Crap pics??

friesianfan69

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I took some photos at Thorpe park this week but they are all really grainy and unclear,
I bought some cheaper memory cards, could that be it?
My photos aren't normally this bad, and the whole lot too.

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Memory cards don't affect picture quality. It's all 1's and 0's, faulty memory cards will corrupt data in some odd ways. but from your description your settings were off, post an example and we'll help.
 
Phil V said:
Sorry
Memory cards don't affect picture quality. It's all 1's and 0's, faulty memory cards will corrupt data in some odd ways. but from your description your settings were off, post an example and we'll help.
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Ok thankyou, I'll post one
 
Thorpe park is fun rides isn't it ?

Had you incresed your ISO significantly to retain fast shutter speeds ?
 
You got a filter on there?
 
A hood is.
 
A tweak in levels and a little unsharp mask improves things a lot, just tried on pic #2
 
friesianfan69 said:
No filter, and no hood.
Are filters a good idea?
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Filters are a bad idea, unless you specifically need one. And you clearly don't there.

A lens hood might help a bit, but I think you've just got too much flare there, shooting into the light. I thought it might be a filter as they tend to make things like that worse, but is your lens clean? Greasy finger marks play havoc with flare in back-lit scenes like that.

What lens is it? Consumer grade zooms don't like being pointed into the light much. They're the kind of images that could be cleaned up quite a lot in post processing, as has been suggested.
 
The first image is for the bin, sorry, the exposure is curable in post, but the subject suffers movement blur.

Be careful when shooting against the sky that you're exposing for the subject, it's salvageable as an exposure but the movement blur - nope.

The second picture is salvageable, sharpness and a curves boost would make a nice snap. It would benefit from improved framing, but you've captured the joy on the childs face.

The light was never going to give you great pictures. But a little care in post can improve them no end. Which is exactly what Boots would have done to your snaps in the old days. (added for the PP detractors)
 
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Thankyou, I've got Lightroom 3, I've not mastered a lot of it as yet,
I've not used curves as not known what exactly it does?
Thankyou
 
friesianfan69 said:
Thankyou, I've got Lightroom 3, I've not mastered a lot of it as yet,
I've not used curves as not known what exactly it does?
Thankyou
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You could transform those pictures in Lightroom without touching curves, just a few tweaks of the sliders in the basic palette. Brilliant programme, but you really need a book to get the best out of LR. Suggest Scott Kelby, about £25 from Amazon.
 
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