I can finally join the ranks of the 500mm pf thread! I found one online at my local camera shop yesterday and did curbside pickup! I'm loving the thing as a sidekick to the 300/2.8 600/4. My back will thank me on long hikes that's for sure.
First shot with it, sandhill crane keeping clean for the ladies:
Redshank, a little close but no time to get the TC off.
It's way softer than on my iMac. I exported via DxO and Affinity, but results are not good.
If I open the JPG on my computer it looks much better.
Anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong?
Chris Dees wrote:
Redshank, a little close but no time to get the TC off.
It's way softer than on my iMac. I exported via DxO and Affinity, but results are not good.
If I open the JPG on my computer it looks much better.
Anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong?
FM upload feature does not do well with 4K and 5K monitors and web browsers. Nothing looks even close to how it looks before uploading to FM. Things look better on lower res monitors. I have a 5K iMac running my old non-5K 2009 iMac as a second display and opening FM on the older one (both using Safari) the images appear much closer to how the jpeg looks on either iMac before uploading.
arbitrage wrote:
FM upload feature does not do well with 4K and 5K monitors and web browsers. Nothing looks even close to how it looks before uploading to FM. Things look better on lower res monitors. I have a 5K iMac running my old non-5K 2009 iMac as a second display and opening FM on the older one (both using Safari) the images appear much closer to how the jpeg looks on either iMac before uploading.
Not sure how this is going to turn out but thought I'd post this anyway. I shot this eagle from across a river 100 yards distant in broad daylight so some atmospherics at play. (This was the sharpest from a half-dozen shots).
Chris Dees wrote:
Thanks, but your images look tack sharp.
I think mostly because I've adapted to doing a bit more sharpening over time because I do continue to use the FM Upload feature. My images still look better on Flickr and my computer although maybe they are getting to be over sharpened on Flickr? I could certainly see some people thinking they are over sharpened when viewed on Flickr.
Gary Irwin wrote:
Not sure how this is going to turn out but thought I'd post this anyway. I shot this eagle from across a river 100 yards distant in broad daylight so some atmospherics at play. (This was the sharpest from a half-dozen shots).
Z7+500PF+TC14EIII wide open 100% crop
Run that through Topaz Sharpen and I'll bet it will look amazing.
arbitrage wrote:
I think mostly because I've adapted to doing a bit more sharpening over time because I do continue to use the FM Upload feature. My images still look better on Flickr and my computer although maybe they are getting to be over sharpened on Flickr? I could certainly see some people thinking they are over sharpened when viewed on Flickr.
I'm always very modest with sharpening. If I may ask, how much sharpening do you apply?
Chris Dees wrote:
I'm always very modest with sharpening. If I may ask, how much sharpening do you apply?
I used to do all sharpening in LR and on average my sliders looked as seen in the image.
But I've recently started using Topaz Denoise AI Clear and do my sharpening that way. I turn off LR sharpening before sending the file to Topaz and back.
However, with both my old method and new Topaz method I have LR export set for Sharpening High for Screen.
