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lilBuddha, you're not the only one
I thought we'd study a photography unit* from the art and design course I introduced this year. We gave four students aged 14-16 cameras to take around Duxford and instructions to find things they liked and also see if they could find interesting reflections. Two students took 6 pictures each, one took 28, the one who I'm hoping will come out with the qualification came out with 73, pretty much all in focus and framed well (OK so I took 200 odd, but ...) and is really keen to play some more!
My daughter started 365 after me (the trilby) and having spent four days using her i-phone bought a camera. She took 141 photographs that day!
I think it might be quite easy to create monsters.
* current course is very prescriptive and photography has to be based on reflections, but it's changing next year - so for examination in 2013.
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I went into the city today full of hope but neither camera is ready yet!
The Fuji is in Chennai still but when they phoned the people said it would be back "soon" - the Canon, the part is having to be sent from Japan!
Perhaps I'll give it a miss next week, unless I get a phone call, and try again in two weeks, monsoon permitting! The city floods terribly sometimes so I'd rather stay here than wade through muddy water!
I agree that a camera can easily create a monster, I look in the mirror every morning. The little entry-level Nikon compact I'm using at the moment is great, quite versatile with a fantastic wide angle lens and a 5x zoom from there but it would be nice to have the big Fuji back.
Anyone else think that a wide angle is at least as useful as a telephoto? Last week's [non-shippie] visitor had a Nikon DSLR but the shortest settings was 55mm - I advised her to get a wide angle, particularly for landscapes.
This week's [shippie] visitor is now thinking of getting a new camera when she gets back to UK - perhaps we're spreading a virus!
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Me? I'm still using a point and shoot and leching after the cameras Amazon keeps offering me. However, I like having a camera I can literally put in my pocket and carry everywhere, but I'd like one with more than 3x optical zoom and 7.2MP.
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The size is one of the things I love about my little Nikon L23 - 10.1 megapixels, wide angle and 5x zoom - 4" x 2.5" x 1" and weighs in at 160 grammes [under 6 ounces] c/w batteries and card. I have a little bag for it [which can also hold spare batteries, etc.] but it is equally at home in a shirt pocket.
The only drawback for me is the lack of viewfinder as I do like to frame some shots that way - but instead I end up cropping them later when taken using the display screen.
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P.s. - like with all built in flash units the flash on the Nikon is pretty rubbish but cameras with a hotshoe are pricey and a good flash gun can cost as much as a camera!
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I always have a Nikon compact with me for those quick shots, and these days the DSLR (Canon EOS, secondhand, bargain) comes along for the more leisurely shots.
The Nikon Coolpix is great, but limited in what can be achieved. You get more flexibility with a DSLR, though it is a steeper learning curve. Mine has, I think, 6 point something megapixels but because it's a DSLR produces a clearer, sharper image than the 10 megapixel Nikon.
I'd like to get a wide angle lens. Someone lent me one for a day to try out and it was pretty good, however it'll have to go on the wish list for now. Before that, if and when I get spare money, I'd rather get a better zoom lens - I'm finding increasingly for a lot of things, the 200mm is just a little bit too underpowered.
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I like my pocket camera, a Canon G12, but I love my DSLR. The G12 has a higher megapixel rating, 10 v. 8 but cannot produce images equal to the DSLR.* A larger sensor will almost always win.
Ariel, have you considered an extender? There is a tradeoff in sharpness and light loss, but considerably less expensive than a longer lens.
*That said, people are producing amazing things with relatively limited cameras.
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A camera with a big object lens is always going to take sharper shots than one with a small object lens, which is where camera phones fail. It is the limiting physical factor. A lens with a diameter of, say , 50mm [standard SLR size] will take in 25 times the amount of light as a lens of diameter 10 mm and thus give a sharper image - and such a camera will probably have a bigger sensor so again a plus but it is the lens size that is critical. There are some gorgeous looking little cameras that have tiny lenses but they are more of a fashion item than a camera.
Lens size is far more critical than megapixels.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Take lots of photos. No, I am serious. I took a trip with a film camera, my first SLR. My photos were better at the end than the beginning, even though I had not seen a one of them.
Examine photos you like. Try to replicate them, or the look. Take your camera to one spot. Shoot the h#!! out of it. Different angles, different lenses/zoom lengths.
Not sure why you feel you need help. Your photos are quite nice. The photo of your wee one with the radio flyer is absolutely perfect and beautiful.
Thanks for the kind words lilBuddha, I have indeed found that taking lots of photos has improved my ability. I look back at when I started taking photos of my son to now, and there is a definite difference. What I'm finding at this point is that my lack of technical knowledge sometimes hampers the shot I'm wanting to take. I'm not great with learning and retaining technical information, but a good understanding of how exposure, aperture, and other lens settings work together would help me take it to the next level and be more intentional in getting the kind of shots I want. Remembering to take different angles of the same subject is also useful advice, as sometimes you can surprise yourself with how different a subject will look just by moving the camera slightly.
Thanks everyone else for the input too. I agree, looking at other people's shots is great for coming up with ideas. When the exif (technical information) is also included it's very helpful in figuring out how the got that lighting and depth of field (how blurred the background is) etc. It's also fun for me as I really enjoy looking at photographs and people's vision of how they see the world around them.
As for creating monsters, I'd be thrilled if I could convert my son when he's old enough -more excuse to indulge in my hobby/passion! In the meantime I think I've got a potential one in my 4 year old niece. She got a kids camcorder for Christmas and has really been using it a lot, racking up a few hours of movie in not much time at all.
On the compact versus DSLR factor, I sometimes think I've missed shots because I don't have a small compact I can just quickly take with me in my purse. On the other hand I know there are some shots I have I wouldn't have been able to get without my (entry level) DSLR lens. I wish I could afford both, but since I can't I'll just have to be less lazy about taking the bigger camera out with me.
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Originally posted by nomadicgrl:
Remembering to take different angles of the same subject is also useful advice, as sometimes you can surprise yourself with how different a subject will look just by moving the camera slightly.
I was thinking this morning that an interesting challenge might be to take three pictures of the same object, but make them look as different as possible. This might be something to have in hand for those days when you're stuck indoors/stuck for inspiration.
(Art shot of the washing machine, anyone? ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) )
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I love the idea of taking the three shots, excellent - thanks for that! During the monsoon that might be a great help. I need to get better at creating collages, might give some time to that soon if I can bestir myself.
I am now more than 10% through my 365 - gosh that went quickly!
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At the rate I am posting shots, I will not be 10% through the project in a year's time. And that is with cheating! I have posted several shots from one day as representing successive days.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
(Art shot of the washing machine, anyone? )
Been done!
I've got very frustrated by working through the alphabet - too many missed opportunities, too many shots I want to go back and do - although I have been very inventive (as in really bending my vocabulary) in how I use the letters - but as a winter project it would be fun to revisit to give inspiration.
A lot of people used May as self-portrait month - which is not something I want to do, but it's an alternative.
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Ariel, I really like that idea too! I am definitely going to put it on my list of inspirations.
lilBuddha, I don't think the "rules" need to be strict or followed to the letter. From another forum that I visited doing a 365, lots of people confessed to doing the same thing, or if they missed a day, doing two shots (or 7 or however many days they missed) the next day. For me, I'm going to try and stick to it as close as possible, as I'm wanting to get more disciplined about learning, but I also don't want to feel defeated the first time I miss a day, so I'll probably do the "make up" the next day rule. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by nomadicgrl:
I'm not great with learning and retaining technical information, but a good understanding of how exposure, aperture, and other lens settings work together would help me take it to the next level and be more intentional in getting the kind of shots I want.
Start with one thing. Say, aperture. Put your camera in A mode. Take photos of the same subject while rotating the dial for different apertures. Or put it in P (I believe that is a shift-able setting on your camera) then rotate left and right during shooting.
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I know I'm coming at this from another direction, but I have had the dangers of putting pictures of children up online drummed into me. (Schools and church website). The NSPCC advice says there are two main risks:
- giving information for paedophiles to groom children (names, addresses, ways to find children)
- pictures being photoshopped into porn
Having had it badly in the neck for putting any pictures of children on the church website, I wonder why no-one is bothered about pictures elsewhere. The pictures of 365 and Flickr would be far, far better to photoshop than any group picture of 200 x 300 pixels I put up. I also don't put names up, let alone addresses, but people are putting up names and enough identifying information on online albums. Why is it not seen as an issue?
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It's a good question Curiosity. I hadn't really thought of it in regards to the 365, which is much more open than most sites I put my photos on. I have the settings for friends only on Facebook and on my online web albums I have them set to invite only, where I have to specifically send the link to people (family friends) I want to be able to see them. I hope I'm keeping enough info hidden that I wouldn't be too easy to track down in real life (I'm sure it's possible if someone is determined). The Photoshop issue I never considered at all - creepy, but food for thought. At the same time, it's such a shame, because I enjoy seeing people's pictures of their children and it helps me think of ideas and ways I'd like to take photos of my own.
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365 is a fun site, you may (or may not) have a lot of followers but if you look back at your early pictures you'll probably find they have quite a lot of hits. The site is linked to by other sites – I found one that feeds through the newer pictures in order to give less noticed photographers another chance of being seen – who knows where else they are linked to, publicly or privately.
Sometimes I think that posting anything on the internet is like standing on a street corner handing out flyers with your words, or your pictures on them to everyone, without exception, who passes by. Housewife, schoolboy, vagrant, someone in need of psychiatric treatment, a businessman with fantasies you don't want to know about, kindly pensioners, someone looking to do a scam; whoever: the whole spectrum of human life is out there. Perhaps a lighted stage is another useful simile: you, as the actor, probably can't see past the lights into the auditorium, but there’s a silent crowd looking back at you.
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I took several different angle photos today of different things with some interesting results, it's a good discipline to learn.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
two main risks:
- giving information for paedophiles to groom children (names, addresses, ways to find children)
- pictures being photoshopped into porn
Reason number one is why I do not put up shots of my nephew, niece or friend's children. OR any other children, for that matter.
Reason number two never occurred to me, naive as that may be. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I took several different angle photos today of different things with some interesting results, it's a good discipline to learn.
Yes indeed. Often the difference between a good shot and a better one.
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Does anyone else find that participating in a 365 is helping them become much better about deleting shots? I often take a lot of shots, especially when it's of my son and it's a set up shot rather than candid, and till now seemed to have trouble deleting the "ok but not the best shot" shots. Which means I have thousands (literally) of shots on my hard drives. I just got Light Room (an organizational and minor editing software tool) and am having to wade through umpteen photos of the same damn thing as I try to organize. Doing the 365 and choosing ONE photo helps me delete all those others that aren't the best, even if they are ok.
On a related note, does anyone know software that would work with a Mac to find duplicate prints, so I can quickly delete those. I googled it, but all of them seem to work with iPhoto, which I haven't installed
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Does anyone else find that participating in a 365 is helping them become much better about deleting shots?
What is this "delete" you speak of? No, for me it means I will be needing yet another external drive. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Yes, much, much better at deleting, but I'm also taking more photos!
Because I take a lot of photos of students so we can produce slide-shows of the year at the presentation day, and maybe a montage for a frame they've made, I end up keeping them until the end the student's time with us and then deleting them entirely.
And I really must go through and delete several files of every tree at every tree festival multiple times!
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hehe....ummm, I'm still keeping them and thinking, yeah I'll play with the editing on that one some day
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Welease Woderwick
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I've never been good at deleting stuff - I suppose I may have improved a little but it is only marginal.
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As I seem to be taking about 20+ pictures a day I do have to delete. I used to think "I could edit that" but in practice I know I won't and if it requires a lot of work then it wasn't a good pic to start with.
I tend to look at mine and judge them pretty much as if I was picking my best entry for a competition. On those grounds most go straight into the recycle bin, but taking them is useful practice.
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But 35 pictures of a rainbow? Out of 131 photos I took yesterday.
I have kept 9 rainbows as worth keeping. I was taking lots of that one because it's such a fleeting opportunity and I know from past and bitter experience that they often don't work in photographs. And so the first 5 or so went because the Tesco's building is not an attractive framing, then those where what I was trying to anchor it to were out of focus, and the ones that caught a lamppost at an odd angle ...
What's left are one shot of a bug I took with the kids, because it had strayed inside, the rainbows and reflections, mostly in puddles, for something else I'm doing.
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hehe....ummm, I'm still keeping them and thinking, yeah I'll play with the editing on that one some day
Yes, that's my usual reasoning too. Well, the lighting isn't as good, but with editing I bet I can make it. Or, well it's not a bad picture, so why delete it? Maybe someday I'll want to look through 40 pictures of my son in the same spot with the same outfit on or that nice pretty tree or whatever. I'm going to try to get more brutal as I organize my hard drives. Maybe do it like some people do with closets and create a folder where I can dump stuff I don't think is top notch but can't quite push "delete" on and after a year if I still don't see them as top notch into the trash/recycle bin!
35 pictures isn't too bad at all Curiosity, that's the beauty and curse of digital, it costs nothing to keep snapping. I find that factor means I'm more likely to to try new things and experiment with angles and settings which is a good thing, but I can also then get careless or not intentional thinking I'll just delete it anyway and then I end up with a hard drive full of so so pictures - not as good.
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But 35 pictures of a rainbow? Out of 131 photos I took yesterday.
I have kept 9 rainbows as worth keeping.
Yes. I find that looking at them about a week later, I'm more objective and able to pick the two or three best, unless there are noticeable differences.
What I really want is some kind of picture database I could dump this ever-growing assortment in and run a keyword search on when necessary, but I don't see that happening...
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Next week I may invest in a new 1 terrabyte external hard drive, though that may become a 2 TB if the [lack of] price differential makes it worthwhile.
For the moment I am tending to keep things so that I can look back and learn from the not so good one about how to make better ones.
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Today I made a collage for my 365 project! I used to do them a lot a long time ago, when I was gainfully employed, but have really forgotten the technique - I'm not very happy with what I did but it was a learning experience.
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I noticed. I commented!
I wanted to use that type of collage for shop front doors, but ended up taking them at the wrong angles to do it. Straight on, the right angle, would have put me in the road, in the traffic you can see reflected!
Mind you, there's a few other techniques I want to teach myself. Some of the more subtle HDR work is fantastic, and the use of selective colour is interesting at moments, although overused.
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Welease Woderwick
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One of my problems is not knowing the jargon - I know DoF [depth of field] but that is about all - what do SOOC, HDR, etc. mean?
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HDR is High Dynamic Range.
Digital sensors, especially small format(pocket cameras and most DSLRs), do not have the value range of some film types. The highlights and/or shadows are lost in favour of the middle ranges. To compensate, one can take multiple images, typically 3, at different exposures. Then software is used to blend the exposures, either in camera or post processed.
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I only just discovered "bokeh" as a concept, through 365.
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Does anyone looks at the My Best Shot feature in the Guardian G2?
Some of them do strike me immediately as interesting or original - others I just go 'Eh?' But I always look at it to see what it is that professional photographers think is good.
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Does anyone looks at the My Best Shot feature in the Guardian G2?
Some of them do strike me immediately as interesting or original - others I just go 'Eh?' But I always look at it to see what it is that professional photographers think is good.
That's a fun feature Firenze, I'll be spending some time browsing through. So far quite a few are 'Eh?' for me, but it is interesting to read about the story behind the choice. It reminds me of the photo contest phenomena - often when I see a magazine photo contest I'll like second or third place much more than first.
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The Guardian also has a photo competition in the Saturday magazine, the link is to the rules but there is a link on the sidebar to the gallery - which I knew about, but I hadn't been following the My Best Photo feature
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Welease Woderwick
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Isn't it maddening when you see something that would make a great shot but you are on a bus and the camera is in your bag?
We live on a massive river delta and on the bus to the city today we were crossing a bridge over a minor canal and there was a big Labrador type dog just sitting in the canal, head and shoulders the only bits showing - and he looked so pleased with himself! All gone in a flash, of course and probably never to be repeated.
The parts for my Canon camera have arrived from Japan and hopefully will be fitted by Tuesday lunchtime and the Fuji should be back Tuesday or Wednesday as well. But this little Nikon has done well and its wide angle aspect has been a joy - it will be my pocket camera still when I don't want to take one of the bigger ones out.
I tried a collage again tonight, I must find another program to use for making them as PowerPoint produces far too low resolution an image for my taste.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Isn't it maddening when you see something that would make a great shot but you are on a bus and the camera is in your bag?
Or a train? Last week there was a deer silhouetted jet black against an early morning sky in a cornfield, another morning there was a rainbow-coloured hot air balloon rising from the field next to the railway line, expanding up into the blue sky, and one afternoon, an interesting classic steam train. None of which I was able to get and which are really one-offs.
The one I really regret not having got, though, was of two curious, alert red fox cubs, pausing on the safe side of the rail tracks one sunny spring afternoon to stare back at me with equal interest as the train passed.
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I took some photos of London in the rain from a moving bus earlier this week. The windows wer wet so it was all weirdly distorted. Lots of pictures on Flickr linked from this blogpost here
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Welease Woderwick
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Ken, they're all good but the top one is great!
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@ken, very nice shots!
@WW, I second the GIMP recommendation. Photoshop is still the best, IMO, but GIMP offers much of the functionality at a considerably lower price point.
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While I try to take inspiration from various sources, my main influence has become Ansel Adams. (He is likely rolling over in his grave as I type this)
As such, I do tend towards landscapes and the dramatic. Project 365 is, in part an attempt to broaden my focus.
Just from curiosity, who are your photographic influences? What styles do you primarily shoot?
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This is something I'm trying to define at the moment. I've been doing "postcard photography" for a while - nice scenic views that wouldn't be out of place on a postcard, or else wildlife and flower shots, and still resort to that and to quirkies.
Now I'm getting fed up with what feels like visual cliches and the sort of pictures that any tourist can take. I want to move away from that into more "art" shots or ones that tell a story. Ideally by the end of the year, and I doubt this will happen, I want to achieve some shots that have the "wow factor" that some of the more experienced photographers on 365 seem to do pretty much naturally.
You have to work with what you've got, though. I went through a period of despair recently thinking how crap my pictures were by comparison with other people's. But if you don't live near the sea you can't take stunning marine sunsets. Not everyone has exotic wildlife or fruit trees in their garden, lots of antiques or a handy supply of pets and small children for those themed shots. You learn to work and experiment with what's available to you instead.
That's what I'm doing. I couldn't name any great photographer who I emulate. I get ideas from what I see around - and also from some TV camera-work. The way some programmes are filmed can be a pleasure in itself. It's all a learning process, it has its ups and downs but is a hugely enjoyable way of looking at the world.
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I've been playing around trying to recreate Escher woodcuts in photography - the ones based on reflections - or getting ideas on how to do so.
I'm also keeping an eye on the themes because they mean you have to think differently. Currently, there's an artist challenge of taking a picture in the style of Steve McCurry. the week's theme on the Blogs is at night and the month's theme on the Discuss - Themes & Competitions is gratitude. May was Self Portraits, July is likely to be black and white.
There are also music and album challenges - lots of ways of stretching yourself
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