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Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:08 pm
by SandyCoin
[iup=3659233]Poser[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3654142]SandyCoin[/iup] wrote:Got my new camera the other day. Went for the Nikon D3200 so I'll try and get good and post some snappies.


Nice one. That's the camera I have. For my purposes, it's been great, and a colossal step up from the bridge camera I had been using.

What lens did you get? As mentioned above, I can recommend getting a fixed lens asap.

I have a 35mm prime lens which is fantastic for most purposes, especially portraits, etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikon-AF-S-NIKK ... B001S2PPT0

While you're getting to grips with the camera, though, the kit lens (I have the standard 18-55mm one) is good enough.

I also bought a cheap 70-300mm Tamron zoom lens for wildlife shots, but you can tell it's cheap and the results generally aren't very good.


The lens I got was the one that came with it. Nikkor 18-55mm VR II

The Tamron you mentioned was in another offer but the reviews weren't overly favourable so decided to wait and save for a better lens.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:12 am
by Poser
Yeah, definitely do that. I might chop mine in, TBH, but I doubt I'd get very much for it.

Seems you can get a decent Nikon zoom lens for about £200-£300, so I think I'll be doing that next.

Make sure you post some pics on here when you've had chance to take some.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:25 pm
by SandyCoin
Will do. Still trying to understand the settings, like when to use each different manual setting etc. I like the portrait pictures it takes though. Nice and soft backgrounds and really clear focus on the face.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:59 am
by Poser
Pic of the hound. I was pretty pleased with this one. She will quite happily spend hours just staring at me like this.

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Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:59 pm
by Cal
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Genuinely impressive photography, there.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:11 am
by Alvin Flummux
These were taken a few years ago, and with a Canon Pixma camera, but I like them.

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Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:23 am
by OldSoulCyborg
It's been a while. I just got a Speed Booster to make better use of my old manual lenses (Canon FD mount) on my MFT camera. Liking it a lot so far and I'm even considering expanding my collection of FD lenses to include an ultra wide (but holy strawberry float is a 14mm FD lens expensive on ebay) and a portrait lens (probably one of the 85mm ones. The f1.2 one is tantalizingly close to an acceptable price, but the f1.8 is practically an impulse buy...)).
Anyway, here are some shots I took with the Speed Booster. The wheelbarrows one is taken with a 50mm, the other two are taken with a 24mm.
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Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:52 pm
by Harry Bizzle
I don't know what it is about your photos, Cyborg, but I always find they're incredibly sharp.


Tried a bit of long exposure stuff:

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I'm thinking of chucking the D3100. It's an alright camera, but I don't like the screen. It's worthless for checking exposure.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:30 pm
by Kezzer
I am finding a lot of my pictures aren't as sharp as i would like, in fact some are just plain terrible, I dunno if it is just me or my settings, currently using a canon 700d, with an EFS 18-200mm lens and also have a canon 50mm prime.


Any advice other than just practice ?

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:57 pm
by Harry Bizzle
Don't shoot lenses wide open if you don't have to or don't want to take advantage of the shallow depth of field. Most lenses are the least sharp at their widest aperture.


Then there's obvious stuff like shooting at a faster shutter speed and what not.

More often than not, your photos are sharp, you just won't think so if you blow them up to 100% and pixel peep them.

And good light (i.e. edge lighting) makes things definition and makes them look sharp.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:38 pm
by Green Gecko
I always try to look at my photos objectively by zooming out to about a5 size or whatever they will be printed at on my monitor, instead of 100%. If it looks good it looks good.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:43 am
by Poser
Green Gecko wrote:I always try to look at my photos objectively by zooming out to about a5 size or whatever they will be printed at on my monitor, instead of 100%. If it looks good it looks good.


That's really not a bad shout. I can get a bit obsessed with absolute clarity, especially on faces/eyes. But most the time the pic looks decent at normal scale/distance.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:51 am
by Green Gecko
It comes from experience working professionally in galleries etc. It's simply a waste of time. Always consider your end intent (media) and user/audience. If it's not going to be blown up massive then save a copy and do something reasonable with it. You can always go back to your RAWs and sharpen the strawberry float out of specific parts if you want to.

A while thinking this way and you'll probably realise you needn't do this most the time, and that way you're more productive. Sometimes you have to let go of your baby.

Also stand back from your work and consider how you're not going to be 1-2ft away from the image when it's on a wall!!

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 8:49 pm
by OldSoulCyborg
I was walking by this wall and this cat decided to follow me.
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Flickr's new Magic View is pretty strawberry floating cool. It's not perfect (there's a picture of a cat that Flickr thought was a picture of a bird), but it's very impressive just how accurate it can be. It's also pretty cool to see which photos the algorithm thinks are serene or surreal or abstract or minimalist.

Harry Bizzle wrote:I don't know what it is about your photos, Cyborg, but I always find they're incredibly sharp.

Thanks, I think. It probably has something to do with me always messing with sharpening, contrast and clarity (probably too much).

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 8:54 pm
by Victor Mildew
Great shots there!

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 7:44 pm
by OldSoulCyborg
Thanks.

A couple from today:
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Flickr's Magic View keeps impressing. It auto-tagged that second photo as 'abstract'.

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 9:36 pm
by Kezzer
Had the opportunity to take some photos of my mates band the other night. Really enjoyed it, darting around the stage and stuff. About half way through I motioned to one of the crew guys if I could go almost 'back stage' to get shots from the side, felt like a pro!

Anyway....... First time trying to shoot in the dark so they have a fair bit of noise :oops:


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Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 1:25 am
by Alvin Flummux
Oh shut up, those are gorgeous!

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 9:19 am
by Poser
Kezzer, Old Soul, they are some great pics.

Kezzer - I love the top one with the drummer.

OSC - the B&W of the cat :wub:

Re: Take some amazing photos and post them here

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 12:18 pm
by Alvin Flummux
Couple of years old.

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