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Location: live and in the fresh
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<Reply # 20 on 2/9/2008 11:23 AM >
|  | | | Posted by TheAMA
...second, never use a flash ever...
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Posted by TheAMA
And yeah, don't use a flash.
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Posted by MDexplorer
Im with theAMA, dont use flash!!
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Posted by Mobian
oh and never ever use a flash ! never!
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STFU already about flashes. Flash is merely a tool - use it like a noob and you'll get shit results. Use flash(es) well and you'll get great results. Since none of you can do it, I'll give OP some advice on using a flash:
On camera flash tends to give a flat deer in headlights look. Getting your flashes off camera will improve the light quality. I'd suggest stay away from using flash until you have a solid grounding in the fundamentals of photography (appeture, shutterspeed, iso, composition, DOF etc). Good flash photography is complicated and difficult, bad flash photography is far too easy.
You've posted a bunch of boring snapshots you can't save by merely tweaking the colour or rotating them a little. You need to train your eyes to pick out interesting scenes. Hit up some of the big photo sites and start trying to identify what makes a photo good.
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RochesterUE
  
Gender: Male
I'm a piggie!
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<Reply # 21 on 2/11/2008 4:35 PM >
| | | | Thank you too all of you who gave me advice. Over the weekend I went to Gore Mountain in the Adirondaks... Here are some shots I took... They are all taken with a Nikon D70S Camera and a 70mm-300mm lens. And yes, I used a tripod...
Number 1
ISO Too low?
Number 2
Decent I think.
Number 3
ISO Too high? Too dark...
Number 4
Number 5
Number 6
Number 7
Number 8
Decent I think.
Number 9
ISO Too Low
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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop... |
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nohbdy
  
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 22 on 2/11/2008 4:41 PM >
| | | | number 9 use shadows and highlights in photoshop
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zmuh11
Location: St. Louis
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 23 on 2/11/2008 5:04 PM >
| | | | First and foremost, learn to resize your photos!!!!
Now, you need to learn to post-process in photoshop or something equivalent. All your photos are a little dark, except for #1 which is extremely over exposed.
When I get some time, and your permission, I will show you what I mean about processing.
This set is an improvement on your first one, but you still need to learn about composition, exposure, all that jazz. I'd suggest educating yourself online or with a good book.
That's all I got for now, but I'll be back later with improvements, pending your permission of course.
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RochesterUE
Gender: Male
I'm a piggie!
| | Re: The past few weeks
<Reply # 24 on 2/11/2008 5:39 PM >
| | | | Permission: GRANTED.
http://cat.org.au/~predator/approach.txt
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop... |
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zmuh11
Location: St. Louis
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 25 on 2/11/2008 7:55 PM >
| | | | Ok, so I went back and tried my hand at these shots. I found that with a couple of button clicks I was able to turn them into quite awesome shots.
Here we go
1.
First thing I did was hit the auto levels button to make everything a little less blue. Then just by playing around with the contrast and lighting I got to something I liked. Then I had a choice to make. The bottom right corner has that really annoying snow in it, and not matter how I tried I couldn't get a composition that I liked with the snow in it. So after completely cutting the snow out I cropped a little bit at a time off the left side till I got something I liked. The tree trunk on the right kind of became my subject.
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For real all I did on this one was hit the auto levels button. Then I selected a light blue and using the color controls I lightened it a little bit to make the snow more white. Other than that the composition on this one was spot on.
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Again first thing was auto levels, then I got rid of the spots using the healing brush tool. Then I increased the midtone contrast a bit and it was good to go. Again the composition was good, but the exposure was wrong. Is the power of post-processing apparent yet?
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Again auto levels to make everything less blue. Then with this one the subject is obviously the skier jumping. So I cropped off the button a bit to get rid of the uninteresting snow. I almost made this one a square but I couldn't get it to work, so I left it as a rectangle.
I hope this shows you the value of post-processing. I'd definitely look into getting and learning photoshop, and learn the manual mode on your camera so your exposures don't turn out so funky.
Enjoy, I hope this helped somewhat.
Peace
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insainly sound
Location: Bay Area, CA
Gender: Female
How'd we get here, and how are we getting out of here?!
| | | Re: The past few weeks
<Reply # 26 on 2/11/2008 8:42 PM >
| | | | As for your UE photos, I suggest like everyone else has lower your ISO, but I would go contrary and say that if you use a low ISO and a high aperture, the flash can be used as a fill flash if used sparingly. I have the Nikon D70 and I tend to shoot at ISO 200 in program mode (unless I'm doing something artsy) when exploring. If you shoot that way, tripod tripod tripod! I am lazy and hate my tripod, so I tend to brace my self and put my camera in continuous mode and shoot sets of three. What normally happens is the first photo is blurry, the second improves, and the third is clear, and after the third there is rarely any difference. But above all take your camera everywhere (I know it's big!) I carry my D70, Nikon 80-400, Nikon 50mm, 2x tele-converter, and Tamron 18-200 lens with me on a daily basis, and often when I have a lunch break at work find myself taking pictures, and only since I started doing that have I started to become happy with my photos (both UE and non-UE)... That's just my two cents though!
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