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Any chances for FP?
I recently found this image, and I think this image has good composition. Does it have any chances for FP? Once again, many thanks.廣九直通車 (talk) 10:21, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
No. Even if you manage to brighten the dark parts up without losing quality, the ribbon across is just awkward, and the crop is way too tight on both sides. Sorry. --Kreuzschnabel18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
In the case of your last picture At_Cagliari,_Sardinia_2019_060, if you whant less noise reduce the iso number or take pictures in raw mode and use software like: Adobe Lightroom o Rawtherapee(https://rawtherapee.com free to use) that way you can improve light on your photos, and I recomend You to use a photo editor software like Adobe Photoshop (it requieres to adquire a commercial license) or Gimp(http://gimp.org) that is free to use, regards --Cvmontuy (talk) 23:37, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Hey Mike, I've had a look at some of your recent uploads. Hate to say it, but if you want to produce QI-level photographs consistently and under all conditions, you will probably have to look for alternatives for that 18-300mm lens of yours. The folks over at QI tend to be picky, and from what I've seen, many of your uploads are both noisy and soft (especially the ones taken on overcast days) and suffer from very visible lateral chromatic aberration. The softness and the CA are to be expected from a super-zoom like this – as convenient as they may be, optically most of them are OK at best. Note that this is much less of an issue on sunny days, though, as you can stop down to f/8 to maybe f/10 where this kind of lens tends to peak in terms of sharpness. This one taken at f/9, for example, looks pretty good in terms of sharpness. It has some red and green CA along high-contrast edges, but if you can get rid of that (should be easy in Lightroom) I think it would be worth a try at QI. I guess that would be my recommended strategy: look at the images you took under bright conditions, check for sharpness, re-edit them in order to get rid of the CA (if Lightroom doesn't cut it, maybe try the "defringe" tool in rawtherapee) and try nominating these.
Regarding the noise: with the 90D, you've got a new camera with an excellent sensor, so I'm quite sure the noisiness is not your camera's fault. I suspect that it is introduced during post-processing: With a soft lens you'll have to sharpen a lot, and that will amplify any noise. So again a) this is much less of an issue for pictures taken on sunny days and b) a better lens may help here. Hth, --El Grafo (talk) 13:31, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
@El Grafo: Thanks for the feedback! The 90D is new, so perhaps the extra noise was from my old 60D. I'll have a think about changing lenses - I also have a 10-18mm, example at File:At São Paulo, Brazil 2019 071.jpg (and others in that category), perhaps that fares a bit better. I'll also look into the CA reduction - that's not something I've tried doing before. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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Comment Quality-wise, it isn't too shoddy, but the composition is a little tight so I'd say that that would be an issue. ― Gerifalte Del Sabana 02:55, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
