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[banff1918]

I'm very new and green, so please pardon dummy questions. D5300 vs. Samsung S9. I manually set D5300 as below but the outcome is very disappointed.

f/5,

1/50 sec,

ISO100

 

D5300 can't go as f/2.4 and S9 has HDR, but what other settings I can do to achieve the outcome of S9? Thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

 

[Adam]

Could you post the resulting photo?

[TBonz]

You are unable to select f2.4 because the lens you purchased with the camera doesn't have the capability.  If you select a lens with an aperture of 2.8, 1.4, or whatever, then you could select that wide open.  

 

It would be good to know the lens you were using as well.  However you don't indicate how you feel the camera is failing - only that the image it created is not as good as the image the S9 created.  This is why we need to see or understand what the difference in the images is and what result you were attempting to achieve.  What settings (shutter, aperture and ISO - EXIF information) did you use on your phone?  Most photo editing software will allow you to access that information which is included as part of the image.

 

Many phone cameras do not let you select settings and some have simplified settings.  Your D5300 is fully capable of achieving equal or better images as you learn how to use it.

 

Post up the images and we will be happy to help you learn what went wrong then and how to try and avoid those problems moving forward.

[Merco_61]

Don't forget what picture control you were in if you shot in jpg or used Nikon's raw converter. Going from Neutral to Vivid is a significant change in the overall look of the photo.

[banff1918]

Could you post the resulting photo?

Posted, thanks.

Don't forget what picture control you were in if you shot in jpg or used Nikon's raw converter. Going from Neutral to Vivid is a significant change in the overall look of the photo.

Please see posted images. Thank you.

Your D5300 is fully capable of achieving equal or better images as you learn how to use it.

 

Post up the images and we will be happy to help you learn what went wrong then and how to try and avoid those problems moving forward.

D5300 is a lot more capable than S9, that's what I believe.

Please see posted images. Thank you.

[Merco_61]

I see four images with nothing to tell which is from which camera. As the EXIF info is stripped, there is no way to tell what your in-camera processing parameters were or whether you shot in jpg or raw.

 

For a sunrise like this, I would shoot in raw with the highest bit depth you can use and the [NL]Neutral picture control to get as much dynamic range as possible in the file. Make sure that you protect the highlights as information lost to overexposure can't be recovered.

 

Then it is a matter of tweaking the balance between highlights and shadows to get as much details in the shadows as possible without overexposing the highlights. 

 

Shooting with a DSLR or MILC gives you much more information to work with compared to a camera phone or a compact, but you need to do some post processing to get the better results.