Quote Originally Posted by iso79


Here's an example from the great Joe Mcnally..


Soft, out of focus, blurry in spots.



Hm, I don't see it the same way. To me, the image is too *sharp*. Look at how many of the individual hairs follow a jagged, pixelated course. Hair doesn't do that in real life, and neither did film, so it gives the photo an ugly "digital" look. I bet it looks more natural in print. Of course, most web images look like that, so a lot of people may not even notice.This is usually a sign of either a junky, low-quality downsampling filter (such as Photoshop's) introducing aliasing artifacts, JPEG artifacts, or too much sharpening after resizing.


I don't see anything out of focus that shouldn't be, and all the soft/blurry spots appear to be intentional.