The Official Photography Thread - Vol. 3

[mez 0ne]

Beautiful waterfall, I just came back from PR, going to upload a few shots shortly.

 

[broncos19dm]

Man I love this thread. You guys are real consistent with the pics and they're truly amazing. Keep it up

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[yanky]

Awesome shots as usual Fong! You took the Mkiii? Were you able to capture any more sunset shots?

 

[Fong$tarr]

^^^^^Yeah...took the Mark 3, 2 lenses, a tripod and even a flash. Could have done without the flash as it just weighed my bag down but everything else was essential. And I think I got some other sunset shots but honestly if there was any sort of light, it was practically a sunset anyways. Iceland at this year, you get about 6-7 hours of sun and most of the time it is low where it looks like it is setting. I abused my HDR option on my camera because of that and with the clouds. Some looked overly done while other shots looked a bit natural. Long exposure night shots were tricky since there wasn't a whole lot of city lights and I kept on missing twlight times. This trip was more of a lessons learned. I wish I rented a car on my open day and just drove the long drive to see things and shot at my own pace.

This was posted on Nikon rumors but some guy went to Iceland a couple of months ago and shot some ice cave that I didn't get to go to.

http://georgexlin.com/2014/01/iceland-monumental-scales/

 

[beardedchefgawd]

^Dope flicks. Do you have a lens filter on there?

yeah just a UV Filter

 

[grizzlyboy]

Damn Fong. I jelly

 

[mjbetch]

Beautiful, Fong!!

 

[yanky]

^^^^^Yeah...took the Mark 3, 2 lenses, a tripod and even a flash. Could have done without the flash as it just weighed my bag down but everything else was essential. And I think I got some other sunset shots but honestly if there was any sort of light, it was practically a sunset anyways. Iceland at this year, you get about 6-7 hours of sun and most of the time it is low where it looks like it is setting. I abused my HDR option on my camera because of that and with the clouds. Some looked overly done while other shots looked a bit natural. Long exposure night shots were tricky since there wasn't a whole lot of city lights and I kept on missing twlight times. This trip was more of a lessons learned. I wish I rented a car on my open day and just drove the long drive to see things and shot at my own pace.

This was posted on Nikon rumors but some guy went to Iceland a couple of months ago and shot some ice cave that I didn't get to go to.

http://georgexlin.com/2014/01/iceland-monumental-scales/

That is cool! His shot of the tower makes it look like it's a different world. Very cool place.

 

[Fong$tarr]

Thanks guys. It should make for a good blog post anyways but the trip was fun.

Beautiful, Fong!!

And thanks dude. Hey....what flashes did you end up getting? Man, I tried doing one offshoot flash and failed miserably in Iceland. I literally do not know hot to use them properly where the background shows and the flash is there. Maybe I shot it when it was too dark even though I thought it was at twilight. You got any sample photos?

 

[ksteezy]

that picture of the girl facing the waterfall is amaziiiinnnggggggg....did you get one of her facing the camera?

also i hope you dont mind, i took the liberty of bumping up the colors a bit in one of your pics, if you like it let me know and ill walk you through the editing....if ou dont appreciate people editing your pics, i completely understand bro and apologize, just let me know bro....im just bored here at work and i think this picture could have benefited from a little extra editing...

let me know if you want me to remove it...

 

[Fong$tarr]

^^^^Haha. All good man. I honestly don't event trip about stuff like that as long as someone just doesn't claim the photo. I was looking at my photos at work too on a crappier monitor and totally agree it could use a saturation bump (amongst other things) but for some reason, I feel like it's already altered enough with the photo I have. Honestly the colors weren't even totally vibrant even when we were there. Like the snow was just white, the sky had some color and the water was blue but not nearly as blue. If the photo was more of a one off, then I'd totally alter the photo to make it look better but I have like a ton of photos and don't want all the colors to be blasted. Iceland just didn't emit color when I was there and everything was just sort of muted.

 

[fived]

at a mall while waiting for my macbook to get repaired.

 

[ksteezy]

^^^^Haha. All good man. I honestly don't event trip about stuff like that as long as someone just doesn't claim the photo. I was looking at my photos at work too on a crappier monitor and totally agree it could use a saturation bump (amongst other things) but for some reason, I feel like it's already altered enough with the photo I have. Honestly the colors weren't even totally vibrant even when we were there. Like the snow was just white, the sky had some color and the water was blue but not nearly as blue. If the photo was more of a one off, then I'd totally alter the photo to make it look better but I have like a ton of photos and don't want all the colors to be blasted. Iceland just didn't emit color when I was there and everything was just sort of muted.

aww man, that sucks bro....specially the fact that you missed the northern lights, thats my whole reason for ever wanting to go there...

 

[khankussionz]

Thanks guys. It should make for a good blog post anyways but the trip was fun.
And thanks dude. Hey....what flashes did you end up getting? Man, I tried doing one offshoot flash and failed miserably in Iceland. I literally do not know hot to use them properly where the background shows and the flash is there. Maybe I shot it when it was too dark even though I thought it was at twilight. You got any sample photos?

Check out this video. He goes over shooting a strobe outdoors. Same idea with a speedlight but they're not as powerful...

 

[bjamez20]

Fong, those pictures are

Looks like a fun trip

 

[mjbetch]

Thanks guys. It should make for a good blog post anyways but the trip was fun.
And thanks dude. Hey....what flashes did you end up getting? Man, I tried doing one offshoot flash and failed miserably in Iceland. I literally do not know hot to use them properly where the background shows and the flash is there. Maybe I shot it when it was too dark even though I thought it was at twilight. You got any sample photos?

No sample photos yet! Just mess around with angles and the power (well of course, that's all you pretty much can do haha)

But yeah, I only have one flash which is an SB-800 that I've had for years now.

 

[dunksrnice]

One from today.

A lot more on the blog.
www.dunksrnice.net

 

[ratxaxtat]

It's really not that hard. You expose the same way for ambient light and then just worry abiut the power of the flash. Other things like quality and direction of the light play a role but it sounds like exposure is where you have difficulty. It depends on what you are shooting but overall your goal is to shoot at the lowest ISO, your shutter speed determines the amount of ambient light you let into the camera so the faster the speed the less light gets in. Aperture controls the amount of flash that is going into the lens. If you have your flash at it's lowest and it overpowers your pic and your aperture is 2.8 then close it down to 4.0 and notice the flash is not as pronounced in your shot. It's just practice at that point.

Depending on your camera and the strobes you use, your shutter speed shouldn't be faster than 1/160th or 1/250th of a second.
Also, invest in a handheld light meter like sekonic. They are a godsend.

 

[khankussionz]

Depending on your camera and the strobes you use, your shutter speed shouldn't be faster than 1/160th or 1/250th of a second.
Also, invest in a handheld light meter like sekonic. They are a godsend.

True. My camera has a sync speed of 1/200 but the Yonguo triggers can only handle 1/160 and from that point the shutter creeps into my shot. A light meter might be my next big purchase. I feel like my shots are always half a stop under exposed. For now I just take alot of shots until I get what I think is right on the screen but once I get it into the computer it is still usually off.

 

[locobaby]

True. My camera has a sync speed of 1/200 but the Yonguo triggers can only handle 1/160 and from that point the shutter creeps into my shot. A light meter might be my next big purchase. I feel like my shots are always half a stop under exposed. For now I just take alot of shots until I get what I think is right on the screen but once I get it into the computer it is still usually off.

I used to feel the same way. The LCD on the back of the camera is such a liar. I didn't want to buy a light meter so I started using my histogram and shoot tethered when I can.

 

[ratxaxtat]

True. My camera has a sync speed of 1/200 but the Yonguo triggers can only handle 1/160 and from that point the shutter creeps into my shot. A light meter might be my next big purchase. I feel like my shots are always half a stop under exposed. For now I just take alot of shots until I get what I think is right on the screen but once I get it into the computer it is still usually off.

I used to feel the same way. The LCD on the back of the camera is such a liar. I didn't want to buy a light meter so I started using my histogram and shoot tethered when I can.

If you don't want to get a light meter, there's always good old fashion bracketing.

 

[certifiedflyboi23]

I use the Sunny 16 method. I think it's clutch

 

[yanky]

Still working on this one but I'm not sure on what to do when it comes to landscape photography since all I ever post in here is cars Thoughts/suggestions?

Went from this

To this

Brought the temp up a bit as well as the vibrance and clarity. I feel like this shot has a lot of potential I just need to figure out how to bring out the colors.

 

[tokes99]

Still working on this one but I'm not sure on what to do when it comes to landscape photography since all I ever post in here is cars Thoughts/suggestions?

Went from this

To this

Brought the temp up a bit as well as the vibrance and clarity. I feel like this shot has a lot of potential I just need to figure out how to bring out the colors.

i think generally the thing with landscapes is drama & scale...other than that the same things apply, composition, lighting, & subject (is the thing you are taking a picture of interesting? if not, how can you make it worth looking at?). of course this is somewhat subjective, i think you could pump up the saturation & contrast more (with a graduated filter?), maybe crop out some of the water?

i think bringing out the clouds more could make it more moody, but it might be hard to keep the fogginess in that pic...i dig dramatic clouds though:

 

[shoefreakbaby]

Had my first "event" with my t3i

I used to make fun of my cousin for being the weird camera guy at the party and I was so him today.

Nice to catch random moments

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