This thread reminds me that I need to go take snowy and Christmas light photos
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Photography
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and the snow ones
not a great pic but it is cold out in the snow
from a few weeks ago, taking Bumper for a walk, well it turned into a roll around on his back, in the snow
and some icy drips on the railing of a balcony
not a great pic but it is cold out in the snow
from a few weeks ago, taking Bumper for a walk, well it turned into a roll around on his back, in the snow
and some icy drips on the railing of a balcony
Those little paw prints are so cute!
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Nice new pics! I can't believe this thread has gone so far! It's so exciting! Now I want to go take some more pictures! Photography is so addicting!
From Niagara Falls
with a view of the US
with a view of the US
Oooooh, those are gorgeous, Eithne!Originally Posted by icklemiss21
From Niagara Falls
with a view of the US
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Wow, what type of camera do you have? Those are amazing!Originally Posted by icklemiss21
From Niagara Falls
with a view of the US
Originally Posted by icklemiss21
Thanks, I was annoyed at the time that she ruined my pic, it was just a shot of the bridge but she came running down... but it turned out quite well
Originally Posted by Siggav
If we're sharing photography site this one here has been great:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/
They have weekly themes and challenges and then people vote. There are also forums where you can get help etc.
A photo I took from an airplane. Needed a fair bit of photoshop work to make it pop though.
I really like these,Originally Posted by My cat Mellow
The moon looked amazing the other night when we were in the car, unfortunatly we were in the car when it was at its biggest (near the horizon) but when we stopped I still took a picture of it, my camera has a x12 optical zoom, so it came out ok. i like that crator/star shape on the bottom right of it!
Will brought me flowers the other night on our date night, I love Geberas!
We were supposed to go to some car races the other night but they got called off so Will said we could go out and practice my photography, I was experimenting with shutter speeds, and I took this photo, I was reall really proud of it!
what camera did you guys use? Eithne, what setting or photoshopping do you use to get such vivid and high contrast photos? They really pop off the screen.
I usually keep it in F-Chrome, which is a high saturation of colours not actual chrome
A Fuji FinePix S5200/S5600 depending on where you liveOriginally Posted by Wesley's Mom
Wow, what type of camera do you have? Those are amazing!
Here's a few I took yesterday. The days are very short here in Iceland now but it means the gorgeous sunset/sunrise light lasts for hours (as in the 2 hour sunrise pretty much moves directly into a 2 hours sunset)
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Siggav, I love number 2 with the bird in the corner, it is so pretty!
They are beautiful
There is probably some sort of higher saturation feature, if not you can always up the saturation in most graphic software
You got the D40 right?
Try Image Preset > Vivid or More Vivid if the first one isn't enough
Try Image Preset > Vivid or More Vivid if the first one isn't enough
you might need to use a tripod if it is low light and you are changing the settings to allow more light in, the picture needs to be still which cats are not great at.
I tend to use lighting and take the photo with quick shot
I tend to use lighting and take the photo with quick shot
What helps is to stop down the lens as far as you can (go on 'A' mode (a is for aperature) and scroll with the wheel to get the lowest number as possible, it's probably F3.5 if you have the kit lens)
Then put up the ISO as high as you can without it going too horribly grainy, which is usually 800 (although 400 is less grainy) and you're set at with as little blur as possible. More light always helps though.
The lens will probably only stay at the 3.5 aperature if you're not zoomed in at all so you'll have to stay with that wide angle look. You can get other lenses which will let you go lower than 3.5 though and it can really help then. I had a nice lens which went don't to f1.8 which is better for low light. However then the area in focus gets very narrow (i.e the eye of the cat can be in focus but the nose will be out of focus)
What the aperature controls is how open the 'iris' of the lens is. It's more open with the lower aperature numbers and lets in more light then.
Then put up the ISO as high as you can without it going too horribly grainy, which is usually 800 (although 400 is less grainy) and you're set at with as little blur as possible. More light always helps though.
The lens will probably only stay at the 3.5 aperature if you're not zoomed in at all so you'll have to stay with that wide angle look. You can get other lenses which will let you go lower than 3.5 though and it can really help then. I had a nice lens which went don't to f1.8 which is better for low light. However then the area in focus gets very narrow (i.e the eye of the cat can be in focus but the nose will be out of focus)
What the aperature controls is how open the 'iris' of the lens is. It's more open with the lower aperature numbers and lets in more light then.
No, as in I use lamps etc or if I do use the flash, I tape a piece of parchment paper over it
