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04-08-2013, 05:44 PM | #2241 | |
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04-09-2013, 12:03 AM | #2242 |
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04-09-2013, 11:56 AM | #2243 |
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Cropped surf pix in B&W. What say you?
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04-09-2013, 12:53 PM | #2244 |
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I think it is all in what a person prefers; I almost always prefer a bit wider view so the other shots work better for me,
but in terms of intensifying the action, I guess the crops work pretty well. I would also leave more room for the surfer to 'surf into' so to speak. and leave the greater proportion of the cropped photo open to the left, but that is also another preferential deal, and not a rule of composition per se. |
04-09-2013, 02:40 PM | #2245 |
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The saga continues.....
I had a Nikon D90 in the kart at Ado last night. Came in this am after 'sleeping on it' and found it GONE. WHEW, mission accomplished. A man who has bought 5 used bodies in 2 months and still has two does NOT need another one. Still, by lunch I had found one at my new mortal enemy, B&H. I ordered that one and then in less than ten minutes, tried to cancel the order by phone. 'Ike" assured me that it was cancelled and that a cancellation confirmation would be coming my way very soon. Well, that was hours ago. I do NOT think a confirmation is coming. So I guess now I have a D90 coming. Funny, when I need B&H to be fast, they are slow, and when I need them to be slow they are fast. Another reason to stick with Ado....they're ALWAYS SLOW. Last night I had a dream. I was looking at the large LCD on the back of my Nikon DSLR. Now of course, I DO NOT HAVE a large LCD screen, I have a D70 and a D100. But in the end, the only reason I thought I wanted a D90 was for the screen. Anything else I got was a bonus. I love my D70, but I am too old to be peeping at that little one inch screen. WTH good is something that small? I can't hardly tell $hi+ about what I need to correct from looking at it. But the real reason I was trying to cancel it was that in the end, I realized for $70 more I could have a D300. I wanted to go to Ado and pick that up instead. I REALLY wanted a D700. I love the idea of full frame, I had already SHOT with it after the infamous shipping error. But in the end, I do not have expensive lenses or fast lenses. Full Frame would only serve to highlight that fact. I would lose the "sweet spot" of the lens projecting onto the crop sensor and likely end up with a lot of blurry corners in full frame that I would obsess about. So unless I miss my guess, I have a D90 coming. You'd think I would be more excited. |
04-09-2013, 02:57 PM | #2246 |
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By the way, make no mistake about it, yes I wanted the larger LCD for my old eyes, but the reason I tried to
cancel the D90 and quickly get the D300 is that it has lens adjustment system that can "fix" lenses that don't autofocus where you think they should. The camera can recall the adjustment settings from lens to lens. Since I have 90% used lenses, some of my lenses are not exactly perfect. But now that the whole sitcho seems officially screwed, ehh, I can still enjoy my 3" LCD and just move on. |
04-09-2013, 05:40 PM | #2247 | |
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04-09-2013, 07:00 PM | #2248 | |
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AHHHHGHHHHH!!!! I need to stop reading this thread! Now you have me curious about the D300. Must....resist...the ODO...temptation....
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04-10-2013, 07:25 AM | #2249 |
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GWN, I think you mis-read my meaning when I talked about fixing lenses. i am not talking about fixing
the effects of lens distortion in post, I am talking about a lens that consistently focuses on the wrong plane. If I have a lens that is always focusing in front of or in back of the point where I intend it to and IT SAYS it will, these more advanced Nikons have settings where the camera body recognizes a particular lens and adds or subtracts distance to compensate, theoretically resulting in crisp images every time. If I had a lens that consistently focuses behind where I want it to, I can dial in compensation. Lightroom cannot focus an image that is already taken blurry, lol. OH that it COULD, haha. |
04-10-2013, 02:23 PM | #2250 |
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Nah Shark, if I can take it, you can take it. We just need to get better at using our cameras and
take the LCD out of the equation. But one bit of temptation I WILL throw at you is the fact that I kind of took it for granted that my 50mm f/1.8 lens was good, and didn't need 'testing' as I like to call my evening walks. I took it out last night, and where I used to only use my cheapie, used, bargain lenses in testing, to see which ones I would give to my sister for free, lol, last night I wanted to have a lil bhokeh revolution. I took out the D70 and my 50mm 1.8 and ramped the shutter speed up so high that even with all the remaining daylight, the lens was stopped WAY down, not to it's max wide open aperture of 1.8, but around 2.8, and shot a bunch of stuff. For what is basically a $100 lens, you talk about nice photos. you can get em new for $115, used for around $90. In ALL of the fast prime lenses out there, only one stands out as being a real bargain to me. It took my D70, and will take mine and your D100 into a much nicer territory. You oughta look into one, Shark, before you waste your money on an upgrade YET. Let those Nikon D800s and D7100s filter down a bit to all those folks that just HAVE TO HAVE those new cameras, and around Christmas, get yourself a nice D7000. These whipper-Snappers like Justin need those fancy doo-dads to shoot pichers, us ole folks can squeeze art out of ten year old gear, lol. Kidding, Justin, you know I am. |
04-10-2013, 02:31 PM | #2251 |
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I am gonna take out the D100 tonight with the same lens and shoot all the same stuff.
I gotta figure this out. I love the color rendition of the D100, but it's meter does not seem to be able to hold the D70's meter's hat. I still love the camera, though, I will likely keep it til it disintegrates, it just FEELS good in the hand, and it is fast for a dinosaur. And its only a body, after all. Oh and Shark....if you think you might wanna try out this lens, you can get it here... Gray market means that you do not get a Nikon USA warranty, but Adorama will warranty it for the same 1 year, so if you feel lucky like I do, its a STEAL. In this case gray market does NOT MEAN fake. |
04-10-2013, 04:10 PM | #2252 |
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Those are some nice test shots Brad. I picked up a 50mm 1.8 Canon and like shooting with it, but haven't gotten enough experience with aperture values. Understanding the theory and effectively putting that theory into practice involves much test shooting.
The shots that I posted a few days ago were from when I was playing around, however I should have shot in aperture priority mode to have a better handle on the outcome. |
04-10-2013, 05:12 PM | #2253 |
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Just got this in for the cruise. Olympus TG-2. Waterproof to 50ft, drop proof to 7ft, and freeze proof to 14*F
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04-10-2013, 06:35 PM | #2254 |
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jeff, I agree that to be confident with the depth of field DOES take a ton of no-pressure practice, if for no
other reason than making all the mistakes. I knew I wanted to just hammer the blur, so I did what I said I did earlier, opened it ALMOST wide open with just a bit of wiggle room to ensure that I did not suffer from 'wide-open softness" syndrome. But what I found out was that I had TOO MUCH blur in most of the cases. Now, I DO have a 'depth of field preview' button on my camera which basically shows me through the lens what the depth of field will be like under the current metering and settings, but I do not use it...I WILL though, now. I went out tonight, but the wind was way up, so none of the flowers would really stay still. That presented a lot of issues in itself. I found again that the D100 has metering issues, but I guess its like a Montecristo No.2, when its ON, its fabulous. I got a little of both tonight. Great results and head-scratchers. When you compare the two camera's results, you can see that the D100 seems to have better dynamic range. granted I DID NOT make an attempt to set them up the same, like I should have. One could have saturation set higher, there are a number of things that could be fundamentally different. I need to check them both out tonight. ANYWAY, here are the same basic shots and some extras. |
04-10-2013, 06:39 PM | #2255 |
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Here are a few others, simply because they were SO spectacular. These are the ones I see have such great
dynamic range displayed, in addition to the onion flowers and the dogwood flower above (note the leaves) in the post above. In the yellow tulip, you can clearly see that I used way too much aperture for this particular shooting sitcho. the DOF is so narrow, you can only see 1/4 of one petal in in the plane of focus. But since the LCD is SO TINY, you can't really tell what you have and fix it on the scene. You have to wait to get home. |
04-10-2013, 06:48 PM | #2256 |
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Nice pix brad.
Well that ****ing Olympus has to go back to where I ordered it. Having a replacement sent. See anything wrong? P3100001 by emopunker2004, on Flickr
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04-10-2013, 07:16 PM | #2257 |
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Went over and "babysat" my niece and dog sat the dog while her parents were at the hospital with our other niece.
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04-10-2013, 07:17 PM | #2258 |
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