Young Nephew

[awinn]

Ok.. so I finally bought my first "grown up" lens a sigma 70-200 ex dg apo HSM II. Just getting the feel of it, I was totally shocked at the size and weight difference. Anyway, my nephew was over and I had just recieved the lens so I was playing around with it.

So I have two questions;

1. Sharpness - Do you think I I should set the exp to 4 and bump the wb to 1600 or left it at 2.8 and bumped up the wb.

2. I'm not sure about the color. I dropped the red a little but I'm still not sure if the color is right. The lighting, was flourescent, from the bottom of the staircase, and incandescent from above.



Camera: Sony DSLR-A200
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

File Size: 427 kB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 1885
Image Height: 2283
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
Image Description: SONY DSC
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 350 dpi
Y-Resolution: 350 dpi
Software: Paint Shop Pro Photo 12.01
Date and Time (Modified): 2010:02:14 13:03:16
YCbCr Positioning: Co-sited
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2010:01:29 19:54:04
Date and Time (Digitized): 2010:01:29 19:54:04
Compressed Bits Per Pixel: 8
Brightness Value: -0.88
Max Aperture Value: 2.8
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
Light Source: Unknown
Color Space: sRGB
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Auto
Focal Length In35mm Format: 225 mm
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Contrast: Normal
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Compression: JPEG (old-style)

[PS*]

Oh what a cute little boy!
I totally get confusing lighting situations.

I see what you mean about the color, it is at little warm-yellowish.

1. Sharpness - Do you think I I should set the exp to 4 and bump the wb to 1600 or left it at 2.8 and bumped up the wb.

I might be having a blonde day here, so I am confused. Did you mean to bump the ISO to 1600? You could play around with your White Balance settings, there are modes for incandescent and fluorescent.Auto, which your camera is on does a decent job *most* if the time but gets sketchy in completely artificial lighting and needs more help from you.
Regarding the sharpness of the photo, you needed a higher shutter speed. 1/15 of a second is really hard to do hand held esp. with a lens the size of the sigma, my guess is too much camera shake combined with too slow of a shutter speed is why its not as sharp as you would like.

[irishmuth]

Agree with PS - that shutter speed is going to be very difficult to get a sharp image. I am actually impressed that it's as sharp as it is as shutter speed. You were at your max aperture so the only way to speed up your shutter speed and still properly expose the photo would have been to bump up your ISO or use the flash.

As for the color, it is pretty yellow, but a simple adjustment in either Photoshop, Lightroom, or Picasa can take care of that. I attached my quick attempt - the mixed lighting does make it a bit tricky.

[awinn]

Originally Posted by PS*

I might be having a blonde day here, so I am confused. Did you mean to bump the ISO to 1600?

Alas, you are not having a blonde moment, I was apparently having a semi senior moment
as yes I meant ISO 1600.

Irish.. thanks.. that does look better. Would I be correct in assuming the yellowness is coming from the incandescent?

[awinn]

Irish.. just curious how you cleaned up the yellowness? I actually uses PSP X2 and I'm still working on my post processing skills.

[irishmuth]

Originally Posted by awinn

Irish.. just curious how you cleaned up the yellowness? I actually uses PSP X2 and I'm still working on my post processing skills.

I did a curves adjustment layer using the "auto" setting and it still looked a bit yellow, so I did an additional adjustment layer with color balance and slid the yellow/blue adjustment toward the blue (can't remember the exact amount). I also think I dodged the eyes a bit to lighten them.