need help with sharpness!!

hey everybody, sorry for posting a new message
ik really need help.
my last couple of pictures have been grainy, unsharp, flat..

im shooting with different lenses and its all the same, 30mm 1.4 17/72mm 2.8 etc. iso is 800 so should be good to

settings are raw 16bit, non compressed

what am I doing wrong here?! the focus point is good, its just not sharp, not even blurry from movement or anything just grainy and flat.

is it a maintnance thing?

im dutch, pardon my spelling flaws.

The image you posted is only 30kb not a lot to look at,my first thoughts are its over exposed in the posted sample,what are you doing with the raw file and in which program

Is this a natural light photo? Your shutter speed might be a little slow. Rule of thumb for crop sensor is 2x/focal length. At 45mm, you should be around 1/100 second. And, your subjects can't be moving. If you used flash, direct flash can make a photo look harsh and flat.

ilonab said:

hey everybody, sorry for posting a new message
ik really need help.
my last couple of pictures have been grainy, unsharp, flat..

im shooting with different lenses and its all the same, 30mm 1.4 17/72mm 2.8 etc. iso is 800 so should be good to

settings are raw 16bit, non compressed

what am I doing wrong here?! the focus point is good, its just not sharp, not even blurry from movement or anything just grainy and flat.

is it a maintnance thing?

im dutch, pardon my spelling flaws.

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Well you do understand that raw files will *always* look flat and dull coming out of the camera because raw files require post-processing and that part of that post-processing is sharpening, right?

Do you have software for processing your raw files, like Lightroom or Photoshop or GIMP?

Even that tiny .jpg cleaned up pretty easily. The color isn't where I want it, but it's better... With the original raw file, of course, you could do a lot more:
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Slightly Corrected:
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I'd say it's a combination of slow shutter speed and open aperture. Items at the top of the image seem sharper than the bottom. This could be due to both shallow depth of field and camera shake from depressing the shutter button.

Also, with a rig like a D7100, don't feel like you have to "get right in there" to get a good shot. Step back a bit and close in a little more with your zoom.

ilonab said:

hey everybody, sorry for posting a new message
ik really need help.
my last couple of pictures have been grainy, unsharp, flat..

im shooting with different lenses and its all the same, 30mm 1.4 17/72mm 2.8 etc. iso is 800 so should be good to

settings are raw 16bit, non compressed

what am I doing wrong here?! the focus point is good, its just not sharp, not even blurry from movement or anything just grainy and flat.

is it a maintnance thing?

im dutch, pardon my spelling flaws.
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To my eyes the image is overexposed.

If the image was shot in RAW then you have to process it to get the exposure and colours right. Even if shot in jpeg a bit of post processing will get the colours and contrast right.

In general such portraits are better shot with longer lenses as wide angle lenses in general and zooms in particular tend to be soft at shorter distances. I have used 16-85, 18-55 and 35mm and get much crisper shots at close distances with the 35mm F1.8 DX, especially in low light. Here is an example