Hi everyone! I bought a new Pentax k-r (18-55mm kit) in August and I am a bit disappointed.
I think the photos I take are all bad. Maybe not in the idea sense, but the quality is really not what I expected. I will post some examples and explain better.
So, I think the edges of the objects are kind of blurry or smudged, definitely not sharp. I am not that new to photography thing, I have been taking photos for about 6 years, but using a DSLR for only a couple of months. I got to try a friend's Nikon D3100 and I was like "wow, I want one too!". I had picked out the Pentax one I have right now, a long time ago, though. For some reason I definitely had to have a Pentax, I don't know why, I had been using a Canon and an Olympus so far.
Anyways, I have read the manual, which helped me understand a few things better. Also, the friend with that Nikon took a photography course and got this workbook which also explained some techinques and all that stuff, so I read that too. I began to think that it's all me, like I don't know how to take photos and stuff like that. I still do think it's not only the camera, it is also the photographer. But, I don't really know what else to do.
So, here I am, asking for advice... Maybe I need to change certain settings. Or maybe I'm just being delusional and everything is normal.
And sorry if this has been posted before, I'm not trying to be lazy, I have searched for a solution, but I did not find the answer.
The photos:
umm, not the best photo, the lightning is real bad...
zoomed in a bit
while this one looks okay to me:
then there are these (not taken by me, but with my camera):
this one is like especially weird. the eyes and lips are like smudgy, while the hair seems fine and the background is blurry as expected.
I think these samples will do...
You might think why do I zoom in the photos, but it's a habit of mine, and if it doesn't look fine to me zoomed in, I don't like it. And that is the reason I'm posting here, all my photos are like that. I used to love taking photos, then it started to fade away. I bought a new camera, hoped it would bring back the inspiration and everything and it did, but this is definitely not helping.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, so a little help maybe?
Helena
Last edited by hollywoodhr; 06-14-2013 at 01:17 PM.