seremtan wrote:
you're in new plymouth? i've been there - a long time ago. it's up the coast from my cousins in paraparaumu/raumati (quite a way up the coast, in fact)
yeah, the light in NZ is totally different from the light in Europe - much harsher, with almost no distance haze. find yourself the highest point you can up in the ranges and you can see for 100s of miles in any direction. i miss that
I'm actually in Tawa staying with friends and doing some contract work in Wellington, so I travel up through Paraparaumu on my exploring days. There's a neat car museum just out north of there and the town itself has a great beach and decent sunday market...
I've got some shots looking out from a vantage right along the kapiti coastline but it was taken on my cellphone, I'll be back up there soon to take a proper shot.
Couple more osprey shots - I have some of one of the birds bringing some large branches up to the nest - these were quite a ways away, so these crops lack a bit of resolution, but the yellow eyes are pretty cool.
Just got to play with my new Canon XSi, here's a couple shots. I'm very new to cameras like these, still learning how to maximize it's potential nyarrr
Dog
friend of mine and his dog
pics were taken with the Canon 70-300mm IS USM lens that came with it. Granted i'm a lens noobie, i like this lens a lot.
Try using the zoomed end of the lens for portraits. you'll have to be back further, obviously, but you will get more blurring in the background so the subjects stand out more and the image looks like it has more depth.
So yea, I shoot a lot of dark motorcycles (black on black on black) doing wheelies. Both of the above shots were shot with a 70-200 f/2.8L lens with some generic UV filter.
It was pretty gloomy yesterday, but still, I have a running theme of horridly boring colors in my photos. What can I do to stop having photos with such dull colors? I like having a nice depth of field, but perhaps I should shoot at a higher f-stop # such as f/4? This may also help with me randomly having people's faces out of focus (or perhaps I should muck with my AF settings)? Is there any reason to buy a higher quality UV filter (didn't know if that would be bottle necking my lens)? Perhaps I should learn to use my white balance settings (I still have no clue how to adjust those properly)? Please help me stop taking crappy pictures
Example of something I like, with seemingly just as boring of bike:
you could try using some of the camera's WB presets rather than relying on the auto setting. alternatively, you can just output RAW and adjust the WB in lightroom
pretty good pictures by the way. i'm shit at action shots, especially anything involving wildlife. i guess 200mm just isn't enough zoom to stay out of an animal's flight radius and still get a decent picture
you knows it, 324 pictures in two days Unfortunately the filters for the 17-85mm lens never showed up. Gonna have to duke it out with the seller again...
Seems marginally better, I'll hope for better lighting this weekend.
Can anyone provide any inputs as to the pros/cons of mucking with the "picture style" parameters found on the 400d as opposed to just post processing the photo?
