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Oiy /p/, I've just gotten into photography recently, this past December to be exact. This is one of my favorite shots, just wondering if /p/ thinks the shot is any good for the amount of time I've been shooting.

Btw - It was taken with the kit lens (Saving up for a 50mm f/1.4) so it's not as sharp as I would like.
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>> dabears !!Mvec13vF5eX
Definitely very good for the amount of time you've been shooting.

I like that shot quite a bit.
>> Anonymous
ISO 1600 lol
>> Anonymous
Yeah, the whole area was kind of covered by trees so some parts were fairly dark. Guess I forgot to switch back to a lower ISO. Sucked having to use such high ISOs to begin with, forgot the tripod and I wanted to shoot around f/9 because the kit lens is soft enough as it is.
>> Anonymous
>>126311

I like it a lot.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>126315
Well since the shutter speed is 1/200, that iso wasn't excessive. If the shutter speed was like, 1/800 or something, than yeah, it would be silly. And since it doesn't look particularly noisy, no big deal.
>> Anonymous
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OP again, here's another shot I took near the Chesapeake Bay. I left the exposure mode on tungsten accidentally and I actually like the blueish hue it gave everything. Don't like the composition though, unfortunately the tree was too big for me to get it in the frame pretty much any other way.

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>> beethy !HJGkSBB3Ao
>>126311
Great shot, OP

I would've liked more DoF though
>> Anonymous
Yeah I never thought of that. At what point does the aperture size not matter when it comes to sharpness of backgrounds? Or do they just keep getting sharper all the way up to f/22?
>> Anonymous
>>126360

Learn to hyperfocal distance.
>> Anonymous
>>126364

Thanks, I've run into that link before but I've never really read into what it meant. Looks rather complicated though, I'm sitting that aside to read for when I have a good amount of time.
>> Anonymous
>>126360
Also, every lens has an aperture it's sharpest at. Open up, and for some reason even the exact point of focus gets softer. Close down, and because of an effect called diffraction, everything gets softer, too.
>> Anonymous
>>126370
OP. Yeah I've been lurking and I've heard that most lenses are sharpest at around f/9-f/11ish, so unless it's too dark or I'm going for some kind of DoF effect (which is almost impossible with the kit lens) I normally shoot at f/9. There's prob some reason why this is a bad idea so please feel free to let me know.
>> Anonymous
>>126373
As said, it completely depends on the lens. There's no average / general rule.
>> ken-t !wQS5KmrMzU
I used Eclipse solution and Sensor swabs both ordered off Ebay...

did the job good
>> Anonymous
>>126443

Good choice. Never use air on your sensor.
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
i'm way too lazy to look up whether or not the canon kit lens has a focus scale, so here's a brief write-up of hyperfocus. it's an easy concept with a complicated name.

this depends on the focal length of the lens, but in most cases at apertures past, say, f/8, the depth of field actually extends "behind" infinity. think of it as wasted DOF. therefore, you can pull the focus in until the far limit of the depth of field is at infinity and the closest thing in your frame is still in acceptable focus. the hyperfocal distance is how far away that closest thing can be.

a quick example would be your kit lens. an 18mm lens at f/9 has a hyperfocal distance of 6.29 feet. if the closest thing in your frame is at least that far away, everything should be in perfect focus. if you stop down to f/16, the hyperfocal distance shrinks down to 3.56 feet, which means that everything four feet and away will be in focus.
>> Anonymous
>>126471

OP. Thanks a bunch. I was just wondering how Hyperfocal Distance works with AF lenses, considering I normally keep it on AF. Since the kit is AF it doesn't have a focus scale, so how would I go about using hyperfocal distance with it?
>> Anonymous
>>126485
You don't, really. I guess it'd be possible to figure out through trial and error, but it's not practical on any lens with no focus scale. There are many AF lenses with them - it's just that the kit sucks for this kinda stuff.
>> Anonymous
>>126488

Eh, the kit sucks for most stuff. Don't have much of a choice except to deal with it until I can get a nifty fifty though.
>> Anonymous
>>126314
stfu noob, its a good picture, who gives a shit what the exif says?
>> Anonymous
>>126521

lurkmoar
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>126485

the easiest way that i know of is to cut some precise lengths of string that correspond to the various hyperfocal lengths for your 18-55 lens. use them as sort of a measuring tape.

to get the hyperfocal lengths for your lens, go to www.dofmaster.com and use basically any of the software. I prefer the dofmaster software itself, since you can print out little depth of field calculators and glue them to lens caps or whatever.
>> Anonymous
>>126515

The 50mm f/1.8 does NOT have a focus scale. The 50mm f/1.4 (as mentioned by the OP) does.
>> Anonymous
>>126535

The 50mm f/1.8 Mk1 does (along with a metal mount).
The 50mm f/1.8 Mk2 with plastic mount doesn't.