Practice?
First let me start by saying I never thought I would get my camera and be an expert overnight! I knew this was going to take a lot of time. Anything worth learning does. I am, however, beginning to get frustrated. I keep making the same mistakes although I'm changing my settings. I am seeing noise where I don't want to and that's my biggest issue. I was thinking of going out to the park with my tripod every day at lunch, setting up in the same location every day and just take the same picture over and over and over with the different settings. Would this be good practice to help learn how the settings all work together? It seems I know and understand what they do separately but just as it is with music, until you learn a melody, it doesn't sound pleasant. :(
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Comment by Jose Carlo Burgos on March 12, 2013 at 6:23pm -
I think that I'm always practicing and learning. If you use and ISO from about 100, shutter speed in a day light situation from about 500 to 1000, you don't need a tripod with an aperture from about 2.5 to 5.2. You're going to get a great sharp picture. Always use the high resolution because later you can play with your image and lower the resolution if you like.
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Comment by Rebecca Melancon on March 12, 2013 at 11:28am -
I bought the camera from a friend who had it set on 1600. I guess I got lucky with the duck LOL! I'll try to keep it at 100. I try to go somewhere different or take a different set of pictures each day. I'll go back out to the boat launch tomorrow during lunch and try re shooting at 100 ISO so that I can see the difference in the pictures! Thank you for the comments!!
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Comment by Linwood Turner on March 12, 2013 at 11:05am -
the duck is a great photo. good work.
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Comment by Linwood Turner on March 12, 2013 at 11:03am
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Rebecca,
the higher iso setting you have the more noise you get. I try to shot at 100 iso as much as possible. I try to never go over 800. Looking at the picture (outside and sunny) you could have shot it at 100 to 200 iso with a wider apperture.
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Comment by Rebecca Melancon on March 12, 2013 at 10:50am
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I'm on my iPhone. Just realized it was the same person!! I didn't use a tripod for that one. The duck flew up on me and scared me while I was shooting the lake!!
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Comment by Rebecca Melancon on March 12, 2013 at 10:49am
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Thank you both so much for the comments!! I love critiques!
That picture was taken right after I got my camera. The ones I took today were much better I think. Today I had the ISO @ 400 and apature @ 5.6 (I think!!) it was sunny, noon and I was out at the boat launch getting the pelicans. I am thinking I need a better lens for it too for the wildlife. Especially the ones that don't let me get close!!
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Comment by maestro vecchio on March 12, 2013 at 9:24am -
P.S. You probably don't need a tripod for this type of photo.
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Comment by maestro vecchio on March 12, 2013 at 9:22am
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I see from this photo's EXIF data that it was taken at f/22 in Aperture Priority at ISO 1600.
If you want less noise, try shooting at a wider aperture ( F/8 ) with a lower ISO (400).
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