what is wrong with this picture?

lowapproach

My D50 have been shooting like this lately and I have no idea why, I bracket my shots for HDR and I shoot with Sigma 10-20, bought this camera in 2006 and the count is 19000, noticed also that it does not do this on auto mode1 what am I doing wrong. all help is much appreciated.
George
A priority
1/10
f/22
ISO 200

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Philip Goh

What are you unhappy about? I can't see anything that would point to a camera fault in that picture.

lowapproach

Philip Goh wrote:

What are you unhappy about? I can't see anything that would point to a camera fault in that picture.

how about this ..the quality is unacceptable what do you think?
cloudy
f/4
1/2000
iso800 ...that might be it?

jogle

ISO 800 is smearing your details a little as it works to keep noise under control. with a shutter speed of 1/2000th you can bring the iso down to 100 and still get a perfectly hand holdable shutter speed of 1/250th

It's also a little under exposed to my eye.

kdog

If it doesn't do that in Auto, then why don't you simply try using the same settings it picks? Odds are, it's just picking more appropriate setting than you are, which frankly are all over the map. Both F22 and F4 are the two worst apertures for a lens like that. Try F8, and a lower ISO like 200. Both of those shots are underexposed. Try some adding some +EC to the shot. Or if you're bracketing, make sure your bracketing is wide enough.

Regards,
-joel