street performers in Boston

[carbonXevo8]

I was in Boston this weekend for a car show and i had some time to spare before the show an saturday. This was taken in downtown Boston. I useed my 28-135 and I shot in raw and used cs2 for minor PP... c+c please

I think i have a bad compy of this lens...none of these pix are cropped and they seem blurry.

1
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5649.jpg

2
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5650.jpg

3
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5657.jpg

4
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5659.jpg

5
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5665.jpg

6
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/nemesys6/HIN%20Boston/IMG_5670.jpg

[René Damkot]

EXIF says 1/25 and 1/50s. I say: Motion blur.
Use ISO 400 next time...

[DwightMcCann]

You need to number them. Did you sharpen after resizing? If you suspect the lens isn't focusing well then you need to do some testing that is more "scientific" ... at least shoot something target like from a tripod through a range of f-stops. Sometimes our technique causes an issue that is easier to blame on the equipment. I won't critique the images themselves.

[Edit: My EXIF plugin didn't work the first time so I missed the obvious issues that Rene has pointed out.]

[SYS]

Looks like you were at the Quincy Market. Really miss that place..

[Apollo11]

Love Quincy Market----there is always something going on there, and always performers of this sort.

[narlus]

i've lived in or near boston for close to 20 years...quincy market/fanuiel hall = tourist hell and frat boy bars.

ugh.

[evan_d]

Wow I went to Boston last July and saw that same exact guy performing in the same spot - no joke. That's pretty crazy.

[carbonXevo8]

You need to number them. Did you sharpen after resizing? If you suspect the lens isn't focusing well then you need to do some testing that is more "scientific" ... at least shoot something target like from a tripod through a range of f-stops. Sometimes our technique causes an issue that is easier to blame on the equipment. I won't critique the images themselves.

[Edit: My EXIF plugin didn't work the first time so I missed the obvious issues that Rene has pointed out.]

I numbered them... I only sharpened very little all the images are pretty much out of camera. Only minor saturation and exposure adjustment. I understand that there is some motion blur but in photo #1 she wasnt moving, I cant understand why she's still oof.

[carbonXevo8]

i've lived in or near boston for close to 20 years...quincy market/fanuiel hall = tourist hell and frat boy bars.

ugh.

Yea we went into the purple shamrock and were toasted well before lunch lol Ive never been to Quincy Market before. It was fun but I probably wouldnt go back

[slappy sam]

Cool to see some shots from home (I'm at college now). I agree with another poster - bump the ISO to 400, which will hardly increase noise at all, and stop that motion with a high shutter speed.

[René Damkot]

I understand that there is some motion blur but in photo #1 she wasnt moving, I cant understand why she's still oof.

were toasted well before lunch lol


Maybe she was standing still, but were you? ;)

Seriously though: What AF point and AF mode, IS or monopod?

Might be the AF point accidentally picked the back or foreground to focus on, since the actual AF point is a lot bigger then the red dot in the viewfinder. Might actually be a bad lens. I suspect user error first in most cases however.

[carbonXevo8]

No i wasnt drunk to the point of shaky photos haha...I used the IS (no monopod), I would focus on their face and adjust do get their whole body in the frame.

It probably user error but I would like to believe that Im better than those picturse would dictate.

[EMG]

"I would focus on their face and adjust do get their whole body in the frame."

This would be your biggest culprit, something I've been doing all along while wondering why so many shots aren't sharp. When you lock in an AF point and then recompose, the distance between the camera and subject's locked AF point changes, resulting in a loss of your original desired focal point.

[taygull]

These images are not a good test for quality, the shutter speed was just to slow to really judge motion blur or camera shake.

Study the exposure triangle of ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture and how they relate to one another. Very quickly you will learn which of these to adjust to get quality images.

Once you've got the correct settings for the desired image you will be able to determine if you have a good lens or not.

Once you've done that then you will need to learn a good process for getting sharp images up on the web, it does not happen by accident or just by hitting "resize for web".

Keep shooting and keep practicing!