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The Photography Thread

You have a good side!?! ;)

The flower does indeed look glittery - pollen perhaps? Would explain the hayfever.

I particularly like the lighting in the shroomy one too :). Although I suppose you can't really be congratulated on the quality of sunlight...
 
TheSpade said:
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I like that one, it looks like an exclamation mark.

I finally caved in and decided to get my camera today. (Just to recap, it's this one):
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The guy in the shop fannied about for a bit, then told me they were out of stock. Q: So why keep the empty box in the window?. :X

Anyway, he phoned another store and he's gonna sort me one out for tomorrow. :)
 
Nice. :)

I'm making everyone who posts in here give me some tips / advice on taking good photos, it's your turn. ;)
 
Ok. :)

From looking at all the pics you've posted, I noticed that you put your subjects slap bang in the middle of the composition. It's always 'technically' better to put you subject a third of the way in instead. It helps to draw the eye through the picture.
 
I don't even know what it means but I'll enjoy it all the same.

I plan to drop the word "schadenfreude" which I discovered the other day into conversation sometime soon and baffle everyone. :D
 
tribal girl said:
Ok. :)

From looking at all the pics you've posted, I noticed that you put your subjects slap bang in the middle of the composition. It's always 'technically' better to put you subject a third of the way in instead. It draws the eye through the picture.
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OK I think I get what you mean. Next time I take photos I'll try it and let you see them, you can tell me if they are OK. :)
 
Yes battery charged is an essential. I'll need to make sure of that in Europe especially.
 
tribal girl said:
Ok. :)

From looking at all the pics you've posted, I noticed that you put your subjects slap bang in the middle of the composition. It's always 'technically' better to put you subject a third of the way in instead. It helps to draw the eye through the picture.
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It's known as the Golden Section. Basically you divide the frame into thirds - like a naughts and crosses board and place your subject at the confluence of any two lines. It is a quick way to get a "professional" look to your compositions but, as ever, there's a time and place. Sometimes a subject slap-bang in the centre is much more effective :).
 
The Kid said:
Brilliant!! Which lens?
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18-135mm AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens.

The other option was the Nikkor AFS 18-55mm VR lens, but I figured I'd get more use out of the other one.
 
entheogenius said:
Sometimes a subject slap-bang in the centre is much more effective :).
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True. :)

But I thought I'd make that my tip, as I guessed that Spade wasn't aware of that technique.
 
A good tip indeed :).

Another one, perhaps, is to pay attention to lighting. Many a good picture is spoiled by being too bright around the edges. As a broad rule, the subject should be the brightest part of the image - brightness around the edges distracts the eye and leads it to "fall off" the edge of the picture. The shroomy picture would be a good example of "classic" lighting - except for the sunlight on the left-hand side - takes away from the subject a little. Traditionally, such bright spots would be burned (darkened) in the darkroom (or in Photoshop these days) to keep your eye "in" the frame.

Incidentally, this is not a criticism - just a pernickity example. If the area from the plant on the left to the shadow on the ground were slightly darker, balancing out the darkness on the right, those mushrooms would leap off the screen even more so than they do. Unfortunately I'm not too good at explaining such things...

Anyway, as ever, rules are made to be broken :).

And no, I rarely take my own advice.
 
Just to clarify on that 'Golden Section' tip so what ever I'm taking a photo of should be one third of the way in from the left hand side of the screen and one third of the way down from the top? Are we talking about the centre of the 'thing' I'm taking the photo of or the edge or what? Getting more confused the more I think about it.
 
Spade, do you have a function where you can put a grid on your screen?.

If so, that will help you to compose your pics.
 
I said I was bad at explaining things :|.

Put simply, the "thing" (or subject as poncy phorographer-types like to say ;)) would be placed about a third of the way in from either side (whichever looks best to you) and a third of the way up or down from the top or bottom of the frame (again, whichever looks best to you). It's just a basic rule of thumb but does make an excellent starting point for composition.

Think of the frame as a naughts and crosses board. The "thing" would go on any of the four points where the lines crossover.

And don't get too hung up on classical techinique and how pictures "should" be taken. It's good to know the rules so you can break them effectively, but sometimes a more anarchic approach provides much more interesting results :).

EDIT - I just had a gander at the wiki page on the subject and, if you don't mind trawling through pages of mathematical equations, it explains it pretty well. A bit in-depth, mind. Naughts and crosses boards are simpler :).
 
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Err I'm not sure, battery is charging at the moment so will need to wait until done.
 
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