Cool spyhop. i wish i had a DSLR. All i have is an SLR-like camera. Couldnt afford the real thing at the time

 

I think gf made one of these threads once, but it's fallen off the forum.
Let's start again.

The point here is, have you taken these photographs yourself? If so then cool, If not then it would be considered another image spam thread. One can watch all photography at deviantART too.

 

Why would I post them if I didn't take them myself?

 

Why would I post them if I didn't take them myself?

what is the mario made up of? and what is the dog's name. What camera do you have?

 

Pixel Blocks. Chewy. Nikon D5000

 

lol chewy, cute name.

 

Nice pics Spy and nice decorative armor :thumb:, we will see more wont we ? ^^

 

Just macro shots? how about something with a little more distance? Say a view from a hill or high building somewhere near you?

 

Nice one Spyhop

Are these images altered in any way, like post processing on PC? I recently started to get into photography as well, despite still being a n00b. These are some pics I made during last year. I think I may have put some of them online before. The last one was made last night, as I heard that the sunset would be something special because of the volcanic ashes in the air coming from Iceland. It happened to be the 1337th picture with this cam ^^

Anyway Spyhop, I really like your sense of colour, such as shown in the picture with the dog. Also, how did you get the bloomish effect in the flower one?

Full resolution

Full resolution

Full resolution

Full resolution

Full resolution

Edit: Hmm, maybe I should resize them, let me know if preferred
Edit: Resized to 400-500kb each

 

definitely prefered, you're gonna murder my connection

 

I'm sorry Schumi, I hope this is a bit better then? There's a 500kb limit, compression sucks after all. Uploaded an extra image as well, as Aided Onslaught let me know he liked it a lot. The last one was a bastard to compress though. Even at a JPG quality of 80, it still hardly fit within the 500kb.

 

Thanks Cid, I was not referring just to my cap btw cuz with 512kbps connection loading also takes quite a while and if pics are too big some just don't get loaded as it times out.

 

Yeah, I understand. Thumbnails would help a lot in such a case. Let me edit the first post just to give people a headsup that a 500kb / pic limit would be appreciated.

 

Nice pictures guys

 

Say a view from a hill or high building somewhere near you?

Edmonton at the end of winter is not very picturesque.

Nice one Spyhop

Are these images altered in any way, like post processing on PC?

I'll sometimes make minor adjustments to blacklevels, colors, exposure, etc in Lightroom or remove some minor artifacting in PS.

I recently started to get into photography as well, despite still being a n00b.

I'm also a noob

These are some pics I made during last year.

:thumb:

Also, how did you get the bloomish effect in the flower one?

Photoshop. Create a duplicate layer. Gaussian blur it a bit, then Overlay it on your background layer.

 

Ah I see. Well it certainly has a nice effect. I'm not good with image editing tools though, I suppose I like my images clean as well. The one with the monochrome background is just another setting in my camera. The sunsets were made using the sunset mode on my cam, the colours are less accurate but it does make things look nicer in most cases.

 

Overlay can be a tad to much sometimes, may i suggest to experiment with soft light as well .

 

I like non photoshop images, using photoshop on a photograph just makes it fake and unrealistic.

 

@Cid
your pictures and imagination is good but I am afraid camera quality doesn't look all that great in many of the shots or may be you were using wrong settings.

 

@Cid
your pictures and imagination is good but I am afraid camera quality doesn't look all that great in many of the shots or may be you were using wrong settings.

Perhaps so, in the end it's "only" a Canon Ixus 110 IS. And while one of the best compact cameras on the market, it's still a compact camera. Getting the focus correctly in macro is always difficult. I'm also not happy about the compression done by the camera, I wish it'd allow for some extra space so that the images would be 5-10MB each, rather than 2-5MB. So I'm waiting for a custom firmware. Until then, I'll get by.

Also, I'm always figuring out which settings to use. When using the "Program" mode, these are my options:
- ISO (always left to auto)
- White balance: (auto, sunlight, cloudy (offers better colours most of the time), tungsten, fluorescent, custom)
- Light metering (evaluative , center weighted avg, spot)

Apart from those, there's nothing advanced to set, so it's really point and click. There's still some presets for the above, such as the sunset, foliage, snowy scene, faces, etc settings. But I'm not a big fan of those either and prefer to get the best settings by selecting the proper white balance.

Anyway, if you can be a bit more specific, it would be very helpful, as I'm always looking to improve the shots

 

Perhaps so, in the end it's "only" a Canon Ixus 110 IS. And while one of the best compact cameras on the market, it's still a compact camera. Getting the focus correctly in macro is always difficult. I'm also not happy about the compression done by the camera, I wish it'd allow for some extra space so that the images would be 5-10MB each, rather than 2-5MB. So I'm waiting for a custom firmware. Until then, I'll get by.

Also, I'm always figuring out which settings to use. When using the "Program" mode, these are my options:
- ISO (always left to auto)
- White balance: (auto, sunlight, cloudy (offers better colours most of the time), tungsten, fluorescent, custom)
- Light metering (evaluative , center weighted avg, spot)

Apart from those, there's nothing advanced to set, so it's really point and click. There's still some presets for the above, such as the sunset, foliage, snowy scene, faces, etc settings. But I'm not a big fan of those either and prefer to get the best settings by selecting the proper white balance.

Anyway, if you can be a bit more specific, it would be very helpful, as I'm always looking to improve the shots

For less grain use the minimum ISO setting. something around 64~80
However this will lead to a dark image.
TO counter that use an F number like F2.5~2.8 so more light gets onto the sensor.
light metering is best left at center weighted average.
Best if you experiment with shutter speeds.

 

TO counter that use an F number like F2.5~2.8 so more light gets onto the sensor.

You can't change the aperture on point and shoots.

 

You can't change the aperture on point and shoots.

lol since when.

 

What point-and-shoots have a manual adjustable aperture? I've never seen one.

 

What point-and-shoots have a manual adjustable aperture? I've never seen one.

maybe you are misunderstanding something.
There is a manual mode in most good point ans shoot cameras. with this you can use different F numbers, shutter speed, ISO setting, etc.