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Originally Posted by dphjr
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Definitely not bad by any means. At least on my computer I found that zooming to 100% I could already start to see some pixelation. Also the colors look really washed out to me, which is odd since it was a bright and sunny day. For comparison here is my friend's d5100 shot using mostly the same settings as mine. The colors look much sharper and it isn't nearly as pixelated.
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The colors WILL look washed out in a bright sunny day. You have some noise in your photos but without the exif data it is impossible to tell what your settings were when the photos were taken. Looking at the histogram, you were exposed far to the left whereas the histogram in your friend's photo shows a balanced exposure. Are your photos raw format in this link and did you resize them or anything? Processing the raw format photos with a raw editor (lightroom is one example) will bring out the tones and colors to your liking. Try shooting an hour before sunset instead of the harsh, flat light in the middle of the day. Google "golden hour".
