Took Pics today What is wrong????

[Bossy]

If you have photoshop or bridge you can open an image in either and view the metadata.

#2 was shot at 1.8, SS1/80 and ISO 100. On a Rebel T2i you should be able to handle a much higher ISO, even closer to 800 or 1600, and that will let you close down 4-5 stops without altering your SS.

ETA- You also need to fix your burn/dodge on #4, I can see the flair around the building and tree

 

[Elizabeth30]

If you have photoshop or bridge you can open an image in either and view the metadata.

#2 was shot at 1.8, SS1/80 and ISO 100. On a Rebel T1 you should be able to handle a much higher ISO, even closer to 800 or 1600, and that will let you close down 4-5 stops without altering your SS.

Not sure what app your using but I shot with a rebel T2i?? And I think my ISO was 200..... but I did up the ISO at one point but the photos seemed a bit overexposed so I took it back down.

 

[MTVision]

In the upper right you see Film and an arrow - click on that and choose metadata

I still don't get why you shot at f/1.8 - especially with 2 people. Most people can't even get 2 eyes in focus at 1.8....

 

[Bossy]

If you have photoshop or bridge you can open an image in either and view the metadata.

#2 was shot at 1.8, SS1/80 and ISO 100. On a Rebel T1 you should be able to handle a much higher ISO, even closer to 800 or 1600, and that will let you close down 4-5 stops without altering your SS.

Not sure what app your using but I shot with a rebel T2i?? And I think my ISO was 200..... but I did up the ISO at one point but the photos seemed a bit overexposed so I took it back down.

Yeah sorry, its late and I'm not familiar with Canon models. But you did shoot that one with 100 If the photos seemed overexposed, you could've closed down

 

[MTVision]

What exactly were you trying to get on these photos?

Not sure what you mean but I have had issues with my focus and exposure so I'm working on that. Really I just wanted to shoot today and then couldn't get anything right while I was there!!! So I'm going to try and figure it out so I can go back to this same spot and try again maybe this weekend.

You had issues with focus because of your aperture and shallow DOF. If you wanted to improve focus then use f/5.6 to be on the safe side and once you can nail focus everytime then try something a little wider. You are kind of doing the same things and expecting different results. Also, these are all edited right?

 

[Elizabeth30]

What exactly were you trying to get on these photos?

Not sure what you mean but I have had issues with my focus and exposure so I'm working on that. Really I just wanted to shoot today and then couldn't get anything right while I was there!!! So I'm going to try and figure it out so I can go back to this same spot and try again maybe this weekend.

You had issues with focus because of your aperture and shallow DOF. If you wanted to improve focus then use f/5.6 to be on the safe side and once you can nail focus everytime then try something a little wider. You are kind of doing the same things and expecting different results. Also, these are all edited right?

Yep they are edited. I am checking the photos with the bridge thingy now. I have never used it before, great feature!! I did find a spot where I adjusted the aperture to f/3.2 but I think the reason I stopped it back down is because they where over exposed and I do not have a good enough understanding on controlling exposure. I tried my exposure comp, and then i even tried shooting in Shutter priority but i have a big handful of blown out photos from today to. So I think with this bridge I can go back and look at the settings and try to piece together why they didn't work.

 

[Bossy]

The best way I learned how exposure worked was to set up a still life outside (because the lighting was good) and put my camera on a tripod, turn it to manual, and then just start spinning dials and figuring it out. There's no pressure that way either, since your still life wont be impatient

 

[MTVision]

Raising your aperture to 3.2 wouldn't cause blown out pictures compared to 1.8

Aperture is the opening of the lens. Large aperture = wide opening = lots of light gets in (f/1.8)
Small aperture = small opening = less light gets in (f/11)

Shutter speed is the amount of time light gets in. Long shutter speeds let in more light and fast shutter speeds let in less light. 1/4000 is really fast and 1/30 is pretty slow.

Aperture and shutter speed work together. Using an aperture of 1.8 in sunlight you will need a FAST shutter speed so you don't get overexposed photos. So...if you have a lot of overexposed photos from today it probably wasn't because you used f/3.2 - more than likely it was due to your aperture being wide open and letting in a lot of light.

 

[LightSpeed]

I think she could be great if she got the basics down. She seems to have a good eye. Shooting wide open to get a shallow DOF and then missing focus isn't going to help her any though. Use a smaller aperture! Jeez - even at f/11 (really small aperture) and 4 feet away you are still going to have a shallow DOF.

Yes, I understand and I did change my setting frequently while shooting and now I don't know if I can go back to see what settings I was using?? Is there an app for windows that would allow me to see the DoF on my other photos?? It would be so much easier this way for me to compare them......

All you have to do is check the exif data.
To do that, you would open an image in a windows based viewer, right click on the image, then click the details tab.
There are other ways, but this is the quicky.

There is no app to let you see depth of field. There are , however, depth of field calculators.
Since I assume you speak of images you have already captured, this would be referred to as your aperture and or Fstop which can be seen in the previously mentioned exif data.

You might be dangerous once you learn what the hell you're doing.

 

[MTVision]

Camera Exposure: Aperture, ISO & Shutter Speed

 

[Rephargotohp]

The problem a lot of people do wrong, is they don't just change one thing and see the effect.

They change the aperture and the ISO and then add Exp Comp. and then they don't know what happened. and they blame the wrong thing

Change one thing at a time

 

[Ms.Nash]

I think these are all improvements on what you have posted on the forum thus far except for maybe the skyline one . Like already stated your DOF was 1.8 which is not even your lenses (did u say 50mm 1.8 lens) sweet spot for sharpness. Try 3.2 and up. You just need to keep working on the technical while continuing to develop your style cuz I think it's there. .and if you focus with your back button you can focus and recompose......... But what do I know?

 

[Elizabeth30]

Raising your aperture to 3.2 wouldn't cause blown out pictures compared to 1.8

Aperture is the opening of the lens. Large aperture = wide opening = lots of light gets in (f/1.8)
Small aperture = small opening = less light gets in (f/11)

Shutter speed is the amount of time light gets in. Long shutter speeds let in more light and fast shutter speeds let in less light. 1/4000 is really fast and 1/30 is pretty slow.

Aperture and shutter speed work together. Using an aperture of 1.8 in sunlight you will need a FAST shutter speed so you don't get overexposed photos. So...if you have a lot of overexposed photos from today it probably wasn't because you used f/3.2 - more than likely it was due to your aperture being wide open and letting in a lot of light.

Ok just looked at some of my over exposed photos. the info is:
f/13 1/6, the photo was also pretty blury which I'm assuming would be from the super slow shutter.
Then I have a blown out photo with
f/5 1/40 - shutter still too slow
i was going to write more about my photos and info but i'm so tired i'm seeing double. i better get to bed. I have to be up in about 5 hours with the kidos for school so I'll finish my post tomorrow. Thanks

 

[Vtec44]

Change one thing at a time, so you can see the changes for that particular variable of the exposure triangle.

 

[MTVision]

I think these are all improvements on what you have posted on the forum thus far except for maybe the skyline one . Like already stated your DOF was 1.8 which is not even your lenses (did u say 50mm 1.8 lens) sweet spot for sharpness. Try 3.2 and up. You just need to keep working on the technical while continuing to develop your style cuz I think it's there. .and if you focus with your back button you can focus and recompose......... But what do I know?

Focus and recomposing changes the plane of focus slightly. So if you only have a couple inches of DOF then that slight change is going to cause you to miss focus. Doesn't matter if you lock focus with the half press of the shutter button or BBF. When shooting wide open the slightest focusing error (without focus and recompose) can cause you to miss focus so recomposing isn't going to help that at all.