Peaceful Flow

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• hamperium (0)
• [2007-10-02 21:27]
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composition is ok i think
but its really unsharp

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• deanophotos (2216)
• [2007-10-04 13:01]
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Hi Fred, normally a photo like this would be slated by me and others I suspect, but, because of your note asking for help and also because it's very apparent you are just beggining your journey in photography, so hopefully I can help.

OK, the image is very blurry and I suspect this is due to poor focusing and a little camera shake.

Focusing... The best way when starting out is to use the focusing spots on your cam, they're the diamond shape dots you'll see when looking through the view finder. adjust your camera so that it is using the bottom "dot", that is roughly on your 3rd's line when taking a standard landscape shot, leave your lens set to auto focus, compose your shot and shoot, the point of the dot being on the thirds is to do with DOF, and without getting to complicated this gives the best sharpness from front to back, also you need to use a small aperture, e.g. f/11, f/16 or f/22 the higher the number the smaller the aperture giving you superior sharpness the higher you go, F/stops are not going to do anything to the colours in your image, that will be done after during post processing.

I hope this is'nt to much for you, and anything you'd like to know just ask. I could go in more depth and will if you want me to, but just try this for now.

good luck

Dean.

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• miau (2988)
• [2007-10-05 7:04]
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Bonjour Fred,
J’aime la douceur et la clarté des teintes dans ce beau paysage. Beau POV aussi!
Michel.