Dear all,
Having introduced myself and received a warm welcome, I thought it would be time to also put a couple of pictures up to get some opinions please. I have a couple of questions at the same time and have tried to give as much information as possible.
Although I do have Photoshop Elements 11, I have not conducted any post processing on these (other than shrink them to 800 max length).
Picture 1:
10 seconds, F22, ISO 400, 70-300mm lens (119mm focal length recorded)
This was taken with me sat across the room with camera on tripod and tethered to my laptop, using laptop to control camera. Now I seen this one a couple of times now, I think its a bit "yellowy" so how would be best to tackle that?
Image1.jpg
Question - is there a way of minimising the effect of the reflection in the bauble without losing the shine - I mean at present if you zoom in you can see the wife sat on the sofa and me taking the picture - is there a way to lose that, other than kicking the wife out the living room.
Picture 2
Av - Aperture priority, 1/30, F5.6, ISO Auto (3200), 18-55mm Kit lens (focal length 49mm recorded)
Image2.jpg
Picture 3
Av - Aperture priority, 1 second, F20, ISO Auto (3200), 18-55mm kit lens (focal 49mm)
Image3.jpg
Both 2 and 3 - Tripod again, but stood up near fireplace which had the cinnamon sticks on and tree then a few feet back from that in corner of room.
Questions: 1. Whats best, the wider or smaller aperture setting for the cinamon sticks picture for the background tree? I prefer the blurrier look personally but wondered what others thought?
2. (Dumb question sorry) Is using some of the pre-programmed settings (ie Auto, AV priority, TV priority, Others - such as landscape, sports, portrait etc) considered 'cheating'? What I mean is am I cheating myself if I dont use manual settings as much as possible? My personal view is that Im learning by using the settings and also I dont want to miss out on a good picture by spending time looking at the back of the camera all the time setting up but I dont want to post pictures on here that have been done on full auto, taking credit for the settings when it was just pot luck as the camera took over (eg Av priority on the two above). (sorry only two posts and you probably can guess by now - I waffle a little).
Please be gentle but likewise please be honest - this is my first upload and I'm here to gain advice to help improve.
Many thanks in advance.
Andy.
Having introduced myself and received a warm welcome, I thought it would be time to also put a couple of pictures up to get some opinions please. I have a couple of questions at the same time and have tried to give as much information as possible.
Although I do have Photoshop Elements 11, I have not conducted any post processing on these (other than shrink them to 800 max length).
Picture 1:
10 seconds, F22, ISO 400, 70-300mm lens (119mm focal length recorded)
This was taken with me sat across the room with camera on tripod and tethered to my laptop, using laptop to control camera. Now I seen this one a couple of times now, I think its a bit "yellowy" so how would be best to tackle that?
Image1.jpg
Question - is there a way of minimising the effect of the reflection in the bauble without losing the shine - I mean at present if you zoom in you can see the wife sat on the sofa and me taking the picture - is there a way to lose that, other than kicking the wife out the living room.
Picture 2
Av - Aperture priority, 1/30, F5.6, ISO Auto (3200), 18-55mm Kit lens (focal length 49mm recorded)
Image2.jpg
Picture 3
Av - Aperture priority, 1 second, F20, ISO Auto (3200), 18-55mm kit lens (focal 49mm)
Image3.jpg
Both 2 and 3 - Tripod again, but stood up near fireplace which had the cinnamon sticks on and tree then a few feet back from that in corner of room.
Questions: 1. Whats best, the wider or smaller aperture setting for the cinamon sticks picture for the background tree? I prefer the blurrier look personally but wondered what others thought?
2. (Dumb question sorry) Is using some of the pre-programmed settings (ie Auto, AV priority, TV priority, Others - such as landscape, sports, portrait etc) considered 'cheating'? What I mean is am I cheating myself if I dont use manual settings as much as possible? My personal view is that Im learning by using the settings and also I dont want to miss out on a good picture by spending time looking at the back of the camera all the time setting up but I dont want to post pictures on here that have been done on full auto, taking credit for the settings when it was just pot luck as the camera took over (eg Av priority on the two above). (sorry only two posts and you probably can guess by now - I waffle a little).
Please be gentle but likewise please be honest - this is my first upload and I'm here to gain advice to help improve.
Many thanks in advance.
Andy.
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