First Pictures

[Mr Chelsea]

thes are a couple of pictures of my dog obi
taken with my new camera which i only bought last wednesday
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Byatt/SG100081.jpg
he's laughing at my technique
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Byatt/SG100029.jpg
full of mishief in the river

[boroboyben]

Out of focus, try focussing on the actual dog :)

[Mr Chelsea]

Out of focus, try focussing on the actual dog :)

been a beginner i have my camera set up on full automatic, and was still messing with the focus dials

i have now got the hang of shooting with the automatic mode (i think)
i will keep practising until i get it right

[Janice]

I dont think the second one is out of focus.. i think it is sufferering from a slow shutterspeed and therefore camera shake

The speed you have used is 1/90th second which is not really fast enough for a focal length of 200mm. try using a faster shutter speed. :thumbs:

[Mr Chelsea]

I dont think the second one is out of focus.. i think it is sufferering from a slow shutterspeed and therefore camera shake

The speed you have used is 1/90th second which is not really fast enough for a focal length of 200mm. try using a faster shutter speed. :thumbs:
thanks
i'm not sure if its a natural, but when i point both of my hands start to tremble
i will have a go at the faster shutter speed, when i feel abit more confident f getting into the camera, at the moment i am unsure of what is right and what is wrong, the pictures i've taken just messing about with the shutter speeds are a bit blurry
any reccomndations on what i should be practising shooting to get better knowledge of shutter speeds will be much appreciated

[Xplosion]

Hey,

Not bad for a first try, what camera have you got?

[Janice]

thanks
i'm not sure if its a natural, but when i point both of my hands start to tremble
i will have a go at the faster shutter speed, when i feel abit more confident f getting into the camera, at the moment i am unsure of what is right and what is wrong, the pictures i've taken just messing about with the shutter speeds are a bit blurry
any reccomndations on what i should be practising shooting to get better knowledge of shutter speeds will be much appreciated

Fully automatic wont give you knowledge of anything!! :D

If you have aperture priority or shutter priority... either one of those will let you choose your prefered aperture or shutter and the camera will do the rest.

Aperture is connected with depth of field (depth of focus).. how much in front and behind your subject is wanted to be infocus as well as the subject. and shutter speed is how you capture movement and freeze it (fast shutterspeed) or show a blur of movement (slow shutterspeed)


Your manual will help you to some extent but you will find more to read on the subject here (http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/shake.html)

[Ashers]

i started off on full auto now i like to have a fiddle, if i got time otherwise i still use auto :P

[Xplosion]

Fully automatic wont give you knowledge of anything!! :D

If you have aperture priority or shutter priority... either one of those will let you choose your prefered aperture or shutter and the camera will do the rest.

Aperture is connected with depth of field (depth of focus).. how much in front and behind your subject is wanted to be infocus as well as the subject. and shutter speed is how you capture movement and freeze it (fast shutterspeed) or show a blur of movement (slow shutterspeed)


Your manual will help you to some extent but you will find more to read on the subject here (http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/shake.html)

Janice,

With regard to aperture settings, I notice on mine that even in the maximum aperture of 4.6, the background behind the subject is not fully blurred, is that because of the f-stop number i.e. it has to be larger?

[Janice]

No... the NUMBER has to be smaller. F2.8 is a wider aperture and makes for less dof. F22 will give you MORE dof.

Well certainly a "faster" lens that goes to F2.8 or something like that is more useful..........but also it can make a difference if the background is far enough away.

Try seeing what a background looks like as you make the distance between background and subject larger and larger.

Also a longer focal length will make the background blur more than a shorter focal length if you are using a zoom.

[photon]

I think Mr Chelsea's camera (Samsung/Pentax) will have an Auto ISO mode, which would be useful when out with the dog, if he's chasing around between the shade of banks and undergrowth and open spaces.

The old rule relating lens focal length to shutter speed would suggest a ballpark range of 1/250 - 1/500 for the 200mm end of your zoom, so you could set that in Tv mode when Obi is chasing around and let the camera choose a suitable ISO value. Higher ISOs let you use similar exposure settings with lower light levels, but you don't get something for nothing so the high ISO shots will be more grainy/noisy and with less good colour.

[Mr Chelsea]

Fully automatic wont give you knowledge of anything!! :D

If you have aperture priority or shutter priority... either one of those will let you choose your prefered aperture or shutter and the camera will do the rest.

Aperture is connected with depth of field (depth of focus).. how much in front and behind your subject is wanted to be infocus as well as the subject. and shutter speed is how you capture movement and freeze it (fast shutterspeed) or show a blur of movement (slow shutterspeed)


Your manual will help you to some extent but you will find more to read on the subject here (http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/shake.html)
thanks janice, thats quite helpful, i've bookmarked it

Xplosion i have a samsung gx10