my photography thread: UPDATE 8/14 parkway plaza car show

[potownrob]

thanks for the suggestions Rob, i havent really messed with the semi auto modes yet. like you said, i shoot in manual, so ill end up with a shitty picture thats either a black screen or overexposed, make some changes, shoot it again. i like my camera how i like my car, fully manual, but i can see where using AV would help out. ill have to experiment with those. for now, im still getting familiar with the camera, i been shooting with it for not even a week and i already know most of the functions, but i want to develop my own feel of what lighting and composition calls for what aperture and exposure and film speed. just like learning a manual, you learn the basics quick but the fine details take a little while

i tend to forget that the older (all but the newest and last generation for most lines) Canon dSLRs did NOT have auto ISO unlike the Nikons. Even with auto ISO, you need to know which ISO speeds are good for what and how to set the parameters for Auto ISO (you can set when it kicks in, as in the minimum shutter speed before it ups the ISO and which ISO to use as a base ISO, at least on Nikons). For your daytime shots in decent light I'd try to keep the ISO at 200 or lower. Like with film, 400 works well in many situations, but there will be noise using an older camera like the 10D, though this won't be as noticeable when posted on the internet as if you made an 8x10 print. Landscape shots just look better with ISO 100-200, if you have the light to use a decent shutter speed (like 1/60 or faster) and a nice small aperture of f/16 or f/22.

i dont have a polarizer, or really anything to add on to the camera. all i have is the camera, a tripod, 35-135 and a 75-300 lens. i can see myself investing some money into this thought, photography is a pretty cool hobby and its addicting.

a cheap circular polarizer (cpol for short) that screws onto the end of your lens is all you need. make sure you get one that is the same size (in millimeters) as your lens. i suggest tiffen and hoya as decent affordable brands. they also make higher end filters with multiple coatings and other goodies, and there are other brands that make good filters, but the lowend ones will do the job in most situations.

[Tups]

...if you have the light to use a decent shutter speed (like 1/60 or faster) and a nice small aperture of f/16 or f/22.

But then again most lenses peak in their sharpness and overall performance around the middle of the aperture range, so I wouldn't recommend using f/22 if you don't really have to. Even with bigger apertures the depth of field should be enough for landscape photography as long as you're not trying to fit an ant walking on your lens and a ship in the horizon in the same picture. At f/11 the hyperfocal distance for a 50 mm lens would be around 5,2 meters, so when focused to that everything from 2,6 meters to infinity is "sharp enough".

As for shooting modes, I prefer aperture priority. It's not cheating to use the built-in meter - you might miss or fail a great photo opportunity if you fiddle with the manual controls all the time because you want to be a "true" photographer. You're already shooting digital after all ;)

[VTECaddict]

i use aperture priority as well. i only use full manual when the built in metering isnt exposing something the way i want.

[wannabe]

ur photography ROCKS. srsly

we went over the maumee river, saw toledo up the river.

[Leedeth]

the infamous pain in the ass CRX

What? What do you mean by this?

[permabanned]

that CRX is a pain in the ass. the engine was reringed once since the original assembly, the head has been off twice, its still overheating. but its fast as shit. its a turbo honda thats put together on a budged that shouldnt be enough to buy 1 part out of the whole build, yet it runs and drives and it rips

anyway, i was bored last night so i went next door to a ice arena and the senior citizen place behind it to shoot some pics of my car. at least now i have some decent pics of it while its still clean. ofcrouse i wash it and its rained every day since. FML

[Tups]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/l ... probe1.jpg

Dust on the sensor above the small tower and the bush right from it?

[theholycow]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/l ... probe1.jpg

Dust on the sensor above the small tower and the bush right from it?

I can't see what you're talking about, but there are two evil eyes hiding in the big tree...

[ColJessip]

It must be the Toledo Tormenter.

[permabanned]

lol i didnt even see the eyes in the tree til you pointed them out

anyways, my mom being such a treehugger put up a couple bird feeders in our backyard. ofcourse, she puts one on a tree and the other within 4 feet of a fence, so hungry squirrels are attacking them both all day. i saw about 4 of them tag teaming one of the feeders, grabbed the 75-300 lens and went outside to see what kind of baller zoom it could do. overall im happy with the lens, the gouge in the middle of it didnt seem to affect anything. squirrels are pretty cool animals to watch for a while, they do some funny shit.

i tried shooting some in AV (aperture priority) and most of them were either overexposed or blurry from too long of an exposure. i was shooting in the f/8 and f/11 range, and it was a bright sunny day, so after some of the AV pics came back shitty i went back to manual mode where i like it.

sitting in the tree. had a cool pic of this guy looking right at the camera and AV mode f**k it up because it made the exposure unnecesarily long and it came out blurry and overexposed. me-1, camera-0




i cracked up when i saw this squirrel chilling on the fence like this.


you can tell pretty easy when i had to pull pictures out of my ass in photoshop. this one was shot in AV, it was blurry and washed out, i had to photochop it quite a bit playing with lighting, vibrance, saturation and curves and sharpening to get it to look decent and this is best i could do without making it look terrible. and you can tell the background looks like orange peel. oh well, no better way to find out the limit of what photoshop can do than by going past that limit


pic of the fence squirrell from the neighbors yard.


this one took forever. i wanted to see how close i could get before the squirrell ran off. id take 1 or 2 steps, shoot a pic. take another step, shoot a pic. this one was from about 12 feet away at 300mm. next step i took he ran off. i like how close i can zoom in on stuff with the 300mm


and another fence squirrell

[theholycow]

MahNutz.jpg

Monorail squirrel.jpg

[Leedeth]

Nice, keep them coming.

[permabanned]

so i got my citizenship today, im a US citizen now. scary thought, eh

i got home from that around 11am so i passed out dead, woke up at 6 and felt like going to the parkway car show. grabbed the camera and went there. hungout with some of my toledotuners friends for a little while and took some pics. hope you like them

to start out, this is a F22 (from an accord) swapped turbo civic. this is one of IIRC 5 of these swaps in the US. F22 is a much taller engine than a D or B series, and the 2 dudes who did the swap had to custom make their own motor mounts and had to adapt a D series trans to the F series block. cool swap and its pretty quick


the mandatory honda towhook


and its goofy ass owner


mustache and a mullet wagon


this pic turned out real good somehow, just one of those pics that you like for no reason whatsoever


slant 6 with direct port nitrous. baller


G8 with holden commodore front end. this dude paid to get the front bodywork shipped from australia. hes a sheriff and definitely the coolest cop youll ever meet. this dude rices around all the time and races people in this g8. great guy


another pic, his dad chilling in the car


closeup of the logo


the closet redneck inside of me loves this


stang row


a pair of birds


nice C5 Z06


corvette logo on a stingray


a charger. all its missing is a hugeass blower on top and 900 horses of detroit muscle that twists the chassis coming off the line


clean ass firebird.


TJ looking on. i love this bike, its gonna be sick when he turboes it


Ryans jardine on his gixxer


looks slow, dont it. this will be a 9 second car on slicks, a terminator with a big turbo. this car is disgusting, straight 4" pipe off the turbo with just 1 straight thru muffler on it and when the turbo spools it completely drowns out the exhaust.


misc viper taillight shot


i was backed up against the fence, random last pic before i rolled out. if i could be in the peoples backyard whos fence i was up against, id get the whole 'parkway plaza' but oh well


another random pic from later. viper, turbo termi and a 400+ cube fully built t/a



ill try to make it to the car show again next friday, depending on the work. i had the day off today, its so nice

[Leedeth]

Love the pics, those are some quality cars there.

[theholycow]

Nice pics of some nice cars!

so i got my citizenship today, im a US citizen now. scary thought, eh

OH NOES!

the mandatory honda towhook

I guess he expects to have breakdowns.

slant 6 with direct port nitrous. baller
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What kind of car was that in?

G8 with holden commodore front end. this dude paid to get the front bodywork shipped from australia. hes a sheriff and definitely the coolest cop youll ever meet. this dude rices around all the time and races people in this g8. great guy
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I don't think anything he does can be called ricing, unless he does the fabled "ricer launch" which AFAIK is described as "blip blip blip blip" while engaging the clutch (I haven't actually witnessed it, my commute is ricer-free).