Official Photography Thread: Vol. ICan'tFindTheLastOne

^ You know if portraiture is really your thing you might want to invest in a short lense tube. It would allow you to blur the background but make the foreground (where your subject is at) in sharp focus because you could close down the lense to even like f22 or more. because essentially it just closes down the area the lense is able to focus in, hence why you can close down to like f22 or more and still have shadow depth of focus. It's the same reason people who do alot of marco stuff have reasonably long tubes or bellows so they can do exactly that but to a greater degree.

So in other words with like maybe 10mm tube (i know what lengths they make for your camera) you could get your grampa, his cane, maybe the couch all in super sharp focus at like f22 but the flowers and wall in the background would be out of the lenses ability to focus and thus would be quite blured.

I don't know, just a though. But I'll try and think of photographer I know who does that, and post some pictures of theres as an example.
 
..just so you guys know, none of these photos were posed. As you can
probably tell, especially from the last two photos, my grandpa is blind. So
I'd just get in front of him and snap away, heh. Hope you guys enjoyed the
set, I have some graduation panoramics to stitch together and I'll post up
when I get the time. I really hate stitching together panoramics, I'm
completely horrible at it. But when I have the time, I'll be sure to stitch
them up and post them up as well. Oh, and I was shooting at an f:stop of
1.8, that's why there is a lack of depth of field in my photos. I hate
shooting indoors. I need an external flash, which will most likely be my
next purchase. That or an EF 28mm f:2.8 lens. Okay, enough blabbering..
 
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You know if portraiture is really your thing you might want to invest in a
short lense tube. It would allow you to blur the background but make the
foreground (where your subject is at) in sharp focus because you could
close down the lense to even like f22 or more. because essentially it
just closes down the area the lense is able to focus in, hence why you
can close down to like f22 or more and still have shadow depth of focus.
It's the same reason people who do alot of marco stuff have reasonably
long tubes or bellows so they can do exactly that but to a greater
degree.

So in other words with like maybe 10mm tube (i know what lengths they
make for your camera) you could get your grampa, his cane, maybe the
couch all in super sharp focus at like f22 but the flowers and wall in the
background would be out of the lenses ability to focus and thus would
be quite blured.

I don't know, just a though. But I'll try and think of photographer I know
who does that, and post some pictures of theres as an example.
Portraiture is not really my steez. I'm more into photographing
architecture and cityscapes, that type of photography. I'm also trying to
get into street photography as well. I am really horrible at photographing
people, I find it really hard to do. I'm trying to get better at it, but as
stated it's really hard (for me anyway). But thanks for the advice, if I
was really into portraitures I'd surely invest in a short lens tube.
 
It just struck me looking your pictures, that he can't really acknowledge the presents of the camera other than hearing it. I mean unless you told him or he heard the camera he wouldn't know it was there. There probably about a million (probably less but still) photographers would kill for a subject that doesnt formally acknowledge the camera. Even if he knew it was there it's a significant step up from people who can see it. I don't mean to belittle his blindness and mean no disrepect at all, but there are entire books on the subject vs presents of camera/photographer and psychology behind it. It's interesting idea it that never stuck me...

I was ordering film from B&H and figured I'd look here is the link for a set of lense tubes for canon eos a 12, 20 & 36mm tubes for $169 (its cheaper than I paid for my one 21mm tube for my hassy) If anyone is interested. I know you alot of you guys are way into macros would be the solid cheaper way of doing that.

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There's a lot of knowledge in this post to get people started. I think this is also the first time we do one of these where people(ebayologist) are actually giving each other constructive feedback. So what I'm actually trying to say: Can we get a sticky?
Anyway

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yo keep this alive!!! this is a great post and i think it should be stickied also. i have had a dormant interest in photography for a few years but this post alone has brought it back full steam. i have learned some stuff just reading this post. and have finally decided to enroll in photography at SVA in NY...mods sticky please
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just a helpful reminder: if your ever developing b/w film in your apt. remember to check to see if your developer hasn't gone bad... apparently if you use expired developer your negatives come out unusably thin and slightly violet... I just found that out. ugh. @#%$ is killing me...
 
Hey,

This picture for sure isn't great. I don't even know if it's good, oh well.
It has HEAVY noise, but I liked the idea of it.
And I was shooting with ISO 1200 because i didn't have a tripod.
Oh, and i could've cropped it better, but didn't notice it until I uploaded it, so ehhh.
I liked it so I'll post them.

And to keep the thread alive.


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^ yeah, grainy film works gives it an interesting aesthetic. thats b/w that is... Grainy digital just looks weird... with color film at night you shoot tungsten film which I believe just got discontinued in 120 format. but tungsten film holds up quite well as far as grain in low light situations. maybe your digital camera has a tungsten setting, I don't know how that would work but I've heard of it...
 
Hey,

B/W?

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Hey,

Yeah, I knew it wasn't that good, hence I put that it wasn't good.
But there was something I like about it.

I don't know. Thanks, anyways.



-irpsta

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