Sharpen Image

What is sharpness in photography

How to take sharp photos with any camera and how to achieve sharpness in a photo. Beginners are obsessed with how to sharpen a photo. Many people don't know that you can get sharp pictures right from the camera. No processing in Photoshop or Lightroom. Is sharpness important to good photography? Yes and no. On the one hand, a technically perfect photograph usually has to be unconditionally sharp. No matter how entertaining it may be from an artistic point of view, the vagueness of significant plot elements will make it suitable only for an amateur photo album. On the other hand, if a photograph is technically perfect, but devoid of artistic or even protocol value, then it is generally useless for anything.

Only perfect focus at a certain distance can create a perfectly clear image composed of small dots. At the same time, objects located closer or further away will still look sharp, their blur will be too minimal to be noticeable to a person. While the need for sharpness seems obvious, I have often come across photographs that could be great, but remained mediocre just because the photographer was too lazy to sharpen when zoomed out. It is no less annoying to meet photographs spoiled by inept and excessive sharpening.