The *Official Photography Thread*

I get your dilemma here, I went back and forth on the SSD size alone for a couple weeks. For what you are doing the 13" will most likely be fine power wise and you can always get a monitor and docking station if the screen is too small. I find the retina too glossy to edit photos and video on anyway but I also work on $2k Eizo monitors so I am a bit jaded.

At the coast for the week!

 

Got LR 6 running smooth thanks to the Adobe 'Chat' guy. The graphics card upgrade was a must. LR 6 program updates. That one seems odd, as I upgraded from the website after install, so not sure what that was about. Also, a code change was made that I wasn't sure about. Anyway, seems to be up and running. Now I just need to learn how to work with the 'Raw' files. Now that my camera is set to jpeg/raw, where do I go now? So much to learn.

This photo is reworked a little, but still jpeg.

 

Working with raw files just makes editing a bit easier. From my understanding, with jpegs you're editing the 'face' of the photo. With raw you're editing actual in depth features of the photo. I really don't know how else to describe it but it will give you more control over basically everything 'within' the image.

For instance upload a raw file and then a jpeg of the same image then go in and tweak a certain setting (saturation/clarity/highlights) or whatever. You should be able to tell the difference fairly quickly. That is my understanding at least. That's what I've noticed when I export edited images as jpegs then import them to LR again for editing. Just doesn't work as well as just editing the raw file.


Edit: this should help answer some questions better than me rambling about it.

https://www.slrlounge.com/school/raw-vs-jpeg-jpg-the-ultimate-visual-guide/

 

Sub'd

 

San Diego sunsets

 

I met Ryan today down in Redlands. I just said hi, told him he had a cool look, and asked if we could take some photos. Turns out he's a super chill guy, not too giddy, not too serious, just real friendly. I'm going to do a shoot with his BMX crew here soon, all because of a quick, "hello!" Don't underestimate the power of just saying hi

DSCF5548.jpg by ChazLylePhoto, on Flickr


DSCF5550.jpg by ChazLylePhoto, on Flickr


DSCF5557.jpg by ChazLylePhoto, on Flickr


DSCF5559.jpg by ChazLylePhoto, on Flickr


DSCF5561.jpg by ChazLylePhoto, on Flickr

 

Just got some test shots from the new camera

 

Been a while since I posted on here. Here are 2 images of my little project I started. I will be photographing most of the parts I get that will be included in my tundra build. Feel free to follow my build or see them on my instagram @DC_Pixels.

 

Playing around with some settings and came up with this.




_DSC5938 by Murphy Lege, on Flickr

 

Those small changes to the logo made a big difference. Cool photo too

 

Thanks bud!

 

Little project I am working on is macro stuff, something I have never really tried in depth before, and I don't have a macro lens. I had tried the turning a normal lens around in the past, but chickened out. Today I decided to really give it a go. The dof is crazy. Had fun though. Trying to hold the lens still was a challenge. If I were going to do more of this I would definitely look into getting one of those adapters. Anyhow, here are the results.

IMG_6795 Flickr

IMG_6772 Flickr

 

Does show off some flaws in the paint and welds.

 

Not sure if anyone saw this but if you did here it is again lol. When I post I always post right b4 it changes pages lol.

 

Well being that was the first time I had welded tubing in quite a few years and I had been up 24+ hours when I did both I'm satisfied with it until next paint time.

 

Randoms.

 

That staircase shot is trippy and cool.

 

Love the Lake Powell shot too. Only slight change would be to straighten the horizon. Looks slanted down to the left to my eye.