I”ve had several inquiries recently asking what lens I use to take such sharp pictures. <\/p>\n
The short answer is I use this lens<\/a> that came with the Canon Digital Rebel EOS camera I use.<\/p>\n The long answer is that I stuggle with getting sharply focused images for several reasons, mostly due to my own deficiencies — not the lens. <\/p>\n First, I tend to shoot under low light conditions — before work, after work, on overcast days (we have lots here) to avoid harsh shadows. Consequently, I usually have very shallow depth of field.<\/p>\n That’s compounded by my eyesight, which isn’t what it used to be. I usually use manual focus and just have a hard time seeing if I’ve got a sharp focus in the viewfinder. Particularly when shooting closeups, I’ll ‘bracket’ my focus and hope that when I get them open on the screen one of them will be presentable.<\/p>\n That’s also compounded by my none-too-steady hand. So even if I get an image focused the way I want, I’ll often get some shake in the image at marginal to slightly-to-long exposure times.<\/p>\n My limited skills are a good match for the digital age: I can make a lot of images without worrying about developing costs. Then I can choose the ones that come out OK, enhance them in PhotoShop, and display them at 500-pixels wide. (If you click on most images on the blog, you’ll see a 1200-pixel version, most of which are passable.) If I blew most of these up into large format prints, my shortcomings would be quickly revealed.<\/p>\n Sometimes the results are pretty good. Even a blind sow gets an acorn every now and then. Then there are times when I have a great subject and great conditions and think I’ve made a great image, only to find that on the large screen it’s hopelessly flawed. But the more I shoot, the less this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I”ve had several inquiries recently asking what lens I use to take such sharp pictures. The short answer is I use this lens that came with the Canon Digital Rebel EOS camera I use. The long answer is that I stuggle with getting sharply focused images for several reasons, mostly due to my own deficiencies … Continue reading “FAQ: What lens do you use?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}