 Lloyd Mr Letherbarrow |
New canon 100-400 L series lens Hi everyone. Just joined the site and was a point and push digital photographer until recently. Decided to take it a lot more seriously so have purchased a 350D and New 100-400 canon L series lens. This is the 1st session I have used it and wondered if anybody could give me a few tips on action photography as this is no where near as sharp as I would like. Thanks Lloyd L
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Lloyd Mr Letherbarrow |
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Well, if it's the photo in your gallery to which you're referring, the problem with the sharpness is your shutter speed. You've got to jack that baby up (or down - depending on how you look at it, LOL). The scene you've captured is a difficult setting to shoot - you've got a surfer coming at you whom you need to keep in focus, you've got low light, because it's sunset, you've got water that you want to capture, etc. Difficult because the speed at which the surfer is moving demands a high shutter speed but the light in which you're shooting demands a slow shutter speed. Difficult. Next time, jack up the ISO to 1600 (yeah, I know, more noise, but there have to be trade offs...) and up that shutter speed to around 1/125" or 1 over the focal length at which you're shooting (if you're shooting with your lens all the way out at it's 400 mm end, then shoot at 1/400" or faster).... Hope this helps, and I'm sure some others will drop by too. Welcome.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
At that time of day with the sun behind him, 1/80 is actually slightly too high for f/5.6 It's a little under exposed, so 1600iso with 1/80 would have been closer. With a 5.6 lens, you'll just have to shoot earlier.
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Jon Close |
There is only a little motion blur in that shot, mostly the surfer's left hand/arm. Most of the problem is the underexposure. I would imagine that some post-processing (especially if a RAW file was saved) to lighten, sharpen, boost contrast, and adjust the white balance would do wonders with this image.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
There's more blur, the feet, face, board graphics. You'd see it more evidently if the exposure were better, or a larger picture.
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