#Pentax camera lens best bokeh lens iso

And if you don't zoom you get the weird perspective effect caused by the slight wide angle at 18mm. I started a few years ago in a similar situation with a similar rig and I don't think the kit lens is that great for pictures of people, especially if you use the zoom at all. Posted by Kadin2048 at 1:38 PM on January 28, 2014 Make sure you're getting up close to your subjects with the new camera the same way you would with a phone, if that's the kind of photos you want. If the subject is only a few feet away from you, that additional distance can change the whole shot. You could try running that against your Pentax's photos and see if they're suddenly more iPhone-like.Īnother common issue I've run into is that people tend to take photos using a cellphone by holding the camera way out from themselves, getting it closer to the subject, but when they're using a SLR they hold it to their face and thus it's back a good 24' or so from where the phone / point-and-shoot would have been. (That way you can easily undo it if you don't want it.) Both Picasa and iPhoto have 'enhance' buttons that will take your photos and try to automatically adjust the contrast, levels/curves, color saturation, and other aspects to make them 'better' (for some programmer's idea of 'better'). I'm not that familiar with Pentax, but generally there is a 'Natural' and 'Vivid' mode you can set somewhere, at least when shooting JPEGs, that will slam the contrast if that's what you want.īut it's generally better to do that sort of thing in postproduction once the files are on your computer rather than doing it in-camera. You may be able to enable something like that in your camera's settings. It's hard to define what you mean by 'pop', but a lot of cheap cameras will do things to the photos when capturing them to try and make them look better, typically by taking the contrast and color saturation up to ridiculous levels better cameras tend not to do that by default.

#Pentax camera lens best bokeh lens iso

I think it's almost always better to run up the ISO setting on the camera and deal with noise than to turn on the camera flash and have everyone look like extras from a zombie flick. Basically ever (the exception is for fill flash in bright light, pretty much). Posted by Kadin2048 at 1:26 PM on Januīest answer: > The pictures just don't popĪ new lens will almost certainly not fix that, unless there is something about the way you're composing the photos in the Pentax that's different than with your cellphone.įirst, definitely don't use the on-camera flash. (Also: turn off your camera's built-in flash and forget it exists for a while.)

I wouldn't go out and buy a new lens until you're at least following those guidelines. There are lots of 'X Tips for Absolute Photographic Beginners' around on the web here's a reasonably good starting point. Whether or not that tradeoff is worthwhile depends entirely on the problems you're having. Getting a f/1.8 or f/2 prime might help insofar as you might not have to use the flash as often and you could get a short depth of field and blur out background in portraits, but it will also eliminate the zoom and might result in worse composition. To be honest, the problems that a new lens will solve are pretty limited, given that you already have an 18-55mm f/3.5 which is a not-bad all around lens for the sort of people/pets photos you're looking to take. Getting a different lens won't solve composition or lighting problems, and those are probably 80% of amateur photo issues. It would really help to show some sample photos with what you think the problems are.