Photograph and Camera talk
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S90 & S95 love that it us full manual
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I had the Canon S90, and now have the S95. Another camera to consider is the Panasonic LX5. I chose the Canon over the Panasonic primarily because it is even more compact. Canon also has an underwater housing available. Regardless, both are terrific cameras. A camera forum I would recommend is:
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great…can`t wait for it mate
enjoy your first shooting lad...what i think i
ll feel kinda uncomfortable about on my first session is that i dont like to stand under pressure. since i see myself as a kinda free artist and all that...should be a new experience pour moiwell, since it was one of my friends I shot it wasn't as nerving.. Here are 2 shots I took (out of a hundred or so).
I am thinking the second one needs to be re-edited (ie. look at the records).
Here are the originals to give an idea of how much work I did to get them to look like that (his wish is my command!). I do however want to note these aren't going to be photos that are going to be blown up. He is using them for posters and business cards and such.
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2 more..
Love the way this first one came out!
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Thanks man! Yeah, a few of the pictures can be a little brighter. I will be going back into CS5 and editing a few I have already edited and the ton of them I didn't get to editing yet. But I know what you mean and in all honesty I would rather have someone say they look like shit for whatever reason than saying they love them because when they say why they look like shit I have next time to try and improve!
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Exactly man. Constructive criticism and practiceI practice practice will only make you better. Just keep photographing and don't sweat the mistakes because you learn that way, and sometimes the mistakes end up being better than what you originally had in mind. Keep up the good work my dude!
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Lax, if you're gonna desaturate the first image so much you might as well just make it BW. When you bring it down that much it just ends up looking muddy and too brown.
Bring up the blacks in the second image because they're def under exposed. Don't know if you're shooting to RAW but I do most of my color tweaking in RAW.
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Yeah, I hear ya both! The first image I really like though, I am a fan of desaturated photos almost black and white but enough to tell they aren't. I shot all of the photoshoot in raw so I could easily adjust the light. But some of the images I have to go back and re-edit when I am able to get back on a mac because they are underexposed.
I am starting to think I might want to get a wider angle lens though. I know I am using a crop and what not but I might as well just get the 50 1.4 and get the 24 1.4. I find myself never really going to 1.2 because it is honestly too soft. Plus I was fine with the 50mm for a while but it is too hard to get wide shots. The lens isn't also as sharp as I would like it to be. But then again I just had an idea tonight, going to think it over though if I really want to go through that whole entire process.
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Hahaha, I think I will just stick to the 50, but start saving up for a 24 1.4. I will just deal with the body I have now, even though I was going to upgrade that first but whatever. You can say told ya so though
Thanks though! Info… it was shot @ 1.2 ISO 100, 0.8 sec. It was being lit by a car and I got the background to look like that since the relatively long exposure and there was a sprinkler going off that made that misty looking effect. I shot it in RAW, tonemapped it in photomatix, then edited in CS5 and made those artificial rays (I'm a cheater).
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Bring up the blacks in the second image because they're def under exposed. Don't know if you're shooting to RAW but I do most of my color tweaking in photoshop RAW.
+1 on working in RAW for colours - if you go JPEG initially you've already lost a lot of colour information
I use lightroom which has great features and works well inside pchop
Maybe you could try shooting B&W and look at 'colorising' elements - you can achieve some very unique results
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@Geo:
+1 on working in RAW for colours - if you go JPEG initially you've already lost a lot of colour information
I use lightroom which has great features and works well inside pchop
Maybe you could try shooting B&W and look at 'colorising' elements - you can achieve some very unique results
Yeah I have recently been shooting in RAW a ton of the time (I find I am liking it better). Makes editing the photos a lot easier and I find the results better. I would be using LR but I have CS5 and find it does everything I want, but the only thing is that I have found my windows computer to become a hell of a lot slower recently so I am going to probably need to upgrade to a mac for photo editing but I would rather spend that money on a new lens… decisions...decisions..
Lax. I would say forget the 24 and 50 and go with the 35 1.4…I have the 35 right now, and I used to have the 24 1.4.
the 24 is super wide, and with a crop body, the 50 is too tight. The 35 is an incredible lens. Just something to think about!You do make a good point… although, I think it would be more challenging and fun (imo) with a 24. I don't think I will be selling the 50 though as I would rather keep it so when I upgrade my body I have more lens to have fun with :)! If I do ever wind up going super-wide I will have to think very hard if it is worth it or not!
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Unless you're shooting something you don't really care about having perfect, or high quality isn't important…like family pictures or something, you should always be shooting raw. If its really important to you, when you open the file in CS5 change the mode from 8 bit to 16 bit, it let's you go further with editing and you lose less quality and information. It does make your file larger but if you're working on a file a lot it helps. Jpegs are good when you're shooting large amounts of files you don't wanna edit too much, and for web files, that's about it.
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Forgot to reply to your comment! But, yeah high quality is important because when that day comes when I start printing my photos and they are amazing quality then I will be happy.
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