DSLR Shots and Discussions

kenchan

red_zed - post up some of your work.

Red__Zed

I shared a few shots from my honeymoon, and I have a few car shots up here. I don't generally post the stuff I really like online though.

kenchan

oh i see... hummm... can you water mark it and post online or is it just a private matter? i assume your shots are top notch considering the equipment you're talking about.

Red__Zed

No, I'm just learning as well. The wife is hijacking my d3100 most of the time, and I figure I might as well go straight to something legit rather than wasting time and money on another mid-range camera.

I'm not so much worried about having images stolen, I just feel like it cheapens the shots some. I am the same way with music....yet I have no issue doing a cd....I guess I am just weird.

onzedge

Random Star Trek shot from my den/office at home.

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kenchan

^^ cool! is that a model you built? one of the guys at work is a trekkie(?) trekky(?).


so during lunch i looked at my RC picts i took last night and noticed several areas i want to fix. first is lighting, im going to place one more incandesent light to the right of my camera to give tad more illumination around the front driver side tire, also will remove all items near the shooting area to rid reflection on the car's door and panel (like my synth-keyboard! ) and will try DOF that will give me closer to 30cm.

36mm f/7.1 from about 1m (iso100) - aim near headlamp/taillamp
42mm f/9 from about 1m (iso100) - aim near headlamp/taillamp

try this again. nono, im not mad. hahaha

Nitex

I really need to start shooting in manual mode, and need to take the time to understand aperture/ISO/metering and how it effects my shots.. Auto can only take me so far.

Also what program are you using to add lights like that ken? Im just using a trial version of lightroom 3. Maybe i should download CS5 already, co-worker gave me a very nice book to read for CS5!

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Nick911sc

I suggest using BOTH LR3 and CS5.

I use LR for color editing, lighting, white balance etc(not to mention going through large catalogs is much easier) and then I use CS5 for sharpening, major editing work etc.

That's just me though.

Nitex

I have been using lightroom 3 for sharpening and noise filtering. Maybe i should be doing this in CS5 for better results?

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Nick911sc

Sharpening in LR kinda sucks. I use unsharpen mask in CS5 for way better results.

kenchan

i use the barebone PS Element9. i only use it mainly for minor level adjustment and slight boost in saturation/slight sharpening if needed. most of my images are straight out of my camera.

oh, and re-size.

kenchan

Mr.onzedge- please let it rip. Evaluate my performance please, good and bad. no editing done other than resize.

onzedge

Mr. Kenchan. I am not as articulate a critic as I can be in other areas. When it comes to judging photogrpaphs, I go with my initial gut feel which falls into one of four categories -- boring but OK, bad, well done but it doesn't speak to me or I really like it. This shot I really like.

It is nicely exposed, is interesting, has clear focus throughout and the lighting is good. You are getting better with each post. I am not just kissing your butt, either.

Thanks for sharing and for asking my opinion. Keep them coming.

My sons are going to the UTI car show Sunday -- it will probably be populated heavily with ricers, but I hear there will be some decent cars there too. Among the decent cars will be Taylor's scary-fast 280zx (one of my old ones) that he built and it is going for some dyno pulls. Although I have a rule (a guideline, actually) that my kids (men) don't get to schedule my time on the weekends, I am going to go and try to get some good shots.

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kenchan

ahh, thank you mr.onzedge. i can take quite a beating so no worries if you really feel something is not right, i like to know about it and apply the fix on my future shots.

that picture is actually using 3 incandescent and 2 flouresent (super white) bulbs to get different hue/energy from the blue rug.

i also tried all incandescent lamps with the same shot but it came out real bland and flat as if it almost looked like a sephia (sefia?) oldy golden looking picture but exposure too high, no dept no color variation.

i also tried shining a flash light at objects while the camera was taking the long 25sec or so shot. it's a pretty cool effect. im going to try LED flashlights in the future. im done with the alfa for now.

looking forward to your shots from the carshow. hope they have antiques.

phelan

for some reason i can't get my CS5 to work with the NEF files my d5100 spits out.

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