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Jun 5, 2012 11:34:54 #

naturepics43 Loc: Hocking Co. Ohio - USA

berchman wrote:

naturepics43 wrote:

Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.

How did you determine what the Quality setting was?

Looked on EXIF info.

Jun 5, 2012 11:37:55 #

naturepics43 Loc: Hocking Co. Ohio - USA

jjestar wrote:

naturepics43 Is that an American bulldog as your avatar?

Yup! He's may buddy. I call him Tank.

Jun 5, 2012 12:12:58 #

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

Where is your focus mode selector switch set? If it's on "C" (continuous), you may have focused on the grad's neckline but then the camera may trying to focus on the background just over her shoulder.

Jun 5, 2012 12:13:33 #

Edmund Dworakowski

I regularly shoot ISO >1600 and even 3200 with my D300s and although the iages need some noise reduction, they are very good quality and very sharp

ISO 1600 w/NIK Define noise reduction

Jun 5, 2012 15:05:19 #

jjestar Loc: Savannah GA

naturepics43 wrote:

jjestar wrote:

naturepics43 Is that an American bulldog as your avatar?

Yup! He's may buddy. I call him Tank.

I have one also, great dogs!!

Jun 5, 2012 15:49:39 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

treadwl wrote:

I shoot a d300, but not with that lens. My first ... (show quote)

Thanks Larry,

I had been inside where there was no much light so I set at 400 ISO instead of higher because of the noise issue. I set SS priority at 1/60 because I could not go lower. My mistake on the outside because I committed the stupid sin of not changing settings so that is why the 1/60 and the F14, it was slightly overcast. I used the fill flash on TTL. With everyone standing still 1/60 really should have been ok but that may be some of it. I also have it set on focus before firing.

Jun 5, 2012 15:52:27 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

SilverFox1953 wrote:

I also have the Nikon D300 , To me it looks like you had your camera set on Vivid , I hardly ever have problems with my D300 . That's my favorite camera. Check all your settings make sure you are using the correct ones . I usually set mine to Aperature with 200 ISO for outdoor shooting . Something else I also have mine set at Normal active delighting .

Thank you, I really love the camera but these two issues are really bugging me. It isn't the lens abause it happens with all of them, just not all the time. When I downloaded them I immediately checked the camera settings adn other than not changing them when I went outside everything is OK.

Jun 5, 2012 15:54:59 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

home brewer wrote:

Would someone please point out where the noise is ... (show quote)

Thanks bread winner, not trying to win any prizes with these nor am I saying they are terrible, just not good. The noise is visable above 100% which I know for most photos it does not matter but my agravation is that my D300 has any at all at ISO 400.

Jun 5, 2012 15:56:28 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.[/quote]
I shoot raw plus jpg and use basic for that reason, if I shoot only jpg then I go to fine.

Thanks,

Jun 5, 2012 15:58:33 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

I shoot with a D300. I rarely use ISO400 specifically due to the issue you just described - NOISE. I can't figure it out, but ISO800 has less noise than ISO400 - go figure.

Most of the time I shoot at ISO200, but if I need to get the shot, I go for ISO800 and stay away from anything in between.[/quote]
Thank you , I will try that. I see images people have shot at 3200 like the one later in the thread and cannot believe it. I tried that one time and it was horrible.

Jun 5, 2012 16:01:47 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

iPhotographer wrote:

Forgot to ask if you have fine tuned your lens. Could be one reason for the soft focus. The other reason is the focus selection. In a group of people with a background that may get caught up in multi-level focus, I tend to go to spot focus and steer the spot to the eyeball of the person in the middle of your shot.

I was using spot and focusing on her face and neck so most everyone would be in focus as well. There were 6 other realitives shotting with their phones and I had a hard time getting in there at all. Drove me nuts.

Jun 5, 2012 16:03:10 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

PrairieSeasons wrote:

Thanks seasons, no it was on S. I checked focus point and it was right where I aimed.

Jun 5, 2012 16:04:28 #

jtipps Loc: Dallas

Edmund Dworakowski wrote:

I regularly shoot ISO >1600 and even 3200 with my D300s and although the iages need some noise reduction, they are very good quality and very sharp

Very nice Edmund, I just don't get the same results, that's why this bothers me. Nice photo by the way.

Jun 5, 2012 17:16:14 #

berchman Loc: South Central PA

naturepics43 wrote:

berchman wrote:

naturepics43 wrote:

Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.

How did you determine what the Quality setting was?

Looked on EXIF info.

I opened the photo in Adobe Bridge, and looked at all the metadata, but I could not find anything that identified the quality setting he used. Did you deduce it from the file size (1.48MB) or the dimensions 3216x2136)?

Jun 5, 2012 18:55:02 #

naturepics43 Loc: Hocking Co. Ohio - USA

berchman wrote:

quote=naturepics43 quote=berchman quote=naturep... (show quote)

I have Opanda on my computer to open EXIF info. Under"MakerNote" the quality setting is the third item down.

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