I am a serious newb with this camera so take that into consideration. No editing either. This show was small and mostly all muscle cars.
Car shows are tough for whole car shots, but you did good. Nice job on little detail shots too.
Nifty-fifty FTW (50mm f/1.8) You can’t beat that lens, super sharp for the $$$
i run mine into the ground … use it for about 60% of my images
Thanks! The main issue I have is the focus. I starting manually focusing and that seemed to help on some shots. I was shooting in aperture priority, since I don’t fell comfortable using full manual mode. White balance was set on cloudy as per some suggestions I read online. Any of tips for camera setup?
I really like this little lens. I will post up some pics I took of my daughter in another thread.
I usually leave my WB set to AWB (automatic white balance), auto focus, and camera set to manual mode. My eye sight sucks and I can’t see for shit so manually focusing for me doesnt happen too much. I will do the “focus, recompose” method of auto focusing on a subject, switching to MF to keep that part in focus. But doing that with a super shallow depth of field can sometimes cause your subject to become out of focus if you move too much.
Best way to learn is on manual mode, try it out sometime. Set your ISO to 100 or 200, aperture to 1.8, then just use the light meter in the view finder to adjust your shutter speed. Its super easy once you do it a few times.
I kept having it focus on the wrong area, how do I get around that? Manual focusing is hard and I prefer the auto focus for sure. So what you do is autofocus on what you want, then switch to manual to keep it from re-focusing? I will have to try the manual mode and set my iso then adjust from there.
You can set your AF points in the camera too, maybe you have yours set to select all or something like that. I usually have mine set so the AF point is in the center of the view finder. After doing that then I do the AF on what I want, then switch to MF to keep that part of the subject in focus. It works better with stationary objects, not people that move around a lot.