Birthday Cupcake... Yum!!

[cchristie00]

I recently went to my friends son's birthday party and decided to play around with a newly Canon Rebel T3i... let me know what you think! Thanks.
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[WolfHeart704]

I'm also an amateur and I can't really give much advice on composition, exposure, etc...But, I can say it is slightly blurry. You didn't give any exif. data so I can't really try and help to fix it, but if you can give us that I'm sure I, or someone else, could help fix it.

[cchristie00]

The lighting was very low at this party.
ISO 3200
Shutter 50
f/stop 1.8
I know it is a little blurry but I'm sure that's due to my ISO being so high!

[brightlightabove]

It's blurry because your aperture is set to 1.8 and the birthday candle leans out of the field of focus... the high ISO would cause for noise not blur... but in this case, I would have tried a smaller aperture instead of the highest... Such as 2.5-3.5 to slightly increase the depth of field which would still provide desired bokeh if done correctly.

[graciousness]

+1 on it being blurry. That is due to low lighting and camera shake. You used such wide aperture that you really have no room for error when focusing due to the very shallow DOF.

You really needed to use flash. An external flash woudl be ideal (not on camera flash) and you can use that to bounce the light off walls so the photos don't look so flat in comparison to pointing your flash directly on subjects.

Did I read that right, too, that your shutter speed is 1/50? That may be just a little slow if you haven't mastered hand-held techniques. 1/60 would be the minimum I'd use in this scenario.

Yes, at such high ISO your photo would be noisy (grainy). It has nothing to do with blur.

Anyhoo, cheers and hope this helps!

Grace

[cchristie00]

Thanks for the comments! As you can see I'm seriously an amateur and I use a dslr here n there until I can get my own... hopefully Black Friday has some good deals! The other reason I used such a high aperture was because of the low lighting in the house. I was told to start with shutter speed... aperture... and then ISO... What do you think?

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[graciousness]

Originally Posted by cchristie00

Thanks for the comments! As you can see I'm seriously an amateur and I use a dslr here n there until I can get my own... hopefully Black Friday has some good deals! The other reason I used such a high aperture was because of the low lighting in the house. I was told to start with shutter speed... aperture... and then ISO... What do you think?

check out my new blog! Smile. Click. Keepsake

This really all depends on the situation.

A lot of times though, if people are involved, your priority would be aperture to see how and where you want your focus to land, whether only on the eyes, or the whole face, or the whole person, or a group, etc, and if you want the background blurred or in focus. The smaller the f/stop, the narrower your depth of field, the more difficult to focus. The bigger the f/stop, the more you things in focus in the scene, but the darker the photo gets.

ISO would come into rescue depending on how much or how little your light is available. The higher it goes, the brighter the picture, but if you go abvoe 800 the noisier (grainier your photo gets).

With shutter speed, you need to consider how fast you want your lens to click depending on the motion you want to capture. If you are dealing with moving people or objects, you want a fast shutter speed (above f/160). If you are dealing with static objects and if you are really good with handholding the camera, then you can go slower with your shutter speed.

You need to read up on aperture, ISO and shutter speed as these are the basics that you really need to learn and balance. Easier when you have your own camera though, of course, but it doesn't hurt to do your reading up now.

Cheers,

G-

[cchristie00]

Thanks for taking the time to help me out! I'm actually reading alot of the beginner articles on this website and did read up on ISO, Aperture, and Shutter speed. It all makes sense but I just need applied practice. I'll get it once I'm able to get my camera and just click away at the world! LOL

Happy Thanksgiving!