I took these photos on a voluntary basis to help out the charity with their promotional activities.
Used a D7000 with Nikon's: 35mm f/1.8, 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6.
Although it may not be as visible on these downsized images my main issue on the day I think was using too narrow an aperture in an attempt to get critical sharpness and give me a lot of room for error with regard to focusing. Shutter speed seemed about right after taking it down a bit after my previous experience at similar events and feedback from users on here. If I had been paying proper attention to the ISO display I probably would have noticed the aperture was too small.
On that note is there a mode similar to aperture priority but where aperture size is increased if ISO goes over specified limits? I think that would help me too.
Found myself swapping lenses quite a bit unfortunately in the arena, partly due to where I was standing. Lessons I learned today are that the 35mm is not much good for that type of work due to lack of zoom and unsuitable focal length at that. I found that 70mm when using my superzoom lens was often too close while 105mm using my walkabout lens was often not close enough, without having 2 cameras though or maybe using the 70-300 on ff I haven't seen any options as far as decent lenses go. I don't want to use an 18-200mm for example when I'm gonna get terrible distortion.
Almost exclusively used the 35mm in the barn though because of the lighting and I wanted to take some portrait shots of the horses.
Comments/critique/blatant flaming welcomed.
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Used a D7000 with Nikon's: 35mm f/1.8, 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6.
Although it may not be as visible on these downsized images my main issue on the day I think was using too narrow an aperture in an attempt to get critical sharpness and give me a lot of room for error with regard to focusing. Shutter speed seemed about right after taking it down a bit after my previous experience at similar events and feedback from users on here. If I had been paying proper attention to the ISO display I probably would have noticed the aperture was too small.
On that note is there a mode similar to aperture priority but where aperture size is increased if ISO goes over specified limits? I think that would help me too.
Found myself swapping lenses quite a bit unfortunately in the arena, partly due to where I was standing. Lessons I learned today are that the 35mm is not much good for that type of work due to lack of zoom and unsuitable focal length at that. I found that 70mm when using my superzoom lens was often too close while 105mm using my walkabout lens was often not close enough, without having 2 cameras though or maybe using the 70-300 on ff I haven't seen any options as far as decent lenses go. I don't want to use an 18-200mm for example when I'm gonna get terrible distortion.
Almost exclusively used the 35mm in the barn though because of the lighting and I wanted to take some portrait shots of the horses.
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, I'll also number them. 