[QUOTE=The FBI;16730925]To the photographers in here, how do you usually get such a crisp focus?[/QUOTE]
I just take a bunch of shots, and I'm only using a point and shoot camera for all of my shots currently.
i usually take 5 shots of the same subject, minimum. 2 or 3 for setting up the brightness, contrast, and white balance, and then however many it takes to get what i want in focus and crisp to be in focus and crisp. use AF and switch the AF dot to wherever the subject is, if it's in the extremes of the frame, and the dots can't get it, manual focus.
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it also helps to use a tripod, and if you can't get one of those, a pair of steady hands will suffice.
I can't even remember the last time I used AF :geno: just find it so much easier to use manual.
[QUOTE=beatzdawg;16733370]I can't even remember the last time I used AF :geno: just find it so much easier to use manual.[/QUOTE]
Same, I use either P or M. Anything else can go fuck itself :D
Hmm, I really should start editing those two photo series from the mountain trip and the Greece vacation. Starting to be some months old.
[QUOTE=The FBI;16730925]To the photographers in here, how do you usually get such a crisp focus?
(not trolling)
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By taking the shot in focus, and if I'm aiming for an extra crisp image, I might to some sharpening whilst working in LAB mode.
[img]http://i29.tinypic.com/30c1w8o.jpg[/img]
I took this one earlier on today. Spotted the area as I was driving past with a friend, didn't really have much time to stop and prepare a few shots. I plan on going back there with more equipment and at a better time of day within the next week.
[Quote]The Mind Critic.
That's stupid.
I shouldn't have said that.
Shouldn't have drawn that, shouldn't have written that, shouldn't have composed that, shouldn't have thought that.
It's stupid, stupid, stupid.
I've embarrassed myself.
Made a fool of myself.
Damaged my reputation.
Damaged my image.
Failed in an attempt to do something right.
..Ah. But I haven't.
Stupid is sitting in front of your television.
Talking about the weather.
Talking about your day and pretending to care about mine.
Knowing better, knowing best, being the authority.
Being an armchair critic.
I've done something else.
Blow me.
[/Quote]
-- an attempt to calm my nerves in creative work. sometimes my creativity is inhibited by fear of people's opinions, and that is very very very bad for any type of artist. i'm just going to keep making & sharing stupid things until i become desensitized to the whole experience. i once took acting lessons & they told me that the #1 need of a performer is the ability to make an ass out of yourself over and over again. I never fully understood that until lately. i'll keep working on this, because it attacks my self-consciousness well enough.
by the way, i hate poetry & its form & everything about it. i'm trying to figure out how to write with rhythm, but no forced form. i hate that. i find it's harder to get rid of form than it is to perfect it. but i'm not much of a writer so i guess it doesn't matter. in the limited amount of writing i've done, i'd say i go for a Bukowski kind of style, minus the prostitutes and booze and whatnot. well, maybe the booze.
Anyway, everything I've worked on lately has just been a barrage of attacks on inhibition. I'm going to get back to working hard on some music & 3d & drawings. Carry on with the actual efforts. There's some great photographers in here.
Edit: Here's another one that I wrote yesterday. It's very much in the same vein, only the first one was directed at my inner critic, and this is directed at people who judge me. It's very therapeutic to write this stuff, believe it or not.
[Quote]
To The Judge-
Can I write what I'm thinking?
Is that okay? You sure?
I'm not stepping out of line?
Not becoming uncool?
Not unworthy?
An idiot?
Crazy?
Not becoming one of those pitiful souls that you scoff at?
Okay.
Just wanted to be sure..
But today is the last time I ask.
You can always judge the chirping crickets when everyone else is tired of your shit. Fuck you.
Love, Nick.[/Quote]
Thanks, those who actually helped. I got a few gems out of it.
my dog
[img]http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9618/dsc00252eje.jpg[/img]
Saturation rape does not make a good photo
Atleast his dog stayed still, mine always runs up and licks the lense.
[QUOTE=dgg;16733408]Same, I use either P or M. Anything else can go fuck itself :D
Hmm, I really should start editing those two photo series from the mountain trip and the Greece vacation. Starting to be some months old.[/QUOTE]
I use manual for everything except focus. I'll control everything myself, but I always leave it on auto-focus so I can snap that quick picture if anything shows up. If there is anything more specific I need in focus, that is why I flip my AF off and go 100% manual.
My little game doesn't deserve a thread just yet so I thought you guys would want to see it here. The workname is [B]Siege on the Spiritual Plane - Arcane, Stealth and Power[/B]. Think Dark Messiah meets a 2D hack'n'slash. Except all of the combat is mouse-based.
Mouse-controlled swordfighting where YOU make the slashes and stabs. Even your fireballs follow the mouse for precise targeting!
Here's my little hero guy stabbing the first person you meet (the tutorial mentor) in the face. Just because I can.
[img]http://cubeupload.com/files/27d400swordfaightpic.png[/img]
Directing the fireball right towards his sorry face.
[img]http://cubeupload.com/files/28a200swordfaightpic2.png[/img]
And last but definitely not least, the ultimate spell you're gonna get if you go for the way of the wizard: Essence of Fire. You open a portal to the core of the earth and just...let the lava out.
[img]http://cubeupload.com/files/fecc00essenceofflame2.png[/img]
Don't know when it will be ready so don't ask for a release date of any kind. There's still the whole assassin aspect and making the levels themselves. And coding the AI.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;16738745]I use manual for everything except focus. I'll control everything myself, but I always leave it on auto-focus so I can snap that quick picture if anything shows up. If there is anything more specific I need in focus, that is why I flip my AF off and go 100% manual.[/QUOTE]
Same here
[QUOTE=Crisis;16737837][img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6331/tentaclerobot.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Is that turret crying? :v:
[QUOTE=dgg;16733408]Same, I use either P or M. Anything else can go fuck itself :D
Hmm, I really should start editing those two photo series from the mountain trip and the Greece vacation. Starting to be some months old.[/QUOTE]
:geno: Av and Tv are far more manual than P.
I use AF when using my kit lens, it's too sensitive with my telephoto between half and full zoom. Not in a good way, either, it keeps trying to focus on pretty much 5 different things at once, and keeps doing it, so I use manual.
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[QUOTE=xamllew;16739155]Is that turret crying? :v:[/QUOTE]
looks to me like those...things that look like "tears" are actually holding up the eyes.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;16738745]I use manual for everything except focus. I'll control everything myself, but I always leave it on auto-focus so I can snap that quick picture if anything shows up. If there is anything more specific I need in focus, that is why I flip my AF off and go 100% manual.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=128155&dateline=1244426309[/img]:hf:[img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=223307&dateline=1245955711[/img]
Hell yeah manual.
[IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p290/alex9324/IMG_7870copy.png[/IMG]
Probably the weirdest combination of a shadow and something on the ground I have ever witnessed. It looks like a person, not a special photo though. I just thought the shadow blending in it looked pretty neat. So I just captured it without really doing much.
Hey Alex, that's pretty cool. I think it looks like a horse with a really small head and a lot of flab.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;16738745]I use manual for everything except focus. I'll control everything myself, but I always leave it on auto-focus so I can snap that quick picture if anything shows up. If there is anything more specific I need in focus, that is why I flip my AF off and go 100% manual.[/QUOTE]
I pretty much always use manual myself. But when I just need to snap a lot of shots, especially family shots that are just supposed to be taken quickly I use P, set my desired aperture and take the shot.
[QUOTE=M_B;16739208]:geno: Av and Tv are far more manual than P.
I use AF when using my kit lens, it's too sensitive with my telephoto between half and full zoom. Not in a good way, either, it keeps trying to focus on pretty much 5 different things at once, and keeps doing it, so I use manual.[/QUOTE]
Looking at my Camera all I have is M, A, S and P anyways so I guess I wouldn't know.
But I like P as it just finds the best shutter for my desired aperture, so I basically just chose the focus which is great when I need to take pictures of something that moves a lot as I'll always have the same image depth just with different shutter speeds. But of course if I need specific shutter speeds then it's M, though I guess I could use A for that.
[QUOTE=xamllew;16739155]Is that turret crying? :v:[/QUOTE]
It's a tentacle monster, inside power armour. Those are eye stalks. :eng101:
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[img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7913/doodlescopy.png[/img]
Ah, the right arm gun and the rocket box (I think) on his left shoulder reminded me of a TF2 turret. [img]http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-ughh.gif[/img]
Looks cool nonetheless.
Tv on Canon is shutter speed priority, you can set the speed/exposure time, the ISO, the brightness, and the white balance. it'll automatically adjust the aperture to suit those preferences. It's ideal for either sports or long exposure shots
Av on Canon is Aperture priority, you can set how wide you want the aperture, the ISO, brightness, and the White balance. Sort of the reciprocal to Tv, as it will automatically adjust the exposure time and shutter speed to suit those preferences. I'm not sure what this more ideal for, but I use it more often than anything else.
P on Canon just let's you control ISO, brightness, and white balance. ideal for... beginners, I guess.
M let's you control just about speed/exposure time, aperture width, brightness, white balance, and ISO.
A-DEP used to do something on Canon's cameras, now it supposedly only does anything useful on the much higher end models. I think it's something to do with depth of field.
With Canon, you can do Manual focus with everything, that's a toggle switch on the lens. I think Nikon should be like that as well.
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]With Canon, you can do Manual focus with everything, that's a toggle switch on the lens. I think Nikon should be like that as well.[/QUOTE]
I have the Nikon D60. And yeah, toggle switch on the objective.
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]Tv on Canon is shutter speed priority, you can set the speed/exposure time, the ISO, the brightness, and the white balance. it'll automatically adjust the aperture to suit those preferences. It's ideal for either sports or long exposure shots[/QUOTE]
That would be Nikon's A.
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]Av on Canon is Aperture priority, you can set how wide you want the aperture, the ISO, brightness, and the White balance. Sort of the reciprocal to Tv, as it will automatically adjust the exposure time and shutter speed to suit those preferences. I'm not sure what this more ideal for, but I use it more often than anything else.[/QUOTE]
That would be Nikons P.
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]P on Canon just let's you control ISO, brightness, and white balance. ideal for... beginners, I guess.[/QUOTE]
Don't got that. S on Nikon is like auto, you just chose if you want it under- correctly- or overexposed (adjust it to the dots and the values follows).
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]M let's you control just about speed/exposure time, aperture width, brightness, white balance, and ISO.[/QUOTE]
Yeah.
[QUOTE=M_B;16742368]A-DEP used to do something on Canon's cameras, now it supposedly only does anything useful on the much higher end models. I think it's something to do with depth of field.[/QUOTE]
Probably why I don't got it.
Also, adjusting whitebalance and such is obviously available on all those settings.
[QUOTE=Alex9325;16742556][IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p290/alex9324/IMG_7886copy.png[/IMG]
Bulls eye.[/QUOTE]
I really like the simplicity of that. Can I get a bigger resolution of that? Say, 1280 x 1024
[url]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/IMG_7886_copy.png[/url]
There you go, although it's 1280x960. hope you don't mind.
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[i]Still[/i] a work in progress.
