Author Topic: New Camera - New Pics (Read 813 times)

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2006, 05:59:29 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322

So i was in amsterdam lately with my zoom on it and made some street shots.

I tell u its a desease u feel u have to travel and u look with a camera eye to the world.
I love it.

Love you shots. People pictures are the most interesting and are often times the hardest to capture. It's something that I don't have much experience with but plan to work on.

I know how you feel about the camera eye disease. Wherever I am I'm always looking for that perfect shot. Haven't found it yet but I know she's out there.

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:20:19 PM »

A buildings

BUG322(C)2006

a very addictive thing

regards

Mr Big · « **Reply #17 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:48:21 PM »

Very nice pics Chickenhawk and congrats on the camera.

I like that landscape picture a lot.

Some nice pics here from everyone, thanks for posting them. Yeah, a photography section on the BBS would be great.

I'm going to take a week off pretty soon and just travel around Arizona taking pics and hiking. DSLR Photography is very adicting.

SabaruS is a very good photographer. He has some great airshow pics that he'd posted from time to time. Believe he has the 20d as well.

When I first got my 20d, I only had the VERY cheap 18- 55mm lens that came with it. Now I have 4 nice lenses and a flash to play with.

I don't really know how to use the flash very effectively yet. Any tips would be great. The flash I have is camera mounted, but it is also a controler for remote units.

Anway, I love seeing the photos from everyone. Keep 'em coming.

Sparks · « **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:54:44 PM »

Nice shots ChickenHawk

I like the landscape and the Peacock. landscape is my thing - where was that taken?

I'll put up a few of my recent attempts in a bit.

I like my 350D but after trying my freinds 5D I know what I am having soon

- I just can't resist new gear - my main weakness and I know it.

BTW I just this week got a 24-105 EF L IS so my 28-135 IS USM (NOT an L series) is available if you may be interested ?

Sparks · « **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:19:22 PM »

Ok three efforts:-

Crystal Cove South of Newport Beach at sunset

Lower Yosemite Falls Vertical Pano (8 shots stitched)

Hope they aren't tooooo big

Mr Big · « **Reply #20 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:24:20 PM »

Very nice Sparks.

What was shutter speed on those?

That verticle pic is great. How'd you take the 8 shots and not have the waterfall get out of alignment, since it's in motion?

Brenjen · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:37:14 PM »

Very nice pics Spark - chickenhawk. The canon is a great camera, I just bought a nikon d-50 dslr for my wife on christmas it too takes some top shelf photos. My wife is learning how to get good shots right now & is already pestering me for some new glass for it.

Sparks · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:53:21 PM »

The top shot was 2 secs, I had a 0.9 solid Neutral density filter in to stop down 3 stops and a grad to bring the sky in.
The middle one 1/2 sec. using only a 3 stop ND grad.

The waterfall was done at 1/10th so that the water blurred and it didn't matter how it lined up. I was surprised how well it went togther. I have a big 8 X 27 print of that on the wall

I have sooooo much to learn though. Hit percentage is tiny.

Mr Big · « **Reply #23 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:14:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Sparks
The top shot was 2 secs, I had a 0.9 solid Neutral density filter in to stop down 3 stops and a grad to bring the sky in.
The middle one 1/2 sec. using only a 3 stop ND grad.

The waterfall was done at 1/10th so that the water blurred and it didn't matter how it lined up. I was surprised how well it went togther. I have a big 8 X 27 print of that on the wall

I have sooooo much to learn though. Hit percentage is tiny.

Interesting. I'd like to know more about how to chose filters for shots like that. Great exposures under that lighting on the top two.

I knew the shutter speed was low, but wouldn't have guessed a full 2 secs.

Nice work.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #24 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:35:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Sparks
Nice shots ChickenHawk I like the landscape and the Peacock. landscape is my thing - where was that taken?

I'll put up a few of my recent attempts in a bit.

I like my 350D but after trying my freinds 5D I know what I am having soon - I just can't resist new gear - my main weakness and I know it.

BTW I just this week got a 24-105 EF L IS so my 28-135 IS USM (NOT an L series) is available if you may be interested ?

Thank you guys for the feeback. That's high praise coming from photographers of your caliber.

The landscape was taken on the top of Upper Table Rock near Medford, Oregon. If you've never been there, the two table rocks are mesa's sticking up out of the valley floor and are great places to go hiking, climbing and picture taking. The pools of water have ghost shrimp in them that are found no where else in the world as far as I know.

Your pictures are outstanding! After seeing these three and the air show one's earlier, I can see that you are quite a good photographer. Those are photo's you can be proud of. I'd love to see more.

Don't even get me started on the 5D. I can't imagine having a full sized sensor to work with.

Congrats on the new glass. The wife ack has shot down any new lenses for a while seeing as I already spent a good chunk on my setup, including software, backpack, external drive for storage......etc

wasq · « **Reply #25 on:** May 26, 2006, 01:00:57 AM »

Nice pictures in this thread!

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Originally posted by eagl
That's a GREAT job with the indoor plane pic... What kind of post processing did you do?

Thanks. Actually, not much processing with this one. I shot it with RAW, then processed with RawShooter (adjust levels, pick color balance with the dropper, crop and resize).

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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
So far I have the Canon 10-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens, a Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8-4.0, and my telephoto is a Sigma 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6. Not great glass but it's a start. I'm really craving a good Canon anti-shake telephoto but I'll have to save up for that one.

That's a good start. I have focused mainly on the wide end, I have Sigma 14/2.8, 30/1.4, 24-70/2.8. I got mainly Sigmas as they are cheap when bought second-hand. For teles, I usually borrow Canon 70-200/2.8 IS from work, it's a good lens but a bit too expensive to own...

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I love you picture. It looks like you got the white balance perfect and I love the soft lighting on the fuselage.

I find air museums one of the biggest challenges because of the poor lighting. I've taken to bringing a tripod in with me to try to get decent shots. I'm going again this weekend to see what I can come up with.

Thanks. A tripod will definately help. I didn't have a tripod, I just bumped the ISO to 800. Shooting RAW will help if you know how to process the images afterwards. RAW allows tweaking WB and exposure settings afterwards.

eagl · « **Reply #26 on:** May 26, 2006, 02:09:18 AM »

I shot a dozen pics with my D50 in jpg mode, and after that switched to raw mode even though I have almost no experience in post processing and am currently limited to using nikon view for processing. The in-camera jpg images on auto just sucked and I was getting better pics from my crappy little rotating prismatic lense point-n-shoot compact, so it's all raw images from here out.

~Caligula~ · « **Reply #27 on:** May 26, 2006, 06:43:02 AM »

just a few pics I shot while fishing in Tel-Aviv.

Hercules landing over the beach

Jumbo jet over the Shalom tower

Orthodox dude fishing in the sunset

Brenjen · « **Reply #28 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:53:56 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
I shot a dozen pics with my D50 in jpg mode, and after that switched to raw mode even though I have almost no experience in post processing and am currently limited to using nikon view for processing. The in-camera jpg images on auto just sucked and I was getting better pics from my crappy little rotating prismatic lense point-n-shoot compact, so it's all raw images from here out.

Try out a program called "GIMP" it will process Nikon images.

eagl · « **Reply #29 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:59:05 AM »

I downloaded the trial version of photoshop elements and the trial of nikon capture, and I expect I'll buy one or the other. I also have the latest gimp for windows but as amazing as it sounds, it doesn't seem as easy to use as the others.

Not that I'm an expert, but with photoshop elements making some truly terrible shots look nice took maybe 60 seconds, so it's not too hard to use. $90 is more than "free", which is why I'm still trying them all out.

The only thing I don't like about photoshop elements so far is that just opening up the trial version brings my computer to it's knees, and I have an A64 3700 and 2 gig of memory... That's not encouraging. Of course, once it was open and I was actually using it to manipulate full size RAW (NEF) files, it was smooth so maybe it just sucks loading up at the beginning.