The *Official Photography Thread*

If you set the mode dial to "M", you can use manual mode. This means you set both aperture, shutter and ISO. If you pick "S" mode, I think that's shutter priority meaning you pick the shutter speed and the camera picks the aperture. "A" is aperture priority--you set the aperture and the camera picks shutter speed. ISO looks like it gets set by the dial/switch thingy on the back.

The guy running, the portrait and the other settings are "modes" that you use to point and shoot and get reasonable results. Learn to use M, S and A and you'll be pretty good for any situation

 

damn good shot

 

a little dark, do you have a tripod?

 

No, I Googled some but I don't even know what I'm looking for. I saw some for 30 bucks. Hey Brian found me a 300mm lens, I remember u finding me a smaller lens, do you know which one it was?

 

no

EDIT: a 300mm lens? or a 70-300mm lens haha (big difference)

 

Buahahaha Dick. back to the tripod, shed some light

 

until you get into a camera that weighs upwards of 7-10lbs. A tripod is a tripod. You generally want it to be at eye-height before you have to extend the top piece... so like a 70" or something..

 

yeah the 70-300 is a pretty good little lens, but the Nikons ones lol Idk about Sony's 75-300

 

Mamon@ Brian

Opteka OPT7000 74" Professional Tripod for All Canon Sony, Nikon, Samsung, Panasonic, Olympus, Kodak, Fuji Cameras and Camcorders

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002XQDSS/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/178-5603338-3589506

How's this one

 

Hhm. You're mexican you don't need a tripod just put it on top of something ahhaha looks good but idk how stable is it

 

Cinder blocks

 

oh okay, try using aperture priority(a on the dial) or shutter priority(s on the dial), it makes it easier to get into using the manual mode. for your shots with sunglasses i would try to use shutter priority and set the shutter speed higher to prevent the motion blur. There should be a light meter in the viewfinder or on the screen and use that to help you adjust the shutter speed. If it you have no choice but to use a slower shutter speed then you would need a tripod. In my sunglasses shot i think i was at an aperture of f8 and shutter speed of 1/160 and ISO 800 i used a tripod.i probably could have gone down to an ISO 400 but i didnt want to risk getting it blurry since i would have had to lower the shutter speed. I also had like 3 desk lamps to help lighting the shot too haha. i hoped this helped out man

thanks man!

 

My son digging it out.

 

I was blessed by the grace of camera god to take photos with this beast today.

hasselblad H4D by TheyPhotographic.com, on Flickr


Wow is all i got to say.

 

Went to my local camera store today to look at some toys and they had a sigma 70-200 EX DG Macro, so i decided to give it a shot.

First thoughts: "Holy sh*t this thing is heavy!"

Seems heavier than both nikon versions?

But anyways i took some shots and i was absolutely 100% impressed. completely blew away my expectations...
The only post processing i did on these shots wer noise reduction. Besides that they are the compressed RAW file straight from my Nikon D700...


Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 200 mm
ISO Speed 2500


sigma 70-200 by TheyPhotographic.com, on Flickr

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 70 mm
ISO Speed 2500


sigma 70-200 by TheyPhotographic.com, on Flickr

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 170 mm
ISO Speed 2500


sigma 70-200 by TheyPhotographic.com, on Flickr

I want to say i am sold on this thing. I will be getting this over the Nikon version. (mainly because of price)

 

i was comparing the two this one and the 80-200 f/2.8. was that the OS version?

 

no OS. i would do this over the 80-200...and the 70-200 VR1 for that matter

 

hhmm still looks good though, the prices on theese are going up!