This past weekend I drove the girls to Palo Alto for them to check out some roaming horses on this open pasture. The girls got to feed and pet a few horses, they always enjoy that. I got to snap a few shots, and I enjoyed that.
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Beautiful picture. Would you share your tips on how to take such sharp pictures?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hi Chi, I’m lucky because I was using pretty sharp lenses. I was using a telezoom and it was a windless day. I was using a 70-200mm L lens. Most lenses are sharpest at F/8.
If you’re referring to preventing blurry pictures, the rule of thumb that to use the shutter speed “2x” of the focal point. For instance, if I zoom in to 200mm then I use at least 1/400 sec exposure. You can adjust aperture and ISO according to get to that desired speed. On a windy day for example, I’d use shutter priority mode just to make sure I control the shutter speed.
These shots were on a bright afternoon, so there was plenty of light and fast shutter speed was no problem.
Hope that helps…
March 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Hi Rex,
Thanks for the tips. However, I didn’t mean blurry pictures. Your pictures in general look very sharp. Is it because of your lense being at F/2.8? I think it’s more than that. For example, if I take picture in Automatic mode of my kid, it choose Aperature mode at F/3-5. So if I set my camera in A mode and choose F/8 or above (11 in one case), my picture is still not sharp. What else should I set? I have Nikkor 18-200mm F/5.6 so it’s not as a sharp lense as yours.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Ah… that’s optical sharpness you’re talking about comes from the lense optics. Some lenses are sharper than others, there’s no getting around that. My lenses are Canon L lenses– on the pricier side but the optics are fantastic.
I’m not familiar with Nikkor lenses, but you should visit a local store or online forums. Or my friend Min (a frequent commentor here) can help you, he’s a Nikon user…
March 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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