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Comment by Don posted on just throwing one out there... at 09/01/2011 - 03:43
Smeggypants wrote:
My little sony compact has smile recognition.
I'm suer it will be possible in the future to have object recognition, so that at an airshow you can tell the camera to focus on what it thinks is a plane flying
I'm a portrait photographer.My little sony compact has smile recognition.
I'm suer it will be possible in the future to have object recognition, so that at an airshow you can tell the camera to focus on what it thinks is a plane flying
you want to impress me?
Show me a camera that can recognize ugly and fix it.
Comment by Don posted on How does camara decide which AF point to use? at 08/01/2011 - 04:02
Comment by Don posted on intervalometer diy at 07/01/2011 - 22:56
cardiff_gareth wrote:
I can't hazard a guess as to who started it, or if in fact Either or both of you are in God's country, but I am reasonably certian this barren, desolate frozen wasteland we call Manitoba, is Satan's vacation spot, if not Hell.bwlchmawr wrote:
I think you started it and I followed suit cardiff_gareth wrote:
The gods country location is a bit of an old joke with me and Andrew on here
Did I start it or you, Gareth? Whatever, whoever, we both know it to be true...The gods country location is a bit of an old joke with me and Andrew on here
Comment by Don posted on Radio Triggered Flash at 07/01/2011 - 22:34
ChrisA wrote:
I defy most people to pan so accurately as to keep a fast jet hurtling past at 400 mph bang in the centre AF spot.
If you can't, and I certainly can't, what happens is that you get it slightly wrong, and the lens hunts to infinity and you lose all sight of the aircraft in the VF.
Auto-AF-spot every time at airshows.
The background is almost invariably featureless, in which case the camera is much better at choosing what I'm looking at than I am.
It's the only case, mind you. Otherwise, I'm with Don. You have to be a bit careful with extreme wide-angles, because the recompose can dramatically change the subject distance from the focal plane.
I've done race cars using the pre-focus in manual and simply timing the shot... I don't care much for airshows, but have taken some plane shots when I went skydiving.Don wrote:
Stick to the centre spot and recompose method.
Except at airshows using AF-C.Stick to the centre spot and recompose method.
I defy most people to pan so accurately as to keep a fast jet hurtling past at 400 mph bang in the centre AF spot.
If you can't, and I certainly can't, what happens is that you get it slightly wrong, and the lens hunts to infinity and you lose all sight of the aircraft in the VF.
Auto-AF-spot every time at airshows.
The background is almost invariably featureless, in which case the camera is much better at choosing what I'm looking at than I am.
It's the only case, mind you. Otherwise, I'm with Don. You have to be a bit careful with extreme wide-angles, because the recompose can dramatically change the subject distance from the focal plane.
I think the issue boils down to predicting the spot and releasing the shutter just as the plane gets there.
but for sure predictive continuous af will yeild more keepers than my way. I compare my style more akin to a military sniper, as opposed to the machine gunning marines. I'm usually content to make one shot one kill, so to speak.
Switching brands was another option to get more keepers in the past.. let us hope the new kr/k5 will change all that!
Comment by Don posted on How does camara decide which AF point to use? at 07/01/2011 - 22:27
truthfully it measures contrast and brightness and looks for sharp edges/lines and then uses a mathematical algorithm to adjust focus to the point that is most likely to be a subject within the af zones..
in other words voodoo or witchcraft. Stick to the centre spot and recompose method.
in other words voodoo or witchcraft. Stick to the centre spot and recompose method.
Comment by Don posted on How does camara decide which AF point to use? at 07/01/2011 - 21:11
Mine appears to go "Eany meanie miny moe" unless I set it to centre spot then focus and re-compose.
Comment by Don posted on How does camara decide which AF point to use? at 07/01/2011 - 20:36
It is a visual communication medium. How honest it is depends on the person using it.
I mention magic earlier as a means to explain that even what you see with your own eyes can mislead...
Imagine taking Copperfield's act link and doing for an audience in the 1400's... you'd either wind up with another mainstream religion, or a witch burning...
I mention magic earlier as a means to explain that even what you see with your own eyes can mislead...
Imagine taking Copperfield's act link and doing for an audience in the 1400's... you'd either wind up with another mainstream religion, or a witch burning...
Comment by Don posted on What is photography? at 07/01/2011 - 18:10
Smeggypants wrote:
You see some terrible and obvious photoshopping on celebrity pics all the time.
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not just photoshopping:Don wrote:
Indeed. Who ever photoshopped the fake Iraqi Crowd image on the Evening standard should be fired too. Terrible Job.Pentaxophile wrote:
No I don't think John would take too kindly to that - he's had enough aggro this week already!
From my quick scan of reports it looks like the green helmet guy (Salam Daher?) was a Lebanese (not Israeli) Civil Defense Worker, and the conflict was the Israeli-Lebanon conflict 2006. The only criticism I can find is that he made sure the media got as much coverage as possible - he set up shots, held up bodies etc but it was all 'real' carnage. Not fakery. link
This was a bona fide fake though - link. The person responsible for that terrible bit of cloning worked for Reuters
never mind ethics, he deserved to be fired just for the poor photoshop job. No I don't think John would take too kindly to that - he's had enough aggro this week already!
From my quick scan of reports it looks like the green helmet guy (Salam Daher?) was a Lebanese (not Israeli) Civil Defense Worker, and the conflict was the Israeli-Lebanon conflict 2006. The only criticism I can find is that he made sure the media got as much coverage as possible - he set up shots, held up bodies etc but it was all 'real' carnage. Not fakery. link
This was a bona fide fake though - link. The person responsible for that terrible bit of cloning worked for Reuters
You see some terrible and obvious photoshopping on celebrity pics all the time.
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it has been bloggers that caught the mistakes and called the "Legitimate" news agencies out on fakes they might never have owned up to out of simple embarrassment.
You do not need photoshop to make a fake or misleading statement with a photo.
Comment by Don posted on What is photography? at 07/01/2011 - 17:58
Pentaxophile wrote:
No I don't think John would take too kindly to that - he's had enough aggro this week already!
From my quick scan of reports it looks like the green helmet guy (Salam Daher?) was a Lebanese (not Israeli) Civil Defense Worker, and the conflict was the Israeli-Lebanon conflict 2006. The only criticism I can find is that he made sure the media got as much coverage as possible - he set up shots, held up bodies etc but it was all 'real' carnage. Not fakery. link
This was a bona fide fake though - link. The person responsible for that terrible bit of cloning worked for Reuters
never mind ethics, he deserved to be fired just for the poor photoshop job. No I don't think John would take too kindly to that - he's had enough aggro this week already!
From my quick scan of reports it looks like the green helmet guy (Salam Daher?) was a Lebanese (not Israeli) Civil Defense Worker, and the conflict was the Israeli-Lebanon conflict 2006. The only criticism I can find is that he made sure the media got as much coverage as possible - he set up shots, held up bodies etc but it was all 'real' carnage. Not fakery. link
This was a bona fide fake though - link. The person responsible for that terrible bit of cloning worked for Reuters
Comment by Don posted on What is photography? at 07/01/2011 - 17:23
c&c welcome.