I won't start another thread and bung the forum up so I'll update this one for those that showed an interest. I managed to get out for half an hour this morning around Stanley Park. Got a few pics which i have added below trying to get used to the different light and focusing, opinions views always count. Nothing exciting really but your thoughts welcome. Be honest. I can handle it. 1st my boys waiting for their walk Goose wouldn't look at me. Don't think it liked my "soon be Christmas" boys comment Using the 18-55 lens Seeing how the camera handles reflection Sun behind me. I can see now I must have moved? Tryed a shot across the lake to bandstand. Sun was just to my left. Bright conditions. Sun to my right this time. Looking over pitch and putt Focusing on the building. That's why you get blurring right? So thats a start. I won't keep cluttering up, but thought I'd share. A lot to read and a lot of advice to take on board. Thanks folks.
Thanks Ken. It's very useful getting the what you did can be sorted by doing this information. I really wish I had more time today. The conditions are "perfect" I'm going to take Barney up on his offer and spend a morning/afternoon with him. Perhaps we could soon have a 1000rr photo section? And lol yes I read what you said on Si's post about the shutter speed being less than the lens. I guess this is the beauty of digital. I think Si said he took over three thousand pictures. I wonder how many went into the recycle bin? Back to my book this evening at work
Nice tone to the upper shots Gary. Do you notice how in the lower ones there is a colour cast towards cyan starting to close in. That's the automatic white balance trying to cope with predominantly green light filtering through the tree canopy and thinking that green is natural, easily sorted in the edit but a good illustration as too the limits of auto white balance. Get yourself a grey card and keep it in your bag for making a manual white balance in situations where the light is an unnatural colour. Yep, the blurring is the depth of field being narrow, probably a wide aperture setting on the lens. That will also explain why the bars on the boy's carrying cage are sharper than their fur. To pull more into focus, stop down to a smaller f number and decrease the shutter speed accordingly, but don't take the shutter speed number less than the focal length of your lens to prevent camera shake. That's the second time I've written that this morning. Something that was taught to me back in the days of wooden cameras is, whenever you photograph anything with eyes, shoot it from its eye level. Don't look down or up at it. And the best bit of advice of all. Don't take advice.
Haha, you guys. Let me shoot you Barney. You"ll be safe you'd be out of focus anyway Hoping for a dry shift and a quick look around the lights tonight. Whilst working
Have a look at Lightroom to organise, manage and edit your pics. Great tool from Adobe that'll make photographing easier and the new version is cheaper too. I do about 90 percent of my editing in Lightroom and only move to Photoshop for more technical editing.
I can't use photoshop for the life of me, i only use Lightroom…. PS is too complicated for me. Those pics are good mate, better than when i started a year ago.
use youtube, I would never have used photoshop as I didnt know where to start but after a few vids on youtube I would say im getting the hang of it.
Cheers mate. Cheques in the post. Barney txt me earlier about searching YouTube. Some good advice. I won't go into something I learned about the camera just 10seconds into the first film. Well I will but not now as I'm just settling into my shift and I ain't having you lot sniggering behind my back where I can't keep an eye on you
