VarunMyl wrote:Thank you so much cpd and jelpee! So all images require sharpening to a certain extent? To my untrained eye, my images look sharp enough. Could resizing my image to 1200px eliminate the need to sharpen?
For this website yes. Using a D800e and a very sharp 300 f4.0 prime lens gets pretty sharp images for normal use when resized down from 7360px wide to something suitable for web use, but this site used to prefer them just perfectly sharp as could be without getting jagged edges. I don’t know what they accept now - I haven’t been active as a photographer in maybe 10 years or more. But you have a screener above.
Sometimes with these mega-resolution cameras you are better to keep the image to a larger size than say 1280x853. It can make it easier to keep the details in the image. Jelpee is right in that you sharpen on the final size image.
Certain lenses will need more sharpening than others too, and some of these mega-resolution cameras will make poor quality lenses more obvious, same with blur or out of focus elements (that last bit taken from a Nikon document). It’s not a bad thing, it’s just something additional to remember.
As much as possible only apply your sharpening to areas with detail. Not to the sky or other areas of flat colour otherwise you’ll show up some grain/noise.
If the image is slightly blurry or out of focus it may be worthwhile to leave it and try another time.