jedirunner
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Daughter (10 year old) and I went out this morning for an early morning shoot out by the farm lands and lake this morning. We learned several things:
Questions:
I'm extremely jealous of the crazy good focus I see in so many pictures here, and really want to achieve that. So if there are particular readings or exercises to take a look at, I'm happy to do that. Or if you have any tips, I'll take those too.
CC requested, appreciated, and sorely needed. Be as brutal as necessary without telling me to actually give up. ;-) (Images shot with Canon 7D, and the lenses mentioned above).
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If you need SOOC shots to critique, or if you want to see more from this shoot (to see other things that may be wrong) let me know.
Kevin
- Dress very warm (thankfully we had that one covered (almost -- her nose got very red)
- Use a tripod ... it's not nearly as bright as I thought it would be. I started hand-holding shots, and I think the noise was much too high, as the iso was getting set too high to get a proper exposure.
- I suck as post-processing, and have no workflow down to make it easier/faster.
- I know absolutely nothing of how to shoot with the sunrise in the shot... any shot with the actual sunrise in it just blew out the exposure and the shot was either wasted or took so much work in lightroom to bring it back it felt like a fake photo.
Questions:
- If I bump down the ISO and slow down the shutter speed (on a tripod of course) will the noise level go down? It took a lot of post processing de-noising to even get the pics to this point.
- I'm using 2 lenses for these shots (18-135 IS, and 70-300 IS -- both are low-end lenses). If I had better lenses, would the noise be less? Or would the noise be the same until I can get technique bettered, and just a natural feel for what settings to use?
- What can I do to sharpen up my focus? I aim the center-focus thing at the area I want to focus on, hold shutter half-down, recompose a bit, and shoot. Yet the area I want in focus is almost always not quite in focus.
- If you look at the photos, are there certain settings you look at and they make you cringe? (i.e.: WTH did you use that ISO for? You moron, why did you use that aperture? etc.)
I'm extremely jealous of the crazy good focus I see in so many pictures here, and really want to achieve that. So if there are particular readings or exercises to take a look at, I'm happy to do that. Or if you have any tips, I'll take those too.
CC requested, appreciated, and sorely needed. Be as brutal as necessary without telling me to actually give up. ;-) (Images shot with Canon 7D, and the lenses mentioned above).
Img 1.
Img 2.
Img 3.
Img 4.
If you need SOOC shots to critique, or if you want to see more from this shoot (to see other things that may be wrong) let me know.
Kevin
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