the photography thread.

[finknoos]

pretty shitty photo...you focused on it's forehead feathers?

ha

actually i focussed on its beak, and where else would i focus..."chin feathers"?

[Diego]

how about it's fucking eyes

[finknoos]

how about it's fucking eyes

the eyes are in focus, but because theyre "bulgy" the eyelids arent, anyways id like to see some of your work before you can critic

[tonysean]

pretty shitty photo...you focused on it's forehead feathers?

ha

let's see you get a better photo of an owl... not at a zoo.

[Diego]

Here is some of my stuff:















I can't take full credit, I have a kick ass camera.

Regards, Diego

[chuck d]

Here is some of my stuff:
I can't take full credit, I have a kick ass camera.
Regards, Diego

True.  Any monkey with a long lens could make those photos.
But if you want credit, you should take it.  There's not much to have there.

[Diego]

Yea, cause shooting in manual at objects moving at 450knots is easy...this guy!

[chuck d]

It's not?  It's not as if you're close to the objects you're photographing.  Shooting mid-day with an f8 you will be able to have a fast enough shutter speed to "stop" something even if it's moving that fast.  So I assume you're referring to manual focus.  Again, from your distance, with an f8, if you get close to focusing on the jet, it will all be within your dof.  This kid.

[Diego]

The problem with taking photos of aircraft in flight, is you generally want the shot to be right when the aircraft is in line with you, not coming toward you, nor leaving. The window of time you have to get a shot, in frame, in focus, is pretty small. It is all really luck most of the time. I'll shoot 1,000 photos in a day and come out with maybe 15 usable shots. The big lens is also a hindrance. Panning around with a full body camera, plus a 500mm lens, well it's not easy, especially when you're trying to frame something coming at you at 450 knots. And no, not manual focus, manual shutter speed/f-stop...Dis Guy!?!

[???]

fellow slapper Brandon.  don't know how to resize...

this one is so rad.  sick trick and awesome lurker shot.

[chuck d]

The problem with taking photos of aircraft in flight, is you generally want the shot to be right when the aircraft is in line with you, not coming toward you, nor leaving. The window of time you have to get a shot, in frame, in focus, is pretty small. It is all really luck most of the time. I'll shoot 1,000 photos in a day and come out with maybe 15 usable shots. The big lens is also a hindrance. Panning around with a full body camera, plus a 500mm lens, well it's not easy, especially when you're trying to frame something coming at you at 450 knots. And no, not manual focus, manual shutter speed/f-stop...Dis Guy!?!

I just explained to you why manual shutter and aperture are not difficult under your circumstances, and why manual focus would be the only problem, but not actually a problem.  It's cool that you are dabbling in something that interests you, kiddo, but maybe you shouldn't be so confident about your "abilities" and put yourself on the line by talking shit on other people before you have developed a bit more.  Just saying.

"Yea, cause shooting in manual at objects moving at 450knots is easy"

Translates to:

"Yea, cause jumping in the air and having your skateboard also go into the air and then landing back on it is easy"

[Diego]

The guy didn't focus on the birds eyes...come on chip!

[chuck d]

Don't get me wrong, I understand your criticism, just not your attitude.  If he had the liberty of the dof that comes from your process, the whole bird would have been in focus.

Also, only one of your shots is of an aircraft that is flying and also neither flying toward nor away from your lens.

[Mooley]

And wouldn't awkwardly cutting out the aircraft's wingspan be considered just as bad, Diego? Unfounded arrogance.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Also, only one of your shots is of an aircraft that is flying and also neither flying toward nor away from your lens.

he stated it before, its hard.

[Diego]

My attitude was false, simply playing games.

Here are some photos of aircraft in flight:











Also, I dont think focusing the entire bird would be a good idea, then again, it might be

[Diego]

And wouldn't awkwardly cutting out the aircraft's wingspan be considered just as bad, Diego? Unfounded arrogance.

Are you talking about the second and second to last photo?

If so, it's called cropping

[chuck d]

My attitude was false, simply playing games.

Ah, successful troll, fair enough.  I wouldn't have been so rude if I hadn't thought that you were being legitimately cocky.

Also, I dont think focusing the entire bird would be a good idea, then again, it might be

I agree that if the focus had gone from the front of the beak to just past the eyes that it would have looked better, but I also understand that for that photo, a successful dof is more difficult to accomplish and I would not call the owl a shitty photograph.

And not to be condescending or berate the issue, but if you are shooting manually, the sunny 16 rule makes it pretty easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16_rule

Basically, if you're shooting in full daylight, you can set your aperture to f16 and shoot at 1/125sec.
But since you are far away from the jets and the dof of an f8 would be sufficient, and f8 is two stops larger than f16, you can shoot at 1/500 of a second.  You could probably open the lens even more and have a faster shutter, but that should do it.

[Diego]

You make good points sir. Bravo

The issue with shooting aircraft though, is that they are in the air, flying under clouds, or sometimes in direct sunlight, which changes very rapidly. Since they're not on the ground, I cannot meter for what the ground is. It's really trial and error. Like I said, Any given shoot, I'll take around 1,000 photos.

Also, I stated it's mostly luck (the ones in the air), because from the time you focus, to the time the shutter is off, the plane can be anywhere from 100-300 feet from it's point of focus. 3D tracking and all those gizmos help, but not 100% of the time. I would need a REALLY good lens to not have to worry about blurry photos.

As for the bird, I know the kid probably doesn't have a decent DSLR where he can choose where it is focused (looks like a P.A.S.)

[Diego]

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Also, only one of your shots is of an aircraft that is flying and also neither flying toward nor away from your lens.

[close]

he stated it before, its hard.

It's hard because when an aircraft or any object is moving towards/away from you at a high speed, the camera/lens (in my case), isn't fast enough to keep up. You end up with a lot of blurry shots

[Mooley]

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And wouldn't awkwardly cutting out the aircraft's wingspan be considered just as bad, Diego? Unfounded arrogance.

[close]

Are you talking about the second and second to last photo?

If so, it's called cropping

So you're still 'playing games?'
I know what cropping is, but you're cropping into an awkward composition that doesn't include the whole wingspan or all of the rotors in half those photos, what reason can you bless me with for that?

[Diego]

"what reason can you bless me with for that?"

If I have to explain why I cropped the rotors, or the wings, and you honestly don't understand why it was done, it's not worth explaining

[Locbrew]

What's a good starter camera? I want to start taking photos of trips I go on and pictures of my friends.

[GatorsGhost]

Found myself at a gyspy festival a while back.

[finknoos]

You make good points sir. Bravo

The issue with shooting aircraft though, is that they are in the air, flying under clouds, or sometimes in direct sunlight, which changes very rapidly. Since they're not on the ground, I cannot meter for what the ground is. It's really trial and error. Like I said, Any given shoot, I'll take around 1,000 photos.

Also, I stated it's mostly luck (the ones in the air), because from the time you focus, to the time the shutter is off, the plane can be anywhere from 100-300 feet from it's point of focus. 3D tracking and all those gizmos help, but not 100% of the time. I would need a REALLY good lens to not have to worry about blurry photos.

As for the bird, I know the kid probably doesn't have a decent DSLR where he can choose where it is focused (looks like a P.A.S.)

actually im using a full dslr on fully manual settings

its not amazing but i got it the other day...


and obviously i can choose the point of focus, i also chose a low DOF because there was some weird stuff in the tree in the back ground that was distracting, so i wanted to blur it out

[Diego]

good on ya...

[finknoos]

good on ya...

just sayin i that i chose where to focus (i always manualy focus) but its very hard to accuratley focus on a specific area of a moving bird, especially if you want it to be looking down the lens

[hasselbladical]

Bird focusing aside...


Bs 180 nosegrind revert.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

damn, it sucks to be after bladical.

anyway, started watching a lot of aperture tutorial videos. trying stuff.

[Grubby Mits]

Bird focusing aside...


Bs 180 nosegrind revert.

are these colours post processing or mainly from the actual shot if that makes sense? I always like the colours in your photos