[QUOTE=frag4life;37728348]Just asked the standholders of the respective brands for free samples :wink:
Eastman Kodak was very generous and give me and the friend I was with 10 rolls of film for free. And the other rolls are Fomapan, a Czech film brand (with very good price/performance ratio, especially for the Fomapan 100 which costs about 2,50 euros a piece).[/QUOTE]
I'm surprised they can afford to give out free samples :v:
no hate on kodak they're just not in a good place right now :saddowns:
Shooting at a varsity football game with my 75-300mm is just... :suicide:
Does anyone have a rough idea on what would be the slowest shutter speed I could get away with when shooting handheld candid portraits? This was shot at 1/20 and it's fairly blurred:
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1/60 is a good shutter to start off with because it avoids a lot of blur. But how still you hold your camera also factors into it as well.
The rule is one second/focal length
24mm? ~1/20. 50mm? 1/50. 135mm? ~1/135
Once you get used to holding your camera steady and control your breathing (think shooting :v:), you can use much longer shutter speeds.
I can shoot decently at 1/15 with my 50 1.4. I've done it to take hand-held pictures of auroras.
[QUOTE=bopie;37748399]The rule is one second/focal length
24mm? ~1/20. 50mm? 1/50. 135mm? ~1/135[/QUOTE]
I like that rule, cheers.
Just remember for the rule to take into account the cropped focal length. So 28mm canon would be approx 1/50th
Ofcourse, I have a mental map of the focal lengths of my lenses on a cropped sensor.
Okay good just making sure! And usually if stabilization is disabled the camera will accommodate for this rule if the lens transmits the focal length properly.
Going home this weekend! Trying to pick up some Craigslist deals while I'm in Phoenix. Right now I'm looking at a Minolta 24-50 f4 and some type of 70-210 (either 3.5-4.5 or 4.5-5.6) Minolta zoom for $50, and then I REALLY want a Minolta 70-210 f4 but I can't find any stellar deals. I need a fastish zoom for photography I'm doing next month that's indoors under terrible light, which kind of sucks :/
Alternatively I can use my Canon 50mm 1.4 with a 2x tele but that wouldn't be as good....
Photography outing as a date <3. One of my favorites. Cheap, something I would be doing anyway, plenty of time to talk, fun, especially if the girl is a photographer.
School got 2 new t3is. AND, at the beginning of the year we got the entire CS6 suite on our computers in the photo room. I am excited for the rest of the year. The teacher and I decided to order another Rode Mic, and a new zoom mic with the XLR inputs. Can't wait till they get to school. I basically manage all the equipment with my teacher and we unbox everything. I love this so much
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;37748509]Once you get used to holding your camera steady and control your breathing (think shooting :v:), you can use much longer shutter speeds.
I can shoot decently at 1/15 with my 50 1.4. I've done it to take hand-held pictures of auroras.[/QUOTE]
1/15 is my lowest guranteed speed. I'm not going to get every shot, but I'm guaranteed to have enough success that it's worth it.
So, now I'm a freshmen in college. Hopefully I can get a job and get ready to pay after my college fund runs out. I won't be touching film for a while. I bring the age old question of, "What DSLR camera should I get?". I don't just want a starter rebel, I want something a little more serious that allows for a lot of manual adjustment. Suggestions?
[QUOTE=Kabstrac;37773725]Do you have a brand preference? What kind of photography do you do? Outdoor? Lowlight? Studio? Other?
I mean, most DSLRs will give you as much control as is necessary.[/QUOTE]Mainly outdoor and lowlight. I already have two Olympus lenses from my film camera, but am willing to invest(I know Olympus isn't a name you look for DSLR cameras, when canon and Nikon are available).
[QUOTE=credesniper;37775023]Mainly outdoor and lowlight. I already have two Olympus lenses from my film camera, but am willing to invest(I know Olympus isn't a name you look for DSLR cameras, when canon and Nikon are available).[/QUOTE]
Nikon D5100. Terrific camera and at $650 it can't be beaten.
Don't buy an Olympus dslr
Literally the definition of dead end. For price/performance, the nex 5n is the best camera at $400 for the body, and image quality being among the best aps-c dslr's and having incredible ISO performance. Manual controls however are minimal.
Football is so hard to take photos of at night with f/5.6 :v:
ISO 3200 200mm f/5.6 1/125
Are you using Nikon or canon? And what zoom currently
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37791583]Are you using Nikon or canon? And what zoom currently[/QUOTE]
Using a Nikon D80, and an 18-200 f/3.5-5.6.
Not really the best combination for sports
Are you getting paid?
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37792370]Are you getting paid?[/QUOTE]
"we'll hand out business cards for you, good advertising!"
Shoot RAW under all circumstances at night gaboer.
Also if you have really bad noise problems you could take a "black" shot (lens cap) and substract the black images noise from the one in your pictures, the only requirement would be that when taking the noise shot your sensor/camera should still be at roughly the same temperature as it was when you took your pictures.
So no video shooting and stay on site for it.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37792370]Are you getting paid?[/QUOTE]
It's all for the school newspaper/yearbook
[editline]25th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Killuah;37793648]Shoot RAW under all circumstances at night gaboer.
Also if you have really bad noise problems you could take a "black" shot (lens cap) and substract the black images noise from the one in your pictures, the only requirement would be that when taking the noise shot your sensor/camera should still be at roughly the same temperature as it was when you took your pictures.
So no video shooting and stay on site for it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I shoot at raw
[editline]25th September 2012[/editline]
Ill try the black cap method, since iso 3200 gives kinda bad noise
[url=http://margaretgunnng.blogspot.de/2012/01/i-see-dead-people-victorian-post-mortem.html]These[/url] are ... interesting?
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[sp]They're dead.[/sp]
How does one get into that field
I want it
first you buy a shovel
flickr pro - worth it?
i'm tempted to get a year since i got paid yesterday and i'm 2 photos away from the non-pro limit
i decided to use flickr as a rolling thing and use 500px as my full back catalogue because it looks better to me and has unlimited total uploads
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;37809056]flickr pro - worth it?
i'm tempted to get a year since i got paid yesterday and i'm 2 photos away from the non-pro limit[/QUOTE]
if it's your main gallery and has a lot of thigns you want to show off, go for it. In hindsight of buying a flickr pro account, I'd rather have spent the money on getting a good web domain for a year, with extra left over to maybe buy a wordpress theme or something to kickstart it.
in hindsight of that wordpress is too tedious for me and I would rather have just opened up a tumblr
in hindsight of that I realize I just suck at updating everything and should have bought some ADD meds in the first place
I forgot where I was going with this but the lesson is that you should do what you think works best for you, in ease of use and exposure. Flickr is searchable on a broader spectrum so other users will see it from time to time, but you might not be able to hand it off as a "this is my website" thing because a potential client would rather have a website that tells them more information and showcases only a few examples, instead of being let loose in a gallery full of potential similar images or less-than-optimal "I kinda liked that so I put it up anyways" pictures. With a website you can still stream your flickr via widgets and sidebars or even a full feature thing so it's like it's part of the website, but it takes time and effort (and sometimes money) to find ways to do that.
also tumblr is kinda odd at first but it works as a nice photoblog for just whatever you want to put up, and there's potential an image catches on with people and it travels around a ton, again because people can search tags and see what their friends/followed users are posting. Also I've heard posting your stuff to Pinterest can be useful in the same regard, but the subject matter might be a little more biased due to it having a large population of crafty-stay-at-home-mom types
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