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A fury divine

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Model ~shotglass-sally
great model,performer and stylist!

photography: me!
titled after an amon amarth song.
Image size
2592x3872px 786.22 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D60
Shutter Speed
1/13 second
Aperture
F/25.0
Focal Length
36 mm
ISO Speed
1600
Date Taken
Nov 30, 2011, 6:43:40 PM
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rensuchan's avatar
Hey, I was looking through your gallery because you were talking about your pics being blurry~

In the case of this shot, I think it's related to what I see in your EXIF data... Here's a breakdown for you:

1) 1/13s shutter speed @ 36mm focal length is pretty slow. I'm not sure if you have VR on your lens or not but there's a general rule that you want your shutter speed at least as high as your focal length, so you'd probably want 1/40s at the slowest if you're shooting a non-VR lens. With VR you get a little more play room but it's still susceptible to camera shake.

2) F/25 aperture. While closing the aperture does put more in focus, when you close it that much you may get some IQ loss from diffraction. In most cases you probably don't need to close it down quite this much. Having the aperture stepped down much is also probably the cause of the shutter speed being as low as it is so if you shot at F/11 or so, it would be sharper both from less diffraction effect and higher shutter speeds.

3) ISO 1600. While 1600 can produce acceptable results for sure, you'll get more noise and usually less sharpness since cameras tend to apply noise reduction when you bump the ISO up a bit. This could cause "blurry" images but I think the shutter speed and aperture are more likely causes.

I do have a few questions though...

1) What was the lighting? Was this a studio strobe shot or was the light source continuous?

2) What mode did you have your camera set on? Was it manual or one of the auto / semi-auto modes?

Let me know and I'll try to help out more ^^