My first D80 Experiment Photo

Photographer’s Note

I FINALLY got my new Camera. It's a Nikon D80 and it's the new love of my life.

To explain this. I am still working out the bugs in this camera. ( not that it is in any way bad ) quite the opposite. It's amazing, brilliant and I love it.

This is of Adelaide's town hall. I like the architecture that goes with it. The stone glew against the 38 degree sun making it glow. It's not exactally a scene i'd like to be photographing but I could not wait to visit somewhere to post a pic on here.

So here you go. I'm so super exited about what could come.

Andrew

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Wandering_Dan (3423) 2007-12-27 9:23 [Comment]

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feather (51050) 2008-01-09 8:47

Congratulations on your new camera. There is nothing wrong with your subject. The colours are glorious and the off-centre composition works well. It is just lacks a little sharpness.
It took me a while to realise when I first got my D200 that the more complicated the camera is, the less sharp are the photos straight out of the camera. Some people set the sharpening in the custom settings, and others prefer to add sharpness later in PP as that gives you more control over what you want to be sharp. If you sharpen on the full size do it on a layer and then erase any parts that don't need to be sharpened (eg the sky where it could increase any noise or tiny leaves that easily look over-sharpened) Suggested settings on Smart sharpen or USM to start with, 100% on 2pixels, 0 threshold (set smart sharpen if you have it to reduce lens blur). After downsizing it always loses sharpness, so use 100% on only 0.2px at the most. You soon learn what suits your camera and subjects. Just watch out for halos round edges that indicate too much sharpening.
Keep experimenting
Kath

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