rose of sharon C&C please

Straight from the camera, only resize and save for web.

1/125s, f11, iso400-214mm Handheld and manual focus.

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The back area of the flower that is blurry is to distracting. Usually if you can get your shutter speed higher than your focal length. Here it would have been nice to have your shutter speed higher than the 214mm. Unless you have image stabilization. This will cut down on motion blur. With the settings you had you needed a tripod.

rw2, unfortunatley this was something that I saw early in the morning waiting for my lawyers office to open. I noticed the flower and grabbed my camera and shot. How do you tell that it is motion blur and not oof?

Maybe if I cropped out most of it, it would look better? I liked the color in the center with the creamy stamen.

thanks for the comment!!

It is probably some of both. So to get the sharpest picture you need to eliminate the motion. You can do that by increasing your shutter speed. In your case it would be hard to do with low light unless you used a flash.

I just bought a Sigma DG 500 Super. I haven't gotten batteries for it yet but when I do, I will give it a try.

As I said before, This shot was done on impulse. I saw, I shot, I didn't think. Just used settings from last time, ev f11.

That f11 should give you a better depth of field but will also require either more light or slower shutter speed.

I tried to duplicate your conditions. 1/125, ISO 400, f11, focal length 210mm. the top one is tripod and the bottom hand held. Shot with rebel xt and canon 70-300 with the image stabilizer turned off. Not a huge difference but enough softness in the bottom that if i was to print one it would be the top one. let me know how you like the flash. That is what I am looking at buying next.

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rw2, I see what you mean. Both of these look good to me but the bottom one is not quite as sharp.

I will be getting batteries tomorrow and will try out the flash on saturday. If you wish, I can pm you with the results or post them here. Your choice.

thanks for your efforts, they are appreciated!!

By the way,I posted one in this forum "Bug ID Please", I thnk you will find that one much better, I followed your advice and made the shutter speed above the focal length. It worked!!!

Post some pictures taken with flash so we can all enjoy them!

Will do.

Not much but I had a problem figuring out how to get the flash to work.

I have this calendar hanging on the wall so I used that to try it out.

1/60s, f5.6, iso400, 70mm manual and hand held. 1st no flash, 2cnd flash

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