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Free Halton Air show!
And presumably you weren't using spot metering on the formations? I stick to spot metering for the formations, mainly because I'm so busy concentrating on what's going on that I forget to switch :oops: . Having said that, it's a lot easier to switch with a K10D than it was on the DS - diving into ...
Posted by yelvertoft on 20/06/2008 - 10:44
Free Halton Air show!
I force centre point AF and try and get it to lock focus (AF-C BTW) on a 'plane in the centre of the frame. Spot metering on even a small plane in the frame seems to bias the metering sufficiently to stop silhouetting when used in conjunction with some positive compensation. Together with shooting...
Posted by ChrisA on 20/06/2008 - 11:10
Free Halton Air show!
I can see I'm going to have to buy a 55-300 before Farnborough, at this rate... :) The line up for F'bro looks a bit tame this year. I'll be at RIAT Fairford next month so hope to get some good material. Don't know how good the 55-300 is but I find that knocking back the zoom on my Sigma 135-400...
Posted by yelvertoft on 20/06/2008 - 18:21
First Shot With 31Ltd
I agree not very sharp, as I said in my original post, it is very windy here today and the small flowers were blowing back and forth. I recognise only a few areas are in focus, I posted this, to show how wonderfully the lens deals with progressively OOF areas. Looking forward to when I have tim...
Posted by stevejcoe on 19/06/2008 - 13:14
My first photo post: Flower Macros for C&C plz
I've finally plucked up the courage to show some of my flower shots. All taken handheld with my tamron 90mm, manual focus and low light! I definitely need to get me a tripod! Well, here they are, C&C welcome (good and bad otherwise I'll never learn!) Thanks in advance Fiona ...
Posted by Utopia Poppy on 20/06/2008 - 01:17
My first photo post: Flower Macros for C&C plz
I'm with the buy-a-heavy-tripod-for-macro brigade too, but I think some of your compositions are on the right lines. I especially like numbers 2, 3 and 4 above (1 and 5 are a little too "centred" - remind me of place mats). In fact I'd say the field daisy (#3) is pretty much perfect as it...
Posted by hefty1 on 20/06/2008 - 09:57
My first photo post: Flower Macros for C&C plz
A tripod for flower shots like these really does help I find, not necessarily for allowing a smaller aperture for more depth of field (I happen to like the look of a narrow DoF with flower shots), but to allow you to focus on the critical point. That might mean taking several shots with the same co...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 20/06/2008 - 11:59
My first photo post: Flower Macros for C&C plz
Benbo tripod I have one of these, and as stated it has a unique construction that means that the legs can be used in water. Now if someone were to offer training on refolding the thing so it fits back in the bag, that would be a major benefit....I've wrestled with the Benbo for many happy hours a...
Posted by johnriley on 20/06/2008 - 20:59
Injured Bird
Poor thing. Looks like an Aussie version of a Moorhen. Most water-birds seem to fair quite well with only one foot. Which is just as well as you do tend to see a lot of them caused by fishing line damage. Its a shame they have too suffer in such a way. Good news though, I went back down there toda...
Posted by Clarky on 21/06/2008 - 12:40
Advice required on shooting black
I initially read the title of this thread as "advice on shooting back"!! Your depth of field here is too shallow. You either need to stop down further or change the angle to get more of the beastie to fall within the DOF available. just my 2 cents
Posted by Mongoose on 20/06/2008 - 22:22
phalaenopsis
Excellent exposure, superb composition, very nice. :D But :shock:, the backlight cast a shadow of the stem of the flower behind on the petal of the front flower, and now I've noticed it, my eye keeps getting drawn to it. Bit of dodging should sort it, I reckon. Or if you could set it up again,...
Posted by gartmore on 21/06/2008 - 17:21
phalaenopsis
oddly enough, I did notice, and it didn't really bother me. since you are reshooting...... try one shot where the flower position/dof gets the background flower with the (what do you call it...Pistol?) colored bits in focus....
Posted by Don on 21/06/2008 - 17:31
phalaenopsis
I'll elaborate: I thought the idea work nicely. the two view points show the flower in an imaginative, unconventional composition. it's a tough one to light. there's lots of nice detial in the texture of the petals (even on the bits of the back flower). and even the shadow, ties the foreground ...
Posted by Don on 21/06/2008 - 17:58
phalaenopsis
Well, what a pathetic excuse that was about modelling lamps, the shadow was perfectly obvious when I walked around the back, a lesson learned about translucent subjects. So, here it is quickly re-shot. Couldn't get exactly the same composition - it appears that living things actually move - i'll sti...
Posted by gartmore on 21/06/2008 - 19:31
phalaenopsis
Very nice - but I do like the light on the first one better - the back flower is better lit....and that adds a lot to the image. I got no clue how you remove the shadow. Keep it up ;)
Posted by Nimitz on 21/06/2008 - 19:35
phalaenopsis
Very nice - but I do like the light on the first one better - the back flower is better lit....and that adds a lot to the image. I got no clue how you remove the shadow. Keep it up ;) Cant win :roll: :lol: I moved the back light to the other side - but clearly too far :x I'm going to ...
Posted by gartmore on 21/06/2008 - 19:51
phalaenopsis
Very nice - but I do like the light on the first one better - the back flower is better lit....and that adds a lot to the image. I got no clue how you remove the shadow. Keep it up ;) Cant win :roll: :lol: I moved the back light to the other side - but clearly too far :x I'm going to ...
Posted by Nimitz on 21/06/2008 - 20:00
phalaenopsis
Cant win :roll: :lol: I like the second one much, much more. Notwithstanding those that liked the white before, I think the detail is much clearer in the second one, both in the centre of the foreground one, and its petals. There's also enough in focus in the background one to maintain int...
Posted by ChrisA on 22/06/2008 - 00:51
phalaenopsis
Re: cropping/framing, I was using the term 'crop' not to imply that you'd cropped the image after taking it, but cropping the subject when you took it. Framing would have been a better term, I agree. :roll: Second one looks a little less bright than the first, to me it looks as though the expos...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 22/06/2008 - 11:39
phalaenopsis
Re: cropping/framing, I was using the term 'crop' not to imply that you'd cropped the image after taking it, but cropping the subject when you took it. Framing would have been a better term, I agree. :roll: Second one looks a little less bright than the first, to me it looks as though the expos...
Posted by gartmore on 22/06/2008 - 17:42
