Webb Pond, Northern ME

troglodite

Converted to B&W
1s at f29 - kinda shot myself in the foot - lost some sharpness. Is this salvagable?
:cry

troglodite

Any input would be appreciated.

wolfies

It might be the way you are talking you don’t shoot in RAW and you saved over the original jpg. The first thing I would do is make a back up of the photo and see what you can do to remove the dust spots and bring out the details.

gubbs

troglodite wrote:

Converted to B&W
1s at f29 - kinda shot myself in the foot - lost some sharpness. Is this salvagable?
:cry

Great shot all the same
Is this shot un-processed other than the bw conversion. Have you tried any sharpening yet? If not have a look at David's Tute - here

troglodite

Thanks for the link. I think what I meant by losing the sharpness in the pic is that the exposure was 1/1 - so I lost the sharpness I could of had from wind and water movement. Maybe I should have gone with the long exposure idea and made it even longer to give it some softness/blur etc.

I like the shot personally but you know how we get attatched to our photo's sometimes, even if they aren't any good. I was looking for ideas to have taken the shot better.

The shot was taken at ISO 100 - so I guess I should have picked 200+ to get some more speed. Otherwise I can't think of anyway to slow it down any further to get more blur since I was already at f29, unless someone else knows any tricks. A longer exposure probably would have been better if I could have managed it somehow, since the trees fading in and out of the fog in the distance would still have been sharp. I probably should have thought a bit more before the shots (I was thinking more about composition at the time).

Thanks for the comments!

Dixie

I'm not sure of your equipment, but based on the image ratio of 1.5:1 I am going to assume an SLR. You can use ND (neutral density) filters to slow the shutter down even more. If ND filters aren't available and depending on where the sun is coming from you can get up to 2 additional stops using a polarizing filter. The sun has to be perpendicular to the axis of the shot for the full 2 stops and the further off perpendicular the more you lose on the stops. Cloud or fog diffusion of the sunlight will also cause the polarizing filter to lose its effectiveness. The ND filters are the best way to go if you get them.

You may also want to consider using graduated ND filters to bring the brightness of the sky down to a level more consistant with the rest of the image.