Commons talk:Featured picture candidates/File:Edificio España (Madrid) 2014-02-10 perspective corrected.jpg

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Did you sharpen it? It a stunning pic but thought it might be a bit soft. Saffron Blaze (talk) 14:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

@Saffron Blaze: You are right about the softness, and thanks for asking. I have sharpened it in the raw converter a to the level, where I find it justifiable (no fringes, and no significant increase in noise). I do not like the "hard look" you get from additional sharpening. Regrettably my Canon kit lenses are not of very good quality. Especially, they are really bad at the edges when it comes to "washed-out ness" and CA. Before I corrected the CA in the raw converter, it looked simply terrible. But there is only so much you can do to salvage the symptoms of sub-optical glass. It is just about the best I can get out of the system. Notice the perspective correction is also rather extreme (see other version), so the focal distance to different parts of the building varies a lot from top to bottom. I have used f/11 as a resonable compromise between DOF and exposure time (I had no tripod). New glass is on my wishlist! --Slaunger (talk) 14:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)