beginner needs analysis
Aug 10, 2015 21:59:14 #
While boating this past week I shot more than 100 water shots, the majority of which are blurry, with an occasional clear one but they had the same settings. I cant imagine I moved on that many pics in a row!! :oops: Hoping the settings will come up with the pic for some input. thank you ahead.
Spot metering, 200 focal length, F 7.1, 1/1000, ISO 400, Exposure bias -0.7
Aug 10, 2015 22:46:57 #
Sona9 wrote:
While boating this past week I shot more than 100 water shots, the majority of which are blurry, with an occasional clear one but they had the same settings. I cant imagine I moved on that many pics in a row!! :oops: Hoping the settings will come up with the pic for some input. thank you ahead.
You should repost but check STORE ORIGINAL so the image can be seen larger and the EXIF info show up as well.
Aug 10, 2015 22:55:03 #
1/1000 should stop most motion if you are standing on solid ground. The moving boat you are in is causing you some problems.
Aug 10, 2015 23:26:51 #
Aug 10, 2015 23:33:33 #
Aug 11, 2015 00:07:00 #
Perhaps it's just a matter of technique. Specifically, how you hold the camera to minimize camera shake. I'm always surprised to see so many photographers not placing their left hand underneath camera and lens to support the weight properly. Or photographers gripping far too tight with the right hand while operating the shutter button.
Aug 11, 2015 03:35:48 #
greg vescuso
Loc: Ozark,Mo.
I think what might be happening is you Cpf is taking up to 3 stops of light from your camera and at f/7.1 the light coming thru your lens is equal to f /11 to F/16 and your camera doesn't have enough light coming thru the lens to focus fast enough for an action shot. Take the cpf off . You never want to steal light from action shots, they need all the light they can get to help stop the action.
Aug 11, 2015 09:27:13 #
Assuming you have the camera on some sort of "auto" setting, that should take care of the difference in exposure caused by using the CPF. My guess is camera shake. It takes very little movement to cause blur when hand holding at 200mm, especially when panning the camera. Do some testing using a tripod and see if it doesn't make a big difference. If your camera has "burst" mode (several shots in rapid succession) you may want to try that too. Maybe 1 out of the bunch will be OK.
Aug 11, 2015 09:30:40 #
Sona9 wrote:
I clicked STORE ORIGINAL but I dont see any difference
The difference is that now the image has a download link that shows the full size image and the EXIF info for the full size image.
Aug 11, 2015 13:22:10 #
Sona9 wrote:
While boating this past week I shot more than 100 water shots, the majority of which are blurry, with an occasional clear one but they had the same settings. I cant imagine I moved on that many pics in a row!! :oops: Hoping the settings will come up with the pic for some input. thank you ahead.
Even with movement 1/1000 should have taken care of any movement blur. The only thing I can think of is the shots are just out of focus. A moving platform like that trying to shoot another moving object at times the auto focus can't grab.
Aug 11, 2015 13:38:56 #
Sona9 wrote:
I am standing on the shore and have a CPL filter.
It looks like even though you had 3D tracking on, the center focus point is where focus was locked, so everything ended up out of focus.
Try a similar scene without the CPL.
Aug 11, 2015 14:11:47 #
Dngallagher wrote:
It looks like even though you had 3D tracking on, the center focus point is where focus was locked, so everything ended up out of focus.
Try a similar scene without the CPL.
Try a similar scene without the CPL.
Wow, how did you get that point to show up? Things were happening pretty fast and I THOUGHT I had the focus on the boat captain.
Aug 11, 2015 14:39:38 #
Sona9 wrote:
Wow, how did you get that point to show up? Things were happening pretty fast and I THOUGHT I had the focus on the boat captain.
I have a plugin for Lightroom that will show focus points....
http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com
Usually the tools that come with your camera will also show the same thing.
Aug 11, 2015 15:36:00 #
Dngallagher wrote:
I have a plugin for Lightroom that will show focus points....
http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com
Usually the tools that come with your camera will also show the same thing.
http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com
Usually the tools that come with your camera will also show the same thing.
Perhaps you can give some insight on another beginner question. Some pics look fine on computer, but when I zero in closer, lots of pixelated white or dk gray areas show up esp throat and upper chest areas. They were taken in beautiful open shade and looked focused ENOUGH for my uneducated eye but clearly I am missing something. Here is an example SOOC
Aug 11, 2015 15:39:15 #
Thank you to all who have given me some insights into the question above. Not sure I have enough years in me to gain the skills necessary. :)
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