sorry most of you are so short sighted. but its true. Ive been taking pics for about six years am now being published. still i thought i could learn something from this post. i was wrong. egotistical assholes. i am gone...
to madcrap; boy...you are crossing a line. you're conviced if someone asks for advice they must not know anything. Of course, you know it all. maybe you should log in under "god"?! Or maybe just maybe i'm eager to learn, have made tremendous advances and some people think I have an eye and talent and are willing to take a chance on me. no no no no no.... you must be right. anyone who would take a chance on me must be ....how did you put it? ahhhh a FOOL. i know your opinion is worth more than mine,...or anybodys....you think you're god.....and you knew everything about the world the moment of your birth. I'm done talking to you but if you insult me or my friends again.....i won't be near so polite in my next post.
thanks for the questions. the shutter speed and f stop I try to adjust as I read the light. alot of trial and error. i mean, how dark is dark? is it dark because of cloud cover or because its late? small adjustments get big results. My white balance is almost always on auto tho i did increase all the settings in the menu where you can choose "neutral" or "vivid" or "cloudy". each of those has a selection to adjust sharpness, saturation and so on. i increased them across the board. Still last nite in dim light i tried to shoot some deer and could not get a fuzz free shot. It may be that I'm fighting pressets. i noticed on my camcorder that if I choose a preset that is for "increased brightness on a cloudy day" I could NOT get the auto focus to sharply display a redwing blackbird. I switched the preset to "capture fast action such as sports" and voila max zoom was crystal clear. I wonder if I'm having the same type of problem with my nikon settings and thats why my problem seems inconsistant?
i get the point, you don't care what you or anyone else shoots and apparently don't care to share your knowledge or experience with newby crap like me. Luckily I have two private investors who have given me nearly 5,600.00 to purchase semi pro equipment, which is why I was asking you "hedgehog pros" for your imput. I'll figure it out m myself. no need to reply.
i can't get them loaded. I browse and the files show in the attatchment box but when I click send the dissapear ana a cursor sits in the filebox flashing. I have IE 9 and have enabled everything I can think of. still won't upload. frustrating.
I know everyone says to shoot in raw but why? after processing almost 4,000 pics, some in jpeg some in raw I really don't see much difference in the actual abiltity of what the processing program can do. In jpeg I change colors, textures, add effects, exposure, blah blah, and i can do all those same things in raw. Vice versa. Is it just a sales ploy?
george,
i'm using primarily a 200mm nikor af-s lens. I have come to realise that MT is right, my shooting form sucks. I have tested myself shooting close targets (50 ft or less) and zoom in and noticed the pics are still fuzzy. I've tried both auto on matrix and spot focus and maual focus. I've even tried using the car window to rest the camera and still get uncrisp images. Now, this is not the case all of the time. Apparently I'm close (if I concentrate) because some of the pics come out very sharp and clear with the same settings. I know i'm screwing up some of the settings because I shoot primarily on P and sometimes A, and at times i shoot the "guide" just because it asks me what I want then tells me the adjustments to do it. But that's embarrassing to admit. A photographer should know his equipment well enough to get settings close prior to hitting the shutter. I don't. . . yet . . .but I will. I read about it everyday. I'm finding there are as many opinions as there are stars in the sky.
Who cares? honestly. you're asking someone to either bragg about themselves saying they're great or asking somone to "vote"for thier favorite. in my opinion rediculous. Perhaps a better question would be "whos got the most relevent experience?" or "Are there any photo members who run or have run thier own business successfully for more than five years", ya know, credentials. For that matter i've been taking pics for about a year now and I think I'm the "best photographer" on the board.
I will try to add a few examples. I believe both of these are untouched. please lemme know what you think. Like I said I have played with exposure, lighting, camera controlled saturation and sharpness with the nikon, the canon was right out of the bag.
I leave the white balance on auto.
ok, thanks for your imput. I live outside of stevenville . . .i'm unawre of any photo clubs around, but I can check . M trying to learn all this stuff on the fly and on my own. I have a finacial backer and soon will be purchasing all new equipment and stepping up my photo work so I was getting info from what sources I have...
Alot of buzz on the internet from users that the new corel program is as good as the photoshop. Thoughts, comments, reviews, opinions, experiences . . . . .
I would be interested in what camera make you think is best. consider features, construction, versitality and anything else you want. I shoot a nikon d 3100 now and I think it takes flat dull pics. I have upped the saturation and sharpness and that helped some....but I used to shoot a canon (i think it was a t3 EOS EF - S rebel?) anyway man what color. I look at the pics from the canon, untouched, and very deep color compared to the nikon pics. So, what do you guys think? ( I am aware there is a huge availability of cameras so for this post let's keep the cost of the camera, and thus the range, to $500.00 to $1,000.00) thnks!
Thats exactly correct. Thanks for the help.
Wow! That's what I'm talking about. Great pics especially hand held. It's not often I get pics like these but every dog has his day...I've got a few. But I dont get them as often as I should. Great pics.