Photography Tips
Jan 10, 2014 07:46:35 #
Jan 10, 2014 07:50:28 #
thephotoman wrote:
You might want to check Lightroom 5. I hear it can fix some focus problems. I plan to upgrade next week and will know for sure.
The shake reduction gadget in Photoshop CC, works great for out of focus pics. It's supposed to be for camera movement, but it works pretty well for pictures that are out of focus too. Not horribly out of focus though.
Jan 10, 2014 07:51:33 #
Watch the background in your photos to make sure no trees or telephone poles will look like they are coming out of your subjects head.
Always carry two cameras with a wide to tele zoom on one, and your 50mm on the other.
Always carry two cameras with a wide to tele zoom on one, and your 50mm on the other.
Jan 10, 2014 07:52:17 #
viscountdriver wrote:
Making sure my wife is out when the postman delivers the latest lens.
That's the beauty of being retired and the wife works.
Jan 10, 2014 07:58:05 #
Take a picture of your name & contact information with every one of you memory cards. If you drop a card or - heaven forbid - lose your camera you'll at least have a chance getting it back!
Jan 10, 2014 08:02:42 #
Rolenz wrote:
A large enough plastic bag (rubbish bag) to cover all equipment you have with you. We may think of rain, I didn't allow for a dust storm. Close enough to the car, could have been worse. Sometimes the weather forecast has a holiday too.
I got caught in a dust/sand storm while videoing a 7-legged tarantula in (I think) Valley of the Gods, just off of Monument Valley. Really.
These were captures from a miniDV video - the only camera I had at the time. It was always a disappointment that a video capable of looking great on a large tv would only produce stills at 640x480...
Jan 10, 2014 08:04:34 #
rhadams824 wrote:
What do you carry when you leave the house without any clothes on?
On occasion I go out into the driveway to get something out of the car. I may be in my underwear or I may be nude. On those occasions, I don't take a camera. The neighbors are distant and either (a) don't notice; or (b) don't care. :-D
Bill
Jan 10, 2014 08:05:23 #
billjohdoittoday wrote:
Switching lenses is the only time I do put the lens cap back on. A lens may be on one of my cameras for a few hours or for a few weeks, but it doesn't need a lens cap until I remove it from the camera and return it to the camera bag. In between times, the lens cap stays in a specific pocket of my photo vest, so I'll be able to find it when I want it.
Bill
Bill
I tossed out all my lens caps with the sticky little thingy. They don't stick after a while. At a photo shop I bought all new ones that have a teensy hole on the side that you thread a cord thru and thread the other end to the square loop on the camera. I got one for each lens as well so they are never lost.
Jan 10, 2014 08:13:46 #
If you don't like dangling lens caps, use a small Velcro strip. Put a self-adhesive piece on each lens cap, then sew the other half onto a convenient part of your camera's neck strap.
Jan 10, 2014 08:14:52 #
Joecosentino wrote:
Indeed! I don't currently use an SLR, but early on when I was working I got a terrific tip from a press photographer:Make sure the front and rear elements of your lens are clean the rear element is often over looked and is a source of dust
Epoxy two rear caps together back-to-back.
I used some stuff that was light gray in color and set up like concrete. There's a picture attached of one of my old outfits.
In use, a lens comes out of its dedicated slot in the bag, with its lens hood always on for protection of the front element (I never used "protective" filters, nor lens caps while working), and its back-to-back rear cap on. On my Canon T90 I could touch the release button with my fingertip and twist the lens off the body, twist the "old" lens into the back-to-back rear cap, untwist the "new lens," fit it to the body, drop the "old" lens (now protected front and rear) rear cap up into its slot in the bag and go on shooting. The whole process takes far longer to explain than to do. Lenses could be changed in seconds almost without thinking, and always protected fore and aft. I shot a lot of PR stuff and needed to be über fast.
Someone will ask, "Weren't you worried that the epoxy would fail and you'd drop a lens?" Not after 30 years of doing it without ever once dropping a lens. :D
If you look at the 75-200 on the right, you can clearly see the pair of rear caps epoxied back-to-back with a light gray epoxy. It never, ever failed.
Jan 10, 2014 08:21:21 #
thephotoman wrote:
You might want to check Lightroom 5. I hear it can fix some focus problems. I plan to upgrade next week and will know for sure.
Try Focus Magic. Amazing software.
Jan 10, 2014 08:24:05 #
dali_lama_2k wrote:
Focus is the only thing that cannot be "fixed" in PP. I've fixed under/over exposures, glare, unwanted items in frame, etc. etc. but still have photos that would have been perfect if not for focus errors. WOULD have. :cry:
Try Focus a Magic. Amazing software. Not expensive. Plug-in or stand alone.
Jan 10, 2014 08:36:34 #
ncshutterbug wrote:
I tossed out all my lens caps with the sticky little thingy. They don't stick after a while. At a photo shop I bought all new ones that have a teensy hole on the side that you thread a cord thru and thread the other end to the square loop on the camera. I got one for each lens as well so they are never lost.
That's what I want to invest in! And as for the cap dangling about, I hook it with my pinky when I hold the lens...I can shoot straight at the ground and the cap isn't in the way.
~Ace
Jan 10, 2014 08:43:16 #
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