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Some pointers and advice wanted
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Well I’m only new here and relatively new to photography. I only took it up because I had to do an evening course as part of a school project. After doing the course I had thought to myself I would like to do it as a hobby and I’m loving it so far. I set up a facebook page to show my pictures to people. One guy said to me that some of the photo’s have noise issues. I’m not sure what this is tbh because I had a whole load of handouts that I got in the photography course but I somehow lost them so I’m kinda at a loss as these had a lot of very good info on them. I bought a fujifilm finepix s2980 just to get into photography. In time I’ll buy myself a decent spec camera but for now it will do me the finest. Below is a link to my facebook page and I’m wondering if some of ye could give me pointers on where to improve and the one thing I’m really wondering about is how to solve these noise issues. What settings should I be using and which features would be best to eliminate or at least reduce these noise issues ?
Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/kconphotography?ref=hl
Cheers
Kenny
You haven’t posted the Facebook link properly…whats your name and I can look it up myself ?
Noise issues are when you have too high an ISO chosen on the camera…it usually runs from ISO 100 to 1600 on cameras like
the Fuji…if you had it in auto or program mode in bad light their is a good chance that the camera set the ISO to its highest level and lots of the smaller cameras have high ISO noise issues.Noel.
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I was just looking there if it is in auto I can’t change the ISO should I be able to change it or is it only changable in certain modes ?
Hello Kenny. How’s things?
The sensor in your camera is quite small, maybe about half the size of your little finger nail, 6.16 x 4.62 mm. Small sensors, because of construction constraints, will produce more noise at higher ISO settings than larger sensors. Noise is a bit like grain with faster film — looks a bit lumpy and kills detail.
Try always to shoot at the very lowest setting you have for the cleanest results. If necessary set the camera on something solid so you don’t get camera-shake. As Noel says those auto settings will dump you into higher ISO ratings and that’s bad news really, depending on the subject.
You’re doing all right with the camera Kenny and you’ve got the right idea — just get out there and practice all you can. That’s the best way for sure. I like the shot of the lit lamp against the sky. Has potential that one, but may need processing in a different way? Processing is a steep learning curve too isn’t it!
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Cheers guys like the saying goes you learn from your mistakes. I may not have a whole lot of time to take pictures with the mocks coming up soon but whenver I do have time I’ll deffinately be out taking pictures next thing is to find some new things around town. I’m kind of limited as to what I can take photos of as I’m not driving just yet.
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