March 09 (Image #068)

This photo is an illustration of having a shutter speed that's JUST fast enough to prevent image blur.

The key to preventing blurry images to always make sure that your shutter speed is faster than 1/focal length of your lens.

The more you take natural light photo indoors, the shorter the focal length of the lens you should be using.

In this case, I set my focal length at 60mm, which allows me to use a shutter speed of 1/60th of a second or faster. It turned out the final shutter speed WAS faster, but just by a bit: 1/80th of a second.

Getting this shutter speed also required boosting the ISO up to 400, an additional step you must take if your shutter speed isn't fast enough at a lower ISO setting.

• Camera: Nikon D70s
• Lens: Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR LD
• Focal Length: 60mm
• Aperture: f/5.6
• Shutter Speed: 1/80
• ISO: 400
• Light: Natural (Sunset)

Comments

[kia]

I rarely see this kind of lighting in photographs of people, this is an exceptional portrait. I'm an artist and it's been drilled into my head to improve photographs when using them to illustrate someone's face. We enlarge the pupils and give them the darkest dark (100% black), add the brightest bright (0% white) to the reflection in the eyes, ensure a steady core unites the features (the deep shadow that falls down the right of the child) and add that beautiful reflected light to set off the highlights. Then in places within the image we purposely blend in parts of the image so that the background fades into the center of interest. My point is that your shot is so perfect if I were to illustrate it I'd need to change nothing.

[BOB ROB]

I recently bought an "Olympus camedia E-20n professional".... I do alot of surfing photos & it's been hit & miss on what pics turn out great & which ones don't. I have been a huge fan of photography for the past 20 years , but, I have never really admitted to the fact that I know "very little" about the technical settings ; I have basically relied on instinct & lucky guesses !
This is my 1st adventure into the "digital SLR" era, I have always been a canon AE1 guy , but I really like the advantage of the digital giving you the opportunity to view as you shoot ( instead of the old " cross your fingers at walgreens" hoping to get 3 good pictures out of a 24 exposure roll ! )
Do you have any advice for a newbie to the digital SLR world? I am mostly concerned with the "fast-paced" world of shooting surfing photos , still photos I can take 3 or 4 shots , but you only get one chance at a manuever being executed on a wave.

sorry about the dumb questions , but would really love a little guidence !