September 2008 Photo Thread

[Gus-]

yeah i wouldn't mind a program i can download to edit, atm im using photobucket and i dont like it

nothing beats trying to overlay two photos with film...has anyone tryed to do that before??

in photography class that was my favorite, trying to put cool clouyds from one photo into another bland photo....never seemed to work but was hard

[siddr20]

photobucket to edit photos??

you gotta get yourself a real program lol

There are some freeware tools out there that can edit photos (even if its simple program to increase contrast, brightness etc)

[Craved]

lol gus i still only see one wheel barrow

lol i get it hahahaha causing quite the fuss

[Xmetal]

More crap from work...

[miss_petepie]

thats cool!! like the last pic there

[ZENNON]

nice - like em both

[Gus-]

i'm loving the depth of feild....just colse up the aperture to get it or what??

[Xmetal]

i'm loving the depth of feild....just colse up the aperture to get it or what??

Quite the opposite. Aperture was at either f1.8 or f2.8 for both of those if I remember correctly

[Gus-]

lol

so how did u do it then, with the focus???

[siddr20]

Gus if your lens cant focus automatically set it to manual and focus that way

It looks like xmetal has a 50mm f 1.8 lens.

your stock kit lens (18-55mm) can not go wide open at 1.8 and say 50mm - which is what he has done in pic 2.

I would suggest you get yourself a 50mm f.18 lens

Great for low light work and does great bokeh work

Check out my pic in page 3

[Gus-]

yeah what i'm asking is how did he get the background blurry etc....and i jsut realised a stuffed up by saying close up the aperture haha.

what i should have said is "did you just open the aperture up" and he would have said "yes" ...

my bad....

quick question....your iris for the aperture, that is in the lens or the camera shell? as in can you buy a lens with a wider aperture? i'm guessing by what u jsut said you can...but just checking

[Basti]

its in the lens man

[siddr20]

yeah what i'm asking is how did he get the background blurry etc....and i jsut realised a stuffed up by saying close up the aperture haha.

Its the lens.

The 50mm f1.8 lens is great for bohek (blur)

"Bokeh (derived from Japanese bokeaji ボケ味, "blur") is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.[1] Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject."

hope this helps!!

The 50mm f.18 is only 120 bucks brand new

[Sl!m]

few of my mates have a 50mm and they say they use that lens for most of the stuff they do.. so definately worth the purchase

[ZENNON]

ISO: 100, Exposure: 1/125 sec, Aperture: f/4.0, Focal Length: 18mm

[siddr20]

^ sorry man that picture doesn't do it for me

[Gus-]

i'm thinking the flower needs to be more prominent...get closer so it takes up more of the frame...get the grass in focus and dont worry bout the fence too much and it would look better imo

[ZENNON]

"flower" was only about 5mm big so yeah - the old 18-70mm cant make it _that_ big

Tried to get closer in these but yeah - not that clear/focused IMO

[evade]

some interesting photos in here

the spraybottles look good xmetal, they both look a little grainy to me, did you sharpen them a bit?

so whats in everyone's kits?

oh and is it only me, or does anyone else hate the bokeh term.......dont ask me why..

[Gus-]

New car got it friday woop woop