country wrote:
took these two photos, but changed settings... one is ok, the other not so.. im trying to learn to use manual more, although I did leave iso on auto.. the one that is not so sharp and has noise( I think), is that because the iso is much higher ?.. is it better to have iso as low as possible ?.. the only change I made was shutter speed, which changed iso.. any advice will be appreciated as I am still a work in progress... thanks...
Both images seem to be in focus, but a little over exposed (as Wendy said too). You just need to use a setting that is between the two settings that you tried. F/16 is not a bad aperture setting but the ISO 6400 is too high and viewed at 100% has noise. The other image has no noise but I don't think I'd use 1/5th of a second exposure. Try to get your shutter at around 1/60th of a second and f/stop at f/11-f/16 or so. Keep your ISO as low as possible. For a day time image like this about ISO100-200 is good.
So if you do the math, your image is about a stop over exposed. So if you had shot this at f/16 1/400 and ISO 3200 you'd have a better exposure. But the image would be even better if you could adjust the shutter and ISO.
1/50 ISO 400 and you are good to go.