Some of my friends often told me to crop photos as zooming to take photos are not good as it's either easily shaky or not too clear. However, zooming has one of its benefit, especially you wanna proportionate a tiny object to be bigger or an object behind bigger. Just like this photo, the wooden mini-santa claus is a pretty tiny object and the HSBC's banner behind is quite big but pretty far behind. So in taking a proper angle and a zooming, both can become more proportionate. These 2 things are not related but it comes out quite related, like the santa is so happy with this red hot surprise offer. This is something making me happy in taking photos.
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Nice, it's like he is jumping for joy for the 50% something. At first glance, I thought he was hanging onto a red pole swinging.
There are two school of thoughts, shoot loose and crop later and the finish the composition in the frame while shooting and avoid post cropping.
I read that a guide line for focal length relationship to shutter speed (lenses without IS). 50mm = 1/50 sec, 200mm= 1/200mm as a minimum shutter speed guide line to avoid handshake. Of course everyone's mileage may varies.
Faster shutter speed will fix the shaky part. There are so many factors that will affect picture clarity and zooming is not one of it if using a decent quality zoom lens along with fast shutter speed.
Yeh... it did look like that way. Pole dance santa - kind of cool! Actually I set the aperture to 6.5 as it's on 160mm (on 1.6 crop) so as not to have the HSBC cards too blur but increase ISO to 800 to compensate for the shutter speed at 1/80.
I did a lot for shoot loose, esp. those food photos, under pressure from friends...
That's a cool calculation and it makes sense on the longer it goes, the faster the shutter speed is.
I read an article about IS and it claimed IS is actually not good for photo taking because it will even make the lens bouncy like a coil. It was suggested that even if you have an IS lens, you still need to hold it still for a few seconds first. This way everything inside the lens will be still calm. Then take the shot. IS is to avoid the shaky movement when the shutter button is pressed. Besides, shaking will happen on the camera body. So it has still to be for avoiding both lens shaky and camera body shaky. So in conclusion, it was suggested practising more on holding the camera/lens firm still as much as possible, or the best is to on tripod with a remote control on the shutter. You did inspire me on the latter one about another good thing of shutter remote control. You know now that I found out I need to get a heavier tripod! haha... never ending
I think the two of you can change your career soon.
@Stella LOL, it's more like don't quit our day jobs.
@Sea I didn't know about tripod spec until i went shopping for one and the salesperson told me how all the weight rating for the tripods and the tripod heads. I was told to get close to 1.5 times to 2 times the weight of your current camera with the heaviest lens and flash attached. I got the Manfrotto brand from Italy. 190XPROB (support 11lbs) tripod and 498RC2. Originally I wanted to get the 055XPROB (support 15.4 lbs) but the tripod too tall for me but probably the right height for you. LOL
You want the viewfinder of the camera is at your eye level on the tripod without extending the center column.
Carbon fiber tripods are nice and lighter weight but more expensive.
@pixmation: good idea carbon fiber tripods
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