Treble cone... or Treble cone

[Thanatoz]

Hi everyone. I am trying to decide which photo 'looks better' I know its very subjective but with the bluer photo (the 2nd one) the sharpness is slightly diminished when viewed closely. I cropped them slightly differntly as well as the first is a straight Raw to JPG convert without any altering. In the 2nd i added some lense correction to diminish the noise in the sky.
Any comments would be much appreciated as this is my first post asking for critique.

What I guess im really asking is, would you prefer to sacrifice sharpness to reduce noise and increase colours?

From Queenstown

From Queenstown

EXIF:
Camera Model Name
Canon EOS 1000D
Shooting Date/Time
20/08/2009 11:13:06
Tv(Shutter Speed)
1/500Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F11
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
200
Focal Length
18.0 mm
Image size
3888 x 2592
White Balance
Auto

[barabe]

I personally don't see the difference between the two shots on my laptop. I usually prefer sharperr images but that all depends on the context of the shot and the mood desired so either one is good.

[Thanatoz]

Yeah after posting them the quality doesnt really show the differences. Im using it as a desktop background at the moment and i noticed the differences then and was debating with my fiance which looked more pleasing.

Thanks for your post

[radityopradipto]

Can you post larger picture?
What I can notice is just the difference of the blue sky.
But personally, I'd rather have sharpness with a bit noise ^^
Cheers

[PrimeTime]

Shot at iso 200, you shouldn't have too much noise. I'm not shure where it's coming from.

I did notice a haylo around the rocks from oversharpening or using too big of a radius sharpening. It could be coming from that.

There is no reason you can't have the best of both worlds.............sharp and noise free. Sharpening can increase noise. What happens is you sharpen the grains of noise and make them more noticable. If you sharpen with one of the smart sharpening techniques it will reduce the noise seen. ( high pass sharpening, or edge sharpening are a couple).

I also think the sky in the second one is a little over done. Looks too blue to me anyway.

I did a quick edit .......................i added some saturation to the sky only----some contrast to the snow and rocks---and sharpened with edge sharpening (The haylo is still there because you already sharpened it, but if you start over and use edge sharpening, it won't be there anymore.)

[Thanatoz]

thanks, its somethign I havnt seem to have quite grasped yet so thanks for taking the time to explain it. Ill try the edge sharpener. I need to fiddle with photoshop a bit more

Thanks again