PHOTOGENOCIDE

Sheri

I stole the title from shake.

ViolenceMan

This would be something I hang on my wall.

hint hint

Sheri

I am really dense and do not get hints very well.

ViolenceMan

DRAW ME THE DAMN PICTURE!

Ha, ha no, I'm kidding. That aside, what kind of rules do you have to follow when using a camera? Are there certain areas or object you would want to focus on?

Nucsh

Oh hey you perfectly captured my shitty tiedown skills. XD

Sheri

Man, talk about a complicated question. Could you be any more specific as to what, exactly, you are asking?

Gafoto

I don't get it

master_shake

olol! Mah titlez!

Sheri

That's a great self-portrait, shake. It's always great to include what you love. My only issue is the third guitar seems to come out of your head. Might have moved it over a little, or moved yourself over a little. But it's really a minor thing. :^:

Virum

I have an assortment of all kinds of blades. 8)

ViolenceMan

Sheri wrote:

Man, talk about a complicated question. Could you be any more specific as to what, exactly, you are asking?

Okay, well lets say I wanted to go take a picture ooooffff... lets say my car (Black and Silver 2001 Dodge Durango), and I wanted to have that really close up look with the blurry background (such as your first photo). What kind of rules or precedure would I have to follow to get that kind of high quality look?

Virum

This might help you out.

The blur effect is depth of field, I think the above link has something on that.

Basically, you need an SLR camera.

Gafoto

master_shake

One more!





violenceman << MESSAGE
Isolation of subject through Depth of Field relates to the how close you are to your subject and the focal length and aperture of your lens. If you look up "depth of field calculator" in google or something, you can usually find something to help give you an approxomation of how much stuff is going to be in focus.

I don't know what kind of camera your dealing with, but I'm going to guess it's a compact digital camera, or something along those lines. For something like that, you probably want to crank your aperature all the way open, and find a place for the vehicle that doesn't have anything nearby in the background. The nice thing about cars is that they go places. Take it someplace with a nice non-distracting background and you'll be able to keep the car sharp and blur out a distant background to get some decent isolation.

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Topher587

Master Shake, what is your secret to photographing animals?

Mine are always moving and my shots wind up blurry out of focus. Do you use a distraction or are you just able to adjust for these kinds of things quicker than I am?

master_shake

Topher587 wrote:

Master Shake, what is your secret to photographing animals?

How did you ever get so awesome?

In short... I cheated in these ones and used a flash shot through an umbrella.

Usually I just bump my ISO and shoot wide apertures. With animals I just shoot faster shutters than I need to.

Topher587

master_shake wrote:

Topher587 wrote:

Master Shake, what is your secret to photographing animals?

How did you ever get so awesome?

In short... I cheated in these ones and used a flash shot through an umbrella.

Usually I just bump my ISO and shoot wide apertures. With animals I just shoot faster shutters than I need to.

I have not tried playing with lighting a whole lot, and I'm sure it's more than obvious. Where do you put this umbrella/flash contraption? I am guessing it's not directly behind you otherwise there would be a giant shadow of you or of the camera and tripod in the way.

I'm gonna guess that its something simple that if I did it, it would make a lot more sense than if I just thought about it.

Sheri

Flute flute lol

Abracadaniel

Holy crap.

Neato.

3rd down I like.

Tam

Sheri, you simply must do one of the instrument shots with a gittawr.

Eh...first timer. Help me out.

Virum

Tam, that sky is gorgeous. It looks like a matt painting actually.

StudioZEL

These are pictures of me, when I noticed the way I can frown with my face...

Astorite

Funky fotos folks.

Edit: Zel, that's ridiculous. And by ridiculous, I mean lol.


Beer.

Sheri

Tam wrote:

Sheri, you simply must do one of the instrument shots with a gittawr.

Maybe. I have an acoustic I could shoot.

Sheri

I went to the zoo today.



More after I edit the billion other photos I should have edited in the past two weeks.

Agent Cooper

That is brilliant.

Virum

Sheri wrote:

I went to the zoo today.



More after I edit the billion other photos I should have edited in the past two weeks.

Cause you were at the bottom.

I love it.

Gafoto

sorry sheri, the shadow on its face bothers me

The Family Dog

bsjezz

So my dad's the worst gift-buyer in the history of the world, and for my birthday this year he got me some kinf of fashion dog tags. Huh? I mean I guess they look cool enough but I'm not a fucking Chav. Oh well. Not wanting them to go wasted I took some photos.

Sir Peechizworth

Virum wrote:

Sheri wrote:

I went to the zoo today.

image

More after I edit the billion other photos I should have edited in the past two weeks.

Cause you were at the bottom.

I love it.

KITTY!

Darken Rahl

Portraiture!!





Weirdness!!

Staleghoti

ooooo neat

Grifter

Went to St. Louis recently.



They have a big arch there.

Also...



ZOMG NAKED CAT PETTING!!!!

master_shake

Tweaked_Bat_

Great shots here from everyone. Now I must go out and take some photos of my own

Sheri

Yet more Philoctetes.

saltiness

Is that a handgun?

Sheri

Yes.

I didn't watch the play.

I am not really sure what a handgun has to do with a Greek play.

Gafoto

That is seriously confusing. Why is the gimp shooting the guy with the arrows.

superglue

Gafoto wrote:

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That is seriously confusing. Why is the gimp shooting the guy with the arrows.

Because the dude with the arrows is taking a gander up his Mistress's frock 2 stories up. Can't you tell?

Staleghoti