My experimentations with this building photograph. The first photograph is the original: the old firehouse in the rain, with the exterior red light on. The second is in sepia, adjusted in Picasa, to give it an "old" feel. The focus is off in the original; I think the photo was shot too far away from the Indian Neck sign, and light, which were the focus.
As a follow-up, this was my sister's e mail to me about the blur. She is a photographer, and I figured I'd ask her why this went wrong. Here was her answer; Jerry please add feedback if you can help with other ideas! "Your firehouse image looks blurry to me - I can see why you tried to sharpen it. It seems absolutely nothing is actually IN focus, so rather than "focusing on the wrong thing", I *think* the blur results from motion, also because I think I detect a double image to the letters on the sign. I saw the shutter speed was 1/80 sec, which ought, to be fast enough for a sharp image if you make sure to hold still. Maybe that is something to "be conscious of" as you are learning. Getting a sharp image is very nearly Rule #1, unless one is going for special effects. (1/60 is a rule-of-thumb cutoff; slower than 1/60th is tough to hand-hold.) "
I have other photographs posted on Fotothing (Gwendolyn7).
4 comments:
Nothing like tough love from a sibling. I actually like the "Sepia" look. It gives it a old town flavor.
I agree that the sepia image totally changes the image in a very nice way! It looks antique and I think it also sharpens the photo more in the sense that there are not so many colors to distract from really looking at the details in picture.
Your sister is correct the blur is due to a moving camera while the shutter is open... when he hit the shutter button you have to be very careful that the camera doesn't move... it's best to just gently squeeze the shutter and not even know when the shutter goes off rather than hit it. The one 60th of a second role is true for a 35mm camera that has a 50 mm lens on it or a zoom lens that around 50 or 60 mm point-and-shoot digital cameras however can use slower shutter speeds because their focal length is generally much smaller... the rule of thumb is to match the slowest shutter speed where holding the camera by hand will give you a sharp result to the focal length.
In other words if you're at 14 mm then 1/14 second would be your minimum shutter speed
Thank you Jerry.
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