There were a few things that I was unimpressed by this photo...

#1 The noise
#2 How unsharp it came out

I did some noise reduction and cloned out some dust spots. I still really like what I captured in the photo.

I SEE MORE DUSTSPOTS ON THE UPPER MIDDLE!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH shit I knew I missed some. Thanks.

nice pic, but yeah couldve been amazing
i dont think the noise is bad, but it is soft
exif data on it?

I removed the noise, as to why it's not very visible in this shot.

Thanks for the comment.

Exif:


Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure 0.3
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 20 mm
ISO Speed 200

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantal7/6034779110/meta/in/photostream/

lol. expect clouds to be sharp. Sort of impossible, sir.

Could be that the Aperture is so small that it's lowering the quality of everything in the picture.

not at all, but they could get a little crisper, or go the other route with a much longer shutter speed, prob with that is there are too many clouds to give a nice effect



next take a pic as you did and then also time try:
open the aperture up a little
drop the iso, you cam should handle 400 or maybe a little higher
and then decrease your speed

you should prefer it

I love noise, Did you focus to infinity? If so your lens needs calibration as the horizon buildings are way of focus. The clouds are as sharp as perhaps you can get clouds in this kind of light.

As other mentioned I feel the aperture selection was wrong for this shot. Am i correct in assuming that you wanted less noise and optimum sharpness from this shot? f8 with a faster shutter even on iso 200 would have improved your results. Remember that diffraction will only really cause you problems when you are creating large prints

Will f8 focus to infinity? Whenever I AF on f8 it doesn't. I have to go typically to f/11. (I'm on a canon t2i with a 18-135mm)