Comments on: Do You Have a Tip to Share on Digital Photography School’s Blog?

By: CiarÃ¡n

CiarÃ¡n — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:40:21 +0000

I’ve published a list of 101 tips for better photos on my blog. Feel free to use whichever ones you like but just be sure that you reword them so Google doesn’t see them as duplicates. Here’s the link:

http://homepage.mac.com/ciaranbrewster/files/101%20tips%20for%20better%20photos.html

By: Rodbotic

Rodbotic — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:37:32 +0000

Rob have you played with “neat image”?
it does an awesome job removing noise without to much blur.

or just make the noisy pics black and white!

also don’t go with the fastest time play with shorter times and move the camera with the girls. have every thing else blurry.

or get closer. less zoom = more light!
during some school football games we are allow some on field for taking a few shots.

By: Shashikanth

Shashikanth — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:37:05 +0000

I would like to give some tips for the beginners.

1) Before taking any pictures look for the settings i.e. ISO, aperture, shutter speed…etc. and then shoot. Shoot as many times as possible by changing angle and any of these settings.

2) I think using “Manual mode” is the best way to learn photography skills, as here you have full control on your camera.

3) If you are shooting in night mode, to avoid camera shake “Take a deep breath and press the shutter button hold the breath till the shutter closes”.

4) If you are shooting portraits, ask the subject to look at the camera and focus only at the eyes of the subject…this is one of the best way to get best portraits.

For the time being i am able to give this much of tips…more tips later!!!

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:13:14 +0000

Rob,

You could try increasing the ISO setting, but I imagine you’ve already tried that, as you are referencing “graininess”.

Have you tried a monopod to support the camera? A tripod might be too restrictive, but a monopod may just offer enough support. I had this same problem until I got an image-stabilised lens, which was worth it’s weight in gold (well, not in gold, because it’s much heavier than a non IS model).

Regards,

Ash.

By: therightpic

therightpic — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:37:22 +0000

You would be better off posting to the forums here: http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/

By: Robert Stern

Robert Stern — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:36:36 +0000

I have a question and don’t know where to go to ask, so here goes. I am an amateur photographer. I mostly shoot pictures of our daughters soccer games. We make a DVD of the pictures and give it to all the players at season end. We decided on the Sony Alpha 100 camera. I mostly use the 75-300, 4.5-5.6 zoom lens. In bright sun, I really don’t have much trouble getting nice shots of the action. But when the stadium lights come on and the daylight disappears, I have all knids of trouble getting anything. I mostly use a shutter proirity setting, but have tried to do complete manual shots also. I have tried all kinds of things, short of spending thousands for a fancy lens. We do this for nothing, and we have a low budget. Help. How do I get pictures that aren’t blurry or grainy or just plain dark.