>>4119891It’s not even remotely “sharp enough”. You missed focus. That’s not up for debate. It’s a technical error.
You’re misremembering the advice of your “professor”. You don’t want one shutter speed in all conditions. You want to use the RIGHT shutter speed. How do you judge that? By balancing image quality, sharpness, and if relevant, the perception of movement . For a photo like this with no movement, you would want to use the slowest shutter speed you can handhold and still get a sharp image. The general rule of thumb is to make your shutter speed 1/the focal length of your lens. So if you’re using a 28mm lens, you can get away with 1/30.
Since you’re using a crop camera, you want multiply that focal length by 1.5. So instead of 1/30, you might use 1/50. If you’re using a 50mm lens, you can safely handhold as slow as 1/75.
That means a lower ISO and better image quality. Instead of iso 6400, you could have likely used iso 1600 and had a much cleaner image. And no, digital noise does not look like film grain.
>I made it 200th of a second to compensate for the lighting situation. See, this makes no sense. I think Feininger’s a little beyond your grasp. A better book might be either your camera manual or maybe a generic basic instruction on how the exposure triangle works.
The absolute worst habit you can develop is defensiveness. Don’t try and mount some epic defense of snapshots. Open yourself up to feedback and criticism.
