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Q-talk *ON TOPIC ONLY* QUALITY ON TOPIC discussion of Backyard BBQ, grilling, equipment and outdoor cookin' . ** Other cooking techniques are welcomed for when your cookin' in the kitchen. Post your hints, tips, tricks & techniques, success, failures, but stay on topic and watch for that hijacking. |
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09-04-2007, 08:31 PM | #16 |
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JD, I don't know what brand you have, so I don't know what AV is... but others may... I'm new to this stuff, too.
I thought about a camera like that... I have a Fuji s5000 now... but I've decided to go the dslr route, so I can use lenses that I want, which I'm beginning to think is the best way to get different results, along with the manual controls on a dslr. The woman that's going to be helping me recommended what I'd already come up with, a 50mm prime lens, as a starter.
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09-04-2007, 08:47 PM | #17 |
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He said taint!
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09-04-2007, 09:10 PM | #18 |
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09-04-2007, 09:30 PM | #19 |
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You might wanna ping Thawley on this conversation. He's a photography instructor.
Here's a few of my own tips (in text, no photos) Invest in a tripod. Keeping your camera steady will improve your photos guaranteed. Especially true for indoor still life type photos. Doesn't need to buy an expensive one, either, but it should be stable enough for the size / weight of your camera. Light your subject as well as you can. If that means turning on room lights, opening drapes for indoor shots, do that. If you're outdoors, sometimes you have the opposite problem and you have too much harsh sunlight creating harsh shadows. Sometimes, shooting outdoors means taking your subject out of direct sunlight. Learn how to use your flash modes. It's usually AUTO mode, and the camera will decide when the flash goes off. For indoor shots, that's often not wanted, so force the flash OFF. For outdoor shots in harsh sunlight, you want to use "fill flash" to soften the harsh shadows on your subject, so force flash to the ON mode. Learn about white balance. Shooting under fluorescent light gives your photos a greenish blue tint. Shooting under halogen light gives it an orange tone. Your camera has settings to compensate for these light conditions so your whites show up white, not blue or orange. Even basic digicams have some sort of white balance feature, and it's well worth using.
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09-04-2007, 09:41 PM | #20 | |
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it's all true... this shot was with the cheapo tripod, with timer, natural daylight & spotlight on the building, 1/13th second shutter and f 4.8. no way you could hold a 1/13 second exposure steady. oh... and auto setting on the dial (or the flower, can't remember ) |
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09-04-2007, 09:45 PM | #21 | |
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09-04-2007, 10:03 PM | #22 | |
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That means it won't turn on the flash for harsh outdoor light conditions because there's plenty of illumination (overall). When you have a low light condition, it'll flash and blow out the image with a blinding white glare because most point & shoots can't soften the flash when it's needed. Cameras doesn't need to be fancy to make good photos either. It's about the cook, not the cooker. Luckily, these days you get more features and advanced technology that the same price bought last year.
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09-04-2007, 10:15 PM | #23 | |
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"Bracketing" is something you can play with once you know how shutter speed and lens aperture work together to allow light onto your film, er light sensor. I took several frames of this late evening bonfire shot, and changed the aperture settings after each shot. Each one came out differently. Sometimes the bricks in the background came out exposed properly and the flame was washed out. In the other, the flame was brilliantly orange but the background was too dark. This frame is the compromise in between. And like Rick's shot of his pizza, this sort of low light photo requires a tripod. No way I could have hand held this shot. And to keep this BBQ focused, this shot is from a series I took of a historic recreation of 19th century cattle rancher's earth pit BBQ. All photos in that set are not post processed at all, it's all straight off the camera. You can see more photos from that event here http://flickr.com/photos/professorsa...7600843130709/
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09-04-2007, 10:20 PM | #24 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Nice reading! No wonder my farking pics are blurry half the time. Can one of you camera folks sugget a tri-pod for a Sony DSC H-5, please.
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09-04-2007, 10:23 PM | #25 |
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Soon please
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09-04-2007, 10:50 PM | #26 | |
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09-04-2007, 11:12 PM | #27 |
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You can spend a lot on a tripod... I just picked up a good all around tripod at Radio Shack for something like $20... It does most of what I need for now.
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09-05-2007, 05:21 AM | #28 |
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ebay is a good place. We bought one through ther and we have a couple others from B&H.
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09-05-2007, 05:24 AM | #29 |
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I'm good with a $20 tripod. Wish that was all my wife spent on hers! Of course she feels the same way when it comes to a bbq pit.
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09-05-2007, 05:51 AM | #30 | |
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1/3 second shutter at f/4.5 If i can do this stuff, anybody can. you can take a decent photograph with a shoebox with a hole in the end. it's all about composition and framing. |
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