photography practice pics *VOTE*

[dragon79]

Hey everybody I decided to try each mode on my camera, and a preset of the tank itself and show you guys the difference it makes in my pictures. Incysor brought this to my attention, so check out my results.

This is in auto mode (incysor, my tank shots in pico 2.5 section were taken with this setting)

This one in "cloudy"

This one in "daylight"

This one in "flourescent"

This one in "incandescent"

This one in "shade"

This one in "speedlight"

The last 3 will be the preset whitebalance against the white gravel of the tank. *incysor told me of this* (it changed it drastically, it looks what it would look like if they were out of the water and under the direct sun, lol)


This one just looks like i have my daylights on only

What does everybody think? I personally think when looking at my tank and how the 50/50's shine on the tank, they look like closer to "shade" or "speedlight" Auto is a big more exxagerated with the blues though as incysor suspected, but not too much. The preset modes although they really detailed as to what they'd look like no actinics, isn't how you would gaze upon them.

on a side note: incysor, i can see how you wanted to eliminate the colors of the light to give the aneomone a natural color of what it would look like, but you know what? Would have worked like a charm tonight, but the anemone move again from the front to the back of the tank. I'll have to wait until it moves again, and I'll photograph it again.

 

[mikeguerrero]

Wow what a difference,

I personally discovered white balance on my S500 and love the natural look. With the auto I picked up too much blue.

Mike

p.s

love you tank, looks so crystal clean, I could stare at it for hours... :smile:

 

[dragon79]

thanks mike

i decreased the time on the lights to 4.5 hours. It doesn't give algae a growing chance I may increase it to 5 or 5.5 and see if it still stays clear. One thing Mike.....those Timex Timers can be buggy. I dont understand but sometimes when it's all preset and then it goes off, sometimes the timer itself resets all back to 12am, and all my saved settings are lost. I'm using a a seperate power strip for just the timers itself. I've already had to return one as Sandra told you, and the replacement has reset once...I added like an ext prong to it to see if it would help and so far so good. Well that's it. Hope you have a good weekend, bye.

 

[mikeguerrero]

One of mine went buggy last night, reseting it self to 12 just like yours. But it was just the new one that I bought last week. All other 4 more great.

Could be a bad set comming through.

Mike

 

[dragon79]

I'm glad to hear it's not just me. Probably a bad shipment or it could be a defect in their product, but like you say, some will not ever have that problem. Like the one in the JBJ has never had a problem. With the Pico, I haven't had the luck to go through the week where it stays working as it should all week. 2 days have passed, so far so good on that new timex, I'll keep ya posted on that, perhaps I'll call ya.

 

[Trogdor]

Personally I would stick with Auto on my camera and then use the RAW format photo. The RAW format is in an uncompressed file format that is pure algorithims (sp) so i can adjust the exposure, saturation, white balance...etc before it is converted into JPG. Ofcourse I am a photographer so that helps...lol In your situation I would stick with the shade mode. The white sections of the rocks are overexposed in all of the photos and so is the sand. If you can increase your shutter speed or increase your apature settings, this will result in a darker photo but you can adjust your brightness and contrast in photoshop later without having completely blown out the details in the sand. Let me know if this is too technical...

 

[incysor]

on a side note: incysor, i can see how you wanted to eliminate the colors of the light to give the aneomone a natural color of what it would look like, but you know what? Would have worked like a charm tonight, but the anemone move again from the front to the back of the tank. I'll have to wait until it moves again, and I'll photograph it again.

:lol: ...That figures. The pics look great BTW. Personally I like the last batch where you set the WB. It's a little overexposed, (means the sand and some of the other highly-lit areas appear too white), but that can be fixed by adjusting other areas of the camera. I'm still learning about all this stuff myself. All the pics look nice and sharp though. Great job.

B

 

[incysor]

Personally I would stick with Auto on my camera and then use the RAW format photo. The RAW format is in an uncompressed file format that is pure algorithims (sp) so i can adjust the exposure, saturation, white balance...etc before it is converted into JPG. Ofcourse I am a photographer so that helps...lol In your situation I would stick with the shade mode. The white sections of the rocks are overexposed in all of the photos and so is the sand. If you can increase your shutter speed or increase your apature settings, this will result in a darker photo but you can adjust your brightness and contrast in photoshop later without having completely blown out the details in the sand. Let me know if this is too technical...

This is getting into a much more technical area though, because you need a software package that can handle the RAW format. Even shooting RAW many of the photographers I know still adjust their WB, exposure, etc.. with the camera which means less time spent in post production. Do you know of any freeware software that'll handle RAW? I haven't seen one mentioned yet, but I haven't gotten into the photography boards nearly as much as I should.

B

 

[Phischy]

Great pics, you're using the S500? I've got an S400 and when I set the WB it goes into Sepia mode. I hate this, I wonder if my camera is damaged?

 

[Trogdor]

This is getting into a much more technical area though, because you need a software package that can handle the RAW format. Even shooting RAW many of the photographers I know still adjust their WB, exposure, etc.. with the camera which means less time spent in post production. Do you know of any freeware software that'll handle RAW? I haven't seen one mentioned yet, but I haven't gotten into the photography boards nearly as much as I should.

B

That is true to a certain degree. Most portrait photographers can adjust their WB with their cameras once and never have to change it for that session. I shoot mainly weddings right now and everything changes with every shot so WB is the last of my worries on the big day...lol

 

[incysor]

Great pics, you're using the S500? I've got an S400 and when I set the WB it goes into Sepia mode. I hate this, I wonder if my camera is damaged?

Actually he's using a Nikon 8700, if I'm remembering correctly.

B

 

[Phischy]

My mistake. I really need an SLR digi.

 

[dragon79]

Cool I'm glad some of you came in to vote and critique which mode was better in my Nikon 8700. I see Shade has been voted on the most....I agree I like that mode. perhaps for now on I'll probably take photos using that mode. As far as my camera goes, it has tons of settings, and much of which I haven't learned yet. incysor, you been like one to push me to learn more about my own camera and have discovered more ways of taking better shots. I haven't learned to changed the aperture or the shutter speeds yet though, it's hard to read that, and also study for some networking material I am trying to certify in.

 

[djconn]

Great little Poll. I will do this with my new camera once I get the new memory card for it. I like the auto and shade modes of yours the best.