Official BeyondUnreal Photography Thread

[das_ben]

But I like it.

 

[IronMonkey]

You're shooting at an ISO much higher than necessary. Can you control that with your G3, or is it all auto? The quality could've been much higher with a lower ISO.

Just to note that your comment has made me re-evaluate how much and where I apply noise reduction.

I've been experimenting with various settings with the result that I'm now applying more noise reduction on extraction from RAW (previously zero or very little).

Thanks for pointing out the Emperor's New Clothes.

 

[JohnDoe641]

Just to note that your comment has made me re-evaluate how much and where I apply noise reduction.

I've been experimenting with various settings with the result that I'm now applying more noise reduction on extraction from RAW (previously zero or very little).

Thanks for pointing out the Emperor's New Clothes.

What he fails to mention is that lowering the ISO will change the fstop and shutter speed if the camera is on full dummy mode. So just be careful with lowering the ISO, you may get more blurry images because you're used to much higher shutter speeds and more shallow dof because the aperture needs to be much lower to get the same amount of light.

If you're using it in manual mode, then just adjust accordingly and you'll be fine. I tend to run use Aperture dummy mode so I can control my DOF and let the D300 take care of the shutter speed. I leave my ISO at 200 simply because the lens' I have all open to 2.0 or 1.8 so I have no problems getting enough light even at dusk so an ISO of 200 is fine for 99.9% of the time.

 

[IronMonkey]

What he fails to mention is that lowering the ISO will change the fstop and shutter speed if the camera is on full dummy mode. So just be careful with lowering the ISO, you may get more blurry images because you're used to much higher shutter speeds and more shallow dof because the aperture needs to be much lower to get the same amount of light.

If you're using it in manual mode, then just adjust accordingly and you'll be fine. I tend to run use Aperture dummy mode so I can control my DOF and let the D300 take care of the shutter speed. I leave my ISO at 200 simply because the lens' I have all open to 2.0 or 1.8 so I have no problems getting enough light even at dusk so an ISO of 200 is fine for 99.9% of the time.

The context was a legitimate observation about noise on a photo taken at ISO 50 and from a tripod!

My habit when I am controlling ISO manually is to force it to 50 unless I need to do otherwise. On auto, the camera heavily favours low ISO over higher shutter speed.

The Powershot G3 does have a very fast lens (for what it is) and is good for F2.0 at the wide-angle end and F3.0 at the telephoto end.

Edit: On full dummy mode it is not possible to set the ISO.

 

[Rambowjo]

What does fast lens mean? I never got that.

 

[JohnDoe641]

The context was a legitimate observation about noise on a photo taken at ISO 50 and from a tripod!

My habit when I am controlling ISO manually is to force it to 50 unless I need to do otherwise. On auto, the camera heavily favours low ISO over higher shutter speed.

The Powershot G3 does have a very fast lens (for what it is) and is good for F2.0 at the wide-angle end and F3.0 at the telephoto end.

Edit: On full dummy mode it is not possible to set the ISO.

2.0 is really fast for a point and shoot! Most p&s I see are 3/3.2 - 3.5 at tele. D:

 

[Israphel]

What does fast lens mean? I never got that.

It means the lens has a wide maximum aperture (say f1.4 or 1.8) and lets a lot of light in so you can use a shorter shutter time.

 

[IronMonkey]

What does fast lens mean? I never got that.

A lens with a wide aperture relative to its focal length so that the relatively large amounts of light per unit area are collected at the sensor (or film as we used to call it). Large amounts of light allow for fast shutter speeds. Hence a "fast" lens.

F stops for a lens are defined as the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of aperture at the light collecting end of the lens.

Roughly (iirc), the intensity of the collected light is proportional to the inverse of the square of the F number. So, every time the F number doubles, the light intensity drops to a quarter of the previous value (and the shutter speed must reduce proportionally)

 

[Rambowjo]

Ah, ok, thanks for the explanations

My lensbaby is really fast then. Can go to 1.0, often shooting at like 1/2000 speed!

 

[JohnDoe641]

lensbaby? :c

 

[Rambowjo]

Lensbaby Composer!



Click for hi-ress.

 

[JohnDoe641]

I googled it and man do those shots hurt my eyes. I couldn't look at such a shallow dof for too long before I start feeling sick. They blur in a lot of those shots are just violent to my eyes and very displeasing. :c

Also, their site says that it opens up to f2, not f1. I was gonna say that I hadn't seen an f1 Aperture on a lens in over 15 years.

 

[Rambowjo]

I'm pretty sure the manual said it was f1 if I completely removed the aperture, but maybe it's f2. Still pretty open.

I really like how the pictures turn out, but I agree that a lot of the pictures are really just a bad picture with crazy blur.

 

[IronMonkey]

I googled it

I not too certain that I want to risk googling a term like "lensbaby"

 

[das_ben]

It was Christopher Street Day in Berlin today.

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Ur so gay (and you don't even like boys).

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[OO7MIKE]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this in the past but here is a link to the IPA photo awards site.

http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/Past_Archives.php

Some of the stuff I don't understand why they won the award... others are clearly deserving. Its not exactly easy browsing. Ctrl + Left click your way to tabbed browsing overload. I lost half my day looking at these photos. If you have the time to kill.. do it! Very inspirational stuff.

 

[das_ben]

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[Rambowjo]

A photo of a friend of mine. He was standing on top of some stairs, where I stood a few steps down. I'm a little annoyed his face is blurry in hi-ress, but all in all I think it's an okay picture
Click for full resolution.

ninja-edit: trying out Mike's frames. I like them!

 

[BillyBadAss]

Shot a photo of the wife the other day. She doesn't like to model for me, so I took advantage of this rare moment.

Haruka

 

[tool]

BBA takes lovely pictures as always.