PHOTOS PLEASE

[seremtan]

oh wow

[Yeahso]

IS definitely makes your shots a bit softer when you're shooting from a tripod.

You should really only use IS when you absoultely need it.

[Doombrain]

oh wow

again, thanks for playing.

[seremtan]

IS definitely makes your shots a bit softer when you're shooting from a tripod.

something i would never actually do when using a tripod

again, thanks for playing.

ok form

[Doombrain]

you can't accept you're wrong. i get it.

[Don Carlos]

So are there any good sites to do with post processing or what?

I think it is something I may need to start doing

[Doombrain]

TBH PP is kept close to peoples chest but you should be able to find a few.

any idea what you want to try?

some people make good money by selling photoshop actions.

[seremtan]

you can't accept you're wrong. i get it.

learn to read, angry man

[Doombrain]

give it a rest ffs

[Don Carlos]

TBH PP is kept close to peoples chest but you should be able to find a few.

any idea what you want to try?

some people make good money by selling photoshop actions.

No idea what I want to do, I just wish to make my pictures look nice...
The pic of my dogs - what could I do with it to make it look like some of the other shots here?

[Doombrain]

pic a shot

[Don Carlos]

pic a shot

Can you do something with that

[tnf]

Have my first shoot with a model this weekend. She's in town from LA visiting family and saw an ad I posted along with some of my work, liked it, and wants to shoot with me.

She is in this video at around 2:39 or so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tre0WtMB-dE

[Yeahso]

Some night photography



I only just got round ot processing this, and something weird happened with the EXIF. It says 7:25pm, but I took this picture ate 2:25am.

Either way, this was shot in pitch black. There was a lot of moonlight reflecting off the snow, so I was able to get a pretty noiseless long exposure.

[tnf]

Shot my first wedding last night for friends of my brother's family - wasn't a free job, but I wasn't charging them a boatload either. Horrid location (small chapel, god-awful lighting inside) and it was my first time in the place - and there was no rehearsal from a previous day that I could have used to plan my shots. So it was pretty much a 'get it right on the first try' situation. I need to upgrade my equipment if I am going to do another one of these - and I'd like to, eventually, do them professionally. Going to work with some local wedding guys as a secondary photographer on a volunteer basis. The exposures are tricky to get just right - black tuxes, white dresses and poor light with a strong orange/red cast over everything - and a flash that can't keep up.

Even more impressed now with the work that the good pros do at weddings. More experience will definitely make things easier. And I would really have liked to used a camera that did better at ISO 800 or so (my wife liked helping out enough that I will probably have her use the old 50D as an additional photographer when I get a 5DmkII - someday).

[Don Carlos]

You are really getting into this photography business tnf...

[seremtan]

Shot my first wedding last night for friends of my brother's family - wasn't a free job, but I wasn't charging them a boatload either. Horrid location (small chapel, god-awful lighting inside) and it was my first time in the place - and there was no rehearsal from a previous day that I could have used to plan my shots. So it was pretty much a 'get it right on the first try' situation. I need to upgrade my equipment if I am going to do another one of these - and I'd like to, eventually, do them professionally. Going to work with some local wedding guys as a secondary photographer on a volunteer basis. The exposures are tricky to get just right - black tuxes, white dresses and poor light with a strong orange/red cast over everything - and a flash that can't keep up.

Even more impressed now with the work that the good pros do at weddings. More experience will definitely make things easier. And I would really have liked to used a camera that did better at ISO 800 or so (my wife liked helping out enough that I will probably have her use the old 50D as an additional photographer when I get a 5DmkII - someday).

so let me get this straight: you bought your camera a few months ago, get a few tips from q3w, and you're actually making money off of it already?

i fuckin hate you man

[tnf]

yea, I really dove in. It's starting to snowball a bit but there is still a long way to go.

[tnf]

Shot my first wedding last night for friends of my brother's family - wasn't a free job, but I wasn't charging them a boatload either. Horrid location (small chapel, god-awful lighting inside) and it was my first time in the place - and there was no rehearsal from a previous day that I could have used to plan my shots. So it was pretty much a 'get it right on the first try' situation. I need to upgrade my equipment if I am going to do another one of these - and I'd like to, eventually, do them professionally. Going to work with some local wedding guys as a secondary photographer on a volunteer basis. The exposures are tricky to get just right - black tuxes, white dresses and poor light with a strong orange/red cast over everything - and a flash that can't keep up.

Even more impressed now with the work that the good pros do at weddings. More experience will definitely make things easier. And I would really have liked to used a camera that did better at ISO 800 or so (my wife liked helping out enough that I will probably have her use the old 50D as an additional photographer when I get a 5DmkII - someday).

so let me get this straight: you bought your camera a few months ago, get a few tips from q3w, and you're actually making money off of it already?

i fuckin hate you man

I've been really lucky and sold about 30 prints at this time - people are really liking some of the shots of the city I've done. But I'm branching into the most interesting part right now - model shoots. Put up an ad looking for people who want some free portfolio shots done (experienced or new to the modeling world), have 15 women now who want to shoot with me (even after seeing my work...which was surprising since all I have is landscapes and work from some senior and kids portrait shoots). It's all for gaining experience and building my own portfolio of work so that when I get my business website up and running, I've got some gallery work with some photogenic people. Was going to be shooting with this girl this morning but had to move it to tomorrow and then another shoot Thursday night.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/797013

She is in town visiting family for the week.

And I'm still completely grounded in the reality that I am not even close to being ready to doing this for money on a regular basis. The more you learn about photography, the bigger the gap between true professional and talented amateur appears. But my post-processing is improving!

[seremtan]

good stuff

attempt at a moon shot (200mm):

[PhoeniX]

Mainly, Photoshop's RAW importer window needs a history window (or perhaps it does and I missed it) so I can experiment with the individual slider values and undo/redo and compare and contrast over and over. Right now I change one value, can't remember what it was set to by default and then have to reset all settings back to default. This makes adjusting more than one of the settings near impossible.

Get Lightroom - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop ... /features/ it's perfect for this and keeps a history. You only have to touch Photoshop if you're doing some serious editing, and to make things easier Lightroom and Photoshop will work together, you can choose to edit images straight from Lightroom and have it update your Lightroom catalog again when you're done.

[obsidian]

Lightroom seconded here! Great program for anyone seriously into photography.

[tnf]

Does Lightroom do anything that CS4 doesn't, or is just a sort of streamlined subset of Photoshop functions?

[Don Carlos]

Was going to be shooting with this girl this morning but had to move it to tomorrow and then another shoot Thursday night.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/797013

She is in town visiting family for the week.

Well there are down sides to every job I guess...

[seremtan]

Does Lightroom do anything that CS4 doesn't, or is just a sort of streamlined subset of Photoshop functions?

does PS allow you to change the exposure or the WB? (does PS even handle RAW files? haven't used it since CS1) if not, then there's a couple of things LR does that are extremely useful. also, being able to import pics off the SD card into the LR catalogue via context menu is useful too.