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Aw yeah... slow water... that's the good stuff. mm.
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MrQueasy posted:I like the silver rangefinder look. Reminds me of my dad's minolta 35mm I used to use. I'm in MFT land and planning on purchasing an Olympus E-M5 III over the E-M1 II soon solely because it looks amazing in silver. Just got the 34mm equiv f1.8 lens literally yesterday and I am in love.
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# ? Dec 9, 2021 23:55 |
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heh I found a waterfall, and used a tripod and remote to take this embarrassingw photo of myself. got wet to do this and a photo with a 24mm that is actually ok. I have concluded I am incapable of a good picture with this lens UNLESS its just like landscape also square crop - obv for instagram reasons, but I actually really love the end result. it the best. zombienietzsche posted:I'm in MFT land and planning on purchasing an Olympus E-M5 III over the E-M1 II soon solely because it looks amazing in silver. pics plz
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 00:58 |
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echinopsis posted:heh I found a waterfall, and used a tripod and remote to take this embarrassingw photo of myself. got wet to do this I like wide crops of ultrawide myself, but I also had a higher than normal miss rate when using the 10-15mm in Yellowstone. It was like 1 in 25 shots instead of 1 in 10 for my 50mm prime or the 70-200mm. So imagine like 50 shots to just end up with these two different angles on Excelsior Geyser. (admittedly the reflection one was luck on our timing around getting 6 people in three different campsites out the flaps in the morning) This one is from Lake Yellowstone, shots of the lake were kinder, so this only took like 8 shots to figure out what was interesting. The best advice I can give after wincing at a bunch of 10-15mm shots that I still have saved from Yellowstone is that the best ones are where you're trying to make something seem bigger, or you're trying to see around something while still maintaining a sense of depth/distance? I dunno, I need to experiment more. I find my personal sweet spot for landscapes is 50mm-70mm because it flattens and squishes so much detail into a small area. I think it's harder because the fisheye distortion is harder for our brains to do the automatic calculus on or something.
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yeah that’s kinda how I feel. I once read something that said with wide you are putting the viewer IN the photo so get right up in there. it works but i don’t want many pics that are in your face in that manner lol. yeah wide crop of wide lens does make sense and i’ll recant what i said for those those first two shots are amazing dude
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 01:28 |
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echinopsis posted:yeah that’s kinda how I feel. I once read something that said with wide you are putting the viewer IN the photo so get right up in there. it works but i don’t want many pics that are in your face in that manner lol. Thanks, I recommend Western National Parks. Lots of strange natural beauty make for a target rich environment. Yellowstone in 2018 was awesome, but like Sequoia and Yosemite, it feels like it's fading. There were hardly any animals, and doing anything in the "popular" sections of the park was almost impossible between 10am and 4pm. However, as a photographer, that meant I could appeal to the rest of the group's exhaustion to say "why don't we just go out at sunrise (5am) or near sunset (9pm) to avoid the tour buses?" and then end up with better shadows even if we were too slow/early for golden hours. EDIT: for your road picture, I think if you framed it with more road and less sky it might pop more? Like draw your bottom third line at the horizon rather than the top of the mountains? MrQueasy fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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MrQueasy posted:
interesting suggestion. I suppose in my mind I thought of it like, the road is boring so only want enough of it to let you know it’s a road, with the rest being the more interesting mountains and sky. so my porportions are based in reason not aesthetic 🤔 I have more from the set so I would be curious if I have one that’s more like what you said
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echinopsis posted:pics plz I enjoyed this one of how smoggy it has been here lately. Something to counteract all the natural beauty and remind us why we stay inside on the internet.
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zombienietzsche posted:
I don’t care how smoggy it is. it’s still pretty. echinopsis posted:interesting suggestion. I suppose in my mind I thought of it like, the road is boring so only want enough of it to let you know it’s a road, with the rest being the more interesting mountains and sky. so my porportions are based in reason not aesthetic 🤔 I have more from the set so I would be curious if I have one that’s more like what you said the road IS boring! but so is the sky! (even though I refuse to stop shooting self indulgent pictures of clouds without context) I really like the hazy blues on the mountains in that picture, so I was a little disappointed when my eye kept sliding off them into the sky.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 03:13 |
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MrQueasy posted:I don’t care how smoggy it is. it’s still pretty. see I like the sky but not as much as I like your opinion and perspective. it’s interesting to me how others see, so I appreciate very much zombienietzsche posted:
I like this but lol I did mean pics of the gear 🤯
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 03:22 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZClqweFJBOc
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 03:55 |
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cameras ar cool.my 14? year old Canon digital rebel XTi aka 450D is still surprisingly needs suiting. got s short pancake prime lens on it and it's a great time at least if the light is decent. iso above like 400 is basically unusable and maxes out at 1600 so lol might gently caress around and spend 5k or so on a supertelephoto rig to take pics of birds
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 07:02 |
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for xmas i’ve gotten my son a 550d it was $250 and it’s come with a tripod and that 18-something lens which is poo poo but he can borrow some of mine what I love about this day and age is the low barrier of entry. like bloody says, can still take a great photo. biggest bummer is the lack of low light ability but still, he’s only 12, he’s so fortunate to have this kind of thing to play with yps: at a beautiful cottage with gf for weekend but I have zero ability to take interesting photos lol. i would love a decent photographer to show me their workflow because it depresses me a bit how I can’t do something with this as beautiful as it is 😒 i need to think, how can I somehow put the viewer there and make them feel idk something
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 08:49 |
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echinopsis posted:for xmas i’ve gotten my son a 550d I don't have a good workflow... but I haven't really needed much beyond Take SD card, import raws into LightRoom create a new folder/album go through each picture 1 by 1 and flag anything interesting looking... probably 1 in 5? toss it in the album go back to the album, look at each one... apply some presets, hit the auto button... aggressively fiddle with crop... white balance... if I still like it, it stays, otherwise it's booted... I'm usually left with 1 : 10 This takes too long, maybe 10-15m per raw on average... but I'm not happy unless the picture has that Je ne sais quois? that I felt when I clicked the shutter or when I flagged it as a potential keeper. Once I have the good ones settled, I go back and try "crazier" edits on the ones that didn't quite make it with my "normal" aesthetic. As far as what I want the pictures to say... I tend to want them to evoke in ME the moments I was taking the picture. I don't give a gently caress if you have a spiritual experience. I just know that you probably won't if I can't either. Anyway, what I think I'm saying about your cottage situation is just shoot through it.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 08:59 |
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where’s sagebrush to tell us how this isn’t how a blimp works?
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 10:39 |
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i have an olympus mirrorless micro 4/3 with a nice panasonic 20mm 1.4 or something that i never use but takes nice pics I sold all my SLR gear years ago. that’s my contribution to this thread. thanks
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 13:04 |
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i only like prime lenses, i like the simplicity and having to kinda really think and move to get a good composition
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echinopsis posted:but lol I did mean pics of the gear 🤯 POV: you decide to finally watch that skillshare course on flat lays I bought the Lumix in 2017 to learn on and it's been great. this year I bought a Nikon D3300 on eBay and then sold a Nikon D3300 on eBay after looking at lens selection and realizing how spoiled I am by the MFT form factor. Planning on upgrading the camera to get an additional knob when my bonus gets in. also you take more and better pictures when your camera looks cool zombienietzsche fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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akadajet posted:where’s sagebrush to tell us how this isn’t how a blimp works? I'm pretty sure that is how a blimp works when you fly it into the side of an observatory
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 18:15 |
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Ok, finally, new batteries. Heading out to a touristy trap area to get the boy santa pictures done by an outfit that takes themselves seriously so maybe I'll snap some stuff while I'm there. In the meantime, here's what I run with most of the time. Here's the best picture I could get of the dead ant in the viewfinder. If I find the missing piece of my tripod I'll take a better one. All pictures I've posted above (aside from the two I said were from my iphone, and these two, which are from my newer iphone) were done with this poor battered t3i.
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 03:11 |
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echinopsis posted:for xmas i’ve gotten my son a 550d yah. i have the gear but not the skill to take good photos
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 04:22 |
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fart simpson posted:yah. i have the gear but not the skill to take good photos Just The theory that helped/helps me the most is the rule of thirds... Once it becomes second nature it becomes easier to see in your minds eye. But you can't get to that point unless you take thousands of lovely photos and say "I don't think this is good enough because X" and consciously seeing what happens when you change that element. Also, just out and out copy the setup/content pictures that make you say "I like this picture."
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 04:29 |
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picked up a used Fuji x-h1 and 55-200. it’s cool as heck. that’s iso 25600
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I was taking pictures during my brother's wedding reception at night and having a camera that performs well at high iso owns.
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Ragtime All The Time posted:picked up a used Fuji x-h1 and 55-200. it’s cool as heck. that’s iso 25600 this is excellent akadajet posted:I was taking pictures during my brother's wedding reception at night and having a camera that performs well at high iso owns. poo poo yeah at the very least I’m pleased it’s turned my 55-200 which is f/5.6 at 200 into a lens that is usable out of sunlight
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Ragtime All The Time posted:. that’s iso 25600
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akadajet posted:I was taking pictures during my brother's wedding reception at night and having a camera that performs well at high iso owns. it’s amazing going from a 7d to something this modern. pushing 3200 was risky with that old thing
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 20:55 |
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my last camera was a 7d love that thing but yea the sensor is showing it’s age for sure I think i’ll keep it forever though, because it really is a solid camera, and it’ll be worth it to me for sentimental reasons later in life more than a couple hundred bucks now
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 21:38 |
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Hangin' out at the tourist trap with my new batteries.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 00:43 |
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those are excellent
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I really like video with my camera. tripods are the way to go, shake is horrible and still can show off how nice it is to film with a nice lens. honestly it’s such a treat using such nice lenses on the 7d it was pretty good. was it 1080p? can’t remember. it was only 30/25 fps and there was basically no focus once you’d started filming but if the camera was still the results were pretty nice for something from 2009 this eos r is next level of course lots of frame rate options. autofocus including face tracking is a game changer, and canon log as well at the risk of telling everyone something they already know, canon log or any log video for that matter is the video equivalent of raw, because each frame has the 0-255 limit (or more with higher nitrates) in order to squeeze a higher dynamic range in it changes the response curve so you end up with a low contrast image that captures more overall data (well higher range) and then you can transform that in video program so you can make the most of the bigger dynamic range anyway I have some intentions of setting myself up to video myself doing some music stuff so I want to make the most of it and make it as great as i can
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 20:29 |
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i love all the atmospheric stuff people are doing these days with colour grading, and davinci resolve seems incredibly powerful, and what you can do with the free version is pretty incredible really. I just need to learn how to use the colour stuff coz at the moment i can only manage basic editing
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echinopsis posted:I really like video with my camera. tripods are the way to go, shake is horrible and still can show off how nice it is to film with a nice lens. honestly it’s such a treat using such nice lenses no offense but laughing at you using special raw video format only to gently caress it all up with noise and scratch filters, at least based on your previous music videos
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 06:28 |
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lol gotta capture all the dynamic range of my lounge at nighttime 😂
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 06:55 |
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i’m obsessed with making my videos look as lovely as possible
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echinopsis posted:i’m obsessed with making my videos look as lovely as possible they're cool
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i think i made this point before, but it's funny to me how photographers are all about having the most perfect unaltered image from the camera, perfectly circular bokeh with a gaussian falloff, reduced dynamic range capture, zero flare, zero grain, no chromatic aberration or vignetting or pincushion or blown highlights or any other image-making artifact and meanwhile cg artists are like gently caress yeah, give me all that poo poo, i want hexagon bokeh, donut bokeh, flare everywhere, halos and ghosts, tri-color chromatic aberration, ultra grainy, film scratches, motion blur, contrast blaster, micro depth of field, hunting for focus, just give me every poo poo thing that cameras do to gently caress up an image. because that makes my cg look realistic
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:13 |
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lol I am a sucker for all of that poo poo
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:25 |
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remember lomography?
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yeh it changed its name to instagram
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