Shooting a D7000 50mm 1.8F

Shooting in to the sun. I like the effect I got...



Motor shot in the garage, tripod with kit lens. Long shutter for the sharpness...



And some panning for a drift event....

 

Yes! I asked him to give me some reasons.

All he said was look at the Specs of the camera he purchased and the T3i, they are almost the same and told me not to look at Megapixles, megapixles don't matter. He went on about something with the mirrors inside the camera.

I told him he probably could've bought a used T2i or T3i for what he paid for that Sony, that really set him off.

I kinda wish I knew more about PS and SLR's so that I can point out the differences. But for now i'll just sit back and listen.

 

Megapixels don't matter, that's completely true. As a hobbyist you'll never need to print images at a large enough size to use even a full 10MP.

It's the glass that matters, and that's the part where you'll get him every. Single. Time. You can swap out your glass, he can't. High MP ratings and all of the fancy SLR features that 99% of people will never use serve one purpose and one purpose only on a P&S: making their camera look better than the direct competition, and like a better bargain than their competition's SLRs. You still get half the camera and lose the most important part.

 

Nice pics

 

MMMmmm... Night shots...

 

^^ What were your shooting specs for the shots? F#, ISO, shutter speed, etc. Great shots!

 

Thank you sir! I was shooting with the kit lens on my Rebel XS, so nothing fancy there. Next upgrade once/if I get my car squared away for this season is a faster lens for sure.

Aperture priority mode, F/3.5, ISO 200, manual focus, minor adjustments (sharpening, exposure, saturation) later in PS. Most exposures ended up being 3-5" in length as per camera decision.

 

Started toying around with my DSLR. I still need a lot of practice and how to set things for certain situations. Here are a couple unedited pictures. I really need to get my lightroom going. Just not much time to sit around and edit things these days.

 

I have a couple of quick questions - forgive me if they've already been covered in the 42 pages of this thread!

First up, I'm having trouble getting my photo's to look decent once converted to jpeg/png for web. I've sized them to around 1280x854 or so, but darker areas seem to loose all definition or become pixel-ish instead of having smooth colour/tone transitions. I've set the max quality but it doesn't help at all. Is there any way around this apart from saving in a less losey format such as TIFF?

My second (very very basic) question is in relation to the shots above - is a tripod 100% required for low light photography? I have tried adjusting iso settings and aperture but can't get rid of super blurry photo's, even in "dusk" lighting. I have only just got my dslr (Canon 600D), so am probably doing something wrong. Any tips to help until I am able to get a tripod?

Thanks all

 

You'll have to adjust shutter speed and aperture size until they stop becoming blurry. You should be able to get away with a slower shutter speed by adjusting the aperture size, but without a tripod, its a bit more difficult to avoid having any blurriness. Then you are open to using much better settings with a tripod. What is your ISO set to?

Watch some of these videos. It can help a bit. They gave me a basic understanding and my pictures have turned out a great deal better. But I still need to learn a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3Vlh-7ZOo

Get a tripod ASAP.

 

nice

 

 

Lovin' the white Evo 8 photo

 

Shooting a Nikon D90 w/ a 50mm 1.8F lens in aperture priority mode. I'm still learning this whole dslr photography thing any tips are well received. Here are some vintage cars I spotted on the way home from work.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6886459122/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6886459122/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

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very nice....i like all of the photos. the 50mm 1.8F is one of my favorite lens and stays on my camera 80% of the time.