Is there anyone here who knows a bit about tone mapping and is willing to help me out?
[QUOTE=pinecleandog;37673160]Is there anyone here who knows a bit about tone mapping and is willing to help me out?[/QUOTE]
do no tone map
learn about multiple exposure HDR for the good of all man kind
[QUOTE=bopie;37660391]Touching back on the subject of photo-friends, I actually find it harder to shoot with other photo-people. It's hard to play 'observer' when everyone else is, too.
Not only do you end up with same-y shots in a given situation, you end up with mostly photos of 'people holding cameras' which are fine, but that becomes too defining and repetitive. You can always be the observer of observers, but that gets old after you do it a few times.
The grass is always greener on either side, but I think a good middle ground would be desiring 'creatives' as friends. Or at least more adventurous types.
You need variety, and I'm sure that enough of you can relate to TF2 for it to be relevant to say, a single-class team is cripplingly unbalanced (can be fun though).[/QUOTE]
Other photographers cramping your style, yo!
But I know exactly what you mean. My shooting style changes completely when there's another photographer about.
In Sedona today with my a77 and Minolta 28-105, going to try and get some good landscapes! Even going to shoot in RAW :0 I'll see how that goes
The teachers of the photography class I took in Sixth Form complained that my photos are not of a high enough "resolution" for editing or some shit like that.
So I am going to be really irritating and I'm going to scan (or get someone to scan) some medium format negatives as high as I/they can.
Anyone know what white balance to use when shooting at night in England? They use the bright orange sodium lights and it's making my images look extremely warm, and the colours are all wrong when I edit temperature in lightroom, the white balance on my 40D is already bad enough as it is.
Or I should say, is there a way to counter-act these orange street lights a little bit without making everything else blue?
Get a nice soft brush at low opacity and start painting the lights and surrounding areas with a blue color.
[editline]15th September 2012[/editline]
Lightroom even lets you paint a specific temperature on there. Balance the lights for white first, find the proper temperature, and then apply that with a brush.
A great senior photo showed up in Facebook today. Had a laugh.
[t]http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/51859_3942842688102_1669696749_o.jpg[/t]
Dat DoF
I need help with posing, like seriously.
This just goes with my general inability to work with people well. Most of my senior pictures have me being really finnicky about composition and light, positioning the reflector just so, and then I try and get the subject to laugh and take a few quick shots w/ a natural smile, and while my pictures look -good- enough I guess, they're always kind of boring in that the subject is either sitting down or standing up and not really doing anything interesting in terms of pose.
Help?
[QUOTE=communistcat;37680246]The teachers of the photography class I took in Sixth Form complained that my photos are not of a high enough "resolution" for editing or some shit like that.
So I am going to be really irritating and I'm going to scan (or get someone to scan) some medium format negatives as high as I/they can.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha film still has a way higher "resolution" if you call it that, than most digital cams.
[QUOTE=Killuah;37700553]Hahaha film still has a way higher "resolution" if you call it that, than most digital cams.[/QUOTE]
it's organic resolution, meaning even the film grain has gradients and falloffs if you scan/project/print with an enlarger at a big enough size. Ultimately you only get so much quality before you're just taking up filespace scanning at massive resolutions. I remember my uncle talking about scanning in some slides at a ridiculous resolution and the files were 900mb a piece. Great... if you were printing a billboard at 300dpi, and not [i]uploading them to facebook somehow, bragging about the size/quality on the uploads like it's still all there[/i]
I think by resolution they meant "MP" and that if I took a photo I wouldn't know if it worked till it got developed, which to be fair he had a point there but I could easily minimize the chances of the photos not coming out.
I'm not arguing it isn't high resolution, it's just you have to remember it has its limits. medium format negatives scanned at a good res will be pretty impressive compared to whatever expectations the teacher seems to have. I mean, this was tmax400 120 at a lower-than-default dpi scan and it already came out to 24 megapixels, and still looks pretty crisp.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cDRS5.jpg[/img]
alternatively, I scanned some 35mm tmax400 shots at double that dpi (12.4 mp each due to size difference), and they came out looking like salt and pepper because of the grain
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2D75x.png[/img]
I never like to look at 100% crops of my pictures they look so bad
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37704309]I never like to look at 100% crops of my pictures they look so bad[/QUOTE]
it's all about the end result, which for most of us is digital display and small print. You'll never take a magnifying glass to the details outside of the editing phase
exactly, i came to that realization a while ago. but i'll post some 100% crops of my a77 sometime those are hilarious with the lens i'm using on it
I like to have the text somewhat legible of signs far away. I use to be a noise nazi, but I'm less so now.
hilarious bad. not that i care because i understand the setup i'm using isn't ideal, i'm getting the 16-50 lens for it down the road which is better. but i don't do more than web and if i did, the largest prints would be like 8x10 which is nowhere near the 24mp threshold. then it only affects big prints if you are close to it, at 5-6 feet it's unnoticeable
[editline]17th September 2012[/editline]
alright here's this image
[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8029/7994980207_3ed3f4d140_z.jpg[/img]
here's a 100% crop from it
[img]http://i.imgur.com/jMFfE.jpg[/img]
i have no idea what i'm doing in raw :V
The Sharpening tool, I don't really know how to use it. It makes no sense to me, but like I said it doesn't look bad unless at like 50% which is still big for a 24mp photo
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37706633]The Sharpening tool, I don't really know how to use it. It makes no sense to me, but like I said it doesn't look bad unless at like 50% which is still big for a 24mp photo[/QUOTE]
hold ALT and adjust the masking on the sharpening thinger. It'll show you what parts are being masked, and you can tune it down to major edges instead of every pixel of variance
I'd turn off all sharpening and noise reduction at first, and then work you way up from there, to see what the okay-looking threshold is.
[url]http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/892349-REG/[/url]
Canon 6D is out for preorder.
A friend of mine needs some names on some good photographers to get inspiration from.
[QUOTE====;37710596][url]http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/892349-REG/[/url]
Canon 6D is out for preorder.[/QUOTE]
GPS and Wifi? what
[QUOTE=pinecleandog;37710975]GPS and Wifi? what[/QUOTE]
Both can be useful honestly, not necessary but useful inclusions for those who will use them.
[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;37710627]A friend of mine needs some names on some good photographers to get inspiration from.[/QUOTE]
the only name you need to know is [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK0r5LCs3DY]Sheffield Quigley[/url]
Personally I don't like just saying "X photographer is good in all instances", I'm more of a random browser who focuses on finding what I like on a per-image basis.
Have you checked the [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1079110]work that inspires you[/url] thread?
[QUOTE====;37710596][url]http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/892349-REG/[/url]
Canon 6D is out for preorder.[/QUOTE]
Aside from wifi and GPS its basically a 5d mkii lite, for more than a mkii...
[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;37710627]A friend of mine needs some names on some good photographers to get inspiration from.[/QUOTE]
I can name a few.
Geordie Wood
Jake Stangel
Tim Barber
Samuel Bradley
Jordan Both
Check out their portfolios
in other cool news, carl zeiss announced a trio of primes for the nex and fuji x system
[url]http://blogs.zeiss.com/photo/en/?p=2864[/url]
they are releasing a 12mm f2.8, 32mm 1.8, and 50mm 2.8 makro
meanwhile in bizarro world
[url]http://presscentre.sony.eu/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=8083&NewsAreaID=2[/url]
hasselblad partners with sony, and release this $5000 rebadged nex 7 with titanium and wooden handgrip?
[img]http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj524/picrumors/lunar-hasselblad.jpg[/img]
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