I'me good!

[Abitconfused]

Well actually I had to toss two-hundred to get even thees average shots...

Sigma 50mm ART, f/1.8, 1/200s, ISO 400



Sigma 24-35mm ART, 25mm, f/4.5, 1/60s, ISO 100, +1/3 EV

[rtbaum]

You are gonna like those Art lenses . I found that one need not do much sharpening when PP, I had to change my routine when I started using mine.

[Shadowman]

Nice captures.

[Manfred M]

You are gonna like those Art lenses . I found that one need not do much sharpening when PP, I had to change my routine when I started using mine.

Sharpening needs has a lot to do with the camera you are using (AA filter) and side effects of the digitization process (de-mozaicing). The subject you are shooting and details there come into play as does the output size / medium of your final product.

Your lens is just one factor in the sharpening equation.

[Abitconfused]

Thank you, I should have gone to ISO 200 and upped the shutter speed on the tree. When I am thinking before shooting, I like to keep the shutter speed significantly higher to eliminate what shake is left after I concentrate on motionlessness.

[Manfred M]

Thank you, I should have gone to ISO 200 and upped the shutter speed on the tree. When I am thinking before shooting, I like to keep the shutter speed significantly higher to eliminate what shake is left after I concentrate on motionlessness.

Ed - when I do any serious shooting or testing, I'll be out there with a good, solid tripod. That way I can choose whatever ISO and shutter speed I want and will still come back with a totally steady shot. That's something most landscape photographers will do. I also do that for a lot of product shooting.

[IzzieK]

Ed, I like both shots. #1 because I like the comparison of the subject to the newer blurred ones at the background and the second because it looks like a work of art. Beautiful in my eyes.

[Abitconfused]

Thank you, as we say in Ohio, "Even a blind hog stumbles onto an acorn once in a while."