*Official Photography Thread* (56k warning)

[HybridKyle]

Happy 4th everyone!!




Straight from the camera, have the RAW file i may play with but liked it like this...

[ilovemycb7]

win!

[ilovemycb7]

Oh jose, yeah that is the kit lens at 18mm f/3.5 or something like that.

[samuri88]

win!

lol....thanks bro

[zelseman]

Sorry for sucking...

[ilovemycb7]

fail.

[Macaqueistrong]

My First Photo Shoot

Well this past weekend I finally got a chance to take some pictures of my friends' cars. I would love to get anyones input on them!







Equipment:
Kodak Z1012 IS w/tri-pod
Edited with Photomatix HDR Generator

When I was taking the pictures they seemed to be in focus, once I uploaded them to my computer, they looked blurry.

I did notice that some parts of the car were focused more than others. I had my camera on aperture priority with some pictures at f/2.8 and some at
f/8.0, from what Ive read and please correct me if Im wrong but isnt the lower the f stop # the more the subject is in focus and the background is blurred and the higher the f stop # the subject and the background are more in focus?

[HybridKyle]

You are correct about the aperture...but there is something not right about them, did you shoot 3 exposures for the HDR's? If you did then did you change F stops between the 3 exposures?

The last one is better but they still all look OOF

Post one without any editing...maybe that would help

[zelseman]

fail.

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[Tnwagn]

Yeah man, good shots but you need to figure out why they're coming out so out of focus. That last one looks pretty good though

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We can't see the pictures, they are white boxes that say "Content Protected by User"

[Macaqueistrong]

You are correct about the aperture...but there is something not right about them, did you shoot 3 exposures for the HDR's? If you did then did you change F stops between the 3 exposures?

The last one is better but they still all look OOF

Post one without any editing...maybe that would help

My camera was on exposure bracketing and it only takes 3 at a time, and it can only +/- 1, The f stops stayed the same for the 3 exposures but I changed the f stops when I shot at different angles, it was either f/2.8 or f/8.0 those were the only settings I used along with 10 second timer so I wouldnt make the picture blurry by touching the camera.

Here is one set of exposures:

[ilovemycb7]

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None of the pictures showed for me. It said they were all private.

Sorry... it's not like the pictures were there and I just felt like being a dick. haha.

[ilovemycb7]

And as said pictures are really soft and look out of focus. Something isn't right obviously...

[Macaqueistrong]

I need to take more pictures and mess with it more, its me not knowing how to use my camera

Anyway how was the composition? Were they good angles? What do you think of the background / location?

[HybridKyle]

Yeah, something was not right...they are OOF

I like the comp. and the background is nice too...I would get the car a little bit farther away in the first two, but the third is good. You just need to practice and get the feel for them