Rain And A Dirty Car

[wilch]

I was bored.

[Mr. Oizo]

What happened to the first photo?

The second one is nice though.

[miss_petepie]

hahhah cool reflection pics

[wilch]

first photo, was just a little experiment. I hated the background, and the ground. Started mucking with it in post, then got that weird anime sort of look. Left it at that.

[Mr. Oizo]

I saw your post on AP about the sharpness, are these straight out of the camera, or did you run USM through it?

[wilch]

RAW out of the camera, converted using DPP into 8 bit tiff, then edited in photoshop.

I also used noise ninja for the first time.

(2nd pic didn't have the noise ninja filter applied)

I used the unsharp mask. But it just made it look really bad.

So I decreased the unsharp mask a bit, and reposted the pic.

Tried a few more things, and reposted, and didn't look any better.

Tried something else (another filter) and it made it look an anime cartoon. So I decreased that filter a little and used the burn tool to make the wall in the background look a bit more "dirty anime".

Then I softened the edges of the water, softened and lightened, also to increase that drawn on look.

I don't know. I still don't like it. But eh, it's all a learning process.

The picture you see now on both ap and here is the 4th edit I've done.

I have a feeling that the extra softness in the first pic might be due to noise ninja. But then again, all my fricken shots are turning out soft.

My mate is going to bring around his kit lens later. I'll take some shots with that and see if it's any different.

To be honest I'm sick of the kit lens. I might just go out and buy a 50mm f1.4 prime and use that as a replacement to the kit lens.

[Mr. Oizo]

I love my kit lens, probably the most versatile lens ever, I regret selling it, but oh well.

You can't use a 50mm prime as a replacement, it's just not the same, get a Tamrom 28-75, or if you want to spend a bit more money, 16-35L or 17-40L wouldn't go astray either. The 17-85 IS is a good replacement for the kit lens as well.

Noise ninja is probably the reason it's so soft, what ISO were you using? If you stay below 800, the 300d is usually pretty good with noise.