Out of focus shot
- Thread starter Welshy74
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Looks like the shot has been focused on the fence in front. I take it the team is the intended subject, so you should instruct the camera to focus on the players. If the fence (or the ad) is important, I'd use smaller aperture to get that into the depth-of-field too, otherwise I would do the opposite and use larger aperture to throw the ad completely out-of focus (or crop it off the picture afterwards).
Verify that your camera is not in the "nearest subject" auto focus mode, but instead in some "single point" mode and make sure you instruct the camera to focus on the team.
(I am not familiar with D7200, but I take it is capable of focusing using a single AF point. Check manual if unsure.)
Horoscope Fish
Senior Member
Two rules of thumb for photography:
1. Hand held shots below 1/60 are tricky. With really good technique, some sort of vibration reduction, etc. sometimes you can get down to 1/15 or so but that's dodgy. Better to keep hand held shots at a minimum of 1/60 for stationary subjects.
2. Keep your shutter speed at, or above the reciprocal of the lens you are shooting. This means if you are shooting at 50mm, your shutter speed should not be any slower than 1/50. When shooting at 200mm, your shutter speed should not fall below 1/200, etc.
However, when shooting a DX body, however, the rule is increased to 1.5 times the reciprocal of the focal length because of the smaller sensor. So if you are shooting at 50mm on a DX body, you want your shutter speed no slower than about 1/75. Personally, I prefer to simply double my shutter speed when shooting DX; so if I'm shooting at 70mm, I keep my shutter speed at, or above, 1/140. If this means increasing ISO so that I can get to that shutter speed, that's what I do and I don't really care how high my ISO has to go to get there. Digital noise I can remove in post but a blurry shot from too slow a shutter speed typically means an unrecoverable (wasted) shot.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
I have to agree with Horoscope Fish on the shutter speed issue. I bought into the "able to shoot x stops slower with the stabilization turned on" that we all read about but I have found that going back to the old school reciprocal of the lens method get much more consistent results. I know for a fact that the D7200 has a nice feature built in that will set the minimum shutter speed for you based on the lens you are using and it takes into account what the zoom is set for. It is under Auto ISO .
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
- Go to ISO sensitivity Settings
- Set ISO Sensitivity to 100 ISO (This is always what I do)
- Set Auto ISO sensitivity to ON
- Set Maximum Sensitivity (to whatever you want it to not go over.)
- Set Minimum Shutter Speed to Auto (Use the Multi select button around the OK button and click to the right to bring up the submenu go up or down till you hit AUTO. You Can hit the right once more when you get to AUTO and decide if you want slow or fast. I would suggests you leave it in the middle. That actually set it at 1.5 times the length of the lens.
If you're using Photoshop CC you can certainly try Shake Reduction. Sometimes that will help... sometimes not. You could also try a High Pass filter set to overlay.