New Camera, some pics (sorry 56k)

[WhiteStallionGT]

New Rebel XT pics. I'm kinda a noob, these were the best shots I could muster, lol. Sorry no car pics, it's dirty. I'll have some later this week.

http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/pink flowers.jpg


http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/deck.jpg


http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/stangnet hydrant.jpg


http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/lights.jpg


http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/dining.jpg


http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3991/stangnet pods.jpg

 

[Yobi1Kanobi]

nice camera

 

[xr8d302]

really nice camera! I'm trying to get into the photography thing as well, but need some cash to buy a really good camera...my HP 735 royally eats poop

 

[xr8d302]

what aperture are you working with there?

 

[WhiteStallionGT]

Thanks guys

Aaron, with the green leaf shot, the Apeture value was 5.6. With the pink flowers, the Apeture was 4. For the outdoor shots, the ISO was 100 and indoor shots the ISO was 400. White balance on the outdoor shots were set on "cloudy". I think the shots turn out better that way when there is a lot of sunlight (kinda wierd).

If you're low on cash. You should check bhp.com. No Payment for 90 days.

here's the camera I bought

 

[Guero]

holy crap you spent 1000 bucks on a camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Guero looks to his side and looks at his guns and thinks the same thing-

hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaa

edit- ebay has them for like 1 g

 

[xr8d302]

that looks like a great camera!

 

[SeventyMach1]

Holy "foreign language for camera use" batman!


I have no idea what all that crap means .... but it takes really good pics. And that's good enough, lol.

 

[Zero Signal]

I like to try to shoot ISO 100-200 outside and close the aperture to around 10-11 and under-expose it by about a 1/3 stop to keep everything within the dynamic range. And if need be, shoot RAW. The one with the umbrella is pretty close since you can still see the blue of the sky. The lightpole could go down about 2/3 stop, but not too much since the shadows will go black. The fire-hydrant one has too much contrast, I think you have the defualt Parameter 1 set. I like to set it to custom and put everything to 0 but the sharpness to +1. That should keep the greens and reds from clipping and oversaturating.

Which lens were you using?

Now you need to play with long exposures . . .

I'm proud of this one
View attachment 458471

And really fast exposures . . .
(mexico trip)
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BTW, the wave pic looks freaking awsome at 14"x11" print

 

[WhiteStallionGT]

wow those are some amazing pics John. Thanks for the advice. lol and you caught me on the fire hydrant shot. I turned the contrast all the way up on the software. It just looked too dull when I took it. I definitely need some practice. When I'm taking pics outside in the bright sunlight, they look like any other camera, I have to mess with them a bit in ps to make them look good.

I'm a 28-105mm lens. The lamp post shot, I was zoomed in all the way.

Feel free to share your other shots!

 

[WhiteStallionGT]

lol just for kicks, here's the same shot with a Canon A75 (3.2 megapixels), same time of day, same settings, same modifications.

Comparison. lol

 

[Zero Signal]

You gotta forget trying to make it look special, becuase when you shrink the photo down, you bring the 8.0mp images back down to around <1mp where you loose all the good details caught in the real image. As for the contrast, unless you are going for a very specific mood or look, you want to keep the image as true to your eyes as possible. I do, however edit photos that have any kind of issue, like overexposure, or washed out sky.

Here is one in San Carlos, no editing, just shrunken
View attachment 458425

And here it is with alittle color correction and a (very) light sharpen to compensate for the downsample degradation. Only problem now is that the shadows are darker.
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Before I get chewed on the bandwidth . . .

Here's a cool night-scuba shot
http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=4

Here is one that I didn't think needed much editing. The sky is alittle washed out though.
http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=8

This one required no editing.
http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=0

Most images have been downsampled to 50% of their original size.

 

[Zero Signal]

Lol, nice comparison. The Canon is a good piece for sure.

 

[WhiteStallionGT]

Those are some great shots John.

Do you have any tips on shooting fireworks? I totally flopped tonite, I couldn't get them the way I wanted them to look.

 

[Zero Signal]

Funny you ask . . . tonight was my first time shooting fireworks. I really wish I had more zoom. I was maxed out at 55mm on all of them They were all shot from my crappy tripod so they might be sorta shaky.

I found the best exposure settings were:
Shutter: 6 sec.
Aperture: F/20
ISO-400
White Balance: Auto
Exposure Program: Manual

With those settings, I got a lot of good ones. We were on a parking garage and could see a mean dust/rain storm coming fast and everyone started to run for cover so I totally flubbed the grand-finally.

See the file info below the pics . . . these are a few I liked from tonight.

http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0

http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=1

http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=2

Notice the "A" on the mountain. They fire from behind the hill. It's almost a tradition to burn down that hill evey fourth, it's great.
http://www.img.byteblock.com/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=3

 

[WhiteStallionGT]

Holycrap dude, those are some amazing fireworks shots. You're using an XT correct?

Here's a continuous action shot I took of my friend shooting off a bottle rocket. Look at his arm, lol. Kinda neat.

 

[1TallMF]

Good golly.... I once thought my camera gave awsome pics, but after seeing some on this thread, I'm jealous. I think its time for a better camera....

Good job, guys

 

[Zero Signal]

Yeah, all taken with the XT. Nice bottlerocket shot, enteresting how the sparks travel around.

 

[MysteryMachine]

Nice fireworks shot. I'm always to busy lighting them to get any pics. Got some video of my dad lighting the test shot and some of him and my bro in law relighting the Grand Finally over and over again from our barge shoot last night. We had a bad storm come through and **** got wet wouldn't light for crap