CWGRIZZ Playing Around--Trying to learn
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great shot
I normally don't offer suggestions in someone else's thread unless they ask,(so please let me know if I'm out of line), but since the thread title has "trying to learn" in it, I will make an exception.
On action shots like these, the higher you can get your shutter ,the sharper the shot will be. I noticed that one of the shots is at ISO 100 and the other at ISO 160.
May I suggest to double that ISO (I'm sure your D5300 won't have any problems) to get that shutter speed up a little higher.
Thanks @Blacktop, I am always grateful for any suggestions to improve and like the title says, critique and suggest away. To be quite honest, I don't remember what I had for the camera settings. I think it was all manual. I am going to go back to the originals to see. I do remember that I kicked myself when I realized what the camera was set at. The arena had bright sun, cloud cover at times and shade depending on where you were shooting as the contestants went from one end to the other. Ha!
@Blacktop, I checked and I started Manual and Auto ISO. I don't know how or why I had lowered the shutter speed and had a wide aperture in some. Finally I went to Shutter Priority (800) toward the end of the 300 shots taken. Ha! It was a first for me on this type of shoot and I had fun juggling a shooting spot as well as settings. Ha! It was fun though. Lots of shooting, rapid pace. That is what I liked. "Spray and Pray" ha!!
Thanks Roy,
Referring to Post #27, I had some decent bokeh, but wanted to try a dark background, so that was the attempt. I thought it came out fairly well using GIMP. My wife even said it was pretty. Ha!
This house is located at the base of "Three Sisters Peaks" which is a few miles from me. The house has been vacant and abandoned for years, but it just seemed to really stand out yesterday afternoon. I have always enjoyed the openness of the area with the one lone house in the middle.
On an evening stroll, I noticed a swarm glistening in the light of the sunset. I took a quick shot just to see what I could get. I used BB focus and locked on the mesquite leave that were in the closest proximity of the ever moving swarm. Here is what I got. It turns out that when I zoomed in on the picture that it was flying ants.
Flying Ants
Flying Ants
I'd love to see some shots from closer... it would make a very interesting "subject" for a shoot... I love old abandoned buildings... they're very "moody" and I'm always drawn to them.
Unfortunately where I live (in the big city) old places usually have some unsavoury characters in and around them making them a little "unsafe" to spend time in taking photos...it's a bummer.
cheers
Unfortunately where I live (in the big city) old places usually have some unsavoury characters in and around them making them a little "unsafe" to spend time in taking photos...it's a bummer.
cheers
Michael J.
Senior Member
That is amazing