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Forum|Forum|10 months ago
June 7, 2025
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Hello,

Here is a photo from Biarritz, France. I don't undestand why it is rejected.

Could you tell me why my picture is bad ?

Thanks 😉

Nicolas

Troubleshooting

Correct answer Abambo

Ok, thanks for your analyse

It's a popular spot, too many people to take the time.

F22 ? I don't like with my D7100 : picture flat and I've got bugs.

But 1/200 with 29mm, for me it's good, no ? 1/50, it's risky : I move !

I'll try to edit

😉

By @ambitious_Wonderland6933

You need to learn to know the limits of your lens. In the times of digital pictures, especially when the light situation is challenging, you should take variations of pictures with different settings. 1/50 is reachable, but not with movable objects, like people, if they don't stand still.. But you should take more than one picture.

The file is labelled DXO, so I suppose you do RAW editing with DXO. But there was no removal of the chromatic aberration.

In addition, there is a lot of noise. And the background is not sharp. The foreground isn't sharp either, so I asked me where the focus was. You may have focussed the pebbles:

That's not enough.

A

ambitious_Wonderland6933Author

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Ok, thanks for your analyse

It's a popular spot, too many people to take the time.

F22 ? I don't like with my D7100 : picture flat and I've got bugs.

But 1/200 with 29mm, for me it's good, no ? 1/50, it's risky : I move !

I'll try to edit

😉

Jill_C

Community Expert

I wouldn't attempt 1/50 shutter speed without a tripod. F22 isn't necessary. Find the sweet spot for your lens - probably more like F10.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

RALPH_L

Community Expert

Because of the exposuredifference between the foreground and background the histogram shows high contrast. As @Jill_C said, you need post processing. I would do the corrections already mentioned and I would change the format to 3:1. Most landscapes should be panorama. This would also reduce the "too much" foreground.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

In addition to what others have stated, shadows could be opened up.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

Jill_C

Community Expert

It appears that you didn't do any editing at all. Images straight out of the camera are rarely going to be acceptable. Chromatic Aberration (purple fringing around the edges of the rock) is very easy to fix. Use the Lens Corrections panel in Lightroom Classic and move the purple slider until the fringe disappears.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

ZALEZPHOTO

Inspiring

You have a lot of issues with this image not in a particular order.

-The point of focus is on the forground, making everything out softer, and or have some lens issues.

-the time you shot this and weather conditions did not help making the image memorable

the editing is weak

-you have lens chromatic aberration

I also took a look at the shot info. You took the photo at 1/200 sec with a

17-50mm There's a rule of thumb, never shoot with a shutter speed lower than the focal lens of your lens. With practice, you can shoot the same conditions as this photo at 1/50 sec and that would have given you f22 or 2 more stops stops

giving you more depth of field, and greatest depth of field is what you always want for landscapes.

ZALEZPHOTO

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