Elizabeth30
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2012
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- 174
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- United States, IL
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First off I'd like to apologize for my outburst earlier. I HATE drama, I think it's so stupid. I really really do want to learn. So I'm giving it another go because I do think there are some very talented people here that I could learn a lot from!! BUT if you're not interested in helping me learn something, just don't reply, it's honestly that simple!! I can take the critique and comments on what I'm doing wrong (I think I've already proven that) but I will not stick around for dramatic arguments about who has the biggest dick..... and I know it won't hurt anyone's feelings if I just never post again but I need to learn so here it goes again.......
Ok So I took a bottle of body spray outside and set it on a stool and took pics while stopping down my aperture. So I was 5ft from my object and I used a tripod. I had my camera set to AV mode with AF one shot, and yes I read the manual about choosing a single AF point first. The sky was very overcast though so I think this kind of put a damper on the project since the shutter wanted to go really slow but I didn't want to mess anything up so I didn't change any settings other than the aperture. The first photo at 1.8 was really OOF and didn't look good at all. The best one was at f/6.3 So that tells me that this small bottle didn't even have the best focus until f/6.3 so if I'm tring to focus a person (obviously much larger) then I'm really cheating myself out of a good photo by shooting wide open.
That being said I'm going to half to redo the assignment due to the low lighting today. When my shutter is only going at 1/8 there is no way to really see if the OOF is due to aperture change or shutter speed. Cuz 1/8 is REALLY slow even with a tripod it's difficult to get a decent pic at that speed.
Ok So I took a bottle of body spray outside and set it on a stool and took pics while stopping down my aperture. So I was 5ft from my object and I used a tripod. I had my camera set to AV mode with AF one shot, and yes I read the manual about choosing a single AF point first. The sky was very overcast though so I think this kind of put a damper on the project since the shutter wanted to go really slow but I didn't want to mess anything up so I didn't change any settings other than the aperture. The first photo at 1.8 was really OOF and didn't look good at all. The best one was at f/6.3 So that tells me that this small bottle didn't even have the best focus until f/6.3 so if I'm tring to focus a person (obviously much larger) then I'm really cheating myself out of a good photo by shooting wide open.
That being said I'm going to half to redo the assignment due to the low lighting today. When my shutter is only going at 1/8 there is no way to really see if the OOF is due to aperture change or shutter speed. Cuz 1/8 is REALLY slow even with a tripod it's difficult to get a decent pic at that speed.