What would you do in this situation?

4 years 10 months ago #644691 by Tim Wiener
I was talking to a buddy of mine this morning who shot a wedding yesterday and decided to start working on his images today.  From what I gather about 50% of the photos look soft and out of focus.
He was telling me that earlier this week he had been messing around with the different autofocus settings on his camera and forgot to change it back.  I was telling him he should have been zooming in after every view shots to spot check exposure and focus.  He said it was a fast pace wedding and didn't have the chance, that all the shots looked great on back of his camera.

I had no advice for him.  That's a rough spot to be in. 


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4 years 10 months ago #644693 by Nikon Shooter
If he is an amateur, a lesson to be learned.
If he is a pro, PROS HAVE NO EXCUSES.

A most embarrassing situation, indeed.

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 10 months ago #644701 by garyrhook
It's a demonstrable fact that Nikons can think they have focus when they don't, and still capture an image. I occasionally end up with soft images, which is annoying/disappointing. Topaz Labs Sharpen AI can help a tiny bit, but there are no miracles.

If this was the wedding proper, how big are those images going to be? How soft are they? Slightly? And will they be presented at 2000 pixels on the long edge? Or printed as 5x7s? Perhaps it's not so bad, as long as they're not too soft.

So, a lot depends upon how egregious the problem is, and what the end us is. If an album, pretend it's film, process it as such, and call it a "style". The biggest issue may be prints of the formal images, but that depends upon what is needed.

Lots of variables here, so one can only offer so much. Painful lesson for the photographer.


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4 years 10 months ago #644710 by Ian Stone
Hopefully the client is OK with small prints.  Nothing else I can say that hasn't been said already!


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4 years 10 months ago #644760 by Happy Hour
Refund partial to client, try some sharpening tools and either push for smaller prints, or print on canvas where the prints are little more forgiving.  


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