Pretty as a Picture...

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Kathisma, Lefkada, Greece.

 

[retinax]

Pretty blues for sure. But I think I'm seeing in this one an issue that's more obvious in other photos you've posted as of late, extreme jpeg compression or maybe anti-sharpening?

 

[Out to Lunch]

extreme jpeg compression or maybe anti-sharpening?

Please explain. Thanks.....Edit.... I am not looking for pixel peeping... I was inspired by a Reddit post: when people view a certain kind of picture they comment: ''just like a painting'', and when they are looking at a certain kind of painting, they comment: "just like a picture''.

 

[retinax]

Please explain. Thanks.....Edit.... I am not looking for pixel peeping... I was inspired by a Reddit post: when people view a certain kind of picture they comment: ''just like a painting'', and when they are looking at a certain kind of painting, they comment: "just like a picture''.

Good observation, and indeed this has a painting-like quality. I wasn't pixel peeping at all, at normal viewing size many of your pictures are somewhat unpleasant to look at for me, there seems to be something wrong with small detail missing perhaps. Another guess would be excessive noise reduction. What I meant by anti-sharpening is that perhaps you have turned sharpening or other micro contrast adjustment tools to negative values? Well you would know best yourself what you've been doing and maybe it's on purpose and I don't get it.

 

[retinax]

Could also come from something going wrong when downsampling or it's the mysterious Fuji sensor thing that some see and others don't, although I haven't noticed before and doubt it would be visible without pixel peeping. jpeg compression or noise reduction I think are most likely it.