f/3.5 would give you a photo that looks closer to the first one I just posted. If you narrow the aperture, a higher number, (this doesn't have anything to do with how wide your field of view is) than potentially more things are in "focus" ala the second photo I posted. A narrow aperture, or higher f number, requires much more light as your progess further. So if you're shooting around dusk you'll need an aperture as wide as possible if you're shooting freehand. Obviously shooting with a tripod changes things. I normally shoot free hand 99% of the time, so those are free hand. Only time I use a tripod is taking night shots/long exposures.

Your lens can go as low as f/3.5 and probably as high as f/22. To go lower than f/3.5 you would have to get a new lens. What camera do you have?

There's a whole lot of things when you're first dabbling with photography, however you seem to be doing great, I like everything you post. Aperture and shutter speed are your most important I would say. It also doesn't hurt to have a great subject like your car to practice on.

 

Gotchya, then I've been looking at aperture the wrong way.

Camera I use is a canon EOS Rebel XT but the lens is nothing to fancy just the one that came with it. I've been getting better with my photography skills and I too shoot free handed most of the time. But when I come in here and I see pictures like yours and DS, my camera skills look like they were taken with a razor flip phone

I use to shoot in RAW and really liked the way they came out but then found that it's way to hard to convert back to jpeg unless I buy a photo editing software. Which I might end up buying software if I can get decent at photography.

 

i do alot of little editing in the photos, clone stamp some distractions out like little rocks or leaves on the ground, my front lic. plate at times and reflections of me haha

i do all that after i edit the raw file. You should have a option to shoot Raw + jpeg, but if u dont plan to edit the Raw its just a waste of space on the card.

if u email me a raw file ill show u how it looks after some editing compared to just off the camera.

Most the photos i shoot look decent to whatever on the camera but i save them in post

 

like this one

the sky is pretty blown out and no clouds, if u run filters that can help add dimension. So help mask reflections and others can be dark filter to trick the camera into thinking its dark out to get some beautiful shots without too much light coming in on a day time long exposure

 

Thanks DS. What software do you use again? I tried Light Room once and it seemed like a pretty good editor

Next time I get out ill send some RAW files your way.

 

photoshop with camera raw plugin to edit Raws.

might pick up Lightroom soon

 

I just used the free trial to see if I liked it and was very useful.

 

All of you people posting nice, sunny, warm photos has my ire right now.

 

do you wanna build a snowman?

 

Mine are all from earlier in the year. It's 10* and snowing here

 

general managers ls

 

What snowman, I have a mini mountain outside of my apartment building that might as well just have my flag in it.

 

charge people to stay in the mountain of ice snow tundra, u are the boss now

 

 

It's melting this week I hope.

 

So I finally got a nice day to go toy around with the camera. My driveway isn't the best for car pics, so I'm not putting them up, but I feel for my first try these aren't bad. Especially for unedited. I forgot to shoot in raw, so not much editing will happen, but oh well. I'd love to see what someone more experienced with post production can do with them.



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they are pretty solid as is. you could adjust the contrast to make them pop a little more

i did this edit to compare



i brushed the inside of the pulley to clean it some and adjusted some stuff. used this forum's uploader for best quality haha

i also reduced the noise on the image

 

Nice pics

 

Thanks guys. If you couldn't tell, I've been playing with depth of field. Seemed to be the easiest place for me to start, and it's what I'm most interested in at the moment. I'd like to do some shadowing, but that's a long ways away. Looking at my last pic, I can see I didn't get the focus dialed in on "harrop" rather more the fuel rail. I just use the camera's built in focus notifier to tell me when I'm focused on what I want. Other than experience is there any tips you guys have on getting the focus point spot on?

 

manual focus if you have the time

auto focus with the dot matrix (probably not what it's called) on the subject to help the camera zero in on it.

for the longest time i didnt do auto focus but it helps some times. Some lens dont support that focus so keep that in mind when u buy a new lens

depth of field photos are always fun

 

Wow you editing on that pic makes it look so much better lol

 

dont say that haha jk

 

Lol i mean tge pic he took is great but with editing it makes it even better

 

haha yeee

 

just picked up a 970 Strix so purddy

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