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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2013 19:01:39 GMT
D50 35/1.8 hand held... has a slight rustic look maybe because it was a hand held composition?  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 6:39:35 GMT
Oh wow! This is such a great shot! Seriously, I love this shot. Is it about half a second? I see the blur from the falling snow so I'm thinking 1/2 to 1 second? Man I love the lighting in the tree branches. Give us some information on the setup.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 9:05:39 GMT
Oh wow! This is such a great shot! Seriously, I love this shot. Is it about half a second? I see the blur from the falling snow so I'm thinking 1/2 to 1 second? Man I love the lighting in the tree branches. Give us some information on the setup. James, that comment boosted my photo ego, thanks! This pic has enough motion in it to make it different from the photo realistic look that we see with the new super duper, crazy high ISO cameras. Because the D50 maxes out at 'only' 1600 ISO and the lens only goes to f1.8 this was the fastest my camera could shoot. Luckily, it wasn't too cold and I wasn't shivering so the things that weren't moving came out fairly sharp.There are a couple street lights just out of frame here and a couple that are behind large branches in the pic that give their light without being bright spots in the pic themselves. (further down the street) To get just the right spot for the camera to hide their location did mean a couple minutes of walking forwards and backwards and side to side to get all the lights out of sight so to speak. Easy enough to get the sun behind one tree trunk and still get a nice composition but with 4 bright points of light it was more of a challenge. Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION Camera Model: NIKON D50 Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8 Image Date: 2013-12-26 02:00:47 +0000 Focal Length: 35.0mm (35mm equivalent: 52mm) Aperture: f/1.8 Exposure Time: 0.040 s (1/25) ISO equiv: 1600 Exposure Bias: none Metering Mode: Matrix Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto) Light Source: Incandescent Flash Fired: No Orientation: Normal Color Space: sRGB GPS Coordinate: undefined, undefined Creator: Charlie Miller Comment: Copyright Charlie Miller ,,2013 Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 Windows |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 15:21:07 GMT
1/25 s shutter speed? Man, was I off in my guess. I love the image and your treatment of it (i.e. framing). A question for you: Don't you have a D300? If so, why do you shoot with the D50?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 16:08:34 GMT
1/25 s shutter speed? Man, was I off in my guess. I love the image and your treatment of it (i.e. framing). A question for you: Don't you have a D300? If so, why do you shoot with the D50? okay maybe off in exact time terms but... you were 100% right in theory! yes I have a D300 the D50 is smaller and easier to use and carry about... and image wise the D50 has cleaner files at 200 ISO. Of course it's only 6 meg so it doesn't record as much detail but as long as I don't crop into the pic so much the pics look nicer than the bigger camera's. I have the wrist strap on the D50 that makes one hand shooting possible and easy. The D300 is not so equipped nor would it be as easy to use as the D50 is with a wrist strap. All the bells and whistles that the D300 has doesn't really affect the RAW files... and since I shoot everything in RAW, and edit those pics that I like then the fancy smancy JPEG adjustments of the big D300 don't help that much. I haven't even picked up the D300 in 4 months. From memory the thing has what 7 colour modes to shoot in? The D50 is set to colour mode IIIa and that's where it stays. A camera body of mine wanted to shoot some B&W portraits with his D7000 (love that camera!!!)so he set the camera to shoot monochrome. I'd never do that because when I convert a colour pic to B&W the colour slider filter lets you adjust what is to accentuated in the finished B&W. The in camera B&W monochrome mode shoots with something in the green filter range. But if you want the Ansel dark sky look what are you gonna do when the camera throws away your chance to do a red filter dark sky filter treatment of the colour photo? So anyway, the D50 pics I want to share get edited in PE11 or even Faststone. On the other hand. If, it is an important shoot then the D300 and it's better dynamic range and better high ISO and better flash control will be the camera I'd use. Oh and the D50 shutter is much quieter than the D300. Because the D300 can shoot at almost 10 frames per second with the extra battery grip attached, it's mirror mechanism is much more robust than the D50 and it's leisurely 3 fps. So the D300 goes fwapp/clunk on each shutter actuation.  And I can feel it shake the camera, it's like someone flipping a mattress over inside the camera. I HATE THAT!  On the other hand the D300 lets me fine tune my lenses so that they focus exactly, exactly where I want them to. When using the 85/1.8 and shooting a head shot, the depth of field could be like a 1/4 inch, or less. So if I want the corner of the eye in focus or the pupil in focus the D300 can pic that out for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 16:21:12 GMT
oh ... you might like to see what the before conversion image looked like.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 16:52:36 GMT
Fascinating... information re D300 versus D50 AND the before conversion image (which reminds me of many of my old Ektochrome shots that have lost their color by degradation. Gotta run.
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Post by skutterbug on Dec 29, 2013 1:58:39 GMT
Beautiful Winter scene...belongs on a Christmas card  |
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Post by donschaeffer on Dec 29, 2013 17:35:27 GMT
Wonderful sharp, graceful photo. Good black and white.
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Post by Chris on Dec 29, 2013 21:41:35 GMT
That's such a beautiful picture,nice work. It would make a great postcard.
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Post by notnow101 on Dec 30, 2013 21:59:01 GMT
Great photos here, i have a D40 and although only 6 megapixels i would pick it over my lumix G2 anyday
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 16:57:13 GMT
Beautiful Winter scene...belongs on a Christmas card hmmm..... but there's no people, you gotta have people in a Christmas landscape. That's a rule, I'm sure or at least it should be. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 17:12:51 GMT
Wonderful sharp, graceful photo. Good black and white. graceful photo. Don you made my day!!!! Sister Wendy, the art critic makes much of the flow in a painting at least she convinced me of the importance of it... like in one of my fav painters Pieter Bruegel's work.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 17:16:38 GMT
That's such a beautiful picture,nice work. It would make a great postcard. awww thanks so much Chris, you're way too kind but you know what? at the time the photo was taken... the atmosphere was magical... it'd make you whisper. the photo is okay, but noting like what is was like to be out in the gentle fall of snow at 2 o'clock in the morning after a Christmas day. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 17:23:08 GMT
Great photos here, i have a D40 and although only 6 megapixels i would pick it over my lumix G2 anyday well thanks for the props notnow yes, the D40 is a little giant of a camera.... it's got a bit better photo quality than my older D50 but who looks at photos with a magnifying glass anyway?  ...this is not my pic... |
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And I can feel it shake the camera, it's like someone flipping a mattress over inside the camera. I HATE THAT! 
