Your Own Photography
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Moonball
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I really like the second image here. The old leaves and the bokeh.
I've alwayswantedto get into photography, but life and stuff has kept getting in the way.
I finally took a step, and bought a Fujifilm X-M1 with the pancake lens. Haven't had time to get any good shots yet, but here is a few from my testrun. This is an awesome camera - complete amateur, out-of-camera JPEGs
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Whoa (yours is much nicer)Some images of my first day out with new gear. Bought a Nikon D800E and the Nikon "Holy Trinity" - 14-24mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8. Also bought 85mm f/1.8 and 105mm f/2.8. Gotta spend bonus money on fun stuff, no matter what wife thinks.
The crop of the bee is a 1:1, all hand held, no VR. These were all with the 24-70mm which is kickass on a FX sensor - loving it so far.
A couple I took while walking around the art museum grounds here. Taken with my phone so they aren't anything special, mainly checking out the quality of the photos the phone could take. Quality went down the pooper in panoramic mode.
killer post!
how did you achieve that haze effect without having it overwhelm and ruin the shot?
how did you achieve that haze effect without having it overwhelm and ruin the shot?
i hate selective color, but this photo conveys message and whispers, "redrum, redrum" me gustaGo a bunch of new shots I haven't posted. Here's from this week.
woops, forgot to post photo with last comment.
some HDR from awhile back that's hanging out in my photobucket.
some HDR from awhile back that's hanging out in my photobucket.
I finally found the pic I was looking for and posted those instead.
HDR is a fun pain in the butt! I really want to use it more.
HDR is a fun pain in the butt! I really want to use it more.
Moonball
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600 rule, divide 600 by your focal length and that is the max exposure so stars don't trail. So for these exposures at 14mm I could have gone about 42 sec but in manual mode my max exposure is 30" and I'm too lazy to get out my cable release. Also, the rule is "not" perfect I can zoom in on my images and see quite a bit of trailing.
Also set your aperture to wide open, this was a 14-24mm f/2.8 lens and its pretty sharp at 2.8 so I didn't stop down any. Some lenses you might stop down to say 3.5 or 4 to get the sharpest image it also reduces some coma from the cheaper lenses.
Then crank up the ISO, these images were at ISO 3200 on a full frame sensor (D800E) so there is little noise, on a crop sensor try 1600 or 2000 and you should get some great images.