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| Dragnet_Supporter | Feb 9 2010, 01:49 PM Post #1 |
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Attempting some outdoor pics with a forced perspective. I've had under exposed and over exposed. Todays pics are the best of a reasonably shabby lot. Any tips on photographing outdoor stuff and getting foreground and background to come out clear?![]()
Edited by Dragnet_Supporter, Feb 9 2010, 01:50 PM.
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| craftymore | Feb 9 2010, 09:48 PM Post #2 |
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Pretty good pic Robert. Did you ever find the aperture settings on your camera? If so, when you take shots like the above, use a low setting. Around 3.0 or low 4s would work wonders. This will help bring the sole item in the foreground into focus while making the entire background a bit blurry for effect. Jedimario covers this quite well on page two of the camera taking pic thread down in the O/T section. My camera also allows for manual adjustment of the lightness/darkness in the pics as well, a bit darker will help perhaps for pics like this. Will say this, taking pics of any white casting is among the hardest things to get a good picture of in any lighting, artificial or real. It's a crapshoot at best that takes practice. You might want to try and post edit your pics in Photobucket as well. Should be able to change the overall lightness/darkness of the pic and using auto fix can do wonders. Edited by craftymore, Feb 9 2010, 09:52 PM.
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| Dragnet_Supporter | Feb 10 2010, 02:45 PM Post #3 |
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Zach, I've been through my camera book from cover to cover...no aperture setting here. I can adjust the exposure compensation, white balance, an ISO setting that alows compensation for ambient light or taking pics in dark...and that's about it under manual operations. There are setting for sports, portraits, landscapes, night, and auto shooting modes, AF/AE lock. The rest is mainly operations and flash functions. That's why I originally asked if the aperture function might also be called something else in some cameras, but I'm thinking not so much here. I'll have to practice and see what works for what and think about investing in a different camera for the future. Technology evolves fast, and I haven't always been able to keep up with it. Cameras have come down quite a bit in price though over the last few years though...and I'm thinking I could get a better set up than this without investing a great deal of money. |
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| Acererak | Feb 12 2010, 09:58 PM Post #4 |
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Very cool!!! |
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| diomakr | Feb 17 2010, 11:17 PM Post #5 |
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still a nice shot- you might want to try taking pix w/o the flash (which can work outside in sunlight, or inside with auxilliary lighting) no aperture settings will make it hard to get good depth of field. i use ifran- which is FREE to download and use. it has and auto adjust, color and gamma (white-out) corrections as well |
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| dragonhead00 | Feb 19 2010, 01:08 AM Post #6 |
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Cool backdrop and model. I would definitely decrease the exposure and maybe crank up the contrast in PS or some other photo editing program if possible. |
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