General Photography thread

[Triggaaar]

But now the post isn't vertical

It doesn't need to be - that's perspective. The horizon should be level though, unless it's deliberately a long way out.

Straightened on my phone.

I shoot in RAW mode which produces almost a digital negative. There are colours in the image as you can see, but not to the extent when you shoot in jpeg mode when your camera will do the "developing" for you.

There aren't any colours in the RAW file at all. I don't mean in the same way that a jpeg is also ones and zeros, but a RAW file doesn't have values for RG&B as a jpeg does, a RAW file has to be converted before being viewed.

When you're happy with what you've done, you can save your file as a JPEG, whilst the original stays as a NEF file as you left it. For example, before I posted the original image below, I had to slide all the sliders back and set everything back, so none of the original file was permanently changed.

If you use Lightroom, you won't have to do that, as it will never change your original NEF.

If you've got 2 SD cards, you can set one of jpeg and one for RAW in your camera.

And if you've only got one SD card, you can set the camera to record both NEF and jpeg to it.

 

[clippedgull]

Any idea how much it costs to use the Cloud?

Flikr gives you a free 1 Terabyte (1000GB) of storage if its just photos you want to put up. http://www.flikr.com

 

[clippedgull]

Microsoft use the cloud, basically instead of having a fixed hard-drive you can store pictures all online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage

i was going to get a western digital hard drive 2TB, but now might think twice

But surely you would keep back ups locally as well?

If you are worried about failing drives you could always set them up as a RAID system http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/

 

[sebtucknott]

Photo from yesterday's sunset

 

[Zukey Seagull]

But surely you would keep back ups locally as well?

If you are worried about failing drives you could always set them up as a RAID system http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/

At the moment I have a 1TB western digital hard drive, which is really good. But now I have a camera which uses more megapixels I might need to get another hard drive. I have my photos on my laptop, some in the cloud and all photos on my external hard drive.
So I am backed up pretty well, but relying on the cloud can not be the best of things.

 

[Zukey Seagull]

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What shutter speed did you use in that? Presumably using a slr..

 

[perseus]

Any tips on a good camera (new) for under £100.00 (if there is such thing!) ?

Buy a bridge camera. Some of them under £100 with a big zoom and macro look quite good. Results in poor light at the moment are not up to much.

 

[Zukey Seagull]

Any tips on a good camera (new) for under £100.00 (if there is such thing!) ?

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/cameras/digital-cameras/bridge-cameras/nikon-coolpix-p530-bridge-camera-22064442-pdt.html#cat-0

i have the p510 and it is excellent. i can advise you what book to get aswell. they have discontinued the p510 as newer models (its a bridge camera)

 

[Eeyore]

What shutter speed did you use in that? Presumably using a slr..

It's just a point-and-shoot. I use Photoscape to adjust the contrast etc.

 

[Triggaaar]

It's just a point-and-shoot. I use Photoscape to adjust the contrast etc.

There's still a shutter speed.

 

[Zukey Seagull]

It's just a point-and-shoot. I use Photoscape to adjust the contrast etc.

Fair enough. I love shooting water with different shutter speeds. You can get it so it's looks like the water is moving or have it so you can see indivual droplets.
I find ashdown forest a good place to go for photos. If you can get there that is.

 

[Eeyore]

There's still a shutter speed.

I'm not sure what that would be. It is just a default setting.

 

[Eeyore]

Fair enough. I love shooting water with different shutter speeds. You can get it so it's looks like the water is moving or have it so you can see indivual droplets.
I find ashdown forest a good place to go for photos. If you can get there that is.

I love the forests in Mid-Sussex.

 

[Juan Albion]

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A bird.

 

[Triggaaar]

I'm not sure what that would be. It is just a default setting.

It will be different for each photo you take, your camera will guess the best setting to use. Depending on what software you use, you can look it up. There's other information stored too. Pasting the url of your image into an online exif viewer tells me that the shutter speed for your shot was 1/2000th of a second, aperture f2.4, ISO 8000. That's why the water is nicely frozen in time (if you wanted that). It would have been better (IMO) if the pebbles closest to the camera were in focus, which is down to the aperture and where you focused.

 

[clippedgull]

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A bird.

Can't see it Juan

 

[sebtucknott]

I'm falling back in love with photography again

 

[Juan Albion]

Trying again.

 

[Eeyore]

It will be different for each photo you take, your camera will guess the best setting to use. Depending on what software you use, you can look it up. There's other information stored too. Pasting the url of your image into an online exif viewer tells me that the shutter speed for your shot was 1/2000th of a second, aperture f2.4, ISO 8000. That's why the water is nicely frozen in time (if you wanted that). It would have been better (IMO) if the pebbles closest to the camera were in focus, which is down to the aperture and where you focused.

My word, just by doing that it gives so much detail. It seems to have got the camera make wrong. It's a Canon (Unless that's the same as Sony). It got the date right.

 

[Triggaaar]

My word, just by doing that it gives so much detail. It seems to have got the camera make wrong. It's a Canon (Unless that's the same as Sony). It got the date right.

That's weird, not sure why it's wrong. If you load images straight from the camera into Lightroom or similar, I assume it would be correct. You didn't take the photo with your Sony phone did you?