new sig please!

[etta325]

need a new one similar to the one I have now with any of these pics. preferably the first one but any will do.









thank you

TJ

[ikkitousen]

I'll work on one when I get back from Hubcaps!

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DAMN PHOTOCHOP!!!

[daniel]

no offense, but i thought these were pics with your iphone until i looked at the data.

why are you shooting iso 1600 f/36? that is a super tiny aperture, especially for night shots, and you won't resolve very much detail with that high of an iso. i'm guessing you also didn't use a tripod.

[etta325]

no offense, but i thought these were pics with your iphone until i looked at the data.

why are you shooting iso 1600 f/36? that is a super tiny aperture, especially for night shots, and you won't resolve very much detail with that high of an iso. i'm guessing you also didn't use a tripod.

acutally I was using a tripod and I dont know why i was at such high iso at night. most of the pics came out kinda crappy. I am trying to learn how to actually work my camera now. I just learned about how the whole "f" system or whatever it is you want to call it, works and im trying to figure it out. I should have been at like f/4 or some where around there for at night. I actually just got the tripod yesterday and I have been trying to figure out how to work with it.

here are some of the pics I took today. you think I used the right settings?

[87e30]

For those night shots, just turn down the iso. A LOT. With a tripod shoot at your lowest iso possible. It adds that noisy feeling and I always keep it as low as possible. If you're shooting hand held at night you obviously will need to make sacrifices.

f/32 is a very small aperture which basically means that the lens is only opened a little bit. The hole that lets light in is very small. Therefore the shutter speed will need to be a lot slower to let light in for a longer amount of time.

f/2.8 is a much larger aperture. This means the hole opening that lets light in is far greater. Therefore the shutter speed can be faster and still let in the same amount of light.

The two provide different results. While shooting at night with a tripod you can choose either route since you have the tripod to hold the camera still for any desire shutter time. As I am still experimenting I like to try different apertures and see the results.

ON a side note the aperture also controls the depth of field. A larger aperture (like f/1.8) will create a smaller depth of field than something like f/32. The depth of field is the part of the image that is in focus. However the effect is changed with your focal length and lenses.


Hopefully that made sense and was a little helpful. Or if you already understood all of this... then my bad.

Were you panning for that sti shot? Turned out pretty good! Panning is hard to get just right.

[etta325]

I was kinda planning messing with the aperture all day and figuring out what to do. I first tried to take as many pics as possible to make sure I got one good one and then I started taking fewer pics and being more patient with it. The STI was towards the end and I was trying to get that one and I was pretty happy with the way it came out. thanks man.

all the advice does help. I am planning on doing a photo journalism minor or major. I do not really know what I want to do yet. we will see how it all turns out.

the depth of field is still a little shaky for me though. I have a 75-300 lense that I have been using a lot lately for most stuff, including the night shots. maybe that was my problem? is there any difference in using a shorter lense as compared to a longer one?

I like the effect that I get with the lense zoomed in pretty far and how in a still picture everything is out of focus except the one object that I am pursuing to take a picture of.

could you explain it a little more. everything helps out. thanks man

TJ

edit: oh and if you could help and I get some better pics could you make me a sig?

maybe using this one?

[87e30]

That's really not that blurry in the photo above. And the car looks out of focus to me, or perhaps you had some camera shake.

The longer the focal length and the larger the f/stop the shorter the depth of field. Austin (super nice red e28) is the one that helped me out with it.

f/5.6 (as high as my shitty lens goes) at 200mm:


I use this as an example of how the background is blurrier (bokeh) and the car is in focus. The depth of field is smaller at f/5.6 and 200mm so the rest of the image isn't pulled into focus. The same shot at f/32 would look far more in focus across the entire frame.

[etta325]

ok I got the whole depth of field thing now. the lower the number of the aperture, the more blur of the back ground you will get or at least the smaller the area the camera will be focused on.

yeah it seemed like even with a tripod, i would press the button and the camera would shake and it sucked. I am just going to get one of the adapters that makes it so you can take the pic with out touching the camera. like a wire with a button on the end type thing. I saw some guy with a nikon have one.

I believe this one is much more clearer than the other one.


you think?

[87e30]

YEah, cleaner than the other one for sure. However... missing part of the car. haha.

I have a remote. Sometimes I use it sometimes I don't, depends what's going on. It was 15 bucks on amazon.

Just keep shooting and you'll notice improvements. Personally I'm getting kinda frustrated b/c I feel like I now know what I'm doing but not getting spectacular photos. Just gotta remember to get out and practice. All in fun.

[etta325]

yeah thats what today was all about. just getting out and practicing on every car that came by the corner and trying to get some good pics and getting out there and like you said, just having fun.

I will have to get some better pic but when I do, you wanna help with a sig?

[87e30]

haha. We'll see if I like the pictures I have to work with. Or what I'm up to. No promises but you may have noticed that I've been making quite a few...

[daniel]

as 87e30 said, you can get a nikon remote for really cheap. if you don't want to do that, set the camera on a timer (like 2 or 10 seconds) so you can press the shutter and then let the camera settle on the tripod again, then let it snap the shot.

on a tripod there is no reason to shoot anything higher than ISO 100. higher ISOs are used to compensate for a slower shutter speed and unsteady hands causing blur. the smaller the aperture (the higher the f-stop, like f/32), the longer the shutter will have to be open in order to allow in the amount of light needed.

it is really easy to experiment with this without even taking a photo. set the camera to aperture priority and open it to the widest setting. choose one subject and let the camera choose the shutter speed. you will find that at f/4 or whatever, the shutter speed will be fast. as you "stop down" to f/5 or f/10 or f/20 or whatever, you will see the shutter speed slow down significantly. if you were to then change the ISO setting to ISO 1600, the shutter speed will speed up again, but with higher ISO comes a lot of grain, and you lose a lot of detail in the photo.

another thing you may be having issues with is the focusing. if you are shooting still subjects, set your camera to AF-S, and turn on single point focusing. the directional pad on the back of the camera will switch between the focus points, so make sure the middle point is selected. hold the shutter release button halfway down as you are pointing at the subject, then frame your shot (you should look up "the rule of thirds"), then press the shutter release button all the way down.

in general this should work, but depending on the lighting, you may want to play around with exposure lock to make the camera lock the exposure when pressing the shutter release halfway down (along with focusing), otherwise the exposure may change significantly after framing the shot, even though you are focused on the subject.

as for moving things, fast shutter speeds are the key. shoot at the widest aperture possible (lower f-stop number). you might even want to bump up the ISO to 400 or so to give you an even greater shutter speed advantage.

btw a good photog friend of mine told me that when shooting cars, always use the longest focal length you can. 300mm is really long, especially on a DX nikon, but you should take a few test shots at that length if you can (definitely with a tripod, preferably during the day) so you can see the results.

ask more questions if you have them.

[87e30]

That longer focal length like danny said creates a shorter depth of field (dof) and that is probably why it was suggested. However I've seen shots at all focal lengths that look awesome. Depends on what you're going for.

[daniel]

except the closer you are to a subject, the shallower the DoF is, aperture being held constant...

[87e30]

except the closer you are to a subject, the shallower the DoF is, aperture being held constant...

I had never read this but I have experienced this. Makes total sense... wow! It's all come together for me.