Avoid Mistakes that Compromise Image Quality
Posted: August 27, 2019
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All photographers want to produce the highest quality images that they can, and there is no shortage of factors that can compromise that quality. Sometimes you're able to control those factors - such as sharpness, composition, color balance and contrast. With the availability and lower cost of digital equipment today, photographers have much more access to "bigger and better", but sometimes it's better to dial back the settings a little to ensure you're getting the best quality images.
Adam Welch, photographer and contributor to Digital Photography School, shares tips to avoid the most common mistakes that can compromise image quality.
We all want to make the highest quality photographs we possibly can, right? Hopefully, you just gave a very slow yet very serious head nod in agreement to that statement.
There are a host of factors that play into the final quality of your digital images. Even the phrase “image quality” seems to be the best way to sum up all the pieces that have to come together for us to consider our photographs to be of high quality. Sharpness, composition, color balance and contrast are a few variables that jump to mind along with a multitude of others that we can and cannot control.
In this article, we’re going to look at three mistakes that you could very well be making with your photography right now which could be sabotaging your image quality before they ever leave your camera. Luckily, all of these mistakes are easily remedied once you realize they exist. Let’s get started.
Shooting “wide open” all the time
Make no mistake, from a lens standpoint, we live in an extraordinary time. Lens manufacturers have evolved to the point where we currently see extremely well-constructed optics with beautiful sharpness capable of shooting with relatively enormous apertures.
Read the entire article,
Three Mistakes That Kill Image Quality (and How to Avoid Them), on
Digital Photography School.