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<p>Thanks for sharing your opinions! <br /><br />@<a href="/photodb/user?user_id=6963486">Benoît Evans</a> Thanks for the link, I never knew there was something like a DBA name. </p>

I know that quite some photographers and artists use a pseudonym instead of their real name. I decided to get a different last name for my photography page as well. But now I'm wondering, to the people that use a pseudonym as well, do you use that name for everything or do you use your real name as wel? I mean in a way of answering emails, getting paid through, for example, paypal, and writing contracts etc. I'm not sure if I should treat it as a business name or my own name so I'd like to know how the rest deals with a pseudonym. If anyone wants to know, I decided on a fake last name since my own is German. But I myself am only 1/8th German, don't live in Germany, and can't even pronounce my last name the way it should be. I thought it'd be best because people might otherwise think I'm a German bases photographer and a lot of people don't even know how to write it correctly. So I thought getting an easy name wil be better and easier to remember

<p>@JMD von Weinberg: Ah that explains it, I was already confused because everyone else was able to see the photos.<br /><br />@Tim & William: Thank you for the responses, I already replied to you when the site was upgraded but I see now that they have disappeared now that the site is back to normal. <br /><br />@Tim: The aperture was around f/4 and shutter at 1/60 ~ 1/100. I'm still figuring out what speed to use in what situation and I now realize that 1/100 had probably been too slow after all<br /><br />@William: Aperture has been mainly around f/3 & f/4 for most of my photos during the event, I'm used to shooting close up shots so I didn't even think of going for a smaller aperture for the group shot. I'll bother my friends to figure out what the best aperture is, hopefully it's just the aperture and not the lens itself. Thanks :)</p>

<p>Hello!<br> Last weekend I was taking photos at an event and when I came back I noticed how a lot of my photos turned out to be quite noisy, some were even blurry but in a weird way? <br> You can see what I mean in the photo below, looking at the girls on the left.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfytmotbuko4wrt/DSC_0520.png?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfytmotbuko4wrt/DSC_0520.png?dl=0</a><br> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwaj3hg674e3j2r/DSC_0075.png?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwaj3hg674e3j2r/DSC_0075.png?dl=0<br /><br /></a>The photo above is another example of the sharp blurry background if you look to the left. I did edit the photos but even in the RAW one they looked weird. I am not sure if I'm being too nit picky about it or not.<br> <br />I own a Nikon D3300 with a Tamron 14 - 200mm f/3.5 - 6.3 lens, the building in which the event was held didn't have the greatest lighting so I shot most of the photos at an ISO of 800/1600, the photos in the links were both shot at 800. I don't have any protection filters but I did have a lens hood on for protection. This was my first time shooting with a DSLR at an event, before this I've been using the Sony NEX 3N with a 50mm prime lens. <br> <br />Can anyone help me out? I did expect my photos to be noisy at an ISO of 1600 but the ones from 800 confuse me. I'd love to know what I did that might have caused the weird blur and all the noise, I am attending some more events in October and would love to figure this out before that.<br> <br />Thanks! </p>