Recent content by The_Traveler

If you look at the file with something other than a image manipulation software does it look normal? Is there a jpg suffix? Can you right click and then open it in a browser?

Why not post a link to an original RAW file?

No problems. I am a little tentative about posting here since English is not my native tongue; I'm from the USA.

two points 1) Blurring the background implied to the eye that the background is far behind the plane of focus. Blurring the chair would look sort of odd. 2) post-processing can't be done well on low-resolution images like this - 500 x 333. These as posted will print decently at maximum of 2"...

buy a good tripod first. a macro lens is crippled without one.

I chanced in here and, after reading a few pleasant posts, decided to register. I live north of Washington, DC and shoot Nikon equipment. Been shooting for quite a while and switched to digital about 4 years ago. Lew

If you are working in PS and the file is a PSD, in order to have it display well on the web, the color profile must be sRGB. That is the default profile for web browsers. (If you save in other color profiles like Adobe RGB, the colors will look fine in PS but strange in some browsers or...

There are several kinds of sharpening. A handy but over-complete reference is Bruce Fraser's book Image Sharpening with Photoshop. When you edge-sharpen a photo, what you do essentially is that you make the row of dark pixels at the junction between light and dark areas (the edges) extra...