well i could freaking get out to take pics of my car but i was able to take some pictures in my house of a couple things....i think im getting somewhat ahold of this. I finally got M mode to work.

 

wierd... lol

 

host them here...

 

u need to dust lol awesome pics!!!

 

thats one dusty ass bow lol

 

Lol i forgot again UGH.

and yes there is dust...deal with it haha

updated reign...

 

not bad, they're not back! got that shutter upen

now it's time to work on white balance and depth of field.

 

Lol i must say the pictures DO come out better with the shutter open haha

 

yea, it usually helps just a little bit!

yea, it usually helps a little bit i still do stupit **** sometimes. i was filming a few weeks ago, inside, wondering why the hell everything was so dark. iris all the way open, gain up more than enough, still dark as ****. so after a while i realize that i still had my outside filter on. DOH!

 

Try shooting with F/8 aperture, and using a different white balance setting...

 

how do you change the f? lol i thought i new how but it never changed it just stays the same.

 

see this is where it's totally different on a video camera. ideal on a video camera is 2.8. still cameras are at 8?

i always had a GREAT eye for color balance. the photographer in my building all the time tells me how good my eye is, and how so many other videographers don't have that skill.

 

i think my f only goes up to 5.6....

never mind im dumb

 

Did you read your manual for the camera?

F/2.8 is wide open letting the most light it, but would result in a very shallow depth of field.

F/8 is a pretty good average aperture that allows good light it but gives you decent depth.

f/22 is a very small opening letting a small amount of light in, but would result in a great depth of field.

 

yea see video is completely different. 8 in my camera is kinda dark unless it's VERY bright out. 2.8 is pretty close to wide open, mine is closed at 16. and in a video camera depth of field has nothing to do with aperture, it's only how far or close you are. For me to have the foreground in focus and the background out, i would have to be either very close with a macro focus (less than a foot away) or very far back zoomed in. majority of the stuff you see on tv, mostly movies, is like that because the camera is so far back. that's why on reality shows, and live stuff pretty much everything is in focus because the camera is not really zoomed.

I'll do some shots sometimes where i'll duck behind a tree, or flower, or a railing is cool. subject is in the background, and i'm literally right in front of the other object(flower or whatever. i'll focus for the background, and for the foreground use the macro. then i'll record, and turn the macro slowly letting the background into focus. add in a nice little twist and pan, and it's a kick ass shot.

 

No i did read the manual i was looking at a different thing on the camera...ive got that figured out now...i just gotta figure out white balance better

 

after a while you'll start to see your pictures differently, in terms of color. it's something that takes a while to train your eye. did you see that picture i posted in your other post about the different colors? you'll notice that something looks red, or green, or blue. it's slight, and many people wouldn't notice the difference. but once you understand how white balance works, it will get easy.

i know outside, in bright sunlight, i need to be at 8000k. inside is 3200 or a little lower depending on the light. after a while, you will just know if you're white balanced properly just from looking at the numbers.

 

Yeah i would say im "ok" right now at seeing it i usually have a pretty good eye with things like that so i just need to figure out how to work it properly.

 

White Balance works based of the Kelvin scale of temperature.

2000K is Candle lights
3200K is Tungstan (regular light bubs)
4000K is Fluorescent
5500K is Daylight
6000K is Electric Flash
8000K is Skylight

 

Ooooh well that helps lol. thanks.

 

your camera should have predefined settings for Tungstan, fluorescent, shade, clouds, daylight, flash

 

It does i didnt really know what they all exactly stood for until you just posted that lol

 

and sometimes you go inbetween. when i'm at a wedding at a reception hall, and it's a mix of lights and candles and soft light, 2800 is perfect.

 

luckily tho im know photoshop so when i mess up or want something a little different its not too hard to fix

 

you need to fiddle with my camera..still cant get the damn thing to work....