#7578063 - 02/27/14 09:04 AM
Re: which is better?
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Duc
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You built a light box, then didn't use any lights.
don't have any. I don't want to make a studio per say but I do want to find ways to make my photos better while still learning
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#7578099 - 02/27/14 09:23 AM
Re: which is better?
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4 pieces of paper, a card board box,, scissors, some cheap lights, viola!!! Lightbox!
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#7578170 - 02/27/14 09:50 AM
Re: which is better?
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Duc
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4 pieces of paper, a card board box,, scissors, some cheap lights, viola!!! Lightbox!
funny how one wants to stay outside with their photography and I start venturi9ng inside to take product shots of stuff.
winter needs to pass so I can get back outside to shoot
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#7578194 - 02/27/14 10:02 AM
Re: which is better?
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You can still shoot in the winter, it just sucks most of the time
I was out chasing snowy owls yesterday.. Of course the only one we saw was about 500ft away in the middle of a field. Even with the Canon 100-400 there wasn't enough reach. Then the god damn thing flew up and over the highway. We lost sight of it while on the chase, never did see it again.
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#7578931 - 02/27/14 02:25 PM
Re: which is better?
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if you want to shoot commercially, like for warn and stuff, it would behoove you to learn product photography. check out the don gianatti courses on creative live. he did one on table top work, and he constructs and uses a number of low buck modifiers. There's a handful of people int he p52 classes that are using home depot clamp on lights, desktop lights, all sorts of random stuff. you can get velum/transfer paper and make a frame out of poster board, tape the velum over the frame and stick that in front of a light, or make the white box out of that construction, now you have a backlit box. you don't need strobes, you can do constant lighting with great results. lock down the camera with a tripod so you can keep a nice low iso for smooth results. that makes it hard as you're learning what angles to shoot from, but be patient while you work through it.
Also, learn how to set a custom white balance. I'm pretty sure you can on your camera. I think with canon's you'd drape a paper towel or coffee filter over the lens, point at the light source, set your exposure correctly, take a shot, then you apply that shot to the setting. on my nikon's i just take the shot and it does it on it's own.
i think on the yoke's, you'd want most of it in focus, then clone the seam out in the background. The photos are very flat, no contrast. That doesn't mean ratchet up the contrast in post though. As these aren't very reflective it'd be tough to get a utilize a specular highlight to show the shape of the yoke...I don't really know how I'd make this interesting.
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#7579054 - 02/27/14 03:43 PM
Re: which is better?
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Huggy
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What that white balance and focal point do?
Seriously, neither picture are that great as way too thin on depth of field. Open up to at least F8, preferably f11-22 to get everything in focus. A tripod and a longer shutter speed will keep everything else good. Finally, if you miss the white balance while shooting, a good program like PS or Lightroom will have the proper corrections for you.
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#7579085 - 02/27/14 04:07 PM
Re: which is better?
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Duc
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What that white balance and focal point do?
Seriously, neither picture are that great as way too thin on depth of field. Open up to at least F8, preferably f11-22 to get everything in focus. A tripod and a longer shutter speed will keep everything else good. Finally, if you miss the white balance while shooting, a good program like PS or Lightroom will have the proper corrections for you.
thank you. I will try that tonight. i'm still learning about the focal points
does that setting help with subjects that are close up like the one that I posted above or is that a good general setting
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#7579178 - 02/27/14 05:11 PM
Re: which is better?
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If you want to shoot with shallow depth of field, make sure you focus on the part you want people to look at. These, are both pretty bad... Nothing personal. Try again!
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#7579235 - 02/27/14 05:51 PM
Re: which is better?
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You need a curved back to prevent seeing the seam and can do this with a simple piece of paper. Or multiple if the item is larger.
You need to stop down to at least f8, you should have lights, even if they're a constant source and you should always position the item as you intend it to be perceived.
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#7579249 - 02/27/14 05:59 PM
Re: which is better?
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Duc
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If you want to shoot with shallow depth of field, make sure you focus on the part you want people to look at. These, are both pretty bad... Nothing personal. Try again! Nate
back to practicing
thanks parker
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#7579453 - 02/27/14 08:32 PM
Re: which is better?
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What that white balance and focal point do?
Seriously, neither picture are that great as way too thin on depth of field. Open up to at least F8, preferably f11-22 to get everything in focus. A tripod and a longer shutter speed will keep everything else good. Finally, if you miss the white balance while shooting, a good program like PS or Lightroom will have the proper corrections for you. thank you. I will try that tonight. i'm still learning about the focal points does that setting help with subjects that are close up like the one that I posted above or is that a good general setting
Practice!!!!
But if you shoot something close up at say f2.0. Then focus on something far away and take a picture, changing nothing. You will notice that the closer you are, the shallower depth of field (in other words, less is in the focal plane). Now if you raise the aperture up to say f8.0, and repeat the above two photos, you will see that each one will have more in focus, but the subject that is farther away will have a larger depth of field than the closer one.
When you start talking macro photography, or very close subjects, depth of field becomes extremely thin. Also, the higher the zoom, the thinner the depth of field. So shooting at 100mm will have a thinner depth of field as shooting at 50mm.
So go practice depth of field by locking your settings and only changing the aperture.
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#7579584 - 02/27/14 10:22 PM
Re: which is better?
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I'm not sure what settings you're using, but keep in mind that the T3i (and other Canons) force you to ISO 400 when using flash in most circumstances. Just a heads up (since 400 is noisier than 100 or 200 and degrades image quality for no good reason UNLESS you're using the shit out of your flash and it will overheat too quickly if you keep using it at 100 or 200). I have never heard of or seen a camera force an ISO value on you when using a flash, unless you're using one of those "modes" that no one should ever use.
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#7579763 - 02/28/14 05:51 AM
Re: which is better?
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I never used a flash with my T1i (that I remember), but with my 7D and 5D3 I can't get what I want with a flash unless I shoot manual... It always felt like the camera was fighting me to do so. In manual mode though, super easy.
This reminds me that I really want to get one more flash... I've got a 430exII that I love to shoot with off camera and at work I have 2 Alien Bees 800s, which are fun as well. Maybe I'll get one AB800 for the home and another speedlight.
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#7581288 - 02/28/14 04:36 PM
Re: which is better?
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What that white balance and focal point do?
Seriously, neither picture are that great as way too thin on depth of field. Open up to at least F8, preferably f11-22 to get everything in focus. A tripod and a longer shutter speed will keep everything else good. Finally, if you miss the white balance while shooting, a good program like PS or Lightroom will have the proper corrections for you.
You notice he shot that in auto... right?
Duc, take the camera off auto man, play around, see what different settings do.
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#7581474 - 02/28/14 06:07 PM
Re: which is better?
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Huggy
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What that white balance and focal point do?
Seriously, neither picture are that great as way too thin on depth of field. Open up to at least F8, preferably f11-22 to get everything in focus. A tripod and a longer shutter speed will keep everything else good. Finally, if you miss the white balance while shooting, a good program like PS or Lightroom will have the proper corrections for you. You notice he shot that in auto... right? Duc, take the camera off auto man, play around, see what different settings do.
Didn't notice, ouch...
Yeah Duc, no auto... AV, TV or M. Learn those before worrying about lighting and shit.
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#7581613 - 02/28/14 08:31 PM
Re: which is better?
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I suggest M mode, always, for off-camera lighting. You just have so much more control over the outcome. And just to be clear, i'm the guy who will typically put it in P or A mode when generally shooting and rarely use M.
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#7581805 - 02/28/14 11:16 PM
Re: which is better?
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I suggest M mode, always, for off-camera lighting. You just have so much more control over the outcome. And just to be clear, i'm the guy who will typically put it in P or A mode when generally shooting and rarely use M.
Always M with tripod and non-TTL lighting. And I too won't touch M when I'm handheld - no point in slowly and clumsily trying to replicate what my camera can do instantaneously and perfectly.
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#7583533 - 03/02/14 04:08 PM
Re: which is better?
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LNXGUY
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Av, Tv and M when required.
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#7583755 - 03/02/14 06:35 PM
Re: which is better?
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My camera doesn't even have a knob
On the bright side, it only has P, Av, Tv and M
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#7586498 - 03/04/14 12:08 PM
Re: which is better?
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Put it in manual and leave it there until you fully understand how the fucking camera works While this may work for some, it doesn't for all.
I know plenty about how my camera works and I rarely use manual mode. I only use it when I know my exposures will fluctuate and I don't want them to, or i'm using off camera lighting. Otherwise, it hinders what i'm doing than helps.
Learn the camera, definitely, but use the method that works for you. Full manual may not be it.
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#7586699 - 03/04/14 01:48 PM
Re: which is better?
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Put it in manual and leave it there until you fully understand how the fucking camera works While this may work for some, it doesn't for all. I know plenty about how my camera works and I rarely use manual mode. I only use it when I know my exposures will fluctuate and I don't want them to, or i'm using off camera lighting. Otherwise, it hinders what i'm doing than helps. Learn the camera, definitely, but use the method that works for you. Full manual may not be it. I think he's just suggesting that he learn all the stuff that the camera does, how exposure works, etc, before choosing a mode, like you have. Once you know how the modes work and what does what, it's easy to adjust for your desired effect rather than being at the mercy of Auto.
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#7587300 - 03/04/14 06:42 PM
Re: which is better?
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LNXGUY
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Worry about aperture and see what it does to your pics, then shutter, then worry about manual. Coming from a relative newb, this is the easiest way to do things..
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#7587387 - 03/04/14 08:02 PM
Re: which is better?
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LNXGUY
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This is how I did it man, and I still shoot Av 95% of the time. I'm no pro but I do ok
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