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davelc2 · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

I am little concerned that some or many of images may have some unwanted noise. I have a Nikon D50 and the 18-55mm kit lens and a 70-300mm Quantaray telephoto lens w/macro. I am pretty sure it's time for me to have my camera cleaned since I have at least 40,000 shots on it and swap between the two lenses just about every day. Here is an expample of a shot with some noise. Would this be too much? This is actually a bad example as it's excessive. Thanks in advance.

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ackab · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 567

Not really noise but way too much pixelation. Looks oversharpened

davelc2 · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

I've only just gotten into using photoshop so I have a long way to go. The sharpen filter doesn't always help I've noticed. Thanks for your honesty.

Dave

peipen · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 166 Location: Hamburg, Germany

hi david,

sharpening in photoshop isn't that difficult if you know the basics. just look into the tutorials-topic. there must be several links to tutorials which may help you to get along with this problem.

regards

jenson

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 6137 Location: Contemplating

Dupe message.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 6137 Location: Contemplating

WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY oversharpened!! The oversharpening has caused sharpening artifacts (the little white spots you see in the grass and on the road). I suspect the original is WAY out of focus. Can you post the original before you did anything to it on Photoshop?

Also, and I realize you didn't ask, but there are several other issues with this image: Blown out highlights (white or bright areas where no detail can be seen), shadows are too dark, not the greatest composition, etc. Here is a VERY quick re-do of the image (and I'm sure there are other Photoshop wizards that could do a better job than I've done) as I would have done it.

davelc2 · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks everyone. Yeah, I've been practicing shooting manual but using auto focus. This was kind of rushed cause I was trying not to miss the moment while driving slow. Here's the original untouched image below.

Dave