Cigar Asylum Cigar Forum - Photography Thread

That Rat Rod VW is cool...that is an actual thing now, nice cars that look like 5hit.
I never would have guessed it but its so.

Today was a humbling experience. I am used to my good point and shoot cameras, they
have active viewfinders that SHOW you what you are doing. If your settings are going to
make you shoot a dark shot, the VIEWFINDER shows you a dark picture. If you are about
to blow it out, it blows out your viewfinder picture. These damn ACTUAL TTL viewfinders
mess me up something awful. I am SO lazy and SO used to shooting how I shoot, that today
I took 100 5hitty pictures. I was not paying attention to what I was doing, in the wrong white
balance settings half the time today, and always over-exposed and just all-around shitty.
It was humbling to say the least. I don't ever shoot AUTO with a camera, but when I shoot
in Program or Shutter Priority or aperture priority, I don't expect to come home with 5hit.
Humbling, that's all I can say. At least in the bar I had it set up right....almost.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps93b86591.jpg

emopunker2004

03-09-2013 09:05 PM

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Brad, that's the nice thing about cameras that shoot in RAW. You can almost always go back and fix that in post

emopunker2004

03-09-2013 09:07 PM

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A quick lightroom edit of a zoo pic from a lil while back

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8...1a4a404e_b.jpg
IMG_0095 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

emopunker2004

03-10-2013 09:28 AM

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We're going to St. Augustine for the night. Hopefully I can get some nice pictures.

OLS	03-10-2013 09:29 AM

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RAW wouldn't have solved NEARLY enough of the issues I had. Actually that is not all true, let's just say that when
I see that crap on a card, I FORMAT the card, I do not go home and try to fix anything. The bottom line is really
my eyes. I am so dejected that life does this to everyone someday, your eyes turn to 5hit and it takes the real joy
out of photography. It makes you SLOW and takes the flow out of your game. You have to watch everything and
you can't take your eye from the eyepiece and just punch some buttons. You have to put on glasses and make
adjustments and then you have to take em off to look in the VF again. Its just sad. As with everything that is also
sad concerning vision, though, eventually you can learn the THING and know more by feel and mental map about
what to hit and when, and to feel more confident that you can speed up the process and take a little more for granted
that you are taking good pictures. I just need to work with both my new cameras and take a LOT of pictures and
make all the mistakes.

I just thought that with all my years of digital and general photographic experience that I would have been able to
pick up that camera and basically hit the ground running. THAT'S my main issue, the disappointment that it was
not to be so easy.

OLS	03-10-2013 02:42 PM

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It took me some thinking last night, not having had the memories of the control panel on my camera to tell me what
I did that was so wrong yesterday. Then in cold light of morning it dawned on me. I forgot one of the most basic
things I know. I had a FAST lens with me, and I saw a flower emerging from a very fuzzy bud, and I thought, OK,
I am gonna blur the crap out of the background. But in opening the 1.8 lens up all the way, I forgot that the camera
is only going to be able to compensate with shutter speed until it runs out of possible compensations to help me with
the proper exposure. I HAVE several neutral density filters but didn't have one with me. It was gonna be overcast,
so I didn't want to take it and lose it or scratch it. The shots I took looked like crap because I wasn't thinking about
what I was doing for long enough to make a good decision.

OLS	03-11-2013 07:08 AM

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Saw a few new birds yesterday. I never really LOOKED before, even though my back yard is kind of an oasis,
and draws all the birds in the neighborhood eventually. But I saw a Brown Creeper yesterday, which
I had never seen in 50 years of knowing about birds. Not an amazing sight or anything, but still everything new
is great to me. Starting to see Goldfinches, too, that was new this year. Growing up in LA, I never really saw
Goldfinches. But the photo of the day for me is my new favorite bird, the Red-Breasted Nuthatch. These are
brave birds and they like me for some reason.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...psf929f8b6.jpg

Blak Smyth

03-11-2013 07:11 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by emopunker2004 (Post 1805478)

A quick lightroom edit of a zoo pic from a lil while back

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8...1a4a404e_b.jpg

Except for the wire that is an awesome pic. :tu

OLS	03-11-2013 07:43 AM

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I am not sure if he knows the tool in Photoshop to fix it yet. He told me he was gonna fix it once he got Photoshop,
but when he DID, he used it to boost the color, lol. It's the one that looks like a rubber stamp, J-dog. Pick a radius
with the slider, then ALT-click the part of the pic you want to use to cover WITH, then rub the stamp over the area
you want to cover up. With a complicated background like that, it will be a little easier.

WAIT, he said LIGHTROOM....sorry. Proceed, lol. Justin Photoshopping photos does not necessarily decrease your
integrity. Your still the man.

OLS	03-11-2013 09:47 AM

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Justin doesn't allow saving of his Flickr photos, so I had to steal it here....

Fixed it 4 ya.

Also, I was gonna post it on my photobucket so I could attach it here in
full scale, but THAT is illegal.

I also didn't like that stick pointing at her eye.

emopunker2004

03-11-2013 12:13 PM

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:r i havent even opend photoshop yet. everything so far has been in Lightroom.

Thanks Brad.

emopunker2004

03-11-2013 02:17 PM

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Here's two from our visit to St. Augustine yesterday. I just Fake-HDR'd them. I'll mess with them again later.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8244/8...07f730cd_b.jpg
Lightner Museum by emopunker2004, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8392/8...617fc542_b.jpg
St. Augustine Pier by emopunker2004, on Flickr

emopunker2004

03-11-2013 05:08 PM

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