What am I doing wrong?

[supes]

What am I doing wrong?
Out of all the pictures I took of the sky this is my best one and it is NOT as sharp as I hoped it would be. Quality is maxed and exposure wasnt changed as I thought enough light was in place. ISO 500 used and the Daylight setting was in effect. Could it be the whole tripod thing and me not being steady enough?

[DavidEB]

How sharp can a sky picture be? seriously, though, it looks like the center focus point is in the middle of a particularly featureless cloud. Perhaps you could manually focus on a distant edge of something on the horizon, use a higher f-stop (bigger number) to ensure focus.

I might have pointed the camera a little higher up, so the one streak of blue could be near the bottom edge and the rest of the picture be stormy. Cloud shots can be neat when there's a good mix of dark and bright clouds.

kind regards,


David

[Hellashot]

What camera? (ISO 500 isn't common on most dSLRs) and EXIF data? Clouds move very fast, plus they cover a large areas so that'd be difficults DOF to hold.

[PhotosGuy]

The building looks pretty sharp, so you probably weren't focused on the clouds.

[supes]

Sorry, it is the Canon A95.

DavidEB- I will take all you said whole-heartedly and reshoot.

Hellashot- Cloulds werent moving, im just bad :( . Also what is EXIF?

PhotosGuy- Ill take that as a complement. :)

[supes]

This was taken today at ISO 50 I believe and I did not mess with exposure. I did try to use manual focus but didn't get anywhere so what I did was take David's advice and just put the center of the camera toward the sun spot and hoped it would develop from there. http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif