Are these sharp?

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

I would say that you should forget about sharpness. There isn't any such thing - what people mean by sharpness is a collection of unrelated things: focus, contrast, micro-contrast, small circles of confusion, edge effects, visible detail, to name some of them.

Once your picture is in focus, sharpness, such as it is, doesn't matter unless you are involved in highly technical work. Composition is important, story is important, exposure is important, sharpness is not.

Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said that sharpness is a bourgeois concept. He became one of the most famous photographers of all time and never concerned himself with "is it sharp?".

I agree getting shot in focus is far more important to me

 

[Mr Badger]

Here you go, this should hopefully make people feel better about sharpness, or a lack of it.

img297a by J White, on Flickr

Image from a 1924 Kodak No2 Brownie box camera on 120 Kodak Ektachrome slide film, hand-held and taken around 1979 (mainly just because I could and it seemed a fun thing to do during my school summer holidays!).

As we get older, photos will often be sharper than our memories.

 

[DaelpixPhotography]

Unedited and edited shots. Focused on the pinnacle since that was the main subject for the image. Edited image with sharpness added

Always on tripod with 2 sec timer
Manual focus

The unedited image seems sharp to me?

Unedited by Daelpix Photography, on Flickr
Edited by Daelpix Photography, on Flickr

 

[john.margetts]

There is no such thing as an unedited shot. If it was shot as a Raw image and you have not actively edited it, the Raw converter will have done a default edit - you cannot display the raw image with no processing done - and you may well have ended up with the embedded jpeg. If your edited image is less sharp than the raw converter's default, that will be because you added less than the default amount of sharpening.

 

[Orangecroc]

Unedited and edited shots. Focused on the pinnacle since that was the main subject for the image. Edited image with sharpness added

Always on tripod with 2 sec timer
Manual focus

The unedited image seems sharp to me?

Unedited by Daelpix Photography, on Flickr
Edited by Daelpix Photography, on Flickr

What's the point here? The first shot is sharp, is there a reason it shouldn't be?

 

[DaelpixPhotography]

Just thought I'd post them

 

[User.82148]

Looks like your lens is fine based on your last post, although difficult to tell on an iPad. You have a good camera and lens, enjoy.