Comments on: Quick tip for getting sharper wildlife photos

By: Setterman

Setterman — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:53:45 +0000

Thank you for this tip. It will help me ASAP. I also wanted to comment on your E Book by examples..It’s great and very helpful. Please keep up the great work.

Would love to see a e Book on shooting Hawks & Eagles

By: Steve Berardi

Steve Berardi — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:19:50 +0000

Pete – I normally just use the “standard” picture style on my Canon cameras. If you’re shooting in RAW, you can safely change this later in post-processing without losing quality, so the only time I’m careful about choosing picture styles is when I’m shooting JPEG.

By: Pete Belardino

Pete Belardino — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:35:13 +0000

Hi Steve….what picture style do you shoot in for the most part ? I use neutral ! Can’t remember why I do….I think I read somewhere that shooting neutral will give you the most control when shooting RAW+Jpeg as far as post processing ! What are your thoughts ?

By: Kim Barley

Kim Barley — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:16:18 +0000

Where do I locate the “sharpness” option on my Canon 40D?

By: Steve Berardi

Steve Berardi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:28:42 +0000

@Joe – I would still sharpen during post production as well. The “sharpness” setting I mentioned in this post is an additional way to sharpen the photo even more, and is specific to each camera. In fact, this “sharpening” is applied by default on most cameras, but the default level is pretty conservative in my observations.

@Hagen – Good point about sharpening being best for last. I’ve noticed the sharpening technique used for these “picture styles” is incredibly good though on my Canon cameras, so I use a combination of this setting and some more sharpening as a last step in post processing.

By: Hagen

Hagen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:48:12 +0000

The major downside is that sharpening is best as the last step and is dependent on your output size, subject and medium.

I had originally shot jpg with sharpness at 7/7 and loved it. I would agree that if you are coming from a P&S (as I did), you will be very surprised by the apparent softness in your jpg images. Start there and grow into RAW (and the extra HD space necessary

By: Joe Williams

Joe Williams — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:11:14 +0000

Great tip on the sharpness level, Steve. After taking a shot, my natural inclination is to sharpen in post-production, and I don’t do much of anything else. Seems that if I adjust the sharpness at the camera, it would simplify my post-production work for most shots.