rogergolub
lvl.2
Flight distance : 1131886 ft
United States
Offline
|
From the supplied pictures it is extremely hard to tell what is going on:
1) We don't know what, if any, post processing you did OR the web site did - the latter being very important.
2) We don't know the shutter speed and ISO of the images, both very important in terms of expected image quality.
That said, the crop image looks pretty good, the overall image, not so much. Which again suggests a problem in processing, not an inherent camera image.
A couple of general points - the Phantom appears to be an OK still camera, not a great still camera by any means. The whole thing costs less than some of my Nikon lenses. I'd call it a point-and-shoot level camera.
You can do some things to get the most out of the camera:
- shoot in manual mode, aim for the highest shutter speed while keeping the ISO no higher than 400.
- shoot in RAW mode, if you cannot do that, make a custom setting of -1 to -2 contrast, ISO and saturation. Add that back in post processing.
- watch your histogram, expose to the right (look that up on photography web sites, basically avoid underexposure). If you are pushing highlights AND shadows to the limit, shoot in HDR mode.
- balance your props
- shoot several shots of any desired image. Film is cheap.
|
|