Honest opinions on my picture quality

[kmoze2001]

Mine? Look again.

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

Thanks for all the feedback everyone, I would like to know the reason that doug doesnt like the 28-135? I actually have been reading up on the canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM Lens, and would like to get some feedback on this lens from anyone that has one or has used one.

is the best lens I've used to photograph the reef

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

some pictures with the 100 mm

http://www.brasilreef.com/forum/matias/100_IMG_0239.jpg

http://www.brasilreef.com/forum/matias/100_IMG_81ddd20.jpg

http://www.brasilreef.com/forum/matias/100_IMG_8118.jpg

http://www.brasilreef.com/forum/matias/100_IMG_8131.jpg

http://www.brasilreef.com/forum/matias/100_IMG_8125.jpg

 

[BlueCorn]

Mine? Look again.

I did. It's still not.

 

[xtm]

My happiest experience with it was getting getting money for it in my paypal account from some unsuspecting sucker. How's that? :lol2:

ouch, I hope the OP was not the buyer :lol:

See one here? This was actually taken with 2 umbrellas, one behind and above, the other at about a 60* angle from the fishes' perspective, and lower powered than the main.

Um, you used 2 umbrellas to photograph a tiny fish?? Don't you think that's a bit overkill? Also according to your Smugmug, the flash "Did not fire" on this image. Who to believe?

 

[Jacob D]

Um, you used 2 umbrellas to photograph a tiny fish?? Don't you think that's a bit overkill? Also according to your Smugmug, the flash "Did not fire" on this image. Who to believe?

Regardless the lighting looks good with a nice soft shadow. It's obvious that the light source was close and relatively large. There's no reason to suspect that the flash didn't fire when the flash is off camera it's not uncommon for the exif to report flash "off".

Aside from that it looks like a heavy crop from a larger image (softness and noisy pixels), or it's just over sharpened.

 

[Recty]

Mine? Look again.

My only real issue with your picture (take it with a grain of salt, I'm not a pro by any means) is it looks noisy. I can see every single pixel, to me that isnt a sharp picture, it's just a heavy crop.

I still would be happy with it if I was taking it, but I wouldnt call it sharp

This, imo, is a sharp fish picture... I took this a while back.

 

[somenoise]

Some of the detail is getting washed out by the lighting.

The fish aren't doing anything special. I love pics where they're being fed or actively doing something at the moment.