kid vishus
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First of all let me start off by saying, I enjoy taking pictures but in all reality may be just above a novice at this. That means, please go easy on me as I am just starting to fool around with the manual settings and it's really a trial and error process at this point. Unfortunately for me there are times where I end up taking a lot of low light shots, and I am finding a hard time of finding the balance of letting enough light in but not so much it causes the subject to blur. Here are two shots. Both taken with a Nikon D5500. First one with a Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8. The second was taken with a Sigma 18-250mm 1:3.5-6.3.
The first one I was shooting just in jpeg so I couldnt really do anything with the sliver of light in the background at the top of that door (shooting in jpeg and RAW now, but have no idea what to do with the RAW files.) I intentionally shot them kind of dark as I liked the way the blue light looked as it reflected off her hula hoop, but I may have left them a tad darker than needed.
The second one was taken at a pretty good distance away (I was standing on the top row of the stands), and with as quick as the cars were moving, it was all I could do to get them that clear.
I know the camera is capable of better pictures, other than buying expensive glass what should I have done different? I have no aspirations of ever selling anything or ever charging for taking pictures, I just want to be able to get the best possible shots I can.
Thanks, and if this should have been posted elsewhere (like in the novice section), just let me now.
Edit: I cant get the pictures to load thru here. I'll get them on photobucket later.
Sorry.
The first one I was shooting just in jpeg so I couldnt really do anything with the sliver of light in the background at the top of that door (shooting in jpeg and RAW now, but have no idea what to do with the RAW files.) I intentionally shot them kind of dark as I liked the way the blue light looked as it reflected off her hula hoop, but I may have left them a tad darker than needed.
The second one was taken at a pretty good distance away (I was standing on the top row of the stands), and with as quick as the cars were moving, it was all I could do to get them that clear.
I know the camera is capable of better pictures, other than buying expensive glass what should I have done different? I have no aspirations of ever selling anything or ever charging for taking pictures, I just want to be able to get the best possible shots I can.
Thanks, and if this should have been posted elsewhere (like in the novice section), just let me now.
Edit: I cant get the pictures to load thru here. I'll get them on photobucket later.
Sorry.
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