mini/loner shoot

[sikjdm]

Just sat at the house all day then finally had enough. So i went out and took some pictures

Im still a beginner photographer and just got into it so take it easy

Critiques are still welcome though!

I still cant figure out why the first and the third one came out so blurry

EDIT:

Took some advice from Ryan and gave it one more try. I messed with the arpeture and shutter speed a lot more and I believe it came out a lot better

 

[Russianred]

I really like the style you have going man, especially with that whited-out front grille!

Clean!

 

[adoboi6]

nice man! that third pic looks like the cars a toy car haha

nice work!

 

[bluiezaccord]

simple and clean. looks good!

 

[sikjdm]

thank joo eberyone!
inspires me to do more to the car and get into photography more!

 

[ryan s]

I still cant figure out why the first and the third one came out so blurry

2 reasons...

missed focus
or
long exposures cause blur even with a tripod. unless youre using a remote, mirror lockup, a timer, or any two of those listed, youll get blur.

at a focal length of 55mm with a fairly short distance to your subject, you would only need around f/4-5.6 to have the whole car in focus. this would allow both lower iso's and faster shutter speeds. (edit: if you look at my sig pic, i was about 90ft from my car, f/5.6, i want to say around 160mm focal length. notice how lots of the background are still in focus, even though im far away? if i could have, i would have even used f/2.8)

oh and f/16 and above causes diffraction. most lenses (especially cheap ones) sweet spots are in the f/8-11 range. i dont believe ive ever used above f/11 even for landscapes.

 

[sikjdm]

could you possibly be able to tell me what my shutter speed and arpeture should have been then? i mean, not exactly but around?

 

[ryan s]

well...without getting too involved in technicalities...since meter readings are somewhat off below 1s shutter speed...

ill use the 3rd pic, which is f/22 10s iso1600 flash(?)

so first off, im going to open the aperture to f/5.6
next, ill lower the iso to 400,
but since i dont know how dark it was, ill use a light value of 9 giving us 1/60s shutter. or maybe opened one stop more to 1/30s...

check out the exposure calculator here. as i said in the beginning...anything slower than 1s plays havoc on the camera's meter so we really cant use "regular" math having started at f/22...

 

[juicebox00]

Looks nice man

 

[tnguyen600]

how do you make the black border? lol I've skimmed through cs3 looking for something but couldn't find a "add border" feature.