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TD
Location: Indiana Total Likes: 50 likes
| | | Just Learning DSLR < on 9/22/2015 3:44 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Bvmblebee
Location: Ontario, Canada Gender: Male Total Likes: 126 likes
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| | | | Re: Just Learning DSLR < Reply # 2 on 9/23/2015 4:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Hey TD, Just to echo what Deuterium said, use the auto-focus to your advantage. Trying to master manual focus is not only very time consuming but it also puts the cart before the horse when it comes to other things. My biggest suggestion would be to work on your composition. Photo number two and three (more so two) certainly begin to show an understanding of the rule of thirds. Using straight objects, in this case the beams, are an awesome way of directing a viewers attention to certain areas. The rule of thirds doesn't always have to be your go to technique either. There's the spiral, one point perspective, two point perspective and natural framing, these are all great ways to tell the story you want to tell. On a positive note, your exposures were well done. The windows were well mastered, avoiding blow outs and glare. Most of all you avoided strictly toasting your images in HDR glow and that's a huge plus when starting out. I look forward to seeing your future work and your next thread. Keep up the great work TD and safe exploring!
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| Deuterium
Location: PNW Gender: Male Total Likes: 290 likes
| | | Re: Just Learning DSLR < Reply # 6 on 9/24/2015 11:58 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've never heard of the rule of the thirds until this thread. Things are a bit different for SLRs, because what you see in the optical viewfinder and what the sensor captures aren't an exact match. If you're composing with the LCD, everything you see is captured. Posted by d0dg3rjavascript:sub() Regarding the above comments on the colour of OP's pictures, what specifically are you recommending? If TD was shooting in RAW, would you recommend that he set the WB to be the same across all of his pictures? To what extent should he correct for shooting indoor/outdoor, with stained glass (which always makes things tricky!) and with changes in colour of the ambient light (esp during sunset/sunrise).
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There is no one answer. Films are not adjustable. Tungsten films were designed so white sheet looks white when shot with incandescent lighting and the same white sheet looks the same outdoors. Setting to a fixed WB makes it behave like film. On auto balance, your skin will have different tone with a light pink background compared to a light blue background, because the camera will try to tweak the white balance. I use cloudy day and daylight settings the most often. If you leave it on daylight, it maintains the color effect of sunset/sunrise. On the other hand, if you're taking a picture with sky light on a cloudy day, everything gets a blue tint. If you want the white to look white, aim the camera on a white paper and manually calibrate using the manual WB setting. Finally, the finished file would not look the same between the camera LCD, your monitor and different monitors unless they're each precisely color calibrated, but you can tell when colors are all over the place from shot to shot.
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| TD
Location: Indiana Total Likes: 50 likes
| | | Re: Just Learning DSLR < Reply # 7 on 9/25/2015 1:18 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by enirus I really love your composition, and like what that first guy said, you're colors are all over the place, but I have no idea if all these pictures are from the same trip. But if you're posting a group of photos as a set or intend them to be looked at like that, then you want some consistency.
| Thank you, first of all. I shot all of these raw with white balance on auto because I knew it didn't really matter since I was shooting raw anyway and planned to make adjustments. In post I treated each picture individually and did what I thought made each picture look best, with no regard for the continuity of my colors. I didn't know that keeping a rather consistent WB was a kind of unspoken rule. Posted by d0dg3r Regarding the above comments on the colour of OP's pictures, what specifically are you recommending? If TD was shooting in RAW, would you recommend that he set the WB to be the same across all of his pictures? To what extent should he correct for shooting indoor/outdoor, with stained glass (which always makes things tricky!) and with changes in colour of the ambient light (esp during sunset/sunrise).
| I'd like to echo all of these questions. If it is down to preference, as Deuterium suggests, then why not just treat each picture individually? Tweaking WB would most likely give the best individual images, especially when you're dealing with a really diverse set of lighting scenarios like I was here. Thank you to everyone for the feedback!
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