After 3 months of shooting with primes I decided to try the kit lens. f8 at 28mm 1/320sec. ISO 100. This is one of the old Lumber baron's homes in Bangor Maine.
Think I'll go back out near sunset and try again with my 43LTD. The fresh snow and ice in the trees didn't come out as well as I would have liked. Seems a little soft to me.
http://www.pbase.com/regken/image/74411671.jpg

[dave sz]

image isn't showing on the pbase site..

[regken]

Thanks. Got it fixed.

[Alvin]

The fresh snow and ice in the trees didn't come out as well as I would have liked. Seems a little soft to me.
http://www.pbase.com/regken/image/74411671.jpg

Looks perfectly fine to me Got a 100% crop?

[dave sz]

yeah, looks good to me

[regken]

Don't know if I did that right. Take a look and tell me.

[clarenceclose]

Color and clarity looks good.
It must be the lense distortion at 28 because the building/fence pickets lean toward the middle.
A funky but effective way to fix that in PS is edit/free transform and grab the upper corners, hold down the shift key and stretch the photo left and right a bit until thing look more vertical.

[regken]

Thanks for pointing that out Clarence. The more I shoot the more it becomes apparent my preference of focal length falls between 28 and 135ish. I have primes covering the 28-50 range so the kit lens goes back on the shelf. Thanks for the help.

Regards,

[Alvin]

Color and clarity looks good.
It must be the lense distortion at 28 because the building/fence pickets lean toward the middle.
A funky but effective way to fix that in PS is edit/free transform and grab the upper corners, hold down the shift key and stretch the photo left and right a bit until thing look more vertical.

So is that called slight barrel distortion? I didn't really pick that off until you pointed it out.

[clarenceclose]

Correct, I believe this is a slight barrel distortion.