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[taylormatic]

My boyfriend let me borrow his Nikon D3000 for the day to see how I liked it
annndddd here are my pictures,
I'd like to hear what everyone thinks:dance:

Thanks for looking

 

[Robb in Austin]

Nice, if slightly underexposed.

 

[Recty]

They arent bad, especially for your first attempts at using a camera you arent familiar with.

This is just my opinion, but in the two coral pictures, the first one doesnt really have any part of it in full focus so it's just a little distracting all around. The second one, the part in focus is behind a large part of the coral that is out of focus and closer to the camera. That just isnt very pleasing to the eye.

Anyway, those are just my opinions In general try to avoid having "stuff" in front of the part of your subject that you have in focus. Blurry things coming out towards the looker make the picture not look as good, imo.

 

[taylormatic]

Thank you for all your comments
It was very hard for me to get good ones of the tank, and i'm not sure why.
I'll definately try to keep blurry things out of the forefront from now on!

But I'm glad they weren't terribly awful

 

[kilroy217]

either your depth of field is a little too shallow for the coral pics, or you are not shooting perpendicular to the glass. The glass will distort the image more than you would think.

 

[Recty]

Yep, I think the slight blur seen in the first coral picture is just from not being straight on to the glass, a slight angle will produce that overall unsharp look.

 

[taylormatic]

Yeah, I was trying to get more of a 'top down' shot and I suppose I didn't realize how blurry it really was.

 

[taylormatic]

P.S. I'm not too familiar with how to adjust the depth of focus
any hints or tips on that?

 

[Recty]

The bigger your aperture (smaller number is bigger aperture) the shallower your depth of field will be.

So if your lens will shoot at f/2.8, that will have a shallower depth of field than a shot taken at f/11.

The more you want to be in focus in your shot, the higher you need to take your f stop but that means less light is being let in, so that means you have to lower shutter speed or raise ISO, both of which effect image quality. It's a definite tradeoff

 

[kilroy217]

If you're using a tripod, and it's not a coral that moves (SPS, for example), you can get pretty slow with your shutter speed without affecting image quality. So, you can raise your f/stop and get a larger depth of field (ie, more of the shot in focus).

 

[taylormatic]

Awesome
These are really good tips!
Thanks to everyone, I'll be trying everything out as soon as possible
I really appreciate it

Hopefully I'll have some more pics up soon!

 

[laud]

I like the way you see things, the way you think.