DSLR Shots and Discussions

HKYStormFront · 04-02-2013, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by 6spd

RandyD, the white balance of your shots is great! That dish is f'ing awesome too!

this^

onzedge · 04-03-2013, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 6spd

RandyD, the white balance of your shots is great! That dish is f'ing awesome too!

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

this^

onzedge · 04-04-2013, 09:51 PM

^^^ Nice work, Mr. Titan.

Titan1080 · 04-04-2013, 10:04 PM

Thanks! I'm wishing Nikon made a competitor to the EOS 60Da, too much $$$ into Nikon now to defect...

MJB · 04-06-2013, 11:42 PM

onzedge · 04-07-2013, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by MJB

Nice work.

MJB · 04-06-2013, 11:52 PM

Huck · 04-12-2013, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Huck

And let me ask you guys a question. During night shots, if I'm looking through the viewfinder, the camera has no problem focusing. But after it focuses it won't shoot, and it blinks the flash symbol at me. Then without moving or anything, I'll switch to live view and it has a lot of trouble focusing. Once I get it focused (or almost, as you can see in the first pic above) it will take the pic no problems, no flash. What I resorted to doing was looking through the viewfinder, focusing, then turning off the auto focus and switching to live view to take the pics. It was kind of a pain. What am I doing wrong? For reference, I'm shooting with a D5100, stock lens, and the settings were 100 ISO, 5.6 aperture, shutter speeds between 15 and 25 seconds depending on the shot, and an auto white balance. Suggestions?

Just wanted to let you guys know I'm pretty sure I figured out the problem I was having (for the most part). My camera has three different options for metering, and I had it set on Matrix Meter, I set it on the next one Dow which I can't remember the name, but I think it was Center-Weighted Meter, and it had no problem focusing after that.

I still haven't fully understood what metering is or what it does, but I've also been too lazy to research it lately lol.

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LunaZ · 04-12-2013, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Huck

Just wanted to let you guys know I'm pretty sure I figured out the problem I was having (for the most part). My camera has three different options for metering, and I had it set on Matrix Meter, I set it on the next one Dow which I can't remember the name, but I think it was Center-Weighted Meter, and it had no problem focusing after that.

I still haven't fully understood what metering is or what it does, but I've also been too lazy to research it lately lol.

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In a nutshell, "metering" is measuring how much light is available in the shot you're seeing through the view finder, which then determines how you should set your shutter speed, aperture and ISO relative to each other to achieve a proper exposure.
The different metering modes tell the camera where to measure the light to guide you to correct exposure. For example you might want to consider the whole frame or just one single spot in the view finder. In the case of of center-weighted metering modes, you're giving priority to the center area of the view finder while still taking the outer edges into consideration.

blackcherry20 · 04-13-2013, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by LunaZ

In a nutshell, "metering" is measuring how much light is available in the shot you're seeing through the view finder, which then determines how you should set your shutter speed, aperture and ISO relative to each other to achieve a proper exposure.
The different metering modes tell the camera where to measure the light to guide you to correct exposure. For example you might want to consider the whole frame or just one single spot in the view finder. In the case of of center-weighted metering modes, you're giving priority to the center area of the view finder while still taking the outer edges into consideration.

just dawned on me. Many of my shots over exposed. I was thinking i should be center weighted off the Z because it is so dark?!

Cmike2780 · 04-13-2013, 08:04 AM

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just dawned on me. Many of my shots over exposed. I was thinking i should be center weighted off the Z because it is so dark?!

I usually aim for the headlights or tail lights...then switch to manual if I have to. Black is always tricky to expose properly unless it "pops" in scene.

onzedge · 04-14-2013, 11:20 AM

Random shots:

LunaZ · 04-13-2013, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by blackcherry20

just dawned on me. Many of my shots over exposed. I was thinking i should be center weighted off the Z because it is so dark?!

I find shooting a white car just as tricky!
It can depend on the lighting conditions, but I usually set the camera to meter the whole frame when shooting the whole car in a scene. When I'm just shooting a detail part of the car, I use spot metering.

Shooting your car in a scene might be a good time to set up brackets or manually take the shot at -1, 0 and +1 on the exposure meter and see what you like best.
When I tweaked the picture of your car, I actually brought the exposure up, but introduced a little more contrast to the whole shot. If I really wanted to spend more time with it, I could use a graduated filter or the brush to darken the background or lighten the car so it pops more in the shot.

LunaZ · 04-13-2013, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by LunaZ

When I tweaked the picture of your car, I actually brought the exposure up, but introduced a little more contrast to the whole shot. If I really wanted to spend more time with it, I could use a graduated filter or the brush to darken the background or lighten the car so it pops more in the shot.

I played with it a bit more but it's a bit difficult to recover the roof line with the glare and reflection. It's just too blown out in that spot. I'm at -100 highlights.
Working on a small .jpg doesn't help either

But here's a little more contrast and colour and depth to the shot:

Huck · 04-12-2013, 07:46 AM

This is why you're awesome. Thanks for the explanation!

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