northsidejoe Loc: pittsburgh

Hello taylordjn
Welcome to the uhh forum
saying hello from Pittsburgh

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

Hi Taylor, welcome to the hog. There could be a lot of problems as to why your pic didnt come out sharp....One could be the camera itself...Now if you used a Canon......LOL

Joke

Seriously, did you have it set on auto with the lens set on manual? That is a possibility. Or, do you use glasses? If so, you need to look through the eyepeice, there will be a knob somewhere near the eyepiece, as you turn it, the focus will come in sharp to blurry depending on your glasses prescription. Check that out....Or, you can take the camera into your local camera store...if they are worth anything, they will have a tester to see if your camera focus is out of whack or not.
Rich

Nightski

Welcome Taylor
When I do bridges, I use manual focus in the view finder, and make sure that the foreground is in focus. If you use F18-F22, the rest will be too. I think this would also work for railroad tracks. Although, you do have a building that needs to be in focus, so you'll want to fiddle in your manual focus to make sure that is acceptably sharp. That's just my Newbie Humble Opinion. I still love this photo :thumbup:

fantom Loc: Colorado

I think it was just out of focus to begin with. Your shutter speed of 1000 should off set camera shake to a large degree. Brighter would be good but maybe you wanted to show that type of atmosphere. By the way, is that the entrance to Auschwitz?

David Taylor

Agreed, autofocus seems to have let me down here. White balance is fine , I think, it's more a question of exposure reducing the white scene to an 18% grey.........

David Taylor

That's just it, I didn't pick anything, it was all auto. Should have picked snow or beach scene, would have helped with exposure. Other shots before and after we're at same aperture, but 1/400 sec. They were also at another site. This place....... There was something weird about the light.