Giving us coordinate sites.
Is there some secret message I should get from your post?
if we're still talking about hunger games, I'm gonna watch a preview showing this thursday
[QUOTE=ep9832;35212472]So today I passed by this big office building that's been under construction for some time now a few miles from my house to discover they put out a sign out front that says something along the lines of "Future Headquarters of Canon USA". So now I'm going to have Canon's US headquarters a few miles from my house. The coordinates for the site are 40.779095,-73.428905. The funny thing is it's being built a block away from a small Nikon office.[/QUOTE]
Is the nikon place an official Nikon building or some service/repairs center?
No US headquarters will ever be as cool as the Nintendo buildings, I've heard from a friend who lived nearby that they had boxes upon boxes of battery covers for every kind and color of gameboy, and tons of other cool shit.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35221343]Is the nikon place an official Nikon building or some service/repairs center?[/QUOTE]
It's a Nikon repair center as well as a small branch of Nikon's offices.
Woah, just found [url="http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html"]this[/url]; wish there was something anywhere near as interesting close to where I live!
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;35224293]Woah, just found [url="http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html"]this[/url]; wish there was something anywhere near as interesting close to where I live![/QUOTE]
oh man three pictures of the same subject with each more zoomed in than the other
guess what that means
[IMG]http://puu.sh/lFRw[/IMG]
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35224690]oh man three pictures of the same subject with each more zoomed in than the other
guess what that means
[IMG]http://puu.sh/lFRw[/IMG][/QUOTE]
No one is judging his photographic ability. Sure it's lacking but that's really damn cool subject.
I actually think that second shot is pretty cool
Wasn't judging anything
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35225482]Wasn't judging anything[/QUOTE]
You need to stop shitposting.
So I sent my photos in for a photo contest held by a water district company. Later in the day a lady calls me and tells me she forwarded my photos to another water district company because that one is actually in the area where I live. So I was fine with this, until I figured out the OTHER water district requires that your photo must be on a black board. I got none of dem black boards on my photos.
And get rid of that narsty red title majig of yours
Sort of ontopic but didn't want to post in work that inspires you
Time-lapse of earth from the friggin' ISS, by Mike Fossum and Ron Garan.
[video=vimeo;32430473]http://vimeo.com/32430473[/video]
[QUOTE][B]About This Video[/B]
Time-lapse video like this one is about as close as we can come to show what astronauts see in space. Here’s how this came about.
About six weeks before my return to Earth from the International Space Station, I received an Email from Katrina Willoughby, who is one of our photography instructors. She suggested giving time-lapse photography a try. I hadn’t tried time-lapse yet because I overestimated how hard it would be to capture great images, and the time-lapse photography I had seen to date didn’t seem as impressive as the still imagery we had been taking with some of the new equipment onboard.
A day or two after receiving Katrina’s email, I set up a Nikon D3S camera in the cupola (our windowed observatory onboard the ISS). I took some practice shots, playing with the camera settings until things looked about right. I then set up the camera to take about 500 pictures at 3-second intervals (more details about the camera settings are below). When I saw the results, I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep!
I quickly loaded the pictures on the computer in my crew quarters and stitched together a time-lapse video. As I was doing this, Peter Gabriel’s song “Down to Earth” popped into my head, and I threw the first part of the audio track on to the video. (Peter’s music was on my playlist).
[B]Camera Information[/B]
Night sequences were shot exclusively using the Nikon D3s, usually with a wide angle lens. The camera was set up to take pictures, commonly at three second intervals, generally resulting in a fairly “smooth” video.
Both focus and exposure were set manually. When the camera was allowed to expose automatically, it would change the exposure between shots, resulting in uneven lighting through the video. ISO would be set near 10000 or higher. Shutter speeds were as low as 1 second, but often longer. Aperture was wide open. For the 17-35mm lens this was f/2.8.
Day sequences were shot with either the D3S or the D2XS. Wide-angle lenses were normally used. The Nikon 17-35mm lens was often used near the wide end, such as 17mm. This showed the curvature of the Earth.
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[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/r62jp/iama_nasa_astronaut_that_recently_returned_to/[/url]
[url]http://fragileoasis.org/blog/2011/11/coming-back-down-to-our-fragile-oasis-2/[/url]
holy shit the northern lights
and the lightning
and that feel when you'll never get to do this, ever
I dropped my D7000 with the 10-24mm attached today, some reason I didn't have the strap attached when taking it out of the bag. Few holy shit moments like that, but it landed on the base so only a few scratches there. Works fine.
Sent my camera off to Canon today, hopefully I'll have it back before April 6.
[QUOTE=Ohfoohy;35181777]Here's that laptop I won from the Commercial I made.
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300680814398#ht_500wt_1413[/url]
:D
Hopefully I can sell it and buy a nice lens![/QUOTE]
I just entered in Newegg's Daily laptop giveaway. I could definitely use a laptop since I'm doing a lot of traveling around Europe and need to access my college coursework and dump photos from my cards.
Got a $63 offer for my [URL="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300680819389&ssPageName=ADME:L:BOWO:US:1123#ht_500wt_1413"]P/KA mount adapter[/URL] Should I take it or wait for $80-90?
That feel most of my pictures being utter shit while some other "first timers" come with a batch of beautiful, frame-worthy snapshots.
I'm not putting nearly enough effort or time into it, and I'm trying to find the time to do so. Anyone know of any good starter books?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35240586]That feel most of my pictures being utter shit while some other "first timers" come with a batch of beautiful, frame-worthy snapshots.
I'm not putting nearly enough effort or time into it, and I'm trying to find the time to do so. Anyone know of any good starter books?[/QUOTE]
First off fix your damn title, pretty off topic.
Now for advice, your in the "starter" form of learning the vast and wonderful world of photography. Most if not all of everyone who first get their new DSLR camera go through it.
Soon you will probably experimenting with various post processing effects and that is another stage to learn all on it's own. It will all come in time, the more you experience different types of photography, and experiment with different styles, you will eventually notice the gradual improvement of the quality in your shots.
So if you haven't already, master every aspect of the camera you hold. Aperture, ISO, shutter speed these are the most essential and important pieces of information you can know. At least for me they where at the beginning. Avoid at all costs using the pre-set scene modes that the camera offers. You are not taking pictures, you are composing them. So you will need to properly use the tools at your disposal to do so.
Think out your shots, you like to get "close up" and snap macro shots of everything. This is normal and I was at that point as well. The only issue is, these are generally uninteresting to view. My advice? Take a step back, find your subject and think of an interesting way to use the area around it to make it seem interesting, don't simply focus on the subject as it's own. This is absolutely essential if you are aiming for good composition.
Not the best advice ever given but I think it might do ya good. The key is to keep trying, I know that's been said a billion times but it's repeated so often because it's true. As long as you put in the effort to make an image "unique and interesting" then you will improve.
Yeah..that's my 2 cents and a bag of potato chips
[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;35240875]First off fix your damn title, pretty off topic.
Now for advice, your in the "starter" form of learning the vast and wonderful world of photography. Most if not all of everyone who first get their new DSLR camera go through it.
Soon you will probably experimenting with various post processing effects and that is another stage to learn all on it's own. It will all come in time, the more you experience different types of photography, and experiment with different styles, you will eventually notice the gradual improvement of the quality in your shots.
So if you haven't already, master every aspect of the camera you hold. Aperture, ISO, shutter speed these are the most essential and important pieces of information you can know. At least for me they where at the beginning. Avoid at all costs using the pre-set scene modes that the camera offers. You are not taking pictures, you are composing them. So you will need to properly use the tools at your disposal to do so.
Think out your shots, you like to get "close up" and snap macro shots of everything. This is normal and I was at that point as well. The only issue is, these are generally uninteresting to view. My advice? Take a step back, find your subject and think of an interesting way to use the area around it to make it seem interesting, don't simply focus on the subject as it's own. This is absolutely essential if you are aiming for good composition.
Not the best advice ever given but I think it might do ya good. The key is to keep trying, I know that's been said a billion times but it's repeated so often because it's true. As long as you put in the effort to make an image "unique and interesting" then you will improve.
Yeah..that's my 2 cents and a bag of potato chips[/QUOTE]
Take that first piece of commentary to ILY :v:
Thanks, man. Just to clarify (not saying your post implied it or anything) I did take a photography course and I know my way around ISO/F-stops/Shutter speeds.
I do take a lot of macro shots, yeah. I am trying to do something more than that, though.
Another thing: I don't like how color looks in 90% of my pictures. Is it frowned upon for people to shoot black and white on digital cameras?
It's generally better to shoot in color and convert to black in white. Unlike with film, you're not gaining any quality by shooting straight to b/w. Also because you can take a lot more control of how it's converted to b/w, as well as contrast and such.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35240947]Take that first piece of commentary to ILY :v:
Thanks, man. Just to clarify (not saying your post implied it or anything) I did take a photography course and I know my way around ISO/F-stops/Shutter speeds.
I do take a lot of macro shots, yeah. I am trying to do something more than that, though.
Another thing: I don't like how color looks in 90% of my pictures. Is it frowned upon for people to shoot black and white on digital cameras?[/QUOTE]
It's just got a bad reputation for turning a normal picture into ~art~
Black and white is done wrong more than it is done right, but there have certainly been times when I just couldn't get the colors to look right so I just made it B&W
For editing color, try fiddling around with Curves and Levels, also changing the values of both your Vibrance and Saturation settings. You can also fine tune them with Color Balance
If you are editing in RAW then you have just that much more power over the manipulation of color.
[QUOTE=GraniteMouse;35241017]It's generally better to shoot in color and convert to black in white. Unlike with film, you're not gaining any quality by shooting straight to b/w. Also because you can take a lot more control of how it's converted to b/w, as well as contrast and such.[/QUOTE]
no this is absolute no
shoot in one or the other, because different things make them good.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;35241846]no this is absolute no
shoot in one or the other, because different things make them good.[/QUOTE]
I'd say this opinion comes from your mirrorless shooting, in which if you choose to shoot B&W in cam, you can see the scene previewed as B&W before you take the photo.
My photography teacher just gave us a real project. 3 weeks from now, we're supposed to have taken 20 portraits (10 analog, 10 digital) of random people we don't know.
:suicide:
Go out into your local area, that could be done in a day easy.
Yeah, I live in Stockholm so finding a place with lots of people isn't a problem. The problem is actually asking people to be in the portrait. I really feel like I'm intruding. :v:
go candid? just because it says they have to be portraits doesn't mean it has to be a posed one? be sneaky
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