Posts for: Bittmoore
May 15, 2019 15:54:58 #
I've been shooting RAW+JPG for years but am considering going with just RAW from now on. Between G.I.M.P. & Canon's Digital Photo Professional I can do pretty much anything I need to. And probably plenty more but have yet to learn about or feel the need to. I don't do much post processing beyond minor hue/contrast/shade/light adjustment. Occasionally a bit of saturation adjustment or stitching multiple images into one.
Creating jpgs is fairly easy and if done after adjustments are made to the RAW image there's no worries about re-encoding loss.
Creating jpgs is fairly easy and if done after adjustments are made to the RAW image there's no worries about re-encoding loss.
May 15, 2019 15:05:11 #
Here are a few fun, experimental shots with the mini-lightwand pictured above.
These are all taken with my T4i using the Canon EFS 18-55mm lens (5184x2916px; f/18; 8sec; ISO 100;55mm).
I'll add a few others once I've time to convert to jpg.
These are all taken with my T4i using the Canon EFS 18-55mm lens (5184x2916px; f/18; 8sec; ISO 100;55mm).
I'll add a few others once I've time to convert to jpg.
May 15, 2019 13:05:46 #
RodM wrote:
Welcome to UHH, lots to learn here and lots of suggestions on how to spend tons of money on gear.
Thanks, as a homebrewer, photographer and heirloom seed gardener I have no lack of ways to spend $$$. LOL
May 10, 2019 13:08:05 #
I found this at OfficeDepot last year and have had fun playing with it. I have a few others I've played around with too.
This light wand is led based, has 3 leds and 3 colors + white. It's approx.10" overall and the light tube is about 8". Each of the colors has two states: solid color and strobing color. White only strobes. It uses a single power button to move through all of the modes (solid red, red strobe, blue-ish purple, strobe blue-ish purple, green, strobe green, strobe white) with its final mode being a slow morph through each color - and thus giving a few additional colors.
When I get back to base camp later I'll post a few samples.
This light wand is led based, has 3 leds and 3 colors + white. It's approx.10" overall and the light tube is about 8". Each of the colors has two states: solid color and strobing color. White only strobes. It uses a single power button to move through all of the modes (solid red, red strobe, blue-ish purple, strobe blue-ish purple, green, strobe green, strobe white) with its final mode being a slow morph through each color - and thus giving a few additional colors.
When I get back to base camp later I'll post a few samples.
May 10, 2019 10:11:19 #
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.
I'll figure out posting here and up a few images. I take a variety of types (landscape, astral, events) and will up some of each.
I'll figure out posting here and up a few images. I take a variety of types (landscape, astral, events) and will up some of each.
May 9, 2019 00:56:21 #
Greetings all,
Long time shooter new to the forum here. As an occupational health and safety trainer as well as incident investigator and a contract photographer/videographer I'm always looking for hints, tips and suggestions on improving my skills & equipment. I was quite humbled and amazed when legendary photographer Earl Dotter recently told me he thought I had a pretty nice set up. WOW. I'm still pinching myself.
I've been taking pictures for many decades. It was something I picked up from my grandfather who gave me my first "real" camera: a Brownie 620. Yeah, I had a number of "instamatic" cameras and had fun snapping pictures but that Brownie was something else.
My grandfather had been taking photos for many decades and had quite a few different cameras. He gave me several Brownies as a kid. There was something about that huge film - compared to the instamatics I had - that always captured my imagination. I played with the instamatics just snapping away at whatever caught my eye, but the Brownie was different. I always to time composing my shots with them. Not that I knew what composition was or the quality difference in the film.
When I graduated high school my parents got me a Minolta (I have no recollection of what model anymore). I saved up and got a second lens for it. Unfortunately when I moved across country a couple years later I ended up with some roommates that stole it, and a bunch of my other stuff, and I couldn't afford to replace it.
I got busy with my hectic life and wistfully dreamed of someday getting another camera. Then, when cellphones became "smartphones", I started looking at the specs and the quality of camera made most of my decisions on which to get. Then one day I read about the Lumia 1020 with a 41MP camera f/2.2 26mm Carl Zeiss optics, 1080p video, touchscreen and the native ability to shoot panorama images I had to get me one. Unfortunately I couldn't as it had been superseded by the Lumia 1520 at that point. Since the biggest change was that the 1520 had a 20MP f/2.4 26mm camera with the Zeiss optics - and a few other upgrades - I had to get it. And I did.
That got me back to taking images everywhere I went. And they were pretty decent. The wide range of lighting conditions it could handle with ease, high definition images and video it could produce and the fact that you could shoot using automatic or manual settings keep it in my pocket to this day.
Around the same time I found out a good friend of mine had a Canon Rebel (probably a T2 or T3 but idk for certain) and saw the awesome images he was able to capture made getting one of my own a top priority. I opted for a Rebel T4i. Glad I did as it's an awesome piece of equipment that has helped my recall and use much of the knowledge I learned so many years ago in the fine art photography and industrial arts classes I took.
A year or two ago I decided I wanted a second body so I wouldn't spend so much time changing lenses. Unfortunately I didn't do my homework like I should have. I got myself a Rebel T6 which is a fine camera but it's a bit of a changeup from the T4i and I don't use it as much as I would had I gotten the T6i or another T4i. Once you get accustomed to the touchscreen controls and articulating LCD screen it's distracting to work with menus again.
I haven't invested in many lenses as of yet as I've been fairly satisfied with the Canon EF-S 18-55mm, Canon EF 75-300mm and the Tamron 18-400mm so far. I'm able to set one camera as a stationary and the other use mobily and synchronize pictures with the matching ProMaster RF Wireless Remote Shutter Releases I picked on recommendation of my friend.
Long time shooter new to the forum here. As an occupational health and safety trainer as well as incident investigator and a contract photographer/videographer I'm always looking for hints, tips and suggestions on improving my skills & equipment. I was quite humbled and amazed when legendary photographer Earl Dotter recently told me he thought I had a pretty nice set up. WOW. I'm still pinching myself.
I've been taking pictures for many decades. It was something I picked up from my grandfather who gave me my first "real" camera: a Brownie 620. Yeah, I had a number of "instamatic" cameras and had fun snapping pictures but that Brownie was something else.
My grandfather had been taking photos for many decades and had quite a few different cameras. He gave me several Brownies as a kid. There was something about that huge film - compared to the instamatics I had - that always captured my imagination. I played with the instamatics just snapping away at whatever caught my eye, but the Brownie was different. I always to time composing my shots with them. Not that I knew what composition was or the quality difference in the film.
When I graduated high school my parents got me a Minolta (I have no recollection of what model anymore). I saved up and got a second lens for it. Unfortunately when I moved across country a couple years later I ended up with some roommates that stole it, and a bunch of my other stuff, and I couldn't afford to replace it.
I got busy with my hectic life and wistfully dreamed of someday getting another camera. Then, when cellphones became "smartphones", I started looking at the specs and the quality of camera made most of my decisions on which to get. Then one day I read about the Lumia 1020 with a 41MP camera f/2.2 26mm Carl Zeiss optics, 1080p video, touchscreen and the native ability to shoot panorama images I had to get me one. Unfortunately I couldn't as it had been superseded by the Lumia 1520 at that point. Since the biggest change was that the 1520 had a 20MP f/2.4 26mm camera with the Zeiss optics - and a few other upgrades - I had to get it. And I did.
That got me back to taking images everywhere I went. And they were pretty decent. The wide range of lighting conditions it could handle with ease, high definition images and video it could produce and the fact that you could shoot using automatic or manual settings keep it in my pocket to this day.
Around the same time I found out a good friend of mine had a Canon Rebel (probably a T2 or T3 but idk for certain) and saw the awesome images he was able to capture made getting one of my own a top priority. I opted for a Rebel T4i. Glad I did as it's an awesome piece of equipment that has helped my recall and use much of the knowledge I learned so many years ago in the fine art photography and industrial arts classes I took.
A year or two ago I decided I wanted a second body so I wouldn't spend so much time changing lenses. Unfortunately I didn't do my homework like I should have. I got myself a Rebel T6 which is a fine camera but it's a bit of a changeup from the T4i and I don't use it as much as I would had I gotten the T6i or another T4i. Once you get accustomed to the touchscreen controls and articulating LCD screen it's distracting to work with menus again.
I haven't invested in many lenses as of yet as I've been fairly satisfied with the Canon EF-S 18-55mm, Canon EF 75-300mm and the Tamron 18-400mm so far. I'm able to set one camera as a stationary and the other use mobily and synchronize pictures with the matching ProMaster RF Wireless Remote Shutter Releases I picked on recommendation of my friend.