.bin Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Just opened my new camera, and the first ever picture taken was............ Shot in RAW, and understand the balances are off and it's blurry, but I was fiddling with some settings being my first shot with a DSLR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witalit Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Cool hopefully many more to come! Slight over exposed in the centre as you mentioned and some kind of shadow I guess from the camera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argote Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 My first photos with my DSLR were nothing special either. You'll have to go trhough some of them to "get it" and start getting what you want from your camera. In other words: practice, practice, practice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chconline Veteran Posted February 23, 2011 Veteran Share Posted February 23, 2011 Turn the flash off or using an external flash :p Welcome to the club. Who needs an education/car/house. Spend it all on photography equipment :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witalit Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Turn the flash off or using an external flash :p Welcome to the club. Who needs an education/car/house. Spend it all on photography equipment :laugh: Exactly not about a mortgage! All about a new lens :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.bin Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Thanks guys. I've just started to use the manual function on my camera to fiddle with exposures and apertures. Hopefully more to come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argote Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Aperture and Speed Priority modes are your friend early on :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chconline Veteran Posted February 24, 2011 Veteran Share Posted February 24, 2011 Meh, for most photos people take, you can do full automatic and it would turn out really well... why spend 20 minutes adjusting every setting to get the same results? (However there are times where it is appropriate to adjust quite literally everything in M down to the amount flash power... woot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 why take in automatic, when A or S will give you far better results, and more importantly the result you want, with no time to adjust. if you're gonna shoot auto, get a point and shoot or a bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maash Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 opinion: Don't take photos with your camera built in flash, it really doesn't justify your SLR. invest in a decent external flash, you will find out v soon its really worth it Just opened my new camera, and the first ever picture taken was............ Shot in RAW, and understand the balances are off and it's blurry, but I was fiddling with some settings being my first shot with a DSLR here is another tip: move your DSLR settings to M, half press the shooting button and focus on the subject, notice the exposure bar, scroll the dot or line on it to between 0 and -0.3 and you will thank me the rest of your life. Oh and make sure your White balance is never auto, set it to the conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witalit Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 why take in automatic, when A or S will give you far better results, and more importantly the result you want, with no time to adjust. if you're gonna shoot auto, get a point and shoot or a bridge. Agreed. Automatic is for lazy people :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maash Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Agreed. Automatic is for lazy people :D true, if you are going to use Automatic its better to buy a Canon G11 Aperture and Speed Priority modes are your friend early on :) for some reason A and S modes still don't do it for me, M for real quality, i know it takes time to get everything in order but worth it in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remus_lupin Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 here is another tip: move your DSLR settings to M, half press the shooting button and focus on the subject, notice the exposure bar, scroll the dot or line on it to between 0 and -0.3 and you will thank me the rest of your life. Oh and make sure your White balance is never auto, set it to the conditions Coming from someone who has shot thousands upon thousands upon thousands of photos... as long as your shooting RAW (which he is) why would you set your WB to the conditions... Auto more often than not is PERFECT. My WB has never left auto, maybe 1/100 photos I need to adjust because I could manually make the WB a bit better than auto. If you weren't shooting RAW than yeah WB is a big deal... However, if you are going to be shooting in the same lighting conditions for a while then sure, why not just go manual WB, but then you may forget to change it back. Just leave it auto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maash Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Coming from someone who has shot thousands upon thousands upon thousands of photos... as long as your shooting RAW (which he is) why would you set your WB to the conditions... Auto more often than not is PERFECT. My WB has never left auto, maybe 1/100 photos I need to adjust because I could manually make the WB a bit better than auto. If you weren't shooting RAW than yeah WB is a big deal... However, if you are going to be shooting in the same lighting conditions for a while then sure, why not just go manual WB, but then you may forget to change it back. Just leave it auto. i noticed you have a nikon, they have a better much AWB than Canon. just talking from experience with my canon. I guess you are right about RAW but thats only if you are just willing to shoot raw and then spending hours editing your pictures to make sure the output from RAW is perfect (post adobe). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remus_lupin Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 i noticed you have a nikon, they have a better much AWB than Canon. just talking from experience with my canon. I guess you are right about RAW but thats only if you are just willing to shoot raw and then spending hours editing your pictures to make sure the output from RAW is perfect (post adobe). Well, I've never spent "hours" on a batch of photos, but I know what you mean, I guess some people could, even if I take say 400 photos, I will get through them all in a couple mins (if they are in same lighting conditions you can apply same settings to all photos easily in LR). But no, you are totally right, if you are not shooting RAW, than yeah you should manual set WB, I just figured because he said he'd shot this in RAW he plans on doing that indefinitely, in which case he is already editing certain things, a WB change will add maybe 20 seconds (tops) JPEG = Manual WB RAW = AWB unless you really want to go manual (but isn't necessary) EDIT: just another note (sort of contradicting what I said earlier) if you are going to manually adjust each photo individually then yes I have spent an hour on a batch of even 100 photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maash Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Well, I've never spent "hours" on a batch of photos, but I know what you mean, I guess some people could, even if I take say 400 photos, I will get through them all in a couple mins (if they are in same lighting conditions you can apply same settings to all photos easily in LR). But no, you are totally right, if you are not shooting RAW, than yeah you should manual set WB, I just figured because he said he'd shot this in RAW he plans on doing that indefinitely, in which case he is already editing certain things, a WB change will add maybe 20 seconds (tops) JPEG = Manual WB RAW = AWB unless you really want to go manual (but isn't necessary) EDIT: just another note (sort of contradicting what I said earlier) if you are going to manually adjust each photo individually then yes I have spent an hour on a batch of even 100 photos. I guess the OP should invest in something like Adobe Lightroom (cheaper) or Adobe Photoshop (unlimited options/plugins). I have, its worth it in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remus_lupin Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 I guess the OP should invest in something like Adobe Lightroom (cheaper) or Adobe Photoshop (unlimited options/plugins). I have, its worth it in the end I only use LR, and it does everything I need, I would recommend that, unless (like you say) you are going to use the more advanced features of photoshop. LR is GREAT (either way I would recommend it to catalogue all your photos) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argote Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Coming from someone who has shot thousands upon thousands upon thousands of photos... as long as your shooting RAW (which he is) why would you set your WB to the conditions... Auto more often than not is PERFECT. My WB has never left auto, maybe 1/100 photos I need to adjust because I could manually make the WB a bit better than auto. If you weren't shooting RAW than yeah WB is a big deal... However, if you are going to be shooting in the same lighting conditions for a while then sure, why not just go manual WB, but then you may forget to change it back. Just leave it auto. I agree with this, AWB is very nice most of the times. However you can always edit it in PP for when it's not. Setting WB in-camera is a waste of shooting time (which IMO is more valuable than processing time). Besides, you can always batch-edit the WB if you're talking about a lot of photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.bin Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 I have CS5, I just haven't done any postwork in Photoshop yet. I haven't had a chance to use my camera again (yet). Damn work taking over my life. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I guess the OP should invest in something like Adobe Lightroom (cheaper) or Adobe Photoshop (unlimited options/plugins). I have, its worth it in the end Well Photoshop is no repalcement for LR, and LR is no replacement for Photoshop. personally for a photographer, I think LR is more important, but having photoshop to will be great. with Lr changing the WB is a few seconds per photo. and then you can do all the other "developing" that makes it such a much better photo to. Like converting to BW where apropriate and adjusting for the right BW look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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