and blurry. With digital, you can increase the yield somewhat by either carefully shoot your subjects like with a tripod or shoot with CH, a successive burst of images with a fast enough shutter to minimize blur.
I'm taking a second look to the picture. Notice how properly horizontal the picture is? I was handholding the camera with a 105mm lens pointing upwards. So I am glad.
what do you use to edit?
ReplyDelete-eric
I use GIMP to edit.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say that it must be extremely hard to get the picture completely level, and then I realised you've also said the same thing in the blogpost now as well :) Anyway, bravo! (Was the second picture of your other post also shot via handheld?)
ReplyDeleteHa ha Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThey were all shot handheld. Unless I am shooting 10 feet away from my mini-van otherwise I won't bring my tripod with me.