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Captured these all last week.

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First frost of the year on my mini rosebush.
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Just messing around with the settings to make this picture- ...come out like this
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:D

Is Mini still around?


Edit: I've just spotted how badly I've parked. I might have to run out and repark it :p

Edit2: Disaster! If you look carefuly, you can see my reflection in the chrome on the headlights!
 
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Found some pics of my older boys I took back in the beginning of 2007? Aw, they were just little peanuts then!
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*great* pic Jill - what camera did you use to take it if you don't mind me asking? Did you have a zoom lens on it? I really love taking pics like that but haven't figured out the right combo just yet. Just got a new camera a week or so ago and still playing with it - no moon pics yet.......
 
Here is some silliness with my new camera. Finally got out of the point and shoot world and bought a D-SLR.
Took this one about 15 minutes out of the box, so the instruction video I watched was a pretty good one!
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Very cool. I need to get my stuff out for my camera I got last year for Christmas...Canon Rebel xsi.
 
Ahhh, mines close -the Rebel T1i - I think they have a similar body style or something. I love it so far....still trying to figure out all the bells and whistles though.

Love the trapped ornaments Carrie!
 
It's so easy to take a good picture with that camera, I haven't experimented with the other features. I have the same camera in non-digital format. I was soo bummed when everything went digital that i stopped taking pictures for a while. I was protesting progress, because i couldn't afford to upgrade to a good digital at the time.
 
imisspopcorn said:
You have inspired me to watch the instruction video now. Thank you.
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The guy at the camera place recommended this DVD/book by Magic Lantern - they make the DVD just for your camera. I got mine at Barnes and Noble. I watched it (on multiple occasions - I kept falling asleep LOL!) and basically learned bunches. I have never had a photography class and wanted this camera so I could do special stuff like uptop there - or say those cool waterfall/stream pics people take on slow shutter. Plus I could never get the kind of sunrise/set/moon/sky pics I wanted with my point and shoot. Sooo....the main thing he said was NEVER to use the automatic setting if you want to learn how to take good photos - so right out of the box I set it to aperture priority - and boom - had fun with Ashley!
 
Chuck2008 said:
Hi Drew, Nice pics on your Flick site!

I am into photography too, but during a crohns flareup I'm usually depressed and drop all of my hobbies until I'm feeling better. Here is my gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21937471@N08/
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Wow - ok - you know that old cereal commercial "I wanna be like Mikie" Well...I wanna be like Chuck :O) Those were great pics Chuck - thanks for posting them!
 
Peaches said:
The guy at the camera place recommended this DVD/book by Magic Lantern - they make the DVD just for your camera. I got mine at Barnes and Noble. I watched it (on multiple occasions - I kept falling asleep LOL!) and basically learned bunches. I have never had a photography class and wanted this camera so I could do special stuff like uptop there - or say those cool waterfall/stream pics people take on slow shutter. Plus I could never get the kind of sunrise/set/moon/sky pics I wanted with my point and shoot. Sooo....the main thing he said was NEVER to use the automatic setting if you want to learn how to take good photos - so right out of the box I set it to aperture priority - and boom - had fun with Ashley!
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I took a class with my old camera....The thing I want to learn to shoot is Christmas lights. Digital is so much better because you can correct the aperture and ISO right there. I'm going to check out Barnes and Noble. Thanks
 
Great... you've all seen my big fat dimpled moon.

CHUCK! I loved looking at your pics! There are too many to name, but I liked the baby goslings the best. I've been to Collingwood a ton of times, but never in the winter.

Peaches said:
*great* pic Jill - what camera did you use to take it if you don't mind me asking? Did you have a zoom lens on it? I really love taking pics like that but haven't figured out the right combo just yet. Just got a new camera a week or so ago and still playing with it - no moon pics yet.......
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It a Sony Cybershot DSC-H10. It's a point and shoot but had some manual capabilities. I am VERY happy with it!
I just kept switching the settings around until the craters actually showed. I ended up with 1/60th of a second, 400 ISO at f/10. I also set it for daylight setting (cuz the sun is lighting the moon). I switched the metering to spot, and the focus to spot (or center) too, but I don't know if that made a difference.
It has a 10x zoom, but I used an additional telephoto lens too.
It's cropped obviously, you can tell how rough the bottom edge is.

The odd thing is - my other moon pic on this thread also captured the craters, but it was set on auto.. so who knows.
Next I need to learn about snowflakes and Christmas lights! I've only had my camera since April. Yippee!
 
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imisspopcorn said:
The thing I want to learn to shoot is Christmas lights.
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I browse on flickr a lot to learn what settings to use. Use the search option for 'lights' or 'Christmas' (tags only, not text) and then when you find a picture that you like, click 'properties'. that will tell you what the person used for thier settings. That's how I learned to do lightning.

Also - it's fun to just browse the "interesting pictures from the last 7 days" or whatever it is called. Then you can click reload and just browse for toooo long.

LOVE the popcorn wreath, IMP!
 
My Butt Hurts said:
Great... you've all seen my big fat dimpled moon.

CHUCK! I loved looking at your pics! There are too many to name, but I liked the baby goslings the best. I've been to Collingwood a ton of times, but never in the winter.


It a Sony Cybershot DSC-H10. It's a point and shoot but had some manual capabilities. I am VERY happy with it!
I just kept switching the settings around until the craters actually showed. I ended up with 1/60th of a second, 400 ISO at f/10. I also set it for daylight setting (cuz the sun is lighting the moon). I switched the metering to spot, and the focus to spot (or center) too, but I don't know if that made a difference.
It has a 10x zoom, but I used an additional telephoto lens too.
It's cropped obviously, you can tell how rough the bottom edge is.

The odd thing is - my other moon pic on this thread also captured the craters, but it was set on auto.. so who knows.
Next I need to learn about snowflakes and Christmas lights! I've only had my camera since April. Yippee!
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Hmm, my p&s is a cybershot too - can't remember the model - will have to look at it. I got so frustrated trying to take moon pics with it that I just switched back to my old sony handycam. Guess I didn't play around with the settings enough.

Thanks for the settings - I'll try that out with the new camera and see what happens. And....great info on searching for what you want to take pics of on flickr - I forgot you can get the person's settings - great idea!
 
Took this one Sunday night while the lights were being put up on the tree. Again - I'm a newbie - so the room lighting is off.....

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Peaches said:
Took this one Sunday night while the lights were being put up on the tree. Again - I'm a newbie - so the room lighting is off.....

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Too much ceiling! ;)

Do some proper light painting next. It usually goes like this:

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  2. Man
  3. Butterfly
  4. Blob
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Thats a very artistic looking pic, I like it! I wouldn't call it blurry at all, more like a soft focus as it should be.

EDIT: I was commenting on mybutthurts B&W baby picture, I can't find it anymore, it scrolled away :)
 
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This pic turned out surprisingly neat. One of my favorite types of light for the tree. The bubbles inside only came out as squiggles, but still looks cool.
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Creepy Lurker said:
Too much ceiling! ;)

Do some proper light painting next. It usually goes like this:
  1. Name
  2. Man
  3. Butterfly
  4. Blob
  5. Bored now
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Say what?? I mean - obviously on the too much ceiling - it was an impromptu shot - but what about the stuff below (or are you picking?)?
 
WOW Beth, I'm loving that!! I was reading about HDR (high dynamic range) photography - your picture reminds me of one you might take for this type of photo. It is lovely.
 
Except I think it would show what a sham it is :) It was actually quite light still, of course we know what happens when we point a camera at the sun don't we children! Just didn't think it would come out as good as this.

HDR is interesting. I've been playing about with pfstools quite a bit, which do the tone mapping thing with results from the realistic to the heavy oil painting look. Shame the D60 wont do multiple shots with auto +/- bracketing.
 
Just read about it for the first time today since I'm so new to the photography scene. Hmmm, I have the Canon T1i and I haven't read anything about bracketing so far - I'm going to have to look that up in the new book I just bought today. It's a bummer when you get your new toy and start figuring out maybe it isn't going to do all the wingdingy things you want to play with - of course - I didn't spend a million bucks on it either - but it wasn't cheap. I guess you could take the time to set it up on a tripod and manually do the bracketing - but that seems like a lot o work!
 
Kewel!! The book I just bought (David Busch's Guide to Digital SLR Photgraphy for the Canon T1i) has a whole section about HDR. I guess my camera does do it automatically - but he recommends the remote shutter release which I don't have (yet!) and Photoshop - I'm getting a copy of that in the next week or so from my daughter's school (it is good to have connections!). Have to do the actual HDR merge in Photoshop. That rocks - I'll have to see how it works. He calls it a fad and says the newer cameras in the next few years should do a much better job of doing this automatically internally.
 
Bracketing for HDR means you take exactly the same shot at -3, 0, +3 stops and then use the high/low-lights from the different exposures to compose the final picture. So, eg, you take this series with some sky in it. The sky gets washed out at normal and + 3 stops, but you have the data to fill in the washed out highlights in the sky from the -3 exposure. Et voila, you have increased the dynamic range of the photo! it includes the information in the shadows, and the bright sky.

I'm sure some bright spark will come along with a better explanation but that how I think of it.

Then there is of course tone mapping, which other than describing it as the process by which you take a high definition image with colour values greater than our displays can render and map the colours back into its colour space so it can, I dont think I can really elaborate!
 
My Nikon has something called "Active D-lighting" which lifts the shadows a bit to 'increase' the dynamic range a bit. But it's cheating really. The sensor technology is moving rapidly and they will improve a lot over the next few years.
 
Boy - do I have a LOT to learn!! I think I better stay on automatic for the next several trips I make so I don't mess up getting the shots I want. I posted these somewhere else but thought I'd put them here. This is from my trip to the Biltmore Estates last weekend. The front of the house and the view of their "backyard" including a little pond.

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Ahhhh. Hills. I want to be in them thar hills :) Nice photos. Importantly you have reasonably level horizontals. I mess up a lot of shots because I lift the right hand side so the photo comes out crooked.

Most of my shots have been on auto... shhhh don't tell anyone! Although I am setting aperture priority a far bit. The Nikon just gets soo much right, and I can predict what it's going to do that I rarely feel the need to contradict it. Maybe later when I more experience.
 
Hmmm, I got lucky there - it was colder than a witch's...well... you know - and WINDY. That back deck shot was brutal - totally windy, but I took like 20 different shots to make sure I got a relatively good one - which was - my first one I took LOL! I could have used a wide angle lens for that top shot because there is an entire other complex off to the right hand side and there is way too much grass and sky in the shot for me - but who has like $800 for a wide angle lens when they just sprang for the camera??? I want my husband to still let me get in the bed and not the dog house ;) I need to get used to the stitch program. So much to play with......
 
Peaches said:
That is cool Dan - where do the bubbles come from?
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There's a bulb in the bottom that heats the fluid in the tube and causes it to bubble. The tube is sealed and sits right above the little light bulb.
 
Hey Dan, are those new lights? Do they still make them. We had those on my tree when I was kid. That light brought back so many memories.
 
They still make 'em. Sometimes they're hard to find though and replacements are pretty much impossible to find. They're just called Bubble Lights. Yeah, they're a good memory for me because my Mamaw always had them on her tree every Christmas. I used to sit and watch the bubbles. Don't know if she still puts them on or not. Been a while since we've done Christmas at her place since she moved down to Logan Ohio. She usually comes up or Dad goes down to visit.
 
Here is one of my favorites. I took it at Arlington Cemetery during the Memorial Day Ceremony in 2002.

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Edit: This is a scan of a picture, so it is off a bit.
 
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Peaches said:
Say what?? I mean - obviously on the too much ceiling - it was an impromptu shot - but what about the stuff below (or are you picking?)?
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Sorry, only just spotted this :p

Light painting = painting with light.

e.g.

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Creepy Lurker said:
Sorry, only just spotted this :p

Light painting = painting with light.

e.g.

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For realness - are you standing in there somewhere waving a light around?? That rocks......
 
Peaches said:
For realness - are you standing in there somewhere waving a light around?? That rocks......
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That's how it works :p

You just stick the camera in bulb mode, or set the exposure to as long as you can. Then go and draw. It's easier to start in 2d first, then move to more realistic stuff when you've got the hang of it :)
 
WOW - I love that - great job! Where are YOU? See - that is why I wanted an SLR, so I could p-l-a-y. Your "thinker" has given me an idea - will have to see if I can pull it off with my newbieness on this camera.

I can see I'm in with a bunch of photographyphiles!! Way outta my league......
 
Peaches said:
Way outta my league......
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Not true. Practice. Some of my best shots were complete accidents.
I may have already put this up, but here is an easy way to start with light painting - glow sticks. (You can get them at the $ store.)
This was 15 seconds.
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Those are great derrick! Hwt did you use for the light? And how did you get everything else so perfectly dark?

I need to start trying some of this stuff as I have had a fancy tripid for over a year and not used it yet!!

And Peaches - everyone starts somewhere. I can do some great photography but still have HEAPS to learn. If you are naturally creative/artistic, which you are, you'll be able to come up with some amazing stuff. The hard part is mastering the technology as opposed to creating great images. Look forward to seeing more of your work :)
 
Here's a couple of my recent efforts. Nothing flash - just used my point and shoot - but I had a gorgeous subject - little Elio my nephew :)

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I love that last pic.

hmm - I was just in a very dark room. Camera on the tripod about 15 feet away. I had some sort of a rotating color flashlight thing that is why the color changes. These are probably 4 years old or more so I don't remember much about them.
 
Another couple of recent efforst of my other nephews - I need to start doing more than people shots! Love those light ones. May have a go over Xmas, where does one get a revolvingcolour flashlight!!??

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And my favourite....

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Great pics D and Shaz - Shaz - like the last ones the best in both sets!! That little Elio is adorable!!

Hubby needed a photo for a magazine article he is writing and asked me to take it last night. Of course I was whipping out the Ego lighting and setting up everything and he was like - JUST TAKE A PICTURE ALREADY!!!! Grrrr.....then I really set him off - telling him to go change his shirt because I didn't like the one he had on. He just doesn't get it....

Hopefully I'll have 15 minutes today to try my idea out (and hopefully it won't look hilariously stupid!) - wishing I had Derrick's rainbow flashlight!
 
OK - tried Creepy's lesson in light painting yesterday and learned two things:

1) I will never be a teacher - I can't write straight on a chalkboard to save my life much less "in the air" in pitch dark!
2) I will never be anything like Di Vinci who supposedly could write fairly well BACKWARDS - which you have to do to do this well LOL!

So - here is my dismal attempt - at least you might find humor in it!
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Good job Shantal....Magic latern is on my list for Santa. Do you know how hard it was for me not to buy it!!!!
 
Carrie - I am realizing now that I have had my camera for a bit that if you already know the ins and outs of the settings and uses of your camera - it might be too elemental for you. Maybe a different more in depth book covering taking good DSLR pics or something?
 
Too late, I gave him the info...He was thrilled to get something for me without having to think.(Hubby, not Santa;))
 
Felt like doing something odd today and took some pics of the fire in the fireplace. Kinda neat. My favorites are when I catch the popping embers that look like little squiggly streaks of light.
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I took a few more, but figured I'd just put up a few.
 
Creepy Lurker said:
Me too.

This is my latest masterpiece...

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Awesome. This one really speaks to me. It's like capturing silence, utter distilled silence captured in the nothingness of the void, unbroken, untainted by anything...other than the fingerprints and dust on my monitor.
 
Creepy Lurker said:
Me too.

This is my latest masterpiece...

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I don't think they "get" it, Creepy.
If you keep staring at it long enough, an ever so quick picture of creepy flashes. We've all wondered what he looks like, and now we know! I managed to freeze it so I could see the pic longer. =p
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
 
Creepy Lurker said:
Me too.

This is my latest masterpiece...

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I love it. Can I buy a print??

I was kinda talking about this though! LOL
 

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I stared at it for like 15 minutes... I just saw black, but then after I unfocused I saw the after effects and it turned into a gray box... very cool.

This must be a photo of your soul. :p
 
katiesue1506 said:
I stared at it for like 15 minutes... I just saw black, but then after I unfocused I saw the after effects and it turned into a gray box... very cool.

This must be a photo of your soul. :p
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Are you saying I have a grey soul? I'm not sure if that's an insult or a compliment...

I think the grey illusion is similar to this kind of thing...
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Ah, very nice Beth!! I'm here in New York and the snow is just starting to fall and I'm *dying* to get out and take pics of the city. Guess where I am? Holed up where we are staying so I can be next to the damn bathroom as my gut is acting up! Grrrr.......
 
Peaches said:
Ah, very nice Beth!! I'm here in New York and the snow is just starting to fall and I'm *dying* to get out and take pics of the city. Guess where I am? Holed up where we are staying so I can be next to the damn bathroom as my gut is acting up! Grrrr.......
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Sorry to hear that Shantel! :( Are you going to visit Fen while you're there? In NY, not the bathroom ;)
 

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