This is Photography

[Nsquared97]

Integrating the watermark into the shadow like that is seriously cool.

[Nsquared97]

Picked up a Canon fixed 50mm F/1.8 to play with on my 300D (yeah I know, but it's teaching me the basics until I upgrade to something else) Took this in the parking lot just testing it out.


Also picked up a UV and circular polarizing filter. UV mainly as protection for the lens, CPL for next week when I will be taking a lot of pics outdoors in the snow. I understand the basic idea of the CPL, anybody have any tips or insight on using them? Can/should I use the filters together or no?

[brutus87]

Nice shot.

Love my 50mm 1.8

[dvnchrstphr]

I've yet to post my photo blog on my newly acquired 318iS, but for now here's some recent images I've taken over the past week.

You can view the blog here: http://thealpinewhite.tumblr.com/

Some images from last night. More here

[R1ckM]

I have a canon T3 (all stock) and my pics do not look anything close to any of the ones posted....feels bad. I am a bit knowledgeable in PS as well for editing but usually fix minor things which do not lead to exquisite photos.

[Nsquared97]

I have a canon T3 (all stock) and my pics do not look anything close to any of the ones posted....feels bad. I am a bit knowledgeable in PS as well for editing but usually fix minor things which do not lead to exquisite photos.

Are you still using the kit lens? Good glass will make a big difference.

Took this one today, and FWIW that's straight off the camera, I don't play with post processing at all.

[R1ckM]

I use everything that came with it, i put a rocket dog lens cover/protector over the camera one.
What format is that pic you posted in? (or well do you usually save your pics in)
I save them as Rar files if I am going for a cleaner look. They are such large files thought for pictures.

[Nsquared97]

Rar files? lol you mean Raw? I just save them in .jpeg, like I said I don't do any post processing, so I don't see any reason to shoot in raw.

[Ayman]

Stilll learning :3

[Jozi]

I would shoot RAW just so you can do the RAW -> JPG on a pc (and gives PP flexibility). I'd be inclined to believe a PC is going to be better at converting than a camera.

I convert to jpg at 1024pixels on the longest edge for uploading to the net, usually deleted them after as I keep the raw files and convert them to dng after PP.

[mcskibadee1]

Cool pic, what were your settings?. Do you shoot everything in raw and then post process? Is it possible to shoot raw and not post process?

[Jozi]

Cool pic, what were your settings?. Do you shoot everything in raw and then post process? Is it possible to shoot raw and not post process?

You can shoot RAW and not PP, you would have to convert to JPG to upload.

I just trarted working on the attached image, it needs some cleaning up here and there (bird poop) and I thought of adding some grain and a bit of vignetting on the left.

[Ayman]

Cool pic, what were your settings?. Do you shoot everything in raw and then post process? Is it possible to shoot raw and not post process?

Wait were you asking me? I shoot everything in raw and then process and then save as jpeg. One thing I learned in my photography class is that if you shoot in jpeg,then process and then save as jpeg, then the quality of the image goes down further since jpegs are already lower quality images.

As for shooting in raw without processing later, you can do that but uploading to the Internet will be impossible I think. I also learned that a good middle ground betweem raw and jpeg is TIFF. Higher quality than jpeg yet doesn't take as much space as raw.

[mcskibadee1]

Sorry, I was asking what settings you used to take that pic. I have been meaning to hit up milholland take some shots or time lapse stuff but I haz the laziness.

The raw question was a general question to anyone.

[mcskibadee1]

These were my first attempt at night photography like 2 years ago I think.



I know this one is super over exposed but I like it for some reason, looks like fire lighting the beach.