WELL, DANG!!

We got a good rainfall today...

So an hour or so ago I was outside and noticed that some flowers, purple dahlias that my daughter had planted earlier this year, were nice and "spreckled" with rain drops.

So I thought "what the hey" and went in and grabbed a camera and went out to take some pics.

The problem was that in the overcast light, at ISO 200 and f/5.6, I needed to dial the shutter speed down to 1/20 in order to get a "proper" exposure and an aperture that would provide a decent depth-of-field. I was shooting hand-held and was too lazy to go in and grab a tripod, and with my 24-105 lens my focal length at the "shortest" would be 24mm, but in practice I varied between 32mm and 65mm, depending on the framing I was after...

Well, guess what? Nice pretty flowers, but all the pics are pretty bad with camera shake!

The light is not so good now and I'm being lazy...Oh Well, lesson learned for another day!

You could have raised your ISO...

cdifoto wrote in post #16315033
You could have raised your ISO...

Sure, but as a "rule of thumb" I like to stick to ISO 100/200.

Anyway, no big deal, I can just do it another day!

A little noise would have looked better than camera shake.

tkbslc wrote in post #16315061
A little noise would have looked better than camera shake.

Yeah, oh well, I rushed it!

tonylong wrote in post #16315025
We got a good rainfall today...

So an hour or so ago I was outside and noticed that some flowers, purple dahlias that my daughter had planted earlier this year, were nice and "spreckled" with rain drops.

So I thought "what the hey" and went in and grabbed a camera and went out to take some pics.

The problem was that in the overcast light, at ISO 200 and f/5.6, I needed to dial the shutter speed down to 1/20 in order to get a "proper" exposure and an aperture that would provide a decent depth-of-field. I was shooting hand-held and was too lazy to go in and grab a tripod, and with my 24-105 lens my focal length at the "shortest" would be 24mm, but in practice I varied between 32mm and 65mm, depending on the framing I was after...

Well, guess what? Nice pretty flowers, but all the pics are pretty bad with camera shake!

The light is not so good now and I'm being lazy...Oh Well, lesson learned for another day!

You're just learning this...now?

1Tanker wrote in post #16315082
You're just learning this...now?

Well, let's see, rushing through a "quickie shoot" without bothering to stop and think much, and neglecting to grab a tripod...

tonylong wrote in post #16315115
Well, let's see, rushing through a "quickie shoot" without bothering to stop and think much, and neglecting to grab a tripod...

lol.. sorry Tony, just teasing you.

tonylong wrote in post #16315039
Sure, but as a "rule of thumb" I like to stick to ISO 100/200.

Why?

cdifoto wrote in post #16315190
Why?

Understand, that's when I'm shooting in daylight. Yeah, in challenging light the ISO goes up. I was just rushing too much to think things through!

tonylong wrote in post #16315201
Understand, that's when I'm shooting in daylight. Yeah, in challenging light the ISO goes up. I was just rushing too much to think things through!

Which body? I shoot most everything at ISO 640 on my 60D.. unless i have lots of light (or the tripod).

You could have easily done ISO 400 or even 800 and doubled up the shutter speed, but wouldnt the IS of the 24-105 have helped in that situation? Unless the flowers were moving.

1Tanker wrote in post #16315208
Which body? I shoot most everything at ISO 640 on my 60D.. unless i have lots of light (or the tripod).

Yeah, it was the 5DC, I could have upped the ISO...if I had been thinking!

Tony_Stark wrote in post #16315241
You could have easily done ISO 400 or even 800 and doubled up the shutter speed, but wouldnt the IS of the 24-105 have helped in that situation? Unless the flowers were moving.

It wasn't the dang flowers that were moving, there was no wind, it was I that was moving!!

I hope that you all realize, I posted this for "fun", but hey, maybe some "newbies" can get some help/advice from this!

I turned 60 in May and have taken to using a monopod almost all the time. I'm just not as steady as I once was. I use my tripod for landscapes etc but when walking around, shooting, I find I get less camera shake with the monopod.

Like Tony, I am not a fan of blurred photographs.