Just riding for fun...

[deltroid]

On this past Sunday I took some pictures of my wife riding her horse...looked alright to me, but since I'm a newbie in the DSLR world, I will appreciate comments/suggestions to improve...

Pics were not that sharp, and I noticed I lost detail when resizing the picture...I know for a fact that the lens used is not that great (it came with the camera), but maybe I could have done something to have sharper images...

Settings were:
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6
Shutter: 1/1500
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 119
No post processing on the picture...right out of the camera.

PS: You don't have to be nice just because I'm new here... ;)

[downhillnews]

Maybe bump up SHARPNESS in camera, and try using a slower shutter maybe around 1000-500 which will effect light. It should not effect qaulity when resizing unless you went bigger than original? If you have PS use their SHARP mask if needed?

[deltroid]

Thanks for the tips! I will increase sharpness on the camera...
In regards to the slower shutter speed...do you mean to reduce it to 1000-500 without changing, let's say, aperture, in order to get a higher exposure? Is this picture underexposed in your opinion? I still have a lot to learn when it comes to processing pictures on PS or any other software...

Appreciate the reply!

[RichNY]

You are shooting with the aperture wide open which doesn't yield the sharpest image for any lens.

If you can live with a bit more depth of field you can stop down the lens a stop or so and slow down the shutter by a corresponding amount- just keep it at least 1/640 and you are sure to stop the motion and you might try experimenting at 1/500 to see if that will still be motion blur free.

The more you can stop down your aperture the closer to the lens' sweet spot you'll get and the sharper the resulting image.

[deltroid]

You are shooting with the aperture wide open which doesn't yield the sharpest image for any lens.

If you can live with a bit more depth of field you can stop down the lens a stop or so and slow down the shutter by a corresponding amount- just keep it at least 1/640 and you are sure to stop the motion and you might try experimenting at 1/500 to see if that will still be motion blur free.

The more you can stop down your aperture the closer to the lens' sweet spot you'll get and the sharper the resulting image.

This was the first thing that came to mind when I was looking at the images on the PC...next time I'll make sure to increase the f-number...

Thanks!!

[RichNY]

f/stop aside it looks like you married well ;)