oooohhhhhh!!!, I love photography!!! and so love being able to select a point of focus, but mostly, I adore the Nikon 50mm lens
.OK, enough of that. Now, let me tell you what I did to achieve this gradient fade-away shot.
I chose the "AV" aperture mode from the dial, turned on and selected my point of focus, boosted the ISO to 200 because I was shooting inside, then I chose a large aperture number f2.8 to achieve the blur, not the largest I can achieve with this lens though, I went for somewhere inbetween because I didn't want everything to fade away altogether. Last but not least I chose a shutter speed of 1/250 of a sec, fast enough to avoid shaking in the photo.
With a prime time lens, this settings was good enough, I guess any other lens with a higher f-number would have needed a faster shutter speed to avoid picture shake.
Awesome shot M! I love the way the way it blurs to be back, just enough but not to much. Good job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Darlin!
ReplyDeleteI've decided to start mentioning my camera settings of each photo. That might help those who are learning.
What do you think about that? Is that a good idea?
M., thanks for sharing your process. I have hardly ever used ISO 200 indoors as I usually do not have enough light, so this lens must be really awesome. As I commented on Flickr, this is so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks Louisiana,
ReplyDeleteWell, 200 ISO is normally too low for indoors photography, you might need like 800 or more depending on the light you have, but this lens is really awesome. As I said, it's a prime-time lens and very light sensitive. It's also amazingly cheap for it's build and performance.