Tips for Sharp Picture

Tips for Sharp Picture - Photography lovers trend to get sharp pictures by applying some photography techniques and adding camera accessories or optimize camera features. Starting from tripod, lens, and may be the camera, up to editor software to get the sharpest pictures.

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This article is giving some tips to get sharp picture as follow:

• Holding camera

Holding camera will affect the stability of camera, i.e sharp picture.

• Shutter speed

Setting the higher shutter speed will make sharper picture. You should remember that if you take picture by hand shutter speed should faster than focal length:

1. If you use 50mm lens, the shutter speed should be 1/60 second or faster.
2. If you use 100mm lens, the shutter speed should be 1/125 second or faster.
3. If you use 200mm lens, the shutter speed should be 1/250 second or faster.

• Aperture

Depth of field (focused area of the picture) depends to the aperture value. Reducing aperture (in this case increase value to f/22 for instance) will increase depth of field. It means the focused area of the picture become wider from the nearest object to the farthermost objects, so that the picture is not sharp anymore.
Thus you should increasing aperture (reducing the value to f/4 or f/2.8) to get sharp picture. If you do this, automatically you will get faster shutter speed.

• ISO

Increasing ISO will increase shutter speed and you can choose the wider aperture. Indoor photography should increase ISO, but do not do it too much. You can set ISO at 600 or 800 for indoor photography. If you set ISO higher than 800 usually noise (small points) start seen.

• Focus

You do not always use autofocus feature. When taking face photograph at short distance, you should set focus to the eyes of object. When you take photograph set the focus to the area you want to look sharpest. Autofocus feature can be wrong focusing or out of your area destination.

• Lens

Try to buy the best lens for your DSLR. Qualified lens will significantly upgrade the sharpness of your photograph. The kit lens usually under quality or at least standard quality. Qualified lenses have wide aperture (f/2.8 or lower) although have long focal. So, try to buy camera and lenses separately.

• Lens Sweet Spot

Every lens has each sweet spot. Sweet spot is aperture of the lens that can produce the sharpest photograph. Sweet spot usually two stops under maximum lens aperture. Lens f/2.8, for instance, has sweet spot at f/5.6. So, set aperture f/5.6 if you use the f/2.8 lens to get the sharpest photograph.

• Tripod

If you want to get sharper photographs, use tripod. If you want to take HDR or panoramic photographs using tripod is a must.