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Shots taken from Collaroy Beach on Saturday afternoon.

This is the first time using PS CS2 "Save for the Web", the images don't look as sharp as normal PP.

75-300 IS with circular polorizer. Shots taken @ 300mm.

Q. When taking surf shots etc, should I always use the circular polorizer?

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Hi Warwick
Nice action shots, they just seem a little flat. Hope you dont mind, I just had a quick play with one of your images to just add a little punch to the colours.


Maybe overdid the reds a bit but as I said it was just a quick play.

cc@t,

I don't mind you having a play. I was getting better colour ( although not quite as strong ) from RSE and then used PS to sharpen the image. It was just when I saved them using the web option in Photoshop it just changed the colours and made it a little soft..

Cheers.

Warwick, the general advice is to not use save for web. I think there's a sticky at the top of the Images section that talks about the best way to save and there's a whole lot of other posts about it. But the rule of thumb is not to use "Save for Web". Maybe do a search on "Save for Web".

Yes you do lose some detail when you use save for web, but I have to admit that I use it most of the time. As long as your originals stay nice and sharp thats the main thing. My normal workflow when I've taken surfing/windsurfing pics is - crop, saturation, contrast, sharpen and then save for web.
As far circ pol filter goes, I use mine 99% of the time if shooting water sports - I compare it to trying to look at the sea without sunnies on

cc@t,

That's what I thought about the circ pol filter, but I adjust it to be fairly minimal as I have found my colours to be too strong when in RSP ( almost over saturated ) and processing from RAW to tif.

I normally save in JPG, buy was having issues with Pixspot with uploading the images. I must be at my 100%MB allowance. So I tried " for the web ", but not impressed. I have found Photobucket.com to host these pictures on.

P.S. My RAW and processed tif's at home are fine, I only brought these web images with me to work today, hence the crap quality. I'm a little surprised that no one has commented that it's cause I use a Canon.

Cheers.

Wocka wrote:cc@t,

I'm a little surprised that no one has commented that it's cause I use a Canon.

Cheers.

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