Mar
5
2008
This past weekend I drove the girls to Palo Alto for them to check out some roaming horses on this open pasture. The girls got to feed and pet a few horses, they always enjoy that. I got to snap a few shots, and I enjoyed that.
Beautiful picture. Would you share your tips on how to take such sharp pictures?
Hi Chi, I’m lucky because I was using pretty sharp lenses. I was using a telezoom and it was a windless day. I was using a 70-200mm L lens. Most lenses are sharpest at F/8.
If you’re referring to preventing blurry pictures, the rule of thumb that to use the shutter speed “2x” of the focal point. For instance, if I zoom in to 200mm then I use at least 1/400 sec exposure. You can adjust aperture and ISO according to get to that desired speed. On a windy day for example, I’d use shutter priority mode just to make sure I control the shutter speed.
These shots were on a bright afternoon, so there was plenty of light and fast shutter speed was no problem.
Hope that helps…
Hi Rex,
Thanks for the tips. However, I didn’t mean blurry pictures. Your pictures in general look very sharp. Is it because of your lense being at F/2.8? I think it’s more than that. For example, if I take picture in Automatic mode of my kid, it choose Aperature mode at F/3-5. So if I set my camera in A mode and choose F/8 or above (11 in one case), my picture is still not sharp. What else should I set? I have Nikkor 18-200mm F/5.6 so it’s not as a sharp lense as yours.
Ah… that’s optical sharpness you’re talking about comes from the lense optics. Some lenses are sharper than others, there’s no getting around that. My lenses are Canon L lenses– on the pricier side but the optics are fantastic.
I’m not familiar with Nikkor lenses, but you should visit a local store or online forums. Or my friend Min (a frequent commentor here) can help you, he’s a Nikon user…