Getting a sharp clear photo!

great stuff seajay!! glad you ordered it all ready :) you wont have any problems with digital revs, thats where i also ordered mine from :) yes true while shooting wide open with the nifty fifty you might get some minor problems, i have shot @ 1.8 and have got a lot of crackers i tell you tho of my kids :) its nice and sharp at f2.2! :)
 
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Seajay said:
Ok what I meant was that I started out with Av set the smallest aperture I could and set ISO to 200.
AS the lens zoomed to take the shot the aperture was changing and I had to keep changing the iso to try and get the aperture to open up more to get my background blurry but the results were too light I think I then changed to auto Iso .

I will also look at a nifty fifty. As I want to master some nice portraits of my grand kids . I have thousands of pictures of them but ever quite got the one I would ave on my wall. My kids love them and hang them but I want something special that I can be proud of.
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The 50mm f1.8 is an exceptional lens!

Very light but incredibly sharp from f2.2 onwards and for sharpness easily the equal of the "L" glass lenses costing many times more.

These shots were taken with it and it is an excellent lens for taking photos of children:

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+1 ting i love my 50mm prime you can get some cracking shots with it
 
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Wow! Peter these are beautiful shots of two adorable girls.I hope I can get anywhere near this when the lens does come. Thank you .



I took a day out earlier in the year to try and get a nice shot of my granddaughter I love the scene in the shots but was so disappointed that there was not one that stood out to make me feel I could print it for her. So hopefully next spring I can do it all over with a lot more experience .This is why I need to get learning.
This lot could have been really good if I had only known what to do.


Garlic girl by cooriedoon, on Flickr
 
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That's quite a nice photo if you had raised the iso you could have got a faster shutter speed too get it more sharp.. You could always try sharpening it by Photoshop :)
 
David I tried that in photoshop and managed to get it a little better but I felt her shoulder was in the wrong position it looks like it could do with a bit being pushed in if you know what I mean. This was taken with my older Nikon now gone , and I only ever used auto then. You will see that most of the others In the flicker album are the same.

They are nice to look at but not good enough to have printed. I was trying to get a nice one to put on a canvas for her at the time. I will get one this year for her hopefully.

Cathy
 
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Yeah i can see what you mean by the shoulder comment a little, you could try using liquidfy (I think) and push it in some then clone the garlic back up to her shoulder after so it doesn't look too noticeable after editing.
Someone else may have a better suggestion though for editing than mine but that's what i would try.
 
Thank you all not sure how you close a thread but for now I want to take on all the advice about keeping my prints sharp and put it into practice especially when my new lens finally arrives.
 
Pretty much covered in terms of the photography however I just wanted say - what lovely dogs. A relative of ours used to keep Bernese Mountain dogs so I have a soft spot (no pun intended) for them.
 
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