Sort of frustrated with these...

littlebayzombie

At 100% they just seem... soft? Bad? Argh! How do they look to you at this size? Here's a <a href="http://winsometrails.smugmug.com/photos/i-xbW9mfm/0/X3/i-xbW9mfm-X3.jpg">link to a 100% crop</a>... I'm seeing some CA, but what else? What can I do to avoid the CA in the future? It's evident SOOC so I wouldn't think it would be my post work, but I guess it could be...

All four were taken at F/8, 1/100, ISO200, 55mm and 3.5m subject distance. :scratch

Did I fudge these?

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Quincy T

While I'm certainly an amateur, looking at the 100% crop just made me frown on your behalf

littlebayzombie

Exactly. Dagnabbit.

zoomer

Don't look at 100% crops. If it looks ok to your eye it is ok.
Shoot those shots at f4, your shutter speed was to slow. Raise your iso if needed to get more shutter speed.

littlebayzombie

Thanks! I'll try that next time.

Tim Kamppinen

It looks like nothing is actually in focus in that crop you showed, and it also looks like you have some artifacts around the edges from using the fill light slider in LR. I could be wrong about that though, and maybe it's just a crappy lens with weird abberations.

Doesn't look like camera shake to me... 1/100 should be fine at 55mm unless you have parkinson's disease or your subject is moving quickly.