The photography thread

[CatharsisStudios]

 

[Joematthews]

First day with the EOS1000D I brought for christmas

 

[setyouranchor]

I'm no photographer, but I have a nifty iPhone app

All taken on a holiday to a cottage, in the hills of North Wales

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, Hipstamatic.

 

[setyouranchor]

Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, Hipstamatic.

Instagram

I like it!

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Instagram

I like it!

Ah! It's just that a friend of mine has gone mad about Hipstamatic lately

 

[Sickan]

I love me some havrefras.

 

[StefTD]

@setyouranchor:
Now all you have to do is write something in Helvetica on those pics
doesn't matter what it says but you will be in Hipsterheaven than

 

[setyouranchor]

@setyouranchor:
Now all you have to do is write something in Helvetica on those pics
doesn't matter what it says but you will be in Hipsterheaven than

Something along the lines of... *says in sexy/dreamy voice* "Forever Young"

 

[StefTD]

doesn't matter, you could write quotes from hipsterhitler.com
saw a pic once, that looked a bit like yours that said something like:
"look, I wrote something in Helvetica on this image and 90% of the people
looking at it will think it's cool"
there are a few pics like that out there and they're so true.

But I still love Helvetica

 

[Ermz]

Thanks for the advice guys. I may look into the 50mm f1.8 lens. What is the next lowest cost decent zoom lens one might want to look, as a further option? 50mm seems a fair bit restrictive in tighter spaces. Also, what's a good carry case to get for the 550D and any extra lenses?

I'm still just shooting with the stock 550D lens, so nothing great, but some shots from the last session:

 

[Jevil]

Ermin, I'm a noob, but I'd say that your pics are very nice light-balanced... the third one coulbe be better without the flip-flops, haha!

I'm also trying to get another len for my 550D.

 

[kramer1309]

my new lens (cant afford a dslr yet)!

A couple from the hills..

 

[arv_foh]

Thanks for the advice guys. I may look into the 50mm f1.8 lens. What is the next lowest cost decent zoom lens one might want to look, as a further option? 50mm seems a fair bit restrictive in tighter spaces. Also, what's a good carry case to get for the 550D and any extra lenses?

There honestly isn't a such thing as a low light, cheap zoom. Any zoom that stops down to 2.8 all the way through the zoom range is gonna be $1000+ unless you look into cheaper lens brands like Tamron and Sigma. If you want something that is gonna work for everything get the Canon 28mm f/2.8. If you need to zoom you can always walk forwards If you do want a zoom get the 18-200 f/3.5, no low light factor but it is pretty cheap (for a zoom) and it covers a wide range from wide angle to medium-long zoom.

The best bags, in my opinion, are the ones from Thinktank Photo. Tamrac makes pretty good bags too, I had one for a long time before I outgrew it.

 

[Ermz]

Cool, thanks for all the advice. I've bought the Cannon 50mm 1.8 II lens. Will look into those bags.

Meant to ask... what should I go about learning when it comes to post-processing photos? Is there a certain filter bank on Photoshop I should get, are there any principles and shit I should read up on somewhere?

I like shooting black and white... but I'd also like to learn how to manipulate color photos to make them more vivid or dreary.

So far I'm mostly just playing with brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness.

 

[Jevil]

I like shooting black and white... but I'd also like to learn how to manipulate color photos to make them more vivid or dreary./QUOTE]

Shoot in raw and use the Digital Photo Professional that comes with Canon cameras, it is awesome.

 

[arv_foh]

Photoshop man, nothing else compares. Gimp is free, and has a template to make it like PS, but when I tried to use it all it did was crash.

 

[guitarguru777]

Yup Photoshop is the ONLY option imho

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Some shots from last Halloween that I did with the new 60D.... This camera is really great in low light! Sorry for the late post, but I've been busy as hell!

 

[Jevil]

Here are my best pics, shooted with Canon G10 and Canon 550D.
Some of them have post processing.