{"id":258,"date":"2006-12-06T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/sharp-is-as-sharp-does\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T20:46:32","slug":"sharp-is-as-sharp-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/sharp-is-as-sharp-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp is as sharp does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gallery2\/v\/ELM\/Lizzy.jpg.html\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gallery2\/d\/4279-2\/Lizzy.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Lizzy\" longdesc=\"\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course my subject here is pretty cute, but I&#8217;m disappointed by either the focus or the lack of sharpness. I hadn&#8217;t used my 50mm 1.8 lens in a while and so this was just playing a little bit with it. In addition to forgetting to set a reasonable white balance for these difficult and fairly dim lighting conditions, I also chose to use the widest aperture available on my lens, 1.8. After wondering if there was something wrong with the focus on the lens, I read online that this lens gets much sharper at f2.8 and higher. Of course then I&#8217;d have been dealing with a lot more noise. I already shot this at ISO 500 in order to get a 1\/40th second exposure, so any way you look at it, the conditions were difficult for shooting without a flash. <\/p>\n<p>This brings up a point: I&#8217;ve been neglecting my photography hobby lately. I noticed while shooting New Baby&#8217;s <a href=\"\/gallery2\/v\/Frank\/casts\/\">belly casting process<\/a> that I&#8217;ve become pretty rusty. The lighting conditions weren&#8217;t the best, but I didn&#8217;t pick the right combination of white balance, flash power, aperture, ISO, and shutter speed to get really great images in this series. They&#8217;re certainly not BAD for snapshots but I want to do better and know I can. Maybe I should start a photo blog and strive to post a picture per day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course my subject here is pretty cute, but I&#8217;m disappointed by either the focus or the lack of sharpness. I hadn&#8217;t used my 50mm 1.8 lens in a while and so this was just playing a little bit with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/sharp-is-as-sharp-does\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}