What camera?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
John, are you reccommending the magazine or just lacking basic social skills when replying to a post?
Cracking pics Snappel:PDT_Piratz_26:
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What camera?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
John, are you reccommending the magazine or just lacking basic social skills when replying to a post?
Cracking pics Snappel:PDT_Piratz_26:
http://static.flickr.com/91/263362826_4b269627fd_o.jpg
Kev, I tried but can't get it to show the pic and link back to my page.
This is The Rose Of Mossley Pub on Rose Lane on Mossley Hill.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/277239643/[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/109/277239643_
af42bb1e56_b.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/277238045/[IMG]http
://static.flickr.com/111/277238045_f015929e27_b.jpg[/IMG]
Still crap at linking back to the flickr site even when reading your instructions in
the Flickr thread.:shock:
Uploading more too.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Bit too sharp and looking for
the option to tone the sharpen down but heres the Philharmonic hall on the Meduim size instead of Large.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/277295217/[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/95/2772
95217_2399538e11.jpg[/IMG]
That one looks really good as it is. You could always try softening it with Photoshop, but I prefer
sharper photos...
I used Photoshop on all of
them.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
I'm charging up this proper camera for longer this time, so hopefully I can get more satisfying images tonight.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Only
satisfied with about 4 of what I did on sunday night and I can't get rid of pixels on them! :mad:
Going to redo some but mostly around the dock
area.
Max
just came across your night pics for the first time and they are brilliant mate:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Managed to find some
time tonight to get out again, back down the
docks...
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...5/Dsc_0003.jpg
[IMG]http://www.forties-design.co.uk/photos/night5/Dsc_0
007.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...5/Dsc_0070.jpg
[IMG]http://www.forties-design.co.uk/photos/night5/Dsc_0011
.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...5/Dsc_0071.jpg
Nice pictures, S.
:snf (41):
I
forgot the name of this one I did last
night.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/279044829/[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/8
0/279044829_fd22347ad4_b.jpg[/IMG]
Even took a proper camera out last night too and my camera phone.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Updated the Port one too with a larger
photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/279049878/[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/8
3/279049878_c828b16034_b.jpg[/IMG]
Fine pictures, Max.
:snf
(41):
Yes, well done peeps, great snaps :PDT_Piratz_26:
I have another panoramic one...
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...monsterpan.jpg
Thanks Dave and Kev.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Still choosing what other ones
to put up too.
Snappel, how do you get into these buildings so easily?
It wasn't a building, and it wasn't easy!! I suppose I worked up from it ever since hopping a fence to take a leak once or twice on the way home from a
night out. You just have to be stealthy and stupid I think!
Next time you go out, you should try and do a panoramic pictures - they're loads of fun.
If you've got a tripod, then take a series of photos that overlap, then download Autostitch (it's free) and it'll stick them all together.
I was impressed that you got on the cranes in paradise street!
Ain't got a tripod
though.
I never did the
Paradise cranes! So far they're the ones I'm most nervous of trying - there are always people working in there, and it's lit up. Still, a mate of mine did
one after a night out on the piss... not a good idea!
I'd recommend getting a tripod - opens up lots of possibilities if your camera will let you do
long exposures.
Yeah, I got a proper Camera as well as my phone one that does better long exposures.
Would be great to go up those
cranes.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Got some ones, I'll upload
later.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Want to resize them to about 800 x 600 maximum.
The Pixels show too much when there too big.
Yes, resizing the pictures makes them look a bit better - I go
right down to 480 x 319 as it makes them easier to see on smaller monitors.
Managed to get some photos today at Princes Dock - I'll upload them
later. Probably the first time I've ever taken any in the twilight - got some interesting effects, as it's dark with lights on, but the sky is still
prominent...
I feel like killing when I see so many purple pixels on the pictures despite
the camera I'm using to be good one.
I did the Thistle Hotel again and get great results on taking that every
time.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70933834@N00/283462545/[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/11
3/283462545_e8df67fe5b_o.jpg[/IMG]
Max, what camera have you got? Can you
alter the exposure time and ISO? Having a large ISO (800 or above) can cause 'noise' in your pictures. Not so obvious when you resize them, but it can be
annoying!
I tried some HDR manipulation yesterday. I took five shots of the same scene at five different exposures and used Photomatrix (visit
hdrsoft.com). Came out all right, but I think I need to investigate 'tone mapping' to get better
effects...
The rest are exposures of around 3 seconds,
with an aperture of about F9 - F11. They're ok, but I wanted the sky a bit lighter - I think I'm going to go back soon and try each one with the same
effects as the first pictures above, and see how they come
out.
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...k/Dsc_0084.jpg
[IMG]http://www.forties-design.co.uk/photos/princesdock
/Dsc_0082.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.forties-design.co.uk/phot...k/Dsc_0089.jpg
Spot on Snappel, many thanks. I'll try night shots with my new camera
soon.
Have youse heard yourselves ? ... You bunch of David Baileys yers :D
Kev - your camera has a noise
reduction feature. Try taking some pictures on ISO 1000. Higher ISO means the camera (or film) is more sensitive to the light, so at night this can help
produce brighter images.
I think the best thing to do is go out for an evening and play around with the camera settings - it's what I tend to do, and
then try and remember what works best.
That camera is knackered, I (my son) damaged it a few weeksQuote:
Originally Posted by snappel
ago, he dropped it onto the lens whilst he had turned it on, poor lad wants to be like his dad, he's 3.
Anyway, the focus wouldn't work, the zoom was
broke and over the weekend, it stoppped the starting up process so the lenses don't even come out of the camera body and it shuts down, so back to comet it
went.
Cheeky woman behind the service desk was like, 'oh eye, which cowboy has dropped this' and I denied I had ever dropped it. So I won't pay for it
to be fixed and it looks like they won't do it for nothing.
So a new camera should be on its way.
If
you're looking to buy a new camera, I rate the Fuji Finepix S5600. Has lots of good features, and allows you to play with aperture and shutter speed
settings, up to about 15 seconds which allows for good night stuff. Only £150 now at John Lewis, which is about half what I paid a couple of years ago for
the old S5000 which was far insuperior. Only downside is that it isn't a compact, and so is more cumbersome to carry about.
Thanks but actually gone for
this sony
one. I wanted to continue to use the 2GB memory card I had just bought for the other one.
Snappel, are these pics HDR? IfQuote:
Originally Posted by snappel
so they are fantastic! Most of the HDR pics I've seen until these are crap, in my humble opinion. You've converted me!:celb (6):
Only the first one Dave - the rest my camera did the work! I just set it to a 3s/F10
and pressed the shutter button! Pete Carr is the man for HDR, his stuff is awesome. I think I need to invest in some proper software...
Kev - that
looks just as good, if not better. You've got a good range of features there, and it's not too big and bulky. Nice to see you can do 30 second exposures -
lots of fun with light trails, etc, to be had there!
Ooops!Quote:
Originally Posted by snappel
Sorry:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
Sometimes HDR photos don't look that strange - others are a bit bizarre. It's something I want to spend more time playing about with. None of the ones
I've tried in full daylight have worked very well.
They all look like somebody's been farting aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by snappel
with a Photoshop plugin. Snappel, your photos are boss anyway mate.
My Iso doesn't go higher than 400.
It's a Fujifilm Finepix 6800zoom.
Think I'll get a new one
around Christmas, but this ones great.
Buying a tripod for it tomorrow.:PDT_Piratz_26:
A good tripod is the Velbon CX Mini, available in Jessops for £19.99.
Quite small and very durable.
Your camera's not bad Max. If you sit the camera on a tripod and set the shutter speed to 3" (3 seconds), then you'll
get the maximum amount of light into the camera for the photo. If it has a manual ('M') mode, you should be able to change the apertures as well, right
down to F2.8, which means even more light into the camera.
hi heres
one off the big wheel
very smart Fergo
:celb (23):