What did I do wrong?

[Sheiky]

I'm not upset with Brendan and appreciate his advice, but also thanks forcoveringmy back Sheiky[img]/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img]

No problem, I'm not upset either by the way. You did ask what you were doing wrong so I guess Brendan had a good point saying it this way [:P] it's just not my idea of constructive advice.

I liked the idea, but not so much the outcome. Part of that is the lens. Here's what most of my pics looked like untouched with more proper exposure.

Anyway I've shot with that Tamron 70-300 before and I know that this lens costs practically nothing, but also delivers quite some post-processing work [] From what I've experienced this lens is only getting sharp and gets its contrast @ f8-f11 so your chosen aperture of f11 didn't look weird to me. This lens suffers a LOT from chromatic aberrations and so your last picture looks familiar [A]


I guess a lot of the lenses flaws can be restored or adjusted in post-processing, but it's a massive amount of work to make it look great so good luck with that!

I'm trying to go through all my pics before the Beta ended (nothing like waiting until the end) and was pilling up old pics that almost had possibilities.

What Beta? Lightroom 3?