Lens Flair

[Jay]

I like the contrast of colors. And yes, those are real pink M & M's.
http://img360.imageshack.**/img360/9241/dsc0149tw9.jpg

 

[flamingice]

double posted... my b

You could just delete the second post, instead of making a 3rd one to comment about it... :?

And I like that key shot Skoshi! Is that done with a 50mm 1.8 lens? If so... which one?

 

[whoster]

ahhhahhah shiet yellerstone!!!

 

[Skoshi]

And I like that key shot Skoshi! Is that done with a 50mm 1.8 lens? If so... which one?

Thanks man, yeah I shot it with the EF 50mm 1.8 II
Touched up quite a bit in photoshop, only had one light on the ceiling.. Gotta love RAW

Straight from the camera:

 

[flamingice]

ahhhahhah shiet yellerstone!!!

Yep, Yellowstone it is. Such an amazing place.

Thanks man, yeah I shot it with the EF 50mm 1.8 II
Touched up quite a bit in photoshop, only had one light on the ceiling.. Gotta love RAW

Nice. I got that lens on the weekend, which is why I was asking... Pretty cheap, but just something to experiment with. What's your thoughts on it so far?

And that's a lot of post-processing on that shot... But it looks awesome afterwards! I think I need to start shooting in RAW. I got into the habit of shooting in JPEG, because on a holiday I'd fill up a whole 2GB CF card with JPEGS, but when I've got access to a computer I really should be using RAW. I need to work on my post processing skills too.

 

[Skoshi]

ahhhahhah shiet yellerstone!!!

Yep, Yellowstone it is. Such an amazing place.

Thanks man, yeah I shot it with the EF 50mm 1.8 II
Touched up quite a bit in photoshop, only had one light on the ceiling.. Gotta love RAW

Nice. I got that lens on the weekend, which is why I was asking... Pretty cheap, but just something to experiment with. What's your thoughts on it so far?

And that's a lot of post-processing on that shot... But it looks awesome afterwards! I think I need to start shooting in RAW. I got into the habit of shooting in JPEG, because on a holiday I'd fill up a whole 2GB CF card with JPEGS, but when I've got access to a computer I really should be using RAW. I need to work on my post processing skills too.

It's a great piece of kit! You'll learn to love it!
I think it's my most used lens at the time.. Light, great focal length and sweet aperture.
Shooting in RAW makes a lot of difference, you don't have to mind your whitebalance settings when shooting and you have a lot more versatility in your post process.

The problem is I only have one 1GB CF-card.. so 110 shots max

 

[isaacaiken]

double posted... my b

You could just delete the second post, instead of making a 3rd one to comment about it... :?

mm well until now i thought it was a double post but really realize it was a triple
i changed the third picture into the apology

 

[Jay]

No one ever posts a picture of the sky and clouds...

http://img179.imageshack.**/img179/5600/dsc0117xt6.jpg

 

[Mischief007]

 

[flamingice]

A semi-HDR... I forgot about the trees when creating the exposures.

 

[mautzel]

I do like it nevertheless!

 

[flamingice]

Thanks! New day, here's another one that I took slightly after that:

 

[Janus]

I like the contrast of colors. And yes, those are real pink M & M's.
http://img360.imageshack.**/img360/9241/dsc0149tw9.jpg

I take it that they are to support breast cancer research? We have the same thing in Australia at the moment....in fact that reminds me, I have a big packet in the kitchen!

 

[Alok]

A semi-HDR... I forgot about the trees when creating the exposures.

When setting longer exposure settings, what has to be done to prevent the picture from getting too bright...? Take the case of a phot of a small waterfall from a while ago, when I set the exposure a bit long on bright days, the pic turns out to be toooo bright and most of the time entirely white.

 

[tloekke]

When setting longer exposure settings, what has to be done to prevent the picture from getting too bright...? Take the case of a phot of a small waterfall from a while ago, when I set the exposure a bit long on bright days, the pic turns out to be toooo bright and most of the time entirely white.

You can use a neutral density-filter.

http://img103.imageshack.**/img103/3503/absndtz4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter

 

[Jay]

I like the contrast of colors. And yes, those are real pink M & M's.

I take it that they are to support breast cancer research? We have the same thing in Australia at the moment....in fact that reminds me, I have a big packet in the kitchen!

Yes, my is a big advocate of that, participates in walks, etc...she is think of getting a shirt made that says "F**k the whales, save the boobs!" :lol:


Daddy long legs munching on a mushroom, watched the damned thing for 1/2 an hour...
http://img95.imageshack.**/img95/4118/dsc0135uo3.jpg

 

[flamingice]

When setting longer exposure settings, what has to be done to prevent the picture from getting too bright...? Take the case of a phot of a small waterfall from a while ago, when I set the exposure a bit long on bright days, the pic turns out to be toooo bright and most of the time entirely white.

I assume what you mean is that when you correctly expose the shot, there isn't the amount of motion blur that you want. To get a longer exposure, you could try these things, depending on what sort of manual control your camera has:
-First make sure the ISO is set as low as possible
-If possible, use a smaller aperture (Higher F-Stop number)
-As a final resort, you could try using a ND filter, as tloekke suggested. Only if you can mount one on your lens though. This will just reduce the amount of light entering the lens in a specific amount of time, meaning you need a slower shutter speed to get the same exposure.

Hopefully you find something useful there!

 

[isaacaiken]

in response to
"No one ever posts a picture of the sky and clouds..."
once again my horrible resizer messes with the grain
but this was done before my conversion to photoshop resizing

 

[BerserkerCatSplat]

 

[isaacaiken]

mm
who can guess what this is