Some of my digital pictures

[JanieDough]

I'm just starting to try to get the hang of this camera. It has WAY more features that I know what to do with. I don't know jack didly about white balance, etc. Be Kind.

 

[freakofnature]

Nice pics! I like the first one of the dog.

 

[JanieDough]

These are some film ones from a fair I went to. I did it all without flash which was a challenge. I scanned in the negatives. I tried to find some BW ones you guys could see because that is mostly what I print, but they are full of nude people...

 

[JanieDough]

they're blurry because the people kept moving! damn them!

 

[freakofnature]

Such vivid colours! :thumbup

 

[JanieDough]

here's some BW:

 

[Tuffdisc]

About the movement of people, it is best to up the ISO a bit, (i.e. one step at a time, and adjust the shutter to be faster, tiny two stops, then compose the picture again, if you get the chance

Love the black and white photos

 

[Tuffdisc]

About the white balance, erm...this is a hard one, because some of them I know are not in the 'right' WB mode, but who is to say that photography isn't an art

The diner with the fork stuck into the food actually looks good, that shows that you were in a very creative mind frame

 

[Veronica]

great pics!!

 

[JanieDough]

About the movement of people, it is best to up the ISO a bit, (i.e. one step at a time, and adjust the shutter to be faster, tiny two stops, then compose the picture again, if you get the chance

Love the black and white photos

the blurry fair ones were with film. I was using 800 or so ISO. I guess I could've tracked down a higher ISO than that, but I didn't want them to be too grainy especially since I was scanning the negatives in after.

I also didn't use flash OR a tripod...I know. but I mean what are you going to do? walk around the fair with a tripod?

and thanks! I don't want to say I love BW, but I kind of do...

great pics!!

Thanks V!

 

[RedRyder]

Uggghhhh.... Damn dial up. I let a few start to load.... Love the first dog pic.

Maybe I'll come back later and see what else might load before I die.

 

[AUFred]

Looks like you are having fun. Great pics.

 

[Guyzerr]

Hi Janie O'babe.

You have some very nice b & w shots. Way back when I was into a " dark mode " and shot a lot like that. Some of my fav shots I might add. They are on slides and if I had a scanner I would upload some.

With reference to the WB issue. My recommendation is that you leave it set to the factory settings. I have exparemented quite a bit with it and don't find it that great. It's much easier and more productive to adjust it with some editing software imo. All the different settings do is change the color slightly. ie: landscape gives you more vivid greens which usually aren't that accurate. Overdone in other words. I have one exception to that rule and that's when I bolt my flash to the camera. I found that I get much more realistic color and less flair if I set the WB on flash.

I have a few recommendations for you....

Pick up one of these. It will be the best $70.00 you spend on software. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

Always shoot in RAW format. Then open up the shot in Elements. You'll be able to do some amazing corrections when it first opens. After you have done that save it in TIFF format and do more editing if you feel the need. Save it under the TIFF format and then save a copy as jpeg to print or post to the web. If you edit in jpeg rather than TIFF you will loose a lot of detail.

 

[Tuffdisc]

I prefer DPP, comes free with every Canon dSLR, easy to adjust settings, and converts the RAW to .jpg easily

 

[JanieDough]

Hi Janie O'babe.

You have some very nice b & w shots. Way back when I was into a " dark mode " and shot a lot like that. Some of my fav shots I might add. They are on slides and if I had a scanner I would upload some.

With reference to the WB issue. My recommendation is that you leave it set to the factory settings. I have exparemented quite a bit with it and don't find it that great. It's much easier and more productive to adjust it with some editing software imo. All the different settings do is change the color slightly. ie: landscape gives you more vivid greens which usually aren't that accurate. Overdone in other words. I have one exception to that rule and that's when I bolt my flash to the camera. I found that I get much more realistic color and less flair if I set the WB on flash.

I have a few recommendations for you....

Pick up one of these. It will be the best $70.00 you spend on software. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

Always shoot in RAW format. Then open up the shot in Elements. You'll be able to do some amazing corrections when it first opens. After you have done that save it in TIFF format and do more editing if you feel the need. Save it under the TIFF format and then save a copy as jpeg to print or post to the web. If you edit in jpeg rather than TIFF you will loose a lot of detail.

I prefer DPP, comes free with every Canon dSLR, easy to adjust settings, and converts the RAW to .jpg easily

Thanks Guyzerr!

I adjusted the white balance in the swamp photos becuase I wasn't getting the yellow from the light. In Louisiana, it's like our air is a different color (and it just might be because of the humidity - and our sunsets are better).

So when I went out to Lake Martin, I wanted to capture the "yellow" of the light. I think I got it.

But I definitely need to read my owner's manual. Some day when I don't have so many other things to do...


I am taking a digital photography class next semester with a hard ass professor, so I am sure I will come out of there with some skills. Until then I am just trying to be comfortable with the camera.

and I probably have the program Tuffdisc described if it came with my camera but it's probably in the closet with the box! :24: I don't have Photoshop or anything right now.

And I do shoot in raw mode as of right now...

 

[Guyzerr]

I prefer DPP, comes free with every Canon dSLR, easy to adjust settings, and converts the RAW to .jpg easily

DPP is less than basic as far as PP is concerned. The only thing I use it for is my initial viewing of the shots and to do batch conversions of my TIFF's to jpg. Other than that it's junk.

 

[Guyzerr]

Thanks Guyzerr!

And I do shoot in raw mode as of right now...

What are you using to open and edit your shots if you haven't installed DPP?

 

[JanieDough]

I haven't edited them??? I just pop my stick in my computer and upload them.

 

[JanieDough]

oh! the one of my tort - the saturation is messed with - but that's the only one.

I did that in some generic program windows comes with...

 

[Tuffdisc]

DPP is less than basic as far as PP is concerned. The only thing I use it for is my initial viewing of the shots and to do batch conversions of my TIFF's to jpg. Other than that it's junk.

It maybe 'basic', but I find it much easier to get the best out of my photos...those that do come out good