**Photography Talk**

[Hepar]

Wow some great photos coming out already - awesome discussion!! Love the calm water in that harbor shot. I have never used a flash for photography. However some of the effects you can achieve are outstanding and proven in your photos. I'm going to nail this night photography stuff before I learn my way into flash.

I find I'm using it more and more just to add a bit of light where I want it. Nothing to overwhelm a shot. I don't like using them when I shoot in low-light. There I just crank up my ISO super high. One reason I bought the D700 was its high ISO performance.

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f/11 you say.... hmm this is interesting. I was under the assumption that it's best to shoot wide open (or close to it) at night as the amount of light being let into your camera will be greater (larger opening) and thus, your image will be more sensitive to sources of light. Curious on your thoughts.

Yeah, if you shoot at night you want to let as much light in as you can, but the more open you are, the more any light source will get oversaturated. Depends on the focus of your shot. Your shot for example. The building doesn't have it's own light source on it, so shooting more open won't effect that. However shooting more open will affect the light sources that are there. The stars and building lights in the background. So if you shoot a cityscape at night, you don't want to be super open or all the building lights will get blown out.

 

[adio3x]

Wow some great photos coming out already - awesome discussion!! Love the calm water in that harbor shot. I have never used a flash for photography. However some of the effects you can achieve are outstanding and proven in your photos. I'm going to nail this night photography stuff before I learn my way into flash.

I've read that to avoid start trails, take 600/Focal Length of the shot. Example: 600/28mm = 21.4 s. So at my above 28mm focal length, I can leave the shutter open for 21.4s before I start to get "trails". Obviously your going to have to play with a combination of ISO and Aperture to get a proper exposure.

f/11 you say.... hmm this is interesting. I was under the assumption that it's best to shoot wide open (or close to it) at night as the amount of light being let into your camera will be greater (larger opening) and thus, your image will be more sensitive to sources of light. Curious on your thoughts.

Man once you get into learning about flash, it'll blow your mind.

I shoot a lot of automotive stuff, heres just a few, w/ strobes.

& a landscape shot with the Fuji x pro1.

 

[Evilmunkey]

^was wondering when you were going to chime in, lol

I know I need to scan some of my Negatives from my AE-1 I use on occasion when I want to use film

 

[alexb]

Sub'd.

Have a Nikon D70 and D3000 with just the kit lenses. About to pickup a 35mm F1.8 lens soon. Also got a GoPro Hero2 over Christmas.

This was with my D3000. Don't have any good shots of the 4Runner yet.

Touched up with LightRoom



Actually trying to sell my 2 Nikons and get a D5100. Really want to get into video.

 

[Evilmunkey]

^looks a lil over exposed or the blacks aren't where they need to be or the fill light might be a touch too high. . LR4 is amazing compared to when I started w/ 1 and CS4

Adio what strobes are you using? alien bees?

 

[nevada]

Night Shots:

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cool pic. looks like a screen shot from a video game.


im not much into taking photographs, but the womans is. has recently started a business doing such.

a couple from a recent wheeling trip. no idea on hardware or settings. but i do know its a D80

 

[Hepar]

About to pickup a 35mm F1.8 lens soon.

Do it. Such a sharp lens and you can't beat the price.

 

[GentryGoon]

This is a sick thread!!:hungry: [MENTION=63060]rickashay[/MENTION]

 

[swanny]

Do it. Such a sharp lens and you can't beat the price.

Another vote for the 35mm from Nikon, love mine it takes some great shots!

 

[Hepar]

[MENTION=63060]rickashay[/MENTION], I know you said you'd rather not see cell phone pics, but I think this is a great article to check out. I've posted it before on a different thread, but thought it would be good to post here too. Our local sports photographer did the prep athletes of the year with her iPhone instead of her DSLR. Results are sweet. I think it really emphasizes how much a good knowledge of light and lighting goes into photography.

Spring 2012 Star Times iPhone portraits | Picture This | The Seattle Times

Terry Richardson is aslo known for shooting with a disposable camera for many of his shoots. He might be a douche, but he also has a very good understanding of light.

 

[rickashay]

[MENTION=63060]rickashay[/MENTION], I know you said you'd rather not see cell phone pics, but I think this is a great article to check out. I've posted it before on a different thread, but thought it would be good to post here too. Our local sports photographer did the prep athletes of the year with her iPhone instead of her DSLR. Results are sweet. I think it really emphasizes how much a good knowledge of light and lighting goes into photography.

Spring 2012 Star Times iPhone portraits | Picture This | The Seattle Times

Terry Richardson is aslo known for shooting with a disposable camera for many of his shoots. He might be a douche, but he also has a very good understanding of light.

Wow my iphone 4 has a TERRIBLE camera. Those pics are unreal, especially coming from a phone!

hahah No man, don't take the cell phone comment too seriously. It looks like the people chiming into this thread actually want to talk about photography in the sense I was hoping for.

^ Thanks for the above comment too about aperture. I'm going to try your advice next time there some background noise pollution.

Love this thread already.

 

[Jon T4R]

a few random shots

taken mostly around NY/CT area sorry if they are big - i don't know how to re-size them

 

[gaterose]

Cool picture!
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Nikon also rocks the D600 which competes directly with the Canon 6D, and I'm pretty sure they are close in size.

Yeah I'd like the D600, but I believe I read the price was like $2600?

Too rich for my blood til I sell some pics. What are the benefits of the full frame outside of bigger prints?

And Hepar actually PMed me about lightroom, I'm gonna give it a try. Although I can import, edit, organize, print, and share to flickr, facebook, or most other places with iPhoto as well.

Didn't know you guys like night shots :bigok: I have a friend who is obsessed with night time shooting so I've taken a few. Here's one

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[Loud Al]

I just upgraded from a D7000 to a D600, I tell you in low light big contrast you can really see the differance

 

[Hepar]

^ Thanks for the above comment too about aperture. I'm going to try your advice next time there some background noise pollution.

Post your results and what you learn. I don't know much about nighttime photography and would love to see and read what you figure out.

Yeah I'd like the D600, but I believe I read the price was like $2600?

Too rich for my blood til I sell some pics. What are the benefits of the full frame outside of bigger prints?

The benefits of a full-frame are that the sensor is significantly bigger than a crop-frame sensor. Therefore you're going to get way more information. It's going to give you better detail, not to mention better low-light performance amongst other things. The D600 I think is under $2k for the body. Sort of an entry-level pro body.

 

[rickashay]

Yeah I'd like the D600, but I believe I read the price was like $2600?

Too rich for my blood til I sell some pics. What are the benefits of the full frame outside of bigger prints?

And Hepar actually PMed me about lightroom, I'm gonna give it a try. Although I can import, edit, organize, print, and share to flickr, facebook, or most other places with iPhoto as well.

Didn't know you guys like night shots :bigok: I have a friend who is obsessed with night time shooting so I've taken a few. Here's one

Cool photo! Night photography is awesome!

Yah Lightroom is simply the best do-everything software. Wait until you see all of the presets, develop functions, noise reductions options, and even layer masking tools.

Post your results and what you learn. I don't know much about nighttime photography and would love to see and read what you figure out.


The benefits of a full-frame are that the sensor is significantly bigger than a crop-frame sensor. Therefore you're going to get way more information. It's going to give you better detail, not to mention better low-light performance amongst other things. The D600 I think is under $2k for the body. Sort of an entry-level pro body.

Will do Jared. I'll be posting in here now that I feel my non-T4R photos have a welcomed home. haha

Full frames have a larger sensor, as mentioned above. You will get less noise and better low light performance. The sensor will not heat up as much or as fast as a crop sensor (one of the reasons for noise on digital SLR's - the sensor heating up). You also gain an increase in Depth of Field with a full frame. I'm not sure how this is accomplished technically, but I would assume it has to do with the larger sensor being more sensitive to changes in other camera parameters like aperture.

Can be a positive OR a negative depending on the photographer but your a crop sensor camera will magnify the focal length of the lens. For example my Rebel XSi had 1.6x crop factor. So, if my lens was reaching to 100mm, what I was seeing in my photo was actually captured at 160mm. The full frame will take it at a 1:1 ratio - 100mm focal length is 100mm. So generally a crop frame sensor camera will give you more "zoom" or reach right out of the box, but this will limit you at the wide end of things. My current widest lens is 24mm. 24mm on at 1.6x crop is 38mm which is not very wide especially for landscape style photography, however 24mm on a full frame is very useable for most wide-situations.

 

[Slow_T4R]

Cool idea for a thread, here's some of mine:

 

[the great him]

here are two that i took at work today -its kinda nice to get paid to take pics...

i cant decide what one i like better... i took like close to 30 at this spot... -hoping to HDR some of them as i bracketed at full stops... ill post those when im done figuring out how to do HDR in lightroom

 

[Hepar]

24mm on at 1.6x crop is 38mm which is not very wide especially for landscape style photography, however 24mm on a full frame is very useable for most wide-situations.

My 14-24mm is my favorite. I've had it for a while now and haven't gotten tired of it yet. I think I love the fact that it's a rectilinear lens, so it's super wide at 14mm, but doesn't bend lines like a fish-eye.

Something else to keep in mind is that focal lengths do distort things, especially people. Here's an interesting example of what different focal lengths do when shooting portrait photography. (the original article was no longer available, but I found another article with the pictures it included)


Focal Length, Perspective, Distortion & Compression: - Tangents forum

 

[the great him]

idk call me weird (i do live close to portland...), but i love the fisheye look, and and to get a fisheye lens so bad... i think id have a ton of fun with it...