Image Sharpness

Kim, I just downloaded all three files. They are each only 1023x682 pixels in size. Did you shoot them as small JPEGs or something? I'm not sure what the smallest size is from a 20D. I was expecting them to be 3504x2336 pixels. What happened?

EDIT : I just checked on DPReview and the 20D's smallest file size is 1728x1152. How did these get to be so small? What is odd is that all the Canon EXIF info is present, but they are just so tiny.
 
I shoot as a larger Jpeg..........gawd knows what I have done to them then :thinking:

On my laptop though when I hover my mouse over the same images I put above I get the following info show up:
Wagtail: 3504x2336 3.50mb
Lemur: 3504x2336 2.54mb
Church: 3504x2336 2.54mb

Will take some fresh shots tomorrow and see how I go from there. ;)
 
I've had a bit of a dabble. On the plus side I don't think it is your photography that is at fault. On the downside there is something seriously whacky going on with your file management, which is a bit of a shame, because once you overwrite your JPEG original with edits/resizes etc. then the data is gone for good. With raw editing the original file is still preserved.

Anyway, here are my quick fizes. Still not great because your "originals" are still tiny JPEG files.

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I think the church brushed up quite nicely. I can't do anything for the bird.

I think I'd have far more success with raw files, but then so probably would you :)

Keep us updated with progress tomorrow. Cheers.
 
Kim, follow any one of the links you posted earlier, in post #39. You will see that it is a small image and only a couple of hundred KB. The bird is only 97KB

If you do have the originals then that is great news but they are not where your URLs pointed to.
 
Don't know what is going on there then.

I think I shall resign myself to start afresh.........shoot in RAW and maybe use my Lightroom instead of photoshop...................................see where I go from there.

Still a HUGE thanks again, you are being a great help. :thumbs:
 
Lightroom should keep all your files safe, whether raw or JPEG. It does not change the files at all. It simply records a catalog of edit instructions. You can return to an image you edited weeks or months ago and restore it to its original unedited state in the blink of an eye. I love Lightroom.

Where exactly are you seeing these large files? On your hard drive or on the internet? I'm thinking you uploaded some other version to the internet or had Photbucket resize them when you uploaded. My guess is that you do have the originals safe on your hard drive.
 
tdodd said:
I have Opanda IEXIF installed and also FxIF. They show EXIF data when you right click an image on the web and pick the appropriate option from the context menu. Sometimes IEXIF can not read the EXIF data - no idea why - which is why I also installed FxIF. Of course, sometimes images have no EXIF data embedded. This is especially true, and especially annoying, when people use "Save for web" in Photoshop.

Here is an example of my EXIF displays in Firefox for the image I just posted....

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Click to expand...

thanks very much:clap:
 
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