Wildlife workflow

You also need to look into diffraction on the sensor when you close down the aperture too much.

I looked up your sensor and it has a pixel pitch of 4.38µm, which computes out to a minimum aperture, without diffraction, of f/5. But, since this is too limiting in a lot of cases, f/10 is an ideal compromise.

Here is a series of shots at different apertures…

f/5

f/8

f/11

f/16

f/22

f/32


See how the glare from the strings increases as the aperture gets smaller, while the label in the guitar gets clearer.

As I said, sharpness comes primarily with adjusting the camera correctly, not in post processing.

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