thanks dude im kinda new to the whole picture taking as a form of art thing, i only have a digital camera and a little tripod but ive had a lot of fun skating taking pics so far so ill be posting a lot more stuff here now

 

probably the best tip i've been given about photography is:
Never shoot in auto.


it's made it so much more fun, theres 1000's of ways you can take a picture of one thing just simply by changing the various setting. Get to know your camera, learn what ISO, WB, F-stop and Shutter Speed are. Then go out and have fun with all of it.

Shooting in auto is like jerking off, shooting in manual is like getting laid. they're both good, the second one is just so much better.


and... hit up my flickr flickr.com/einsamflicks

 

RAW is the best way to edit any photo

 

damn cuh looks like yall *****s hang out in paradise richy rich *****s

 

I use an external flash it doesn't need to be remotely fired because its such a long exposure you can fire it at any time you want. If your getting a wide angle I would move away from the sigma 10-20 and get the tokina 12-24 purely because of the build quality. I've heard bad things aobut the quality of the sigma lenses. I have the tokina 12-24 and I love it.

 

yeah I have rich jewish friends.

 

i personally find Raw to be much more effort than it's worth.
i shoot high quality jpeg usually

 

RAW is just a trend. it just gives people more opportunities to fix the photograph after they exposed it poorly in the first place.

 

I shoot raw mainly because I can set the white balance after downloading the files, and also to cheat the exposure

 

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You can do this with JPEG, perhaps not as well, but well enough. And besides as robby P said this should really be set beforehand on the camera.

 

was gunna photoshop the 2nd ditchlight on this one, but it looked too fake.





an older flick from when i had a better camera




anyone know any tricks to fix shit like this?^ when i zoom in on this camera the quality gets really shitty..

 

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fucking around with Lightroom thanks AK.

 

snap: are you using digital zoom on the camera, that may be the problem.

 

yeah its a simple point and shoot. not too many settings on it unfortunatly. but it gets the flicks in

 

that is all

 

Raw is hardly a trend.. If you've ever made any black and white prints you would know that you play around with exposure, burning, dodging ect while making the print. So why would you not want the same techniques applied to digital while making an image? I say the same thing when people hate on photoshop, its not like its going to make a bad picture any better...

 

the lightning pic was shot handheld. it was a while ago so I forget what the shutter speed was, but i took about 200 pics trying to catch lightning and got about 4 good shots

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