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zheka78Comment by sfalice: Greetings from the Critique Club
Congratulations on getting through your first Challenge. It's all downhill from here.
You met the Challenge nicely with these elongated shapes but, as was pointed out by your commentors, the focus is quite soft. It is important to have something - preferably the foreground - good and sharp to give the viewer a frame of reference. I would suggest that 1/60th of a second is at the edge of being able to handhold your camera.
But, in any event, an aperture of, say 5.6, would have given you
some depth of field (and according to your settings, would have slowed down your shutter speed even more). Your chimes may well have been in a dark corner of your friend's house. That's usually what the ISO800 and higher is reserved for: dark corners and stop action.
Am I making any sense to you? I hope so.
Keep playing with that very good camera of yours, learn it's quirks and foibles, and you're going to do very well at DPChallenge. I think you've got a good eye.
Welcome aboard.
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