help me take better pictures

Tangency said:
Nice photos.




You could try physically getting closer to the fence and using a larger aperture to blur out the foreground and focus on the subject. You ideally want as much separation between the subject and foreground as possible.
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I'll try that. Thanks for the tip!
 
I forgot to ask earlier, whats the difference between editing a JPEG vs RAW in lightroom? Is it only for the picture quality if you decide to expand the picture for framing? I edited a few pictures in JPEG using lightroom and they turned out about the same as editing RAW picture. Maybe I am missing something?
 
kratos1028 said:
I forgot to ask earlier, whats the difference between editing a JPEG vs RAW in lightroom? Is it only for the picture quality if you decide to expand the picture for framing? I edited a few pictures in JPEG using lightroom and they turned out about the same as editing RAW picture. Maybe I am missing something?
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A JPEG file is what your camera saves as after putting in values to the raw pic, for example like color temperature, color tint, color saturation (to an extent)

So a JPEG picture gives you option to change values of say x,y, z
A raw file gives you the option to change the values of x,y, z and also a,b,c

A b c x y z being things like temp, tint, ... In a JPEG values of a b c are set by camera before saving it to the card
 
How is this one for the 3rds rule? Caught a hummingbird relaxing on a branch




And maybe someone can help me with this. How do you take pictures of fast moving things like cars or birds and make them look still but at the same time clear? I tried to do that with a humming bird feeding and this is how it came out. I had the settings set to program mode and Aperture mode.

 
Whoa humming birds actually land . Tgey r super cool. Idk if u want to remove fence that kitty looks hungry
 
kratos1028 said:
How is this one for the 3rds rule? Caught a hummingbird relaxing on a branch
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Just a suggestion for composition.... for the rule of thirds try to keep your subject from looking outside of the frame but rather across it.

For example -- original cropped:
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recomposed with thirds
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minus the guides
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whoa these pictures are spectacular! you really just use the stock lens for that first macro shot? what settings are you using? whenever i try to take pictures, and i have T5i so it's very similar to yours, with the stock lens it just comes out blurry and saturated in blue...please share some tips!
 
Thanks. And yes, I just use the stock lens for taking macro shots and I have it set to program mode with manual focus.

Here are a few fire pictures I tried to take. Kind of hard to focus on fire without a solid object within or near it but I tried my best.





 
This may be a noob question but is it possible to get subjects at differing depths in focus at the same time, all at the same time?
 
Ajmal C said:
This may be a noob question but is it possible to get subjects at differing depths in focus at the same time, all at the same time?
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Yes you can. You have to lower aperture i think, or make it higher. its one of them, I can't remember which one lol. Maybe someone can verify this.
 
The aperture is the opening hole that allows light in right?
Yeah is it bigger or smaller? My guess is that its bigger means more depth of focus.

Wonder if my regular slim digital has that function lol, proly not
 
@kratos 1028, Beautiful fire pics by the way you seem to have it nicely in focus.

Been countless bonfires where I failed miserably to get it in focus
 
Ajmal C said:
The aperture is the opening hole that allows light in right?
Yeah is it bigger or smaller? My guess is that its bigger means more depth of focus.

Wonder if my regular slim digital has that function lol, proly not
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I always have to double check that before I take the picture. I can't seem to remember if its higher number or lower number aperture but you may be right. Bigger number means more depth of focus.
 
higher the number of f stop smaller the aperture ( yes the opening hole)

Smaller the aperture ( for example camera says F9) - more things will be in focus but at the same time the amount of light entering the camera is lesser so very bad focus (comparitively )

when bigger aperture (for instance camera says F1.8 or F3.2) bigger the hole that allows the light and hence much better and sharper focus but at the same time depth of field is lesser.

so if you want to take a picture of everyone in the room then it would be bigger f stop ( F9, translates to smaller aperture and lesser sharp picture), if you want to take a pic of one person in a room full of ppl then smaller f stop ( f1.8 translates to bigger aperture) and hence sharper picture.

Smaller F stops means more complicated and quality lens which is why a 50mm F1.4 is much more expensive than a 50mm F6 ( if one of that sort exists)
hope it helps
 
Just amazing what practice and knowing your camera can do goes a long way.. Great pictures buddy!!!!

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tinman said:
higher the number of f stop smaller the aperture ( yes the opening hole)

Smaller the aperture ( for example camera says F9) - more things will be in focus but at the same time the amount of light entering the camera is lesser so very bad focus (comparitively )

when bigger aperture (for instance camera says F1.8 or F3.2) bigger the hole that allows the light and hence much better and sharper focus but at the same time depth of field is lesser.

so if you want to take a picture of everyone in the room then it would be bigger f stop ( F9, translates to smaller aperture and lesser sharp picture), if you want to take a pic of one person in a room full of ppl then smaller f stop ( f1.8 translates to bigger aperture) and hence sharper picture.

Smaller F stops means more complicated and quality lens which is why a 50mm F1.4 is much more expensive than a 50mm F6 ( if one of that sort exists)
hope it helps
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So it's a trade off between, Focus and depth. Good to know, thanks. I am so going to fiddle around with F stop now.
 
Back to editing JPEG vs raw... Raw files hold all of the information collected by the sensor on your camera without any affects added to them. Think of them as a negative of the 35mm days. Raw files are much larger in size than JPEG, my raw files are 25mb each with the camera I use. Raw files hold all of the information the sensor collected when you made your exposer.

JPEG's add all type of affects based on the camera manufacture algorithms i.e. sharpness, white balance, contrast ect... Then it compresses the file at about 10:1 ratio. I could go on and on with this but I'll sum it up. Editing differences raw vs JPEG, you will always be able to do more, fine tune and edit raw files. Theres simply more information to work with and more options.

I hope i didn't come off like raw is superior than JPEG, because thats not true. Just trying to answer your question. I think your pictures look great BTW.
 
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