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we have a canon 450d and have recently invested in a telephoto lens. Today I had a dry run with it while out with the dogs and out of 100 or so shots only about 10 were actually in shot. I know blurring issues may be down to my technique so how can I improve this?
Give the numbers on the lens and it will help with advice
(PS. Poor focusing?)
Last edited by EJB on Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:20 pm; edited 1 time in total ______________________________________________________________ Ted.
I try and state simple facts in a nice way.
Make sure that the image stabiliser is at maximum if shooting 150 to 250mm.
Otherwise you simply need to hold a much more braced position when shooting.....or a tripod or monopod.
Be very smooth when pressing the shutter release.
HTH.
______________________________________________________________ Ted.
I try and state simple facts in a nice way.
The focus on the dog is not too bad, the blurring on his legs is because the shutter speed is too low. The background is out of focus - this may be intentional of course - because the lens is because of a wide lens aperture giving a shallow depth of field.
These two together suggest there wasn't enough light for the ISO speed you had selected. Try cranking up the ISO to 400 or 800 and using the lens at a shorter focal length.
For what its worth, I think you have a very nice photo there.
I assume you are refering to the fact that the back legs are not as crisp as the nose. The background blurring is to be expected as I assume you were following the dog's movement.
What you needed was a faster shutter speed but then you would have had light problems. So I suggest that the answer is a higher ISO to allow you the fast shutter.
Again, without the rest of the EXIF data, it is difficult to go much further but with a f1.4 capability, you would expect a shallow depth of field.
Still a good piccy, though.
Patrick
PS. Ooooh, don't you just hate it when someone gets in first whilst you are typing
Thanks for the input, I think it was a fluke shot!
My days of getting away with just point and shoot may officially be at an end! I tried pics in different settings, some sport and some on the auto setting...
For me, the things that detract from the image are
The black wedge at the top of the photo
It seems unbalanced because the eyes of the dog are positioned too far to the left of the image giving some dead space on the right and giving the feel that he is looking "Out" of the frame.
I hope you don't mind but I downloaded the image and gave it a little tweek.
All I did was a quick cropping
Across the top being careful not to cut into the ears
From the right to get rid of some of the dead space. I would have liked to crop it tighter but didn't want to cut the stick in half.
There's a bit of dead space on the left, but I want to keep both eyes within the right side of the image.
A tweek of the clarity and vibrance and a touch of sharpening and you end up with this...
It's all subjective; others may have a different feelings.
Another one I like. Maybe it's just the dog
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