Tip Tuesday: 5 Tips for Sharper Images
Our Tip Tuesday blog post is tidbits of advice from accomplished colleagues, mentors, and instructors.
When you fully understand your camera and how to use it, your confidence behind the lens grows immensely and your work inevitably improves. Follow these 5 easy tips from John Greengo, of John Greengo Photography, and watch your image sharpness improve.
Tip One:
Learn your focusing system, test it, practice it and know how to change it without even looking at your camera.
Tip Two:
Move a single focus point to the exact spot in the frame where you want it. The focus and recompose technique may be a problem if you or your subject moves. Using the right focus point takes a bit more time up front but it’s a more guaranteed way of ensuring correct focus.
Tip Three:
Avoid cheap superzoom lenses (e.g. 18-200mm) as they are definitely a step below the sharpness of a prime or good quality zoom.
Tip Four:
Know your handing holding limit with shutter speeds, and stay one or two steps higher.
Tip Five:
Tripod. It’s not right for many situations but when the time calls for it, don’t be lazy, do the right thing, bring it along, set it up right (don’t use too much of that center post) and get the sharpest possible image your camera can capture.
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John Greengo of John Greengo Photography
John Greengo is a photographer and educator based in Seattle, WA. He is known for his visual teaching style and his passion for helping people master the technical challenges of photography. John’s combined love of photography and adventure has led him on photo tours across all seven continents.
Thank you for the tips! I still struggle to remember to change my aperture when changing lenses and posed settings. I hope to break THAT ugly habit.
Glad you found them helpful! You will get there! Try to find little ways to remind yourself and soon it will be a habit. Good luck!
great thank you