Forest Photography Group meeting Tuesday 19th Feb, 6-8pm
Forest Photography Group meeting Tuesday 19th Feb, 6-8pm
Hello!
The Forest photo group kicked off this week on the 5th. We chatted a bit about what people would like to do, and talked about some of the basic settings of cameras and what they do: shutter speed, aperture and ISO rating.
Here's a great illustrated article by Simon Mackie explaining all of these things very well. It's only five pages, you'll whiz through it:
http://www.photographyjam.com/articles/ ... re-and-iso
The next meeting will be on Tuesday 19th. Between now and then, go and take some pictures! Of absolutely anything. Then bring them along and we'll talk about them.
In the meantime, please use this thread to ask questions, post photos, or look for company to go out shooting with. I'll start a new thread for each meeting (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month).
The Forest photo group kicked off this week on the 5th. We chatted a bit about what people would like to do, and talked about some of the basic settings of cameras and what they do: shutter speed, aperture and ISO rating.
Here's a great illustrated article by Simon Mackie explaining all of these things very well. It's only five pages, you'll whiz through it:
http://www.photographyjam.com/articles/ ... re-and-iso
The next meeting will be on Tuesday 19th. Between now and then, go and take some pictures! Of absolutely anything. Then bring them along and we'll talk about them.
In the meantime, please use this thread to ask questions, post photos, or look for company to go out shooting with. I'll start a new thread for each meeting (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month).
Are you working Saturday? If not, we could do something then. In winter the sun is low, and even more so in the morning/afternoon. It could be good to take advantage of this to get some shots that you wouldn't so easily get at other times of year.
I've had my camera on manual (M) but autofocus. You can see how light/dark the picture will be from the screen. Use the jagged wheel which you can turn indefinitely to move the shutter speed and aperture around. Clicking the wheel toggles from one to the other. There is a button (SET I think) which lets you position the point to focus on for autofocus. Press this, then use the cursor wheel to position it, then press the button again to set it.
That is as far as I've got with it. But I haven't been out snapping anything yet.
I've had my camera on manual (M) but autofocus. You can see how light/dark the picture will be from the screen. Use the jagged wheel which you can turn indefinitely to move the shutter speed and aperture around. Clicking the wheel toggles from one to the other. There is a button (SET I think) which lets you position the point to focus on for autofocus. Press this, then use the cursor wheel to position it, then press the button again to set it.
That is as far as I've got with it. But I haven't been out snapping anything yet.
How about morning, so you can still go to Glasgow and not have to rush back? We could RV outside the Forest at 9, say, and then wander round for an hour or so, and then back to the Forest for a coffee. The building sites will have lots of interesting objects and shapes, both large scale and close up.
Anyone else want to join the Powershot duo?
Anyone else want to join the Powershot duo?
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We looked some photos that I'd taken and talked about what went wrong, and then Martin showed people a program called ufraw, which is good for working with RAW formats. It behaves more like a digital darkroom (Martin's phrase) than image editors like GIMP. You can redo the white balance, exposure, curves etc. It exists as a stand alone program, a batch converter and as a GIMP plugin.
Here is one I like - some shutters on a shop on Leith Walk. I cropped the bottom slightly so that the horizontal line is in the middle.
I haven't got used to composing properly with the screen. I suppose one thing to do is to just go back a bit and get more in the frame and crop later. A lot of the other ones I took were a bit off.
I haven't got used to composing properly with the screen. I suppose one thing to do is to just go back a bit and get more in the frame and crop later. A lot of the other ones I took were a bit off.
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I like the way the shutter comes into the corner.
I hope you don't mind just playing around with gimp a bit and messing around with Curves. Changes the focus from the angles to the contrast between light and dark.
I hope you don't mind just playing around with gimp a bit and messing around with Curves. Changes the focus from the angles to the contrast between light and dark.
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It's like God's vagina!
I got some pics to put up to for some feedback.
The leaves/trees were taken whilst waiting in a 4 hour long cue trying to get down to my bros house and the motorway was shut down. Autumn was in full swing and the colours looked nice, so open the car window and pointed me camera out.
The very white, ghosty one was shot in my office, and just turned out like that, don't know how, but it kinda looks cool.
And the buildings pic is from my/Lauras balcony, just trying some settings out on me camera.
The leaves/trees were taken whilst waiting in a 4 hour long cue trying to get down to my bros house and the motorway was shut down. Autumn was in full swing and the colours looked nice, so open the car window and pointed me camera out.
The very white, ghosty one was shot in my office, and just turned out like that, don't know how, but it kinda looks cool.
And the buildings pic is from my/Lauras balcony, just trying some settings out on me camera.
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It's like God's vagina!