First photos after year hiatus - thoughts?

[elementguy13]

I sold my D60 a year ago and my D7000 came in the mail just a few days ago! Talk about an upgrade! These are the first portraits I did with my new camera. These were all shot with a 50mm 1.8. Your thoughts?

 

[Starskream666]

They look soft to me

 

[elementguy13]

appear a bit soft because i used crappy photo bucket.. don't appear soft on smugmug

www.billfrederick.smugmug.com

 

[cgipson1]

appear a bit soft because i used crappy photo bucket.. don't appear soft on smugmug

www.billfrederick.smugmug.com

Photobucket isn't soft.. if you resize your photos to the 800 x ? before you upload them..... I use it all the time. If you upload larger photos... and let them compress them, yea.. they look like crap.

 

[Destin]

Why not just share from smugmug? When in the gallery go to share>get a link>click copy on desired link size. I do it alllllll the time from my smugmug account.

 

[elementguy13]

appear a bit soft because i used crappy photo bucket.. don't appear soft on smugmug

www.billfrederick.smugmug.com

Photobucket isn't soft.. if you resize your photos to the 800 x ? before you upload them..... I use it all the time. If you upload larger photos... and let them compress them, yea.. they look like crap.

Uploaded them at 4928x3264

 

[cgipson1]

appear a bit soft because i used crappy photo bucket.. don't appear soft on smugmug

www.billfrederick.smugmug.com

Photobucket isn't soft.. if you resize your photos to the 800 x ? before you upload them..... I use it all the time. If you upload larger photos... and let them compress them, yea.. they look like crap.

Uploaded them at 4928x3264

Thats the problem.. they compressed them.... do it yourself, and your images will look better!

 

[BastiaanImages]

I like the effect that the fence gives in the first shot!

 

[elementguy13]

Thanks Bastiaan. I didn't know it would down grade the photo. It doesn't seem that smugmug does that.

 

[Destin]

Thanks Bastiaan. I didn't know it would down grade the photo. It doesn't seem that smugmug does that.

Smugmug doesn't, because it's a paid photo hosting site with unlimited storage (well, at least for my pro account it's unlimited). It applies no compression, because it maintains the original file, so you can easily order prints of it.

 

[elementguy13]

Do you think the sharpness is okay now? The more I look at them the more I think they are too sharp >.>

#1 at least

 

[Destin]

Do you think the sharpness is okay now? The more I look at them the more I think they are too sharp >.>

#1 at least

Personally, I don't think a photo can be too sharp. The sharper the better. Over sharpening in post is very easy to do though and doesn't look good.