Great blue heron at dawn and shells

[susangb]

I'm trying this all again so that my photos are larger.

Please give me some c&c.

[jeeperman]

Susan, a beautiful shot of the Heron. A tad soft maybe but fantastic light. I like it. Well done on all three.

[botspur]

Susan, well done with the Heron - good light and you can see the eye. With my limited knowledge I wouldn't know how you could improve it.

[susangb]

Susan, a beautiful shot of the Heron. A tad soft maybe but fantastic light. I like it. Well done on all three.

I'm not sure what you mean by soft. Please explain, if you don't mind. Thanks for your critique, Paul.

[susangb]

Susan, well done with the Heron - good light and you can see the eye. With my limited knowledge I wouldn't know how you could improve it.

Thanks, Clive.

[MiniChris]

Soft would imply a focus point slightly in front or behind where you actually focused. This could be related to several things. 1. you could have a lens not properly calibrated for sharpness. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. 2. you could be using manual focus and not have your viewfinder diopter properly set to your eyes optical value. 3. in post processing, you didn't do an output sharpening.

I found that each of your three images seems to suffer from this malady, so suspect it is more likely 1, or 2.

[jeeperman]

Chris got to it before me and that is where I was going. It does not look far out but it is not crisp. I hope Chris's post has helped.

[susangb]

Soft would imply a focus point slightly in front or behind where you actually focused. This could be related to several things. 1. you could have a lens not properly calibrated for sharpness. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. 2. you could be using manual focus and not have your viewfinder diopter properly set to your eyes optical value. 3. in post processing, you didn't do an output sharpening.

I found that each of your three images seems to suffer from this malady, so suspect it is more likely 1, or 2.

I appreciate your ideas about my soft focus. I will check for the first two and I didn't do any output sharpening. Actually, I thought I only needed to do that for printing. All 3 are points to consider. Thanks, Chris