172cup
^ awesome thanks
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Little photography project anyone can try...
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Pic #5 is awesome, the green looks fantastic.
As Pete says, the best way to focus is to stick it in manual focus, move something back and forth (I used my pipette) and look through the viewfinder until you find the right spot, then aim to drip in that general area, shoot about 200 frames and you usually get 3 or 4 good ones!
Loving how popular this is, can't believe how many people have been trying it!
Big thumbs up to anyone who can get a proper crown on top of a bottle of bud..
pmsl, need to do that. Might have to go out and buy a bottle, I don't drink so it will be the first drink I've bought for about 6 years!
172cup
Are most of the pics posted so far 'played with' then? I am starting to see the difference between SLR and compacts quite clearly on these compositions
Some more from me. Still learning. Wish i was half as good as some of you lot.
Not getting the focus right at all. Mostly taken at 1/1600 but can't remember which.
Some more from me. Still learning. Wish i was half as good as some of you lot.
Not getting the focus right at all. Mostly taken at 1/1600 but can't remember which.
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Just the luck of the draw... I was using a baby bottle for the drips and tried different heights.... the crowns were mostly when the drips came from higher and also after several were dropped and the water was "rough" from the previous drips.
I must have had a couple of hundred blank glass shots in the mix too though. lol.
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i found the best way to get focus was to find the centre point of the cup/glass, then hold a coin there and manually focus untill the writing is sharp on the coin. Then take care to drop the drip in the centre, as using f11 i had a pretty crap DOF.
So tempted to waste the rest of this months money on a macro lense, any recomendations. Im fed up with the grainy kit lense.
So tempted to waste the rest of this months money on a macro lense, any recomendations. Im fed up with the grainy kit lense.
How do you mean...in Photoshop? If so then no, mine aren't. Just cropped about 50% and some have a few minor level adjustments to boost the colours a little bit.
Marky_
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Some great photography in this thread!
My quick efforts with a compact point and shoot:
and one where i went a little slide happy with the colour balance
I had a nightmare trying to get it to work at all, then realised i had to use the flash
It's not easy trying to time it right with the extreme delay from pressing the button to anything happening at the shutter. Stupidly difficult to get it to focus and no ability to choose shutter speed or aperture
My quick efforts with a compact point and shoot:
and one where i went a little slide happy with the colour balance
I had a nightmare trying to get it to work at all, then realised i had to use the flash
It's not easy trying to time it right with the extreme delay from pressing the button to anything happening at the shutter. Stupidly difficult to get it to focus and no ability to choose shutter speed or aperture
Amazing efforts from compact cameras, just goes to show it's not the equipment...
Anyone got some ideas on what we could do for the first "Cliosport Photography Challenge"? Hard trying to think of something that needs the absolute basic minimum of equipment, is open to us all and can be done in or near home.
Anyone got some ideas on what we could do for the first "Cliosport Photography Challenge"? Hard trying to think of something that needs the absolute basic minimum of equipment, is open to us all and can be done in or near home.
hehe, there isn't a single room in this house that I can access a switched-on lightbulb without getting on a stepladder They are all dull as hell energy saving ones now anyway.
Another suggestion..."Kitchen"
My reasons? imo the hardest thing to do as a 'photographer' is the photograph things that are familiar to you. You can take thousands of pics abroad, not because it's any more or less photogenic than anywhere else, but because it's quirky/different/interesting to you, even a roadsign abroad is interesting. So with that in mind, get an awesome shot from your kitchen, it can be anything as long you took it in the kitchen and can be easily identifiable as something you would normally associate with a kitchen.
They are all dull as hell energy saving ones now anyway.Another suggestion..."Kitchen"
My reasons? imo the hardest thing to do as a 'photographer' is the photograph things that are familiar to you. You can take thousands of pics abroad, not because it's any more or less photogenic than anywhere else, but because it's quirky/different/interesting to you, even a roadsign abroad is interesting. So with that in mind, get an awesome shot from your kitchen, it can be anything as long you took it in the kitchen and can be easily identifiable as something you would normally associate with a kitchen.
172cup
start a different thread for a new project, and place link to it in here
Interesting idea! A new topic each week? I am sure there are plenty of ideas which will come in once people start getting into this. It is always nice to have a critical eye cast over your pics too.
Clart
ClioSport Club Member
i think we should follow the avforums lead and have a monthly (or weekly)photography competition. At the end of the month votes are cast (only by those who have entered) the winner gets to pick the next months subject and can't win it again within a certain number of months (lets say 3)
RS 172
Agreed. Competitions are great as they get people snapping things they normally wouldnt do. Give it a go I say.
Marky_
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The challenge sounds like a good idea. I probably won't take part often though. My artistic ideas are very limited to say the least
Anyway had a boring night so i thought i'd try some more. Got a much improved 2nd set (most of which didn't need any colour enhancment)
Crown
Anyway had a boring night so i thought i'd try some more. Got a much improved 2nd set (most of which didn't need any colour enhancment
)Crown
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