Unhappy with photo quality
Apr 19, 2019 11:31:33 #
traderjohn wrote:
Whoops. I guess someone hit a nerve. No difference of opinion allowed. I have spoken, therefore it is.
ditto!
Apr 19, 2019 11:47:37 #
Apr 19, 2019 11:52:40 #
Those pics aren't all that bad, nothing that a few tweeks can't fix. The first one, gym lighting is notorious for bad pics, it still isn't that bad of a photo. I'd suggest using the lowest iso allowed and still get a fast shutter speed. I kinda like the second one. Judging all three photo's...your almost there! It's just going to take practice and most of all...don't judge your photo's to what other people are taking, it doesn't matter what brand your using. The sharp photo's your seeing were probably taken with a $5,000 professional camera.
Apr 19, 2019 12:11:58 #
rhadams824
Loc: Arkansas
Dziadzi wrote:
Fellow Hoggers, I respectfully ask that you give y... (show quote)
The exif data shows that you have your digital zoom on which lowers photo quality. The f-stop it 3.2 which has less depth of field so less of the photograph will be in focus vs using a higher f-stop like e 5.5 or 8. Could not find the ISO setting but the amount of noise indicates a high ISO. Use a lower ISO, higher f-stop and no digital zoom and see what you get.
The usually size of a 24MB APC photo size is 4000 x 6,000 pixels but the exif data for your photos is 2400 x 3600 indicating a smaller size photo. Your are not utilizing the full 24MB of your sensor. These may be cropped or the digital zoom is giving you a lower file size when blown up shows more noise and less resolution. Check your digital zoom feature first. Use a the lowest ISO you can to get the photograph.
Apr 19, 2019 12:15:25 #
Dziadzi wrote:
That's what I was thinking, but I don't know what causes that.
Change to matrix metering. Your camera is exposing to the lighter uniforms and the rest of photo is dark. A small aperture like f14 will do that.
I shoot d9 or group area focus, full manual SS and f-stop auto ISO. I’m in matrix meter setting. AF-C of course and BBF.
Try the a more averaging meter setting and see if your pics don’t get lighter with lower ISO.
Apr 19, 2019 13:02:22 #
ialvarez50 wrote:
Well, since you don't see any problems with his images he should be happy with what he is getting. I sure hope you have more than 25 years of teaching photography and almost 40 of photographer. If not, I do.
Apr 19, 2019 16:53:27 #
I'm going to vote for depth of field for the first one. I didn't view your aperture, but at 1/1000 you had to be pretty wide open. You are angled downward from above, so the plane of focus would also be angled downward, meaning only a narrow slice of the players around the numbers is near in focus. I'd check what f stop you used and plug it into a dof calculator, see if you can stop down a bit. If it is possible to change position to get your camera parallel to the players, that can help.
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