How to save properly your photos

TomStoff

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Hi!
I have a dilemma, because recently I noticed that my photos don't have resolution. What I mean is that mostly of your pics are fine quality if there is about noise and image sharpness. My photos seems to bit a little bit to "noisy", My step by step proces looks like that:

Making photo by Nikon D80 (always ISO100) in nef mode -> importing it into lightroom - processing it -> exporting into TIFF on highest setups -> opening into photoshop and retouching it if needed -> sharpening the image -> resizing the image to my standart flickr sizes (1680x1050) -> saving it as JPEG with highest setups: that I can see there is a lot of noise on the picture and the colours seems to be flat. My question is:
- I am doing something wrong? or my camera is just too old and the sensor is saying bye bye?

Thanks for help
Tom
 
can't see any noise in those. and the colours can be processed to taste in lightroom. the only possible issue is that you are shooting with a very small aperture that will slightly affect absolute sharpness.
 
@Phil - thanks - I haven;t thought about it in this way - but still even on F8 or F6 I have this feeling - that the softness of the photo is gone? !
 
I think you may be looking too hard for problems - if you pixel peep at 100% you are always going to see problems, one of them being a minute degree of softness inherent in virtually all sensors due to the Bayer layout.

However that usually isn't apparent because if you examine a pic at 100% you should also be standing several feet away to view it (Think of a billboard).

When I process a photo I have 2 stages of sharpening, once when I first open the full photo and the second stage after the photo has been edited and resized.

This can also help to counteract a small degree of OOF too.
 
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