Good Camera/lens/computer combos.

[jamessmoak_photo]

I'm currently shooting RAW on a Nikon D3300, with the stock 18-55mm lens and an older 70-300 lens. My pictures on hill look great, and even when I get home, they still look sharp (sometimes the cold and the elements does tricks on my eyes, so when they look good on the mountain, they end up not looking too good inside). My problem is the transfer process from camera to Instagram/VSCO/other media outlet. When I would be in a bind and have to use a friends SD card reader for my phone, there is minimal noise and looks great. When I use my computer, somewhere through the upload and email process, they get grainy and noisy. Am I an untalented reject who needs to find a new hobby, or is this a common issue?

 

[ObjectMocked]

I legit have the EXACT same setup... weird shit. I do find that from the computer it’s kinda grainy. I use google drive to access pics on my phone and that usually works. From there, I can go straight to VSCO, Adobe, or wherever else.

 

[RW_Visuals]

I'm currently shooting RAW on a Nikon D3300, with the stock 18-55mm lens and an older 70-300 lens. My pictures on hill look great, and even when I get home, they still look sharp (sometimes the cold and the elements does tricks on my eyes, so when they look good on the mountain, they end up not looking too good inside). My problem is the transfer process from camera to Instagram/VSCO/other media outlet. When I would be in a bind and have to use a friends SD card reader for my phone, there is minimal noise and looks great. When I use my computer, somewhere through the upload and email process, they get grainy and noisy. Am I an untalented reject who needs to find a new hobby, or is this a common issue?

Do you have any examples you can show us? If you are compressing the a lot that could be the cause, as well as on your editing process if you are doing a lot of different things to edit the photo, i.e. curves, exposure etc.

 

[jamessmoak_photo]

Do you have any examples you can show us? If you are compressing the a lot that could be the cause, as well as on your editing process if you are doing a lot of different things to edit the photo, i.e. curves, exposure etc.

There is an example of one that turned out good on instagram, but when I compressed it to put it on here it looked grainy, it’s on my page under photos.

 

[LukasSchroeder]

but when I compressed it to put it on here

what do you mean? why would you compress your photo for posting on NS?

if you're editing in Lightroom you can sync the photos to creative cloud and get them on your phone through that. I personally use airdrop so I really don't have any other advice other than Google drive/dropbox.

If you're emailing to yourself, there's a chance that your mail app is compressing the photos to allow multiple to be sent at once, or whatever you're editing in is compressing when you export.

 

[Chubz.]

i use wetransfer.com to send edited pictures from my laptop to my phone to post on my socials.

I shot these on a d5300 on a 70-200 and they came out perfectly fine, obviously after uploading to NS they compressed a little bit but wetransfer holds the quality very very well compared to anything else i've ever used.