Official 2009 Photography Thread
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yeah I had to fix the picture size. See above ^^^
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but still a nice shot
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thank you for the compliment
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With all due respect, you guys are both wrong. Shawn, your camera and others like the Lumix mentioned earlier and the Coolpix P80 may look like SLRs but they have electronic viewfinders and as such probably don't have the flip-up mirror and prism housing that defines a true SLR. Someone will correct me if one of those cameras really does have a true optical viewfinder. And Titanium, by definition an SLR has to have a lens, a flip-up reflex mirror and a pentaprism viewfinder (some early ones back in the 1930s just had a focusing screen; the image was backwards!). An SLR is composed and focused through the lens, unlike a rangefinder or a twin-lens reflex. That is the definition of an SLR. Having interchangeable lenses isn't part of the definition, although most SLRs do (B&H incorrectly puts the Leica rangefinders in the "SLR" section of their website, and although they do have interchangeable lenses, they lack the reflex mirror and viewfinder that would make them SLRs). There used to be some cheap film SLRs (Olympus comes to mind) where the lenses weren't removeable.
Someone needs to post some pics rather than continue this pointless debating of semantics.
Someone needs to post some pics rather than continue this pointless debating of semantics.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmcg1/
lens flare is fine if you use it creatively such as with the wing but you should attempt to post process the image so there is a better balance across the image.
Slow flashes are normally used for creative shots an example would be an image of a car at night where you can see the outline of the car but it looks like a ghost and there is a light trail. Slow flash (curtain2 if you have the option) will also flash at the end of the image using the car as an example again you see this long trail of light coming to you then the flash and all of a sudden you also see the car in full detail plus the light trail coming to you.
yeah they no doubt are....it was a little tough to get enough lighting cause i was shooting like shutter 20 or 30 which was underexposing it...but she likes to move...A LOT! so i couldn't really shoot any less or the shots would have been useless lol so i took underexposing over blur lol i can however go into photoshop and fix them cause they were shot in raw...just didn't have the time lastnight and wanted to share thank you for the compliment
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thanks onimirage. and ya my settings for that one was iso 200 with an auto white balance. all the other settings don't really deal with the processing of the image. there is an option on the camera's flash called superflash mode where it takes a small flash, process' and then another flash and then stores the image. there is also a mode on it that allows me to hold the trigger button down and it will take multiple images over a period. now when i do this mode some times there is a second inbetween pictures and other times it is click, click, click almost immediately.
i love this camera but would really like to try my hand at a slr camera. hell it took me a year to realize that if i wanted to take crisp up close pictures without using zoom just to put it to the flower option and it allows me to get up really close and get nice crisp images. that and i hate using zoom with a passion.
i love this camera but would really like to try my hand at a slr camera. hell it took me a year to realize that if i wanted to take crisp up close pictures without using zoom just to put it to the flower option and it allows me to get up really close and get nice crisp images. that and i hate using zoom with a passion.
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i love this camera but would really like to try my hand at a slr camera. hell it took me a year to realize that if i wanted to take crisp up close pictures without using zoom just to put it to the flower option and it allows me to get up really close and get nice crisp images. that and i hate using zoom with a passion.
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hmm i'll have to do that. this camera is also really picky about the slightest movement. i have to go and get a tripod one of these days lol. but i will definetly try to screw around with the white balance as you suggested onimirage. i love this camera and the price was awesome $400 down to $25. going out of business sales are awesome when its the last product and they really want to get rid of it lol. any other suggestions. theirs a bunch of writing on the lens casing that to be honest i have no idea what they mean.
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Got bored.
I know it's "not leveled", I went with that look illustrate my girlfriend, sliding out of the picture in the mid/background.
Just a snapshot type picture. It looked like an eerie/dark and mysterious tree lol
This building was blocked off but I would've liked to go inside. I didn't want to chance it though since it's by Leavenworth prison and escapees sometimes hide out in there, so I didn't feel like getting stabbed lol.
It's getting warmer, I can't wait to actually venture outside for some good pictures.
I know it's "not leveled", I went with that look illustrate my girlfriend, sliding out of the picture in the mid/background.
Just a snapshot type picture. It looked like an eerie/dark and mysterious tree lol
This building was blocked off but I would've liked to go inside. I didn't want to chance it though since it's by Leavenworth prison and escapees sometimes hide out in there, so I didn't feel like getting stabbed lol.
It's getting warmer, I can't wait to actually venture outside for some good pictures.
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Ok guys here are some pics from the car show tonight. Don't be too rough on me. Some of these I had to rush on because little kids kept jumpin in front of me when I was taking the pics so that may not be the greatest and some of the displays had funky lighting which messed things up a bit too. Well let me know what you think...
There ya go. Hopefully you all can see a bit of improvement from when I first started posting here. I've been working on it and trying to apply the tips you all have given me. Thanks again!
There ya go. Hopefully you all can see a bit of improvement from when I first started posting here. I've been working on it and trying to apply the tips you all have given me. Thanks again!
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hmm i'll have to do that. this camera is also really picky about the slightest movement. i have to go and get a tripod one of these days lol. but i will definetly try to screw around with the white balance as you suggested onimirage. i love this camera and the price was awesome $400 down to $25. going out of business sales are awesome when its the last product and they really want to get rid of it lol. any other suggestions. theirs a bunch of writing on the lens casing that to be honest i have no idea what they mean.