this is my first time panning.....



and another one:



it's kinda blur....should i increase the shutter speed??but i afraid when i increase the shutter speed, it'll affect the exposure....

The flower can look better than this.
And why the hell f/25 ?

Sure smaller the aperture, the more DOF you can. Some lens the more you step down the sharper it gets, but that is until certain sweet spot. After that diffraction kicks in and also sharpness deteriorates. Your photo, the flower appears to be soft :S.

Try f8. But biggest aperture(smallest number) is usually best for this kind of photos. Can blur the flowers at the back. And move the flower on the left until it doesn't appear in the pic. Kinda distracting

My lens, mostly wide open aperture also sharp wor

Refer to the exposure meter in your viewfinder and adjust accordingly.

Different ah ? F mount also ma

If you want good-looking DOF, try to open up the aperture the max (smallest f-stop number, e.g. 3.5-5.6 on the kitlens) your lens can handle, then compensate the exposure with the shutter speed. Slower shutter speed more light, and Faster shutter speed means darker. Slower shutter speed also more prone to camera shake, if got VR, should be OK, but still will shake. Best if you use tripod.

After taking, look at your camera histogram for more accurate results on the exposure. If the blocks are more towards left, then your pic is underexposed (too dark). Otherwise your pic is overexposed (too bright). If all block towards center, then the exposure is good. I got cheated by the LCD screen many times already. Thought it's OK on the camera, but when display in my computer, some looked very dark...

best is you can have a nice hill shape in the histogram, not skewing too much to either side. That means the dark areas and light areas are balanced.
But sometimes the histogram tells a subjective reading. Just use it as a reference only.

Yes, but it also depends on your environment. If you in a controlled lighting environment, then most likely the exposure will be the same.

Actually got different la

Haha please dun call me sifu...paiseh paiseh... Just sharing info only. I still have lots to learn.

I still learning also

Manual or Auto Focus?

I can see the depth of field there is quite shallow. So, your focusing has to be quite precise. I'm not sure what shutter speed you are using and focal length. The longer you zoom at the pic, the more prone it can get camera shake. General rule of thumb if possible is to have your shutter speed faster than your focal length. E.g. If you zoom at 85mm then your shutter speed should be faster than 1/80s, maybe 1/100s and above. Another thing if possible is to get ample lighting. Your pic will look slightly sharper if the lighting is good. I think you have to fine tune the focus a bit more. In a condition where depth of field is too shallow, you have to take more pics with diff focus adjustments, if you're manual. I understand sometimes autofocus may not do its job well under high magnification.

Increase ISO to compensate.

if i didn't guess wrongly..you took the shot while placing the camera on the floor?

bursting your shots might help as well. =D

0.62s? Your surrounding must be very dark! Try to experiment with higher ISO like what celciuz mentioned. Or otherwise, find somewhere with better lighting.

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Added on November 9, 2010, 10:08 am

At dark place, you need to use as big as possible for your aperture. Else where are you gonna get your light from?

smallest possible f-stop number (e.g. f/3.5), largest aperture opening. In layman terms, buka mata besar besar!!

you place on your camera on the floor should be quite stable d ma..can try even lower shutter speeds like maybe 1/5 seconds?

burst shot means set the continuous shooting mode.

Bigger aperture la, to allow more lights enter your camera ma
If smaller aperture means your picture gets even darker already

A bit blurry. Your hand moved? Increase the ISO a bit

Yeah so that you can increase the shutter speed a bit without losing the brightness(exposure) to decrease the shake