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Do you feel like your images should/could be sharper? How many images from each shoot would you classify as blurry? Are you struggling to get that tack sharpness in your portrait, landscape, or product images?
In this video, we explore the main reason beginner and intermediate photographers struggle to get tack sharp images in all situations. Hint: it all has to do with shutter speed.
If your shutter speed is too slow, your camera will capture your movement as the photographer as well as the movement of your subject. This movement leads to images looking blurry and lowering your consistency of capturing crisp, sharp images.
Both learning how to control your shutter speed and learning some good benchmarks for the different subject matter you photograph is key to maximizing the percentage of sharp images that you shoot.
Watch the video for more!
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49 responses to “So, Your Photos Aren't Sharp? Here's Why.”
Yes, my shirt is not ironed. I know it's "Ironic" that I'm talking about sharpness while simultaneously not looking the "sharpest." Anyway, thank you all for your comments, likes, shares, and subs. We really appreciate it! 😀
Thank you👍
Thank for inspiring me to the next level. Subscribed
Sacrifice the ISO. A noisy photo is better than a blurry one. Especially with formats like Facebook and Instagram which compress your image anyway.
I actually hold my breath and i shake less🥲
Shutter speed should be always be emphasized as the most important aspect of the exposure triangle. ISO and aperture are important, too, but are secondary to shutter speed for capturing a sharp image.
Excellent video – so well explained
that feeling when someone explains something to you that you understand
I often have to shoot in a gym with low light. It is soo hard to get good pictures there 😅 There is bad light and a lot of movement.
Idk how to get sharp pictures there
This was great! Awesome tips ❤
Wish someone had sent me this video when I just started out. After thousands of photos I finally came to this conclusion too, that worrying about shutter speed first (using the rule mentioned) makes everything pretty much worry free.
This is the single best tutorial I have ever watched. Thank you
Thank you as I found your tutorial very useful. 👍🏿
Hi I am not sure how and what to put my Canon 80d set on. I take pics of a band and i always put it on Auto I want better pics with no burry behind it. What should i set my camera settings on ? John
No. You lost me when you said to “stop down” with your shutter speed. Or “raise your ISO a stop”. One can increase their shutter speed a step, or shorten their exposure a step. And one can increase (or decrease) their ISO (sensitivity) a step. But stopping down is a function of the aperture. If you’re going to tell others how to do it, get it right.
please make simple tutor about product photography
who else was tripping out with the ringing in the background, only to find out it’s in the video lol
Awesome 😎
Thanks 😊
Thank you so much , its my 1st pre weeding shoot tomorrow , this will definitely help . Thank you
I’m a novice hobbyist photographer who just purchased an A7R5 with decent lenses. And on my first day I was a bit disappointed because I felt my test images were not sharp. This honestly helped to remind me of the fundamentals. This video gets a like. I think I may need to subscribe as well.
One thing I would have appreciated is mentioning using shutter speed artistically, you don't always need to get everything completely tack sharp, especially things like moving water looks really nice with a slower shutter speed because it shows the movement of the flowing water, in the same sense for the basketball example I think you could make some really nice shots if you were be able to get the players tack sharp but have the ball with some motion blur to show movement.
You forgotten to say high shooter speed only possible in good light situation….regards
You are the first person to really explain it that no one ever has and in a way I haven't understood before. This helps so much! I had these struggles with shutter and images not being in focus properly when I zoomed in the subject was blurry. Thank you so much!
Let me summarize this video:
Use a faster shutterspeed to get your photos sharp
Hmmm, so, in other words, my point-and-shoot Canon Powershot A495 is just… broke. Good to know!
I remember when i was a kid, i found an old analog camera of my grandpa. So i bought some film and just started shooting random stuff. And i remember thinking to keep my shutter speed high, because my experience has taught me that most of my pics were not sharp due to my own natural movement.. Anyway.. developed the pics and most of them were completely black! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think back then the digital camera's already existed, it's so nice to be able to see the result immediately after you took the pic. I ran into the problem that i couldn't remember the settings i used, so i guess i made the same mistake more than once. Anyway, Quickly stopped with the analog camera, i was still learning/experimenting with photography and couldn't afford the cost of film and developing mostly underexposed (read: completely black) pictures.
This makes more sense. I was constantly changing the settings feeling like I was just wasting my time. Thanks.
I learned so much here, even things I didn't expect to learn. I really appreciate your thoroughness and care for your audience. Thank you so very much.
@samsung .. fix you shutter speed
This is an amazing explanation. Thank you so much for this!
Thank-you for making this explanation simplistic yet concise, on how shutter speed affects photography.
Sometimes when you're shooting you have to make the decision, "Can I live with a bit of noise in my photos or am I going to be ok with just a little bit of motion blur?" I have often times chosen to accept a little bit of motion blur just to keep the noise down. The life of a photographer on a BUDGET.
500 plus 1.4 converter/ 700
Plusx1.6 for R 7 = 1142 mm
This explains a lot many thanks
Rob
Does higher shutter speed affects photos in ANY way ?
What do you like better : blur or noise?
Does it mean that if my lens is 10mm and the crop factor is 2.7 then my shutter should be around 1/100 at least? You forgot to mention, if you're talking about full frame only.
Thanks for your video. Unfortunately motion has absolutely nothing to do with sharpness. It is purely the ability to spatially freeze motion you are discussing. Sharpness is about acutance, local contrast and circle of confusion / airy disks. Put simply, the ability for a cone of light to come to a point a) within a pixel or x number of pixels or b) spatially across x number of grains of film. Nothing more, nothing less. Various factors limit this, but none of them is motion.
99% of my photos are in focus. I love it when they are not by mistake they always look like art.
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What if your using a 70 – 300..
Amazing content. Great work
Wow that's great tuturial
Wow great lecture!! I've learned very important stuff today!! Thanks
I've been shooting events professionally for about 3 years, it's definitely one of the hardest things to shoot out of any shooting I have done. There is light/vs no light will play in hand, movement from the artist, knowing what lens will be best for what and if you can get it. But if you shoot events, you will learn quickly and be able to do everything else with ease lol.
I get confused about resultion, spatial fidelity and raw sensor.
You can have high resolution but zoom in photo and it could have bad spatial fidelity?
I'm trying to understand this.
Excellent advice
If this is a video just telling me to raise my iso, aperture, and shutter speed i'm going to be upset.
Great advice, although, it is much easier now that we don't have to manually focus. Great examples are Iconic B&W Hockey Photos from the 1980's! and 40 Amazing Photo Wrecks from Alberta Small-town Rodeos! which has both manual and auto-focus images which were shot over the past three decades. thepassionatepackrat
Should cover technical side of things, turn off in camera stability or lens stability while on a tripod.