20 Photography Tips to Sharpen Photo
Today i will
explain 20 photography tips to sharpen photo, follow the steps bellow :
1. Use Tripod.
If you shoot
when your camera is shaking and moving, of course it Will so hard to make sharp
photo. So using the tripod is the solution. Make sure that you buy stable and
solid tripod.
2. Tripod Head.
Don’t forget
the head of tripod.
3. How to Holding Camera?
When you don’t
use tripod, learn how to holding camera properly to make your camera more stable and not easy to
shake.
4. Use Cable Release
No need to
press shutter with our hand when we use cable release, so it decrease the
possibility from shaking camera. The shape of Cable release can be as cable
that cling to camera or it can be like wireless remote.
5. Use Camera Timer
Don’t have
tripod? Forget to buy cable release ? it’s easy .. use the built in camera timer. Try to looking the way how to turn on this feature ,because every
camera have this feature.
6. Mirror Lock Up
If you use
Digital SLR camera, this camera was equipped by mirror that useful to
displaying image iin viewfinder. Almost all Digital SLR camera was equipped the
feature that can lock the mirror in order to don’t shake when camera pick the
exposure, This feature is called mirror lock up. Turn on this feature because
the shaking mirror can change the value of sharpness.
7. Turn on Lens or Camera Stabilizer
Image stabilization, vibration reduction, or
whatever it’s called , you can use this feautre to sharpen the photograph. Make
sure that IS/VR is suitable when you usng tripod.
8. Buy the best lens
Its simply
rule, if you wanna sharp photo? Buy the best lens. The best lens but not so
expensive is lens 50mm.
9. Use enough Depth of Field
If all way you’ve
tried but you still can’t get the sharp photo, it might be you’ve used depth of
field that too sall. Use the DOF preview in camera to check. Yo can use DOF
calculator that many available in internet.
10. Place the Focus at the right place.
When you
shoot portrait phootgraphy. When you shoot landsape, make sure that foreground is
sharp. Whatever the photo object, you mut know the critical point that is
looked sharp and place the focust dots there.
11. Use the Shutter Speed properly
Why it’s must properly? Because in this world
there’s no idealism. I want always shoot in shutter speed 1/2000 seconds.
Unfornately it’s not possible. But at least use the sutter speed as speed as
possible for photoshoot cindition that you have to face.
12. Shooting in the Good lighting Spot
When you
shoot in the good lighting spot, autofocus will lock the focus more fast.And
object in photo will look more sharp better tah in the low light spot. It doesn’t
mean that it can’t produce the sharp photot in the low ight condition, but it’s
more hard.
13. Use the Live View Camera
At tis time,
almost all camera have live view
feature. In many situations,this feature very useful for accuracy when place
the focus dots. When you shoot the macro photograph for example the flower, you
can use live view .
14. Clean and save the Lens.
If you have
the old lens, try to bring the lens to the service place for calibration with
the camera body. The cleanness of the lens also influence the outofocus speed.
Save this lens properly.
15. Learn the Ticks to shooting Moving Object
When you
shoot the moving object that dissapear or closer, there are many settings that
need to take attention, the most important thing is the enough shutter speed and
also how to lock the focus : learn some autofocus modes and the mechanism in
order to antiscipation properly.
16. Use the lens in the sweet spot
Every lens
have area when its produce the most sharp photograph, people called sweet spot.
You can do the advanced tes to know with well where is the lens sweet spot. But
the easy rule is the average of lenses its have sweet spot 2 times from maximum
aperture. For example if you have lens with maximum aperture f/2.8, so the big
possibility that the les sweet spot in f/5.6 until f/8.
17. When there’s not enough shutter
speed, push the ISO
5 years ago,
using ISO 1000 in middle calss it can prouce the digital noises. But not at
this time, Now beginner camera is okay to take ISO into number 1000. So don’t
afraid to shoot with high ISO. Use the Auto ISO feature in camera.
18. Diopter Adjustment
This is the
camera feature that many people don’t know or forget. In camera there’s
Diopter Adjustment button to help us the sharp of photo in viewfinder,
suitable with the photographer eyes. Use it when you feel the viewfinder is
looked not so focus. With the clear viewfinder and sharp, it can help us to see
the focus dots with more accurate.
19. The Eyes
When you shoot
people, make sure that their eyes is the focus point. If you shoot with the
small depth of field (f/1.8 for example).
20. Use Shrpening
When all
photographer busy with photography software, there’are always or seldom to use
it. Even it’s photoshop or the others software, all supply the way to sharpen
final result photo or sharpening. When RAW convertion, use the minimum sharpening
in the last step.
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