Feiertag wrote:
Mine are birds in flight, against the sky.
What subject do you find challenging?
While we are at it, what subject do you find the easiest subject to take a shot of? Mine are plants/flowers.
Mine hardest is BIF as well. Landscapes and flowers are the easiest.
Infrared film. Love it, though.
Hardest - deep space object astrophotography - technically challenging, equipment challenging, post-processing extremely challenging.
Easiest - Animal portraits.
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bgrn
Loc: Pleasant Grove UT
Where to start
People
Astrophotophy
Aquarium life
Fireworks
Chris T
Loc: from England across the pond to New England
bgrn wrote:
Where to start
People
Astrophotophy
Aquarium life
Fireworks
Yes, but, Kelly ... which do you find the hardest, and which do you find the easiest?
Mine are birds in flight coming straight at me. The easiest are landscapes and flowers
Floyd
Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama
photogeneralist wrote:
Flattering portrait photos of people. Timing is nearly always after the smile has faded or when the eyes are closed etc. Next most difficult is really good landscapes. People start with landscapes because they are easy, then stay with landscapes because they are so hard. Easiest is sunsets and sunrises over the water. Those have become such a cliche that I don''t shoot them any more.
The things that bother you about taking photos of people can be offset to a major degree by asking them to close their eyes, open on the count of 3 while smiling. I've taken photos of several groups and have very few repeats due to open mouths, closed eyes,etc.
Getting out of the house, forgetting all my responsibilities, to just immerse myself in seeing and recording.
Morry
Loc: Palm Springs, CA
That's easy. Weddings. It's not the photography that's sometimes difficult, but a few of the people that attend sometimes are.
Composing anything before I take the shot. I don't own tools for bif and a lot of other genres that I know I want to do but, I can do landscapes. Yet I can never seem to get the right composition. I do find that if I go as wide as possible and go to post process, I have a better chance at getting the composition I had imagined. I wish I had I had that natural artistic eye and I know sadly I don't. I will never let this hobby go and I'll acquire more arrows to hunt different genres however I know it will always be the Indian and never the arrow. Trying to find my limits is the hardest thing I find to shoot. But stick with it I will!
John Gavin wrote:
Composing anything before I take the shot. I don't own tools for bif and a lot of other genres that I know I want to do but, I can do landscapes. Yet I can never seem to get the right composition. I do find that if I go as wide as possible and go to post process, I have a better chance at getting the composition I had imagined. I wish I had I had that natural artistic eye and I know sadly I don't. I will never let this hobby go and I'll acquire more arrows to hunt different genres however I know it will always be the Indian and never the arrow. Trying to find my limits is the hardest thing I find to shoot. But stick with it I will!
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Remember the rule of thirds. Pick out what you see as important and put it one third in to the pic, either to the right or left, with the best scene supporting it to the open side. The important thing you are looking at might be a tree or a distant mountain or a barn or whatever. I very often do that, seems to work.
lamiaceae wrote:
My main question to you now is what Camera(s) and Lens(es) are you using? Are you processing as 16-bit image files (from your camera's 14-bit)? (PSE only gives 8-bit TIFF, PSD, JPG, etc.)[/b] I do everything initially 16-bit and even 32-bit for HDR or when I can. Huge files, but my PC has 32GB RAM! I use (mainly) a Pentax K-5 and a K-20D camera. Few issues at all with those! I have not used my K-3 enough or printed anything from it yet to tell if it gives me what I want or not yet. The old (6MP) K-100D is converted for IR use only. My wife's Fuji X100T might give even better color as it has a non-beyer array sensor and thus far seems to produce smoother creamier more subtle images. We've only had it a few weeks. I've only been doing serious digital photography with Photoshop (CS5 & CS6) since 2012. But I've been doing film photography since 1978 using everything from 35mm to 6x6cm, to 6x7cm to 4x5", up to 8x10". I've really never enjoyed color photography as much until I started using digital around 1995. Perhaps you are just too picky like me. I rarely really like my own images. Good Luck.
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I have been doing photography since 1966. I enjoyed it, but when Photoshop came along in February 1990, I was like a kid in a candy store. I couldn't get enough of it.
My equipment is a Canon 760D, a Tamron 18-300 as my walkaround lens, Tamron 150-600 to get out into the water without getting wet, and a Tamron 90 macro for pictures from my gardens.
Here's my current photo & video editing computer:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-461559-1.htmlThe designer/builder of that computer is now a junior at Cal-Berkeley in computer science carrying a 3.9 GPA. He graduates in May 2020, at which time I might have him build me an updated computer.
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