First DSLR Nikon D7000

[ChrisMeritt]

I need to know.. How am I doing balancing ISO, F-stop, shutter speed???

[swilliams61]

Need to know your EXIF info!

[Jen473]

Even without knowing your EXIF info I think this photo looks a little washed out and I would pump up the shutter speed just a bit.

[Jen473]

Sorry, make that BUMP up the shutter speed just a bit

[ChrisMeritt]

I guess that WOULD help
Feb 26, 2011
1600×1060 pixels – 105KB
Filename: LOVE.JPG
Camera: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D7000
ISO: 1250
Exposure: 1/8000 sec
Aperture: 1.8
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No
Latitude: n/a

[RLucas]

It's way overexposed.
The ISO is too high. The aperture is too wide, and you have the shutter speed pegged. So no it is not balanced.
I would have started at about f/8, with the ISO as low as it would go, and adjusted the shutter accordingly.

[kristenh]

what a sweet little child! beautiful eyes. here are my thoughts:

this looks like a well lit situation, so i would take the iso way down. even for a fast moving kid, you don't need a shutter speed that high. 1/250 maybe, even that is high end.

you have your aperture wide open, which is also letting in more light. that's a nice thing, because you can use faster shutter speeds if you need to. it will also make for nice background blur in situations where the background shows. but the downside is that your depth of field is pretty narrow and, believe me, i speak from experience here (months and months- almost a year ), it takes a ton of practice to nail the focus on the eyes in such a situation.

so for this photo, you overdid how much light you were letting in, and the photo is overexposed. it didn't look to me (hard to say exactly b/c i'm on my laptop) like you nailed the focus anywhere in particular- you want to really get the eyes. and then, for me composition-wise- i like how you filled the frame but would have preferred a photo that is not looking down on the kid but is at eye level. and now i'm getting picky, but i always like to see the subject looking at the camera and i'd rather not see the swing in the background.

one thing that i have been doing to practice- i'm really just a newbie myself- is to shoot in a semi manual mode like aperture priority- that way, i can mess with two legs of the exposure triangle- but the camera chooses the final one and i can learn how to judge the light w/o totally screwing up a billion photos.

hope that helps!

[ChrisMeritt]

Absolutely yes it helps. Thank you for the explaination. I have sense learned to try Aperture Priority mode so I can work on parts myself. Thank you again for your input and easily understandalbe explaination.