The *Official Photography Thread*

Quick question for you guys. I just turned my camera on and the little light on the back is flashing red really fast and wont go away. The camera seems to be working fine, but the light is on. Usually it comes on when I first turn the camera on, and after I take a picture it will usually blink once or twice. Anyone have any ideas?
Nevermind, I found an online manual for it. It is a card issue.

 

Low low battery or full memory card?

 

Try saving what's on the card to a computer then format it, that's the write indicator I think

 

I found an online manual for it. Its trying to write to the card, or read the card when its blinking. I only have like 1600 pictures on the card, but I will get them all on the computer and try to reformat it.

 

Only 1600? Wow haha have fun going through all of those!

 

I just put a new card in. I dumped all those on my hard drive. I do need to sort through them though. There are still a bunch from my back packing trip last July. Lol.

 

Did that fix it?
I didn't even think about just the time required to read a card. I did have that issue with my nikon point and shoot (had 3000+ pics on it and was taking forever to turn on, so I formatted it and that made it sooo much better), but not with my canon dslr, so I didn't link it.

 

Yes it did. The card that I had in it was a better card than my back up, so I formatted it again and it is good now.

 

32gd FTW!

i have two 32gb. Love it. holds about 1600 RAWs

 

Hell yeah! I got 5 of them. You can never have enough digital film.

 

Yea i love them. I don't shoot enough really to have more yet. Although on long trips i do..

 

Yeahhhhh go me! Haha

 

Go you! +1

 

Here are those photos in black and white. I really like how the first one turned out, it ended up bringing out the texture of the water on the fountain, but I think I prefer the other two in color.


IMG_8174_blackwhite_small by 92shawman, on Flickr


IMG_8187_blend_blackwhite_small by 92shawman, on Flickr


IMG_8212_blend_blackwhite_small by 92shawman, on Flickr

Birdies soon

 

I agree. I like the first one in b&w but the others look better in color. Nice shots btw.

 

Birdies as promised:


Golden-crowned Sparrow by 92shawman, on Flickr


Northern Shoveler Pair by 92shawman, on Flickr


Marsh Wren by 92shawman, on Flickr


White-tailed Kite by 92shawman, on Flickr


Northern Pintail Pair by 92shawman, on Flickr


Wilson's Snipe by 92shawman, on Flickr


Greater White-fronted Goose by 92shawman, on Flickr


Northern Pintail by 92shawman, on Flickr


Northern Pintail by 92shawman, on Flickr


White-faced Ibis by 92shawman, on Flickr

 

Also tested this out with star trails. I wish the stars at the end of the trails were brighter, maybe I'll try something that I just thought of. Any critique is welcomed!

IMG_7721_blend_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr

Edit: My idea turned out pretty bad. I brightened the still star photo to make the stars bigger and blended it with the trails photo and it turned out really blotchy and messy.

 

Nice! love that shot! I wanted one like that for the life in motion challenge to make it look like the sky is falling haha

The stars are at the end of the trails where they are brightest. So really..you just need to look at the other horizon probably to change the bright spot so the earth moves the other directions making the stars start high and end low vs how you shot with them low and the rotated up.

if that makes sense..

 

Thanks!
I see what you're saying, but I wasn't really going for that with this picture. Here I was testing out blending a star trail image with a still star image taken right afterwards to make it look like shooting stars. The main reason I picked this section of the sky was because of Orion (you can see the three star belt) but I'm bummed that the constellation ended up off the screen. Oh well.

The other thing I could have done to get the stars "falling" but in the same frame as this one would be to start with a still shot and then take the star trail shot right afterwards and blend them.

 

Ohhh gotcha.

Yea you could have done that indeed. What did you use to blend them?