PHOTOS PLEASE

[Massive Quasars]

Very good.

[Captain]

what's the trick to taking pics of lighting during storms. i know you need a longer exposure, but what else?

Auto-shutter and a shitload of luck would work too, no?

[MaCaBr3]

No, you're better of having a long exposure and hoping that a lightning strikes during the exposure.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

Ok wtf somehow I set the shutter speed on my d40 to 1/4000 (on the Manual mode). Now every picture I take is pitch black. How do I fix this? :x

[Grudge]

um, set your shutter speed to something else, like 1/30 or 1/60?

[Doombrain]

Ok wtf somehow I set the shutter speed on my d40 to 1/4000 (on the Manual mode). Now every picture I take is pitch black. How do I fix this? :x

1/4000 of a second. work it out.

[MaCaBr3]

RTFM? You change the shutterspeed by rotating the dial. At least on a Canon you do it that way. But really, if you have no clue about what ur doing, start shooting in automatic, then move on to Av or Tv then use P and move on to M.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

Ok i figured it out

[A1yssa]

Well that's different Should have shown more of your face/eyes. Give a bit more personality to it.

my face is boring lol

[MaCaBr3]

FFS, I really suck at post-processing. I can never manage to get an HDR picture look like this:

(this picture is not mine it's from someon on flickr)



I'm using CS3 and playing arround with the local adapation curve, but I have no idea how to achieve the effect as in the picture above or even FanaticX last picture.

Any help please?

[Dave]

I can't lie, man.. that's horrible

[MaCaBr3]

Oh, I thought it looked cool

[Dave]

It's a little too bling bling... it has a lot of dimensionality though

[MaCaBr3]

Is this kinda ok?



It's my street with 5 exposures

[l0g1c]

Shot with some slide film that's old enough to drive.

[dmmh]

FFS, I really suck at post-processing. I can never manage to get an HDR picture look like this:

(this picture is not mine it's from someon on flickr)



I'm using CS3 and playing arround with the local adapation curve, but I have no idea how to achieve the effect as in the picture above or even FanaticX last picture.

Any help please?

I like these kind of HDR's too. Each to their own I guess

[Doombrain]

i'm with dave, looks vile imo

[Doombrain]

anyone else having issues with HDR in CS3? everytime i try it the EV level always reads EV 0.00 and not what i've set in ACR

[Dave]

It won't work if the exif is getting stripped off because it uses the embedded iso, f-stop and shutter data to figure out the EV differences.

[Dave]

Is this kinda ok?

It's my street with 5 exposures

Well, there's a lot of depth and shadow detail, but to me it's just a picture of a street. Don't do HDR for HDR's sake, find a composition that looks good then determine if you need to enhance it with HDR (like digging the shadow detail out from under the cars). The prof I took a few classes with always told me when he thought my compositions "sucked" (his words)... It's a harsh reality, but if it forces you to look and think harder then roll with it and try again.

[Doombrain]

It won't work if the exif is getting stripped off because it uses the embedded iso, f-stop and shutter data to figure out the EV differences.

i'm not stripping the data, why would i? i use bridge for hdr

[MaCaBr3]

Is this kinda ok?

It's my street with 5 exposures

Well, there's a lot of depth and shadow detail, but to me it's just a picture of a street. Don't do HDR for HDR's sake, find a composition that looks good then determine if you need to enhance it with HDR (like digging the shadow detail out from under the cars). The prof I took a few classes with always told me when he thought my compositions "sucked" (his words)... It's a harsh reality, but if it forces you to look and think harder then roll with it and try again.

I know my compos suck, I really should go out more often and just take pictures the whole day. When I was visiting a photographer friend in Sweden I could tell he was much more experienced then me when it came to composition. He used lines, pannings, 2/3 rule in almost every shot he took.

I tried taking a simple boring composition and enhance it a bit more in HDR, but apparentely that didn't go well

My only excuse is that in the area I live, there is really nothing interesting to take pictures. You guys seem to be living in these faboulus industrial/urban/natural enviroments. It's pretty boring where I live.

[Dave]

It won't work if the exif is getting stripped off because it uses the embedded iso, f-stop and shutter data to figure out the EV differences.

i'm not stripping the data, why would i? i use bridge for hdr

no idea man, but that's the only thing I've seen that causes the EV 0 thing

[Dave]

I tried taking a simple boring composition and enhance it a bit more in HDR, but apparentely that didn't go well

Well, a boring composition is still a boring composition... You can photograph something boring and make it interesting, but if you set out to make it boring from the start, you're going to be, well, boring.

Part of the problem you might be having isn't that you live somewhere "boring," but that you've been there for so long you don't pick out the interesting parts. You can only walk down the same streets for so long before you stop noticing or caring about what you're looking at. Climb a fire escape, get on top of a building, bring a ladder, do something that might get you arrested, but look for a different perspective on the same old thing you see everyday.

[MaCaBr3]

the other thing is also, that I have a limited experience in post-processing, I have a few interesting shots that I will post later, that I wanna enhance a bit more, but I have no id how.