amateur photo thread.

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Turtle
You are doing a good job of convincing me, the only problem is that I'm not sure how well it would go over with my mom's boyfriend, who is the one who came up with the idea. He can be very stubborn about some things and I get the feeling he wouldn't be crazy about it.
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I thought I was doing the exact opposite of convincing haha. I don't know though. If he proposed the idea, go for it and try it out.
 
Panning is hard.
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The heck. On my laptop at home the Peeping pic is much lighter, on my work pc is ridiculously underexposed :confused:. I've tried all setting but nothing seems to help on this screen :/
 
Mike Rotch
The heck. On my laptop at home the Peeping pic is much lighter, on my work pc is ridiculously underexposed :confused:. I've tried all setting but nothing seems to help on this screen :/
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That's something that's been frustrating me lately as well. What looks good on my monitor doesn't look good on any of my other devices, one makes the greens too blue and the other makes them yellow; both make it look more grainy. I've no clue which one is actually the most accurate.
 
Turtle
Film prints came in today, I'm surprised they turned out at all, given that the film was a few years old. I'll scan them tonight and see if I like any enough to post on Flickr without any editing. :)
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Yeah, going back on the other posts from the last page, scanning is the way to go unless you plan to start a small business for your area...

I was in the process of looking up one to get for my grandparents, so they can see them on her iPad... Cannon Econoslide I think the name was. Cheap, good reviews, simple to use. Yes there are more with plenty of more features, but I needed something for a 70+ y.o. The only thing I'm still confused on about printers/scanners is DPI.. I don't understand it all, even after looking it up for hours..

I too tried some 20 year old 400 iso film a few years back at one of my summer camps in the Minolta. Out of all three rolls I sent in, only 15 pictures were able to be sent back, because most were underexposed, or the film had some other issue.. I have a roll which needs scanned but I'm waiting to use the other two rolls I have left.

The number one issue with film, is the battery life. I always forget to take them out and by the next time I snap a shot with the film camera they're dead... And they aren't cheap either. Almost $10 for a pack of three, meaning i have to spend $20 to equal them out.
 
Welp, today I learned that those photos don't respond very well to being scanned. You're not missing out on much, the film has some weird effects going on and they're quite soft.

Sending out my newest roll of film to be scanned tomorrow; should be much better than this 7 or 8 year old roll.
 
A few from messing around in the garage pre-Japan. Got home this morning, I'll go through the pictures later this week and pick out my favourites. Had a few goes with the 50mm lense, most of the trip was point and shoot in creative auto though. Didn't want to spend the whole time looking through the lense instead.


 
It's so swirly! If only I didn't need a replacement laptop, I'd totally buy one of these.

Why were your shots out of focus? Not used to doing it manually? (I'm assuming it's manual focus only)

Edit: I really like the way the flower stem lines up with the shadow of the fence, just noticed that.
 
Turtle
Why were your shots out of focus? Not used to doing it manually? (I'm assuming it's manual focus only)
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Yep, still getting used to manual focusing. Well, not so much manual focusing but manual metering and focusing, which means using a combination of OVF to compose, checking the EV indicator on the LCD whilst hopefully not recomposing unintentionally, and then refocusing just in case. Also, wide open the DOF is pretty small, so I took a lot with the incorrect subject element in focus, like the cats nostrils and stuff :D.

Also, the softness in the second one is part of an iron gate I was peeping through, not the lens....
Edit: I really like the way the flower stem lines up with the shadow of the fence, just noticed that.
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Total fluke, but thanks :)
 
Mike Rotch
Yep, still getting used to manual focusing. Well, not so much manual focusing but manual metering and focusing, which means using a combination of OVF to compose, checking the EV indicator on the LCD whilst hopefully not recomposing unintentionally, and then refocusing just in case. Also, wide open the DOF is pretty small, so I took a lot with the incorrect subject element in focus, like the cats nostrils and stuff :D.

Also, the softness in the second one is part of an iron gate I was peeping through, not the lens....

Total fluke, but thanks :)
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Heh, I don't trust either of my cameras to focus correctly so I do it myself anyway. Actually I don't really trust my cameras to do anything on their own other than white balance.

And quick question about that lens, about how close do you think the minimum focusing distance is?

Also please stop tempting me by buying all these cool old lenses, you're killing me. :lol:
 
Turtle
And quick question about that lens, about how close do you think the minimum focusing distance is?
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45cm according the the interwebs, which tallies with those cat pics. I suppose I shouldn't mention the Industar 61 50mm/2.8 or Volna-9 which have minimum focusing distances of 30cm and costs about the same (well, the Industar does, not the Volna) :crazy:.

Also please stop tempting me by buying all these cool old lenses, you're killing me. :lol:
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I need to be telling myself this more too! :embarrassed: ;)
 
I started a Flickr account and all it has done is confuse me. I'm a computer retard. I'll have to learn to edit photos one day too. Here's a few from my trip, I'll try not to bombard you guys with the pictures.

edit: realised Flickr is more of a sharing thing than an uploading thing. Now I feel like a total knob. Back to manual save and photobucket upload. I'll just put a few up for now, way too time consuming doing it by phone.



 
Mike Rotch
45cm according the the interwebs, which tallies with those cat pics. I suppose I shouldn't mention the Industar 61 50mm/2.8 or Volna-9 which have minimum focusing distances of 30cm and costs about the same (well, the Industar does, not the Volna) :crazy:.
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Thank you; are those both weird old Soviet lenses too? I have no clue where you're finding these things. :lol:
 
My roommate and I were on the way back from picking up his Trans Am from an exhaust shop (it sounds awesome now) and we saw this historic downtown. I had my camera and a tripod so we could do before/after video clips, so we did a quick photo shoot. My night shots are way better now that I've remembered to use my tripod, but still not quite where I want them to be. Not as sharp. Guess I'd need a better camera with a bigger lens and more options for that though.

Pontiac Trans Am by gregthestig, on Flickr
Pontiac Trans Am by gregthestig, on Flickr
Pontiac Trans Am by gregthestig, on Flickr
Pontiac Trans Am by gregthestig, on Flickr
 
Andrew R
Quick play with the ps-express app. Not very good at it.

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bah... PS-Express is basically an Instagram filter set (I don't even own an Instagram account but that's basically it).
I generally just use the slider options to make it look how I want them, and then see how the filters look after.

Here's what I did with the picture above. You have a lot of dynamic range on this one and in an edit I would roam wild with this. I'm not too much of a fan of the overexposed shots but this looks actually good with it.
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I only have PS-Express and I'm still debating whether or not to get Lightroom. I'd really like not to have to get PS with it, because LR is all I think I need, but a lot of people say you need both... PS-Express does what I want as an amateur and that's all I care about because I'm not making a business for my pictures..
 
Swagger897
bah... PS-Express is basically an Instagram filter set (I don't even own an Instagram account but that's basically it).
I generally just use the slider options to make it look how I want them, and then see how the filters look after.

Here's what I did with the picture above. You have a lot of dynamic range on this one and in an edit I would roam wild with this. I'm not too much of a fan of the overexposed shots but this looks actually good with it.
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I only have PS-Express and I'm still debating whether or not to get Lightroom. I'd really like not to have to get PS with it, because LR is all I think I need, but a lot of people say you need both... PS-Express does what I want as an amateur and that's all I care about because I'm not making a business for my pictures..
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Yeah I know what you mean with the filters, I think I just pressed auto enhance on a couple of them. I never get on the computer and I lose patience so quick doing things with my phone. Something I'm just going to have to play with over time I guess. I did get lightroom's 30 day trial but it seems more advanced than what I need. My girlfriend is actually a graphic designer so she can teach me photoshop, I just don't have the attention span most of the time.
 
Long post inbound!

@Swagger897 On the topic of Lightroom and Photoshop: You definitely don't need both, but Adobe's Photo-based creative cloud plan includes both of them. If you don't want to do the monthly payment thing the massive price difference between the two is probably not worth it. The only things I use PS for is removing things and the RAW editor.

So before I even had the chance to recommend getting a scanner over a darkroom I got all the equipment as an early Christmas thing today. I brought this up in the premium photo thread but I'm now the co-owner of a Canon AE-1 and three lenses to be used on it.

Those lenses are: 50mm F1.4, 135mm F2.5, 200mm F2.8.

I took a photo of my current fleet of cameras and lenses I own or co-own:

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Pretty good collection considering I've nrit even been doing this for a year. Also take not of that sweet floral pattern on the AE-1's strap.
 
For what it's worth, I came across LightZone the other day and I quite like it so far. It's an open source [free] alternative to Lightroom and it's pretty easy to use. http://lightzoneproject.org/

Maybe someone more experienced can chime in and confirm if it's any good, but this n00b likes it :D


This is the result of my first go at it.

1966(?) Chevrolet Impala by gregthestig, on Flickr
 
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