I could get better pics with......

Sorry, i didnt read the fist post good enough, thought he had problems with blur as well as blown out pic.

 

Any progress?

 

Someone said earlier trucks are hard to take pics of. Why are you using that as the test subject?

Find somewhere in the house where you can set up a card table, put something like a cordless drill on it for subject matter, set up some constant light that has nothing to do with the sun, mount the tripod in one spot.

Reduce variables and rule out things as you go.

 

LOL I was trying to think of something that everyone would have in their house.

I had a cactus once.

 

I have been playing with everything on my camera.........



It's very weird....sometimes it does it then other times it doesn't.

I'm not too worried about it anymore
I'm gonna pick up a new speedlight come this Friday
The nikon sb600 pretty stoked!

 

took your advice


this rose is so......emo

 

Photoshop

 

actually iPhoto
photoshop is on the computer upstairs and im too lazy to go all the way up there right now

 

Are you shooting RAW or JPG? I think you said RAW... but if you have some cameras in JPG or a compressed format, sometimes they do some funky preprocessing.

You said you tried things on your dad's non-mac PC, so I'd rule out the software. Can you borrow a different camera body, or ask someone else (such as a pro you trust) to take the photo? make sure not to tell them any problems so you don't taint their test results.

 

hehe. i know that feeling

 

9 out of 10 times im shooting in jpeg fine.....sometimes i shoot RAW but yeh

 

oh and im picking up a nikon SB600 speed light in the next week or so.

ive used the sb400 a little bit...anyone have experience with the 600?

 

Are you sure your settings are right?..... I once was taking pictures like that and I was wondering why it was so blurry. Found out I had it in flower setting.... so it focused on the closest object and the background came out blurry.... Auto focus was set up all weird.

 

All three of those flower shots seem to have a focus point. Though for better comparison, you should take pictures of something with more contrast, like the side of a deck of cards or even a steep angle of print like newspaper.

Though underexposed, the pictures look fine to me.

 

No im not using a flash..im getting one this week.
And no shit. Why do you think im so pissed off?

 

Like your motorcycle picture is crystal clear......what am i doing wrong?

 

Ive been using picnik, its like 2 dollars a month and has been pretty decent for what I use it for. they also have a free version if you wanted to give it a try.

when you save the pic it gives you the option to reduce quality to save file size. just dont reduce the quality..

 

I have Photoshop and I know it really well....maybe I'll try uploading it through there???

 

im sure photoshop would be better. im at best a "beginner"...

 

Hmm I'll go snap some pics of my truck and some other still objects outside with my 50mm lens and upload it through Photoshop.....on a pc...