The Photography Thread

**Omniyoji** · 2011-09-10 22:21

Newbie photographer on Canon point-n-shoot. Just snapping pics at a car show I attended earlier today. Figured I'd share some.

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Forgot to add, nice pics of the bug & plant Zoober

**Zansho** · 2011-09-11 11:51

Some of my recent photography work!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/...c7c240d6_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6181/...6d1548f9_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/...985ecaab_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6182/...f11b2453_b.jpg

**zoobernut** · 2011-09-16 12:22

Nice stuff Zansho, great lighting on the first two pics. And I really love how you have the third set up. Product photography is so fascinating to me.

A couple of ones I took yesterday in my garden.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...57144491_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...42338242_n.jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...98711409_n.jpg

**Doombear** · 2011-09-16 13:24

Nice Zoob! I am jealous of you and that damn macro. Always like seeing your close up shots.

Sidenote, is anyone else using Chrome and just seeing a MESS of broken images? Sigs, Avatars, buttons and anything in Bucket are not showing up for me in Chrome but are fine in FF. Annoying as shit.

**zoobernut** · 2011-09-16 15:10

Originally Posted by Graelinn

Nice Zoob! I am jealous of you and that damn macro. Always like seeing your close up shots.

Sidenote, is anyone else using Chrome and just seeing a MESS of broken images? Sigs, Avatars, buttons and anything in Bucket are not showing up for me in Chrome but are fine in FF. Annoying as shit.

Thank you. I am jealous of your amazing portrait skills. I love your perfect DoF on portraits and your color treatments. Maybe someday we could teach each other how to take different photos.

As for the chrome thing I saw it earlier and it was really annoying but it seems to be fixed right now.

**Doombear** · 2011-09-16 15:41

Why thank you. So I realized rereading this that I came dangerously close in my post to giving you a comment that I hate getting and that is the ol' "Wow your camera takes nice pictures!"

Hate that.

So I hope you realized that I was complimenting your eye for Macro shots and not the lens itself =)

**zoobernut** · 2011-09-16 16:41

Haha thanks Graelinn, I hate getting that comment too. And it happens all the time on facebook. I post a picture and one of my friends or family members inevitably says "Wow you have such a nice camera! I wish I had a camera like yours so I could take pictures like that." *sigh*

To be fair the micro lens is very important to the photos I take, couldn't get that close without it. But thank you for complimenting my eye rather than the camera/lens.

Sunset pics at Pyramid Lake from camping:

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...03540690_n.jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...74256082_n.jpg

**Xerlic** · 2011-09-21 12:50

Do you guys do a lot of RAW editing or post-processing? I tried shooting RAW for the first time this past weekend at my cousin's son's birthday party and it's pretty cool how much control you have over the image after taking the shot. I went nuts tinkering with the settings in CS5 tho, and I think I ended up doing "too much" to a lot of the photos. Anyone know of any good guides or resources that go into RAW editing?

**zoobernut** · 2011-09-21 13:17

If I am just doodling around taking snapshots of family or not doing anything serious I will set my camera to jpg easier to organize and see easier to deal with later. If I am taking photos I expect to put on my website then I definitely shoot raw. Raw is fairly easy to deal with and I treat it just like post processing in a photo lab. I have a vision of what I want to do with the photo in my head before hand and I adjust to accomplish that vision. It is very easy to go overboard with RAW processing and as cool as RAW is it isn't perfect and you can push it too far.

Try to stick to more simple stuff initially until you get the hang of it, adjust white balance, exposure and maybe a little bit of sharpening if you need it. Once you are comfortable with those things then explore some of the other options.

**Doombear** · 2011-09-21 13:36

That is the main hole that people fall in I think when it comes to post processing at first. They overwhelm themselves, or they don't realize the limitations of RAW.

Since switching from film I really never shoot in anything other than RAW with one exception, and that is when I am shooting/messing around with the Brenizer Method (google it, it is fun when you can make it work). Shooting in RAW just gives me the control that I want, and more options down the line. I don't like being locked into minimal editing options. I don't HAVE to take advantage of editing, but the options are there. I am of the same mind that Zoob is I believe, and for me that comes from my years with film. Editing RAW feels like a faster, and DIFFERENTLY exciting form of film post processing.

As you can see from my last posts, I do have a few go to 'styles' that I have grown to love over the last year, and when I shoot I try to have those in mind so I can compensate how I see fit. My very general workflow is shoot RAW > import/convert DNG into Lightroom > Develop / edit in Lightroom > export to Photoshop > final touches (minor skin edits, further small dodge/burn tweaks). I am pretty confident that i learned where to draw the line a while back when it comes to color edits, and have created maybe 5-7 of my own presets that are always in my 'pocket'.

**Xerlic** · 2011-09-22 08:08

Thanks. I'm definitely not at the point yet where I know what I want to do when I import a raw into photoshop. It's more like I load the raw editor plugin and start messing with the settings and see what happens. I definitely like how much control you have over jpegs tho so you don't have to worry as much about getting the exposure exactly right when taking the shot like with jpegs.

Out of curiousity, since Graelinn said he uses both, what does lightroom have over photoshop or vice/versa?

**Doombear** · 2011-09-22 10:33

First and foremost I use Lightroom as my catalog/organizer. It lets me import, sort, etc. What it is also becoming though is a very capable post processor that I prefer over Adobe Camera RAW. They do a lot of the same adjustments though and it becomes a matter of preference. There is also a third option, Aperture software, which I have never used.

I adjust white balance, noise, color presets, etc. in LR most often.

My photoshop use is mainly skin adjustments like removing blemishes, smoothing, removing crazy flyaway hairs and that kind of thing. I also save in various sizes there as well for web or print or whatever.

So while a lot can be done in either program my uses for each are usually unique to each.

**Zansho** · 2011-09-23 14:25

Lightroom isn't JUST a cataloger and a RAW editor, there are TONS of things you can do with lightroom given the correct plug ins.

You want to apply the same adjustments to a bunch of photos all at once? You can synchronize your adjustments to have them affect those photos simultaneously, saving you tons of time. White balance? Synchronize. Need to adjust a bit of black levels for all images? Synchronize. Want to do an action in LR to all images? Synchronize. It's great.

Secondly, you can use lightroom to make a gallery for your visitors to see. Can also put in metadata for making it easier to search your images, copyright info, backup, lots of stuff. You can print from lightroom, arguably much better than you can in photoshop, provided your monitors and printers are color calibrated.

Last, Lightroom is a capable editor in its own right - you can go back to the ORIGINAL raw file, as if nothing ever happened or no edits have ever taken place. Can also dodge/burn, increase hue/saturation, add fill where you need it, it's great. Love the program.

**Doombear** · 2011-09-23 14:59

Oh absolutely Zansho, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't use it for anything other than those two things. I love mass editing white balance using Synchronize for example. Insanely helpful. As for the Gallery tab, I need much more time with that. A lot of what you listed is part of my workflow of course, it just didn't sound like Xerlic had much interest in that aspect.

3 really has come a long long way from the first two iterations. I love it as well.

**zoobernut** · 2011-09-26 21:40

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...42233489_n.jpg

Another one from Pyramid Lake. Sunset from last Friday.
I really need to pick up Lightroom and a good monitor calibrator soon, well that and a 17-55 f2.8

**Zansho** · 2011-09-29 09:04

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/...7c296760_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/...84490a8c_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6171/...5aa2f665_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/...679ac2e0_b.jpg

**zoobernut** · 2011-10-16 12:30

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...34210211_n.jpg

Latest macro of a green fly.

**miokomioko** · 2011-10-18 14:47

The specs on the 1DX. HNNNNNGNGGGHHHH~

**Tyche** · 2011-10-18 14:59

I looked at that yesterday, looks like a monster. Someone said they seen samples at 25,600 and they were just absurdly clean. I would really like to see how the high ISO performance holds up against the Nikon D3x

**Cruzizzle** · 2011-10-21 22:35

My second attempt at this subject, M45 - Pleiades. And my first attempt at stacking. Much better than my first try, but I'm still not entirely pleased. My tracking accuracy was poor, just not familiar enough with my equipment (or patient enough

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