Sunset Picture Graining

[motoGP46]

Hi. New here and to photography so apologies if the question is a basic one.

I recently went on holiday and took some pictures of a sun set. The picture, I thought, looked great when previewing on the camera but now that I've downloaded them, the area around the sun looks grained like it's a low resolution picture. If I zoom in on the camera, all looks fine.

My camera is a Nikon D90 with the Std 18-105 lens. I don't have a filter fitted yet and took the picture with the 'landscape' setting rather than getting into the manual settings. I know the camera is fine as other pictures are fantastic.

Did I use the wrong setting on the camera? The picture was taken on the 'fine' setting, JPEG, 1/1000 at f/13 & iso 200.

Any advice would be good or pointers where I can get the most out of my camera would be great.

Thanks.

[chr1s]

could you post the picture up here so we could see? or a link to the picture?

[motoGP46]

Not sure how to upload a photo but try this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

The graining is clear around the sun colour. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

[surf_digby]

I can't see it on that picture, but I'd guess it's down to compression. Are you shooting in RAW or straight to JPG?

Also, check your monitor settings and make sure it's at 32bit colour.