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Blurry or soft full body photos when using canon 50mm f1.8 stm

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
YehudaKatz Senior Member • Posts: 2,512
Use ISO 1600.

muhdhumamkhan wrote:

Hello,

I am a beginner wedding photographer, its only been couple of months since I started doing wedding as a second shooter with a friend of mine. The kit I am using includes:

Canon M50 Mark II + 15-45kit5

Canon EF 50mm f1.8 stm with viltrox ef-efm adapter

Godox TT560 II Flash.

I know this is very basic setup and I shouldn't expect top notch quality but it should b good enough right?

Now here is my problem if I have to take a full body shot with my 50mm which on m50 becomes 80mm I need to stand away at least 10ft to more from the subject.

where I live most wedding are arranged at night time inside wedding venue where light is not always ideal so i use my flash to bounce off the ceiling (which is always 30ft or more high) the settings I use are:

Aperture f2-f2.8

Shutter Speed 1/125

ISO 500

Flash Power 1/2

Now with all of this combined when I try to take full body shots thay come out blurry or soft, why is that? is my flash not properly balanced with ambient light? is the 50mm lens not good enough? is 24Mp resolution not enough? am I crossing the limit of how far the camera can focus? and will replacing the canon 50mm with sigma 30 f1.4 dc dn for efm will make any difference.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

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