Official DSLR Photography Thread

[ericw.]

What settings do you use to shoot these driving photos? Keep the car still and the wheels spinning. I've been trying to do it with my cannon T1i but I either get a still wheel or everything blurred

adjust your aperture until you get the effect you want. As you lower your aperture your shutter speed will increase but too fast and you'll get the rims not moving. Think of it as frames per second and your wheels turn at a certain frames per second at x speed so you want your shutter to be slow enough to not catch the wheel.

Probably like F11 during mid daylight would do it. If that's too slow and you get a lot of motion blur try F8, if your rims are stopped in the photo increase the f stop. keep shooting til you get one that works good.

 

[meANDmyDB7]

You guys seem to have a coupe version of everything. I never even knew accords came in coupe form. I wish the civic coupes were more readily available but it's mainly just for the US market. The only one we ever had in Australia is the EK coupe and here in Japan you can have a hatchback /end choices.

want to swap locations? hahaha. don't get me wrong, i loooove coupes, but i would rather drive/own a sedan.

i dig the newer Honda coupe models, but other than that, give me a sedan.

 

[ericw.]

messing around with HDR's and photoshop right after i repaired that window. lol

i'll probably fix this later. not really satisfied with how it turned out.

 

[jznsn2u]

^ Clean car. It looks kinda blurry though. What part of SF are you from?

 

[ericw.]

it's the difference of HDR's merged through photoshop or aperture's photomatix addon. lol

i live in the sunset district. are you from SF?

 

[bradster101]

So Im looking at buying a camera but I was curious what you guys would reccomend?
Looking for very nice quality, good zoom, want to be able to take good action shots (so not blurry when object moving), high shutter speed (i think that helps with the action shots?)

Range is around 1k or a little more

 

[jznsn2u]

So Im looking at buying a camera but I was curious what you guys would reccomend?
Looking for very nice quality, good zoom, want to be able to take good action shots (so not blurry when object moving), high shutter speed (i think that helps with the action shots?)

Range is around 1k or a little more

Tip: A camera isn't shit if you don't know how to use it. A simple point and shoot camera can be MORE effective than dslrs. It just depends on the user and how they edit pictures.

With your price range, you can buy a canon t2i. You could also buy second hand for cheap. A lot of people sell their cameras to upgrade, I don't know if you're interested in that but i'm just giving you options.

 

[bradster101]

Tip: A camera isn't shit if you don't know how to use it. A simple point and shoot camera can be MORE effective than dslrs. It just depends on the user and how they edit pictures.

With your price range, you can buy a canon t2i. You could also buy second hand for cheap. A lot of people sell their cameras to upgrade, I don't know if you're interested in that but i'm just giving you options.

Yea its just Ive had bad luck with those cheap 100 dollar ones and my neighbor is a professional photographer so I was going to talk with him about that... I was wondering if this one is any good? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Nikon+D3100+Digital+SLR,+8GB+Memory+Card,+Bag+and+Extra+55-200mm+Lens/9999143900050006.p?id=pcmprd143900050006&skuId=9999143900050006

Can you post a link to the canon t2i please?

 

[jznsn2u]

Yea its just Ive had bad luck with those cheap 100 dollar ones and my neighbor is a professional photographer so I was going to talk with him about that... I was wondering if this one is any good? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Nikon+D3100+Digital+SLR,+8GB+Memory+Card,+Bag+and+Extra+55-200mm+Lens/9999143900050006.p?id=pcmprd143900050006&skuId=9999143900050006

Can you post a link to the canon t2i please?

I got my camera for $100 with a 4gig sd card. It doesn't take the BEST pictures, but I make it work... Your neighbor must have really good editing skills. If you don't know how to edit pictures, then your pictures will come out the same as a digital camera but with more detail...

and Uhh sure... best buy sells canon t2i's too... + theres lots of reviews of it :roll:. Click

 

[RD408]

Buy used. Save yourself some money and do that.

 

[bradster101]

ill start checking cl... i assume you guys use photoshop to edit?

 

[ericw.]

 

[ericw.]

Yea its just Ive had bad luck with those cheap 100 dollar ones and my neighbor is a professional photographer so I was going to talk with him about that... I was wondering if this one is any good? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Nikon+D3100+Digital+SLR,+8GB+Memory+Card,+Bag+and+Extra+55-200mm+Lens/9999143900050006.p?id=pcmprd143900050006&skuId=9999143900050006

Can you post a link to the canon t2i please?

dude, seriously use google. there's no reason you have to make jznsn2u go out of his way to find you a link that really doesn't take much effort to find yourself. I'm sure he's got better things to be doing with his time.

I got my camera for $100 with a 4gig sd card. It doesn't take the BEST pictures, but I make it work... Your neighbor must have really good editing skills. If you don't know how to edit pictures, then your pictures will come out the same as a digital camera but with more detail...

and Uhh sure... best buy sells canon t2i's too... + theres lots of reviews of it :roll:. Click

you're too nice.

ill start checking cl... i assume you guys use photoshop to edit?

I use a combination of programs.. for most my photo editing i do use photoshop CS5 but I also use lightroom and aperture on occasions too.

 

[jznsn2u]

Buy used. Save yourself some money and do that.

^x2

ill start checking cl... i assume you guys use photoshop to edit?

No. Believe it or not, I use paint.

you're too nice.

Thanks Eric. :thumbs up

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[bradster101]

it looks nice... and dude, seriously - I know I just thought he might have a link to another better site already there since hes always on here and seems to know what he talking about ok??? I said thank you, not much more I could do other than that.... Gotta ask people questions to learn

Plus if he didnt want to he didnt have to... hes a nice guy and I appreciate it