 Cindy Sj |
circular polarizer and action shots...
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Ariel Lepor |
First of all, adding another piece of glass will reduce some quality, but it shouldn't be much. That is one thing. Another thing is the fact that you had to use a somewhat high ISO (and maybe the camera was in the sun), leading to kind of high image noise and less detail. Finally, at a high zoom, it will be more difficult to lock focus on a moving target.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
When you described it as bumping the darkroom table I was expecting a double image look. That looks like an affordable price based lens, which the 70-300 zoom is, shot at the 300mm mark, which isn't it's best at shooting far off subjects. And the filter may not have been the best optical quality out there. Zoom lenses have zoom ranges where the optics fall off. It's the trade-off from using a single focal length. And from my experience, 70-300 don't suck at 300mm but they're not all that great for distant things. So even though you filled the frame with the horse/cart, you're wanting detail in small items like the buckles, horse hair, the rider's faces. Small relative to the picture. And you're not going to get it with a long shooting distance, that lens, and a filter all in combination. Plus they are back lit. If they weren't back lit, you have a little more sharpness. Don't use the filter, maybe more. Use a fixed 300mm instead of a zoom you'd have more sharpness. Or even if the cart was closer and you used a focal length in the 200mm range, that could have helped. But I don't see anything wrong with your equipment, just several things adding up to an unsharp photo.
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Jon Close |
Shutter speed was not fast enough. Even at 1/500 there is very obvious subject motion blur in the scene. Ditto Gregory's comments. Especially if you're shooting with the 70-300 at maximum aperture. Take off the polarizer and you should be able to gain 2 stops of exposure, so that you can both raise the shutter speed to 1/1000 and use one stop smaller aperture which will sharpen things up noticably.
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Cindy Sj |
that's given him quite a bit to think about! A question raised from the above info: if he had the camera set on action mode and it's focusing off of one spot (the only mode for action, I guess) does that mean it's metering off of the one spot as well?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If it's too much, start with not shooting action with a polarizer. Focusing spots don't work in conjunction with metering patterns.
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Samuel Smith |
hey cindy, yeah a circular polarizer is going to slow things down with sports/action.big deal.movement vs a bit of panning technique will overcome that even in auto at f8.he didn't bump the light table,he jerked the shutter button. what are ya shooting?
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