Quote :

"taken at about a 30 degree angle to the left"

im tryin to visualize this

6/6/2011 5:02:58 PM

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 7:24 PM. Reason : or the other way. both equally annoying]

6/6/2011 7:24:08 PM

^^ Take camera, point it at subject, then tip your head to the left kind of like how a dog looks at you when they are confused. Usually the top of the subject's head is pointed to the top left of the photo and their feet are coming out of the bottom right.

Like this

6/6/2011 7:43:30 PM

I believe that's called the Kiwi crop.

6/6/2011 7:45:54 PM

lol I dont think I've done a kiwi crop since the infamous duck.




lol

6/6/2011 8:25:43 PM

your duck is a seagull.

6/6/2011 11:06:10 PM

sweet duck, that a mallard?

6/6/2011 11:08:38 PM

Quote :

"I believe that's called the Kiwi crop."

6/8/2011 8:57:07 AM

Yeaaaaaaaaaaah people called it a duck so it stuck.

6/8/2011 8:59:24 AM

i know these are rather simplistic - but i'm simple so get over it.

i had a lot of fun trying out my new lens on my hike. certainly going to take some getting used to though.





the new one is manual focus only - so it's been fun being forced to mess around with it

6/12/2011 8:39:57 PM

My gf was doing that whole Raleigh Wars nonsense and wanted some assassin photos.

6/13/2011 11:30:47 AM

anybody ever used the shoulder support from Cowboy Studio?

http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-Shoulder-Support-Camcorder-Camera/dp/B0036NMQ7S/ref=pd_bxgy_e_text_c


or the LED sun gun from Neewer?

http://www.amazon.com/LED-CN-160-Dimmable-Camcorder-Panasonic/dp/B004TJ6JH6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1307987191&sr=8-1

6/13/2011 2:04:42 PM

why do you not post pictures JBaz comments only

6/13/2011 2:14:34 PM

wat?

6/13/2011 2:26:41 PM

apparently he was drunk when he wrote that

6/13/2011 2:31:43 PM

I've never understood the point of hot-shoe-mounted led lights

6/13/2011 3:31:52 PM

they're good for video purposes
especially documentary style stuff

6/13/2011 3:35:07 PM

i guess

it just looks like you've taped a powerful flashlight to your camera

i'm aware they're for video i just don't think i would ever use one for the video stuff i do, including doc stuff

maybe

[Edited on June 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

6/13/2011 3:37:19 PM

its called the Dogme 95 style of shooting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

6/13/2011 4:14:35 PM

oh so you're shooting on 35mm with only on-board sound as well?

6/13/2011 4:24:03 PM

I like to joke about being a Dogme 95 sound designer

and ARE there any 35mm cameras that have onboard sound?
I thought film stock necessitated magnetic tape for the audio

- anyway, I've never used the shoe mounted light panel
but I interacted with a crew from MTV World and they were using them
I suppose its handy for down and dirty field interviews and whatnot where you would have no time to set up lighting

6/13/2011 4:27:05 PM

by design you mean turning the camera to record position? lol

6/13/2011 4:37:45 PM

the only dogme 95 film i've seen was garbage.

i've been meaning to see Julien Donkey-Boy though.

6/13/2011 5:25:37 PM

I've got a question NOT concerning an SLR, but my Lumix LX5...was hoping you guys might be able to help.

And of course here's my pre-question apology: Sorry if this has been answered somewhere in the 200 pages of this thread, but I didn't see anything apparent in a search. Also sorry if my lingo is off, which I'm sure it is.

So my problem is that the camera seems to be overexposing pictures in decent and above light, where other cameras wouldn't. I'd like to be able to take a shot of a waterfall or something in good light conditions with a long shutter speed. The max (min?) F stop I can adjust the camera to is 8.0. But even at that I generally can't shoot with anything higher than a 1 second shutter speed without majorly overexposing.

I thought that maybe it was just a problem of my F-Stop not being able to go to 16.0 or 24.0, but last night my roommate (with an SLR) was able to get a perfect shot on F8.0 with a 40 second shutter speed and no filter. With the same basic settings (F8.0) and the lowest ISO I can choose (80) I can only shoot with a shutter speed of around 1.3 seconds without overexposing in the same light.

So my question is if anyone is familiar with this camera and can help. It doesn't make sense to me that a lesser quality camera is able to take in so much more light. It seems that I am maybe just missing some other adjustment that would be an easy fix. I've looked into filters, but this seems more like something that should be easily fixable.

Thanks

6/17/2011 2:38:49 PM

so I got the stabilizer from Cowboy Studio

its pretty handy - I like it

makes me look like a total weenis though

6/17/2011 3:27:33 PM

which one?

I'm looking at indisystem rigs.

6/17/2011 7:06:49 PM

i was at a wedding a few weeks back and the photographers produced a look in their photos I would like to try and emulate. does anyone know how to achieve this kind of soft/desaturated look? i've got the shooting into the sun + large aperture down, but i'm unsure of the post processing. some examples:




[Edited on June 17, 2011 at 8:22 PM. Reason : img]

6/17/2011 8:22:06 PM

Some shots I took this morning of space shuttle atlantis, launch pads 39a (atlantis) and 39b (vacant), and the Vehicle Assembly Building

These were taken with a D40 200-55mm lens, no editing

6/18/2011 8:02:29 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/22/auto.focus.camera/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

New camera lets you focus photos after you shoot

6/22/2011 1:07:32 PM

^ i just played around with a few of the photots they had on their site. seems pretty cool.

my guess is that they are capturing the photos at the the most narrow aperture possible, having the software calculate DOF, and then applying some blurring like you would in post. its probably more involved than that though

6/22/2011 1:22:53 PM

a bit more complicated than that

http://www.lytro.com/science_inside

the science bahind it may be ahead of our times, however their website is not

6/22/2011 1:52:11 PM

Correction: Website is ahead of the times as well, or at least ahead of my company-dictated browser looks fine in Safari

pwnt by HTML5

6/22/2011 2:50:06 PM

my photo blog thing, i'm going to try to update it pretty consistently: http://blog.alexbroadwell.com

[Edited on June 23, 2011 at 3:15 PM. Reason : .]

6/23/2011 3:15:21 PM

Nice. Followed.

I posted a few blog posts when I got my site up, but it has sat dormant for a bit.

http://www.ronnynause.com

6/23/2011 4:58:07 PM

[Edited on June 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM. Reason : Nikkor 55mm f1.2 on Canon T2i]

6/25/2011 4:58:43 PM

^^^ followed.

^^yeah, you should post more on there. i check it every so often. (no stalk and no homo)

6/25/2011 6:22:08 PM

Does anyone here use old graflex cameras?

7/2/2011 10:29:30 AM

Sigma 50mm 1.4 for Canon/Nikon/Pentax on sale

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=122240&t=3072465

7/2/2011 4:55:29 PM

7/3/2011 12:19:14 AM

7/4/2011 10:41:13 PM

I like your critter pictures.

My Tamron 17-50 2.8 bit the dust this weekend.
It was my everyday lens. Now I have no lenses with focal length between 16mm and 50mm since I sold the kit lens.

7/4/2011 10:50:50 PM

I'm probably going to be grabbing a sigma 17-50 2.8 shortly. My 35 1.8 has been my every day lens for a loooong time.

7/4/2011 11:08:48 PM

^^get a sigma 30mm 1.4!

it's one sexy ass bitch.

7/5/2011 4:06:00 AM

You sure do lose a lot of quality when you upload to the gallery.
This is an 8,000 ac burnout on the Juniper Road Fire.

7/5/2011 8:44:07 AM

Quote :

"^^get a sigma 30mm 1.4! it's one sexy ass bitch."

Truth.

7/5/2011 3:34:07 PM

i got a rig today woohoo

7/9/2011 6:13:02 PM

i guess we don't know what a 'rig' is

7/9/2011 10:14:20 PM

^^ what kind did you get?

7/9/2011 11:11:07 PM

7/10/2011 12:38:08 AM

An Indisystem ultracompact. I've heard mixed things but they were mostly pertaining to the owner not communicating with people but he was fine with me and I'm liking it, especially for the price point(425 with the follow focus). Got a big shoot coming up Saturday, I'll post the results.

7/10/2011 2:40:45 AM