KadynClare
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Hello; I am new to the Forum and while I've been using my camera (a cannon rebel xsi) for about three years I'm just starting to realize how LITTLE I actually understand about how it functions; I'm hoping to improve my photography skills so that when I take shots I can get consistently better images as opposed to what I get now; where sometimes I get stuff that's amazing that I love and other times I can shoot 500 images and get complete crap.
I've spent most of the morning reading (and writing notes! lol) on aperture, iso and ss, and I think I have a better understanding of how ISO is contributing to a lot of my outdoor shots not coming out well, and learn that even though my camera says it can shoot at an ISO of 1600 that for my model/type of camera those images usually come out with so much noise they're crap. Good to know.
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding how to calculate where I should stand/how much to zoom for the appropriate depth of field/circle of confusion/image sharpness.
I'm most often shooting horses and riders outdoors using a telephoto lens (50 - 250mm) And I'm generally at least 100 to 150 ft away from the subjects.
I'm finding a lot of difficulty keeping my subject crisp and sharp and I've tried using the calculator located in the tutorial but just ended up even more confused as it's telling me I need a 444mm lens to shoot? If this is the case I suppose I should just give up now as I certainly cant afford one of those super fancy telephoto lens's the pros use.
Is there a way to get better shots using the equipment I do have or is the best I can hope for sometimes getting good shots by the grace of god and pure dumb luck?
More specifically a friend has asked me to photographer her competing over the next three days at a horse show; unfortunately indoors. I hate indoors. It always comes out complete crap.
What can I do to make it better? I'm going to be in the stands for her dressage tests, flash will not be allowed (and it would be useless anyways at that distance)
I'll probably need a shutter speed of at LEAST 1/250 to keep the horse from blurring; possibly 1/400 would be much better. Unfortunately light in the local indoor isn't the best and now knowing that I should only open my camera ISO to 800 max; how do I not produce under-exposed images??? while maintain a SS fast enough to not get motion blur?? Is there a way?
Should I shoot with my 35-50mm lens and then massively crop images later so it doesn't look like I was shooting from a football field away? or leave my telephoto lens 'zoomed out' so that I don't make the images darker?
Her horse is also completely black so shooting him always presents a bit of an exposure issue. Help??!!
I've spent most of the morning reading (and writing notes! lol) on aperture, iso and ss, and I think I have a better understanding of how ISO is contributing to a lot of my outdoor shots not coming out well, and learn that even though my camera says it can shoot at an ISO of 1600 that for my model/type of camera those images usually come out with so much noise they're crap. Good to know.
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding how to calculate where I should stand/how much to zoom for the appropriate depth of field/circle of confusion/image sharpness.
I'm most often shooting horses and riders outdoors using a telephoto lens (50 - 250mm) And I'm generally at least 100 to 150 ft away from the subjects.
I'm finding a lot of difficulty keeping my subject crisp and sharp and I've tried using the calculator located in the tutorial but just ended up even more confused as it's telling me I need a 444mm lens to shoot? If this is the case I suppose I should just give up now as I certainly cant afford one of those super fancy telephoto lens's the pros use.
Is there a way to get better shots using the equipment I do have or is the best I can hope for sometimes getting good shots by the grace of god and pure dumb luck?
More specifically a friend has asked me to photographer her competing over the next three days at a horse show; unfortunately indoors. I hate indoors. It always comes out complete crap.
What can I do to make it better? I'm going to be in the stands for her dressage tests, flash will not be allowed (and it would be useless anyways at that distance)
I'll probably need a shutter speed of at LEAST 1/250 to keep the horse from blurring; possibly 1/400 would be much better. Unfortunately light in the local indoor isn't the best and now knowing that I should only open my camera ISO to 800 max; how do I not produce under-exposed images??? while maintain a SS fast enough to not get motion blur?? Is there a way?
Should I shoot with my 35-50mm lens and then massively crop images later so it doesn't look like I was shooting from a football field away? or leave my telephoto lens 'zoomed out' so that I don't make the images darker?
Her horse is also completely black so shooting him always presents a bit of an exposure issue. Help??!!
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