here is a thread about photography

Knob

couple months ago i dropped too much money on an actual camera instead of the shitty 3 year old point and shoot that i had

i been messing with it a lot lately and kind of have a hankering to talk about photography

also i have shitloads of questions

here is an artsy picture i took

Defender

SNACK FRIDGE

Kovak

needs more border

Javen

I've been toying around with the idea of buying a decent camera that takes decent pictures.

But then again I've also been toying around with the idea of not spending lots of money and shit on things that I likely won't use.

So I'm at a pretty big impasse.

Ubik

This thread about pornography does not deliver the goods

Carl with a K

i really want a good camera but im broke also i cant take good pictures

Knob

oh dang, i thought i put an artsy fartsy border on it

okay questions

how the hell do i find out what kind of lens i have, and what kinds of lenses should i look at getting

BusterK

You should definately get a fish-eye lens
Everything looks cooler through a fish-eye lens

As7

I am.....so tempted to camwhore right now but I will resisit.

Knob

you have to be a liscensed skateboard photographer to buy a fisheye lens

Kovak

i use smear my lens in fish eyes

AHH!

#pipe

Knob wrote: »

oh dang, i thought i put an artsy fartsy border on it

okay questions

how the hell do i find out what kind of lens i have, and what kinds of lenses should i look at getting

what kind of camera do you have?
most lenses are designed to fit specific makes of camera.

also:

Knob

that is terrible photography

IHasABucket

AHH! wrote: »

I'm rownry, oh so rownry....

Kovak

but it has a border knob

yourclothes

i think if i had a better camera than my brother's point and shoot digital, i could take better ones, but probably not

Knob

#pipe wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

oh dang, i thought i put an artsy fartsy border on it

okay questions

how the hell do i find out what kind of lens i have, and what kinds of lenses should i look at getting

what kind of camera do you have?
most lenses are designed to fit specific makes of camera.

canon eos rebel

i have a page bookmarked that has a shitload of lenses that will work for them

but i don't know what you get out of different kinds of lenses

i know a macro lens lets you focus on superclose shit

but beyond that i'm lost

AHH!

Ol' Sparky

i read this as "here's a thread about pornography"

i am sorely disappointed

Knob

TheKovakistani wrote: »

but it has a border knob

i mean the bathroom girls

pipes is pretty rad

BusterK

I hope this turns into a creepy pictures of abandoned buildings thread

Calamity Jane

AHH! wrote: »

Here lurks the Ghost of Donuts Past

#pipe

Knob wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

oh dang, i thought i put an artsy fartsy border on it

okay questions

how the hell do i find out what kind of lens i have, and what kinds of lenses should i look at getting

what kind of camera do you have?
most lenses are designed to fit specific makes of camera.

canon eos rebel

i have a page bookmarked that has a shitload of lenses that will work for them

but i don't know what you get out of different kinds of lenses

i know a macro lens lets you focus on superclose shit

but beyond that i'm lost

oh I've got effectively the same camera in 35mm.

If you're gonna buy say two lenses to compliment the one that came with it, which I'm assuming was a 35mm-80mm mid range zoom, I'd suggest a good fixed focal length wide angle and, depending on how you would like to shoot, a longer focal length zoom lens, say a 200mm, or a macro.

yourclothes

explain what those words mean pipe

prz

Carl with a K

that picture is incredible

#pipe

My next camera purchase will probably be a fixed focal length portrait lens.
they're designed specifically to compress and accentuate facial features with a crazy wide aperture to blur the background.

Knob

i like wide aperatures

is there any reason to not crank the aperature as wide as you can

other than for like landscape photography or something

Knob

because really, shallow depths of field look so good

B.C.

I've got some photos that were taken during vacation.
But goddammit photobucket is being retarded, and won't let me get them below 500K.

#pipe

thinevestments wrote: »

explain what those words mean pipe

prz

I'll try.

Focal length is the amount of zoom something has. I haven't studyed photography formally, but I think the measurement is the distance of the focal lens from the film. A zoom lens will always be specified as a xmm-ymm focal length, x being the widest focus (the least zoomed, so you can pick up more things to your left and right) and y the tightest focus (the most zoomed).

A fixed focal length lens has no zoom function, but can have other features a zoom lens doesn't, and if it's really wide you can cram a whole bunch of foreground into the shot. Fisheye goes past wide angle, with a convex lex to capture more that 180 degrees, but it warps the image.

Knob

apparently my one lens is 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

Rankenphile

bonk

hey bonk

Calamity Jane

mmm...

Hunter S. Thompson

#pipe

Knob wrote: »

i like wide aperatures

is there any reason to not crank the aperature as wide as you can

other than for like landscape photography or something

you should totally pick up a portrait lens, they make shallow depth of field so easy.

The wider the aperture, the more light is getting to the film so you need to leave the shutter open for less time to expose properly.
If you want to leave the shutter open a while to blur motion or whatever, the aperture is usually smaller.

yourclothes

i think there was a bob dylan book like that i almost bought once

Knob

Rankenphile wrote: »

bonk

hey bonk

[]

oh my god

do you lock your doors

Tossrock

Knob wrote: »

you have to be a liscensed skateboard photographer to buy a fisheye lens

This is funny because it's true.

Knob

#pipe wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

i like wide aperatures

is there any reason to not crank the aperature as wide as you can

other than for like landscape photography or something

you should totally pick up a portrait lens, they make shallow depth of field so easy.

The wider the aperture, the more light is getting to the film so you need to leave the shutter open for less time to expose properly.
If you want to leave the shutter open a while to blur motion or whatever, the aperture is usually smaller.

yeah i learned myself a bunch about aperature, shutter speed, iso speeds and such

basically right now i'm just a little confused about lenses

Penguin Incarnate

I just got my HD Camcorder.

It is pretty fucking-boner-making, guys. It is a maker of boners.

Rankenphile

some photos I took on my little vacation this weekend

oregon coast is tenrad



this beach was the perfectest beach ever



lolartfag