Man, I have a lot to learn about photography. Can anyone recommend a good site to learn?




Love this shot!!
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Some gymnastics meets will ask you to go put your camera in the car or confiscate it till the meet is over if you inadvertently use your flash. They don't mess around.

Do you use any noise reduction software?? Another good tip here

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...ad.php?t=48929

when using noise reduction (or you can select inverse for sharpening) is to using masking, so you mask your edges. That way the NR works on the background and not the detail. I usually only do this on a sale, it takes a little bit of time and when I shoot an invitational I am usually looking at around 1K photos. The college gigs are much better, I shot ASU's gymnastics last year and would only do like 200 photos in a night.
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I like http://photography-on-the.net/forum/ they have some very good threads for beginners here..
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...splay.php?f=13

like this one I mentioned earlier

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=414088

and here are 3 great books to get

1. Photography And The Art Of Seeing by Freeman Patterson
2. Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson
3. Mastering Digital Photography
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Thanks for the tip. I usually just avoid shooting above 800 ISO that works for me. But when I do have a noise issue I will In CS4 go to filters and reduce noise. It works ok but thanks for the link.
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Thanks! I'll check these out!
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hi,merry x'mas to all... just want to share some of my pictures...

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Great Flower photo's!
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I love this one! Very nice bro!:-)
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I learned today that taking a pic of things with lights without a flash is better :-)




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Manual exposure, 1/200 sec, f/8, ISO 400



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Manual exposure, 0.4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400
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The colors in the second pic are great. Do you have a tripod? Hand holding .4 sec the picture is not going to be tack sharp like you want.

The composition and idea of your pic are great! Good job of "seeing" it. Can you go with a larger aperature than 5.6? Like F/4? Or try to bump your shutter up a little bit.

A tip on hand holding, if your focal lenth is 70mm then the minimum for hand holding would be 1/70th. You didnt say what your focal length was. If you can adjust either your aperature or your shutter, or if you have a tripod, your picture will be much sharper.
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Thanks for the positive reinforcement, Kirk. I do have a tripod but didn't think to carry it to a friend's house but it would have made trying to take that 2nd pic a lot easier.

5.6 is the largest I can get with my D3000 and the focal length was 55mm. I didn't even think to make the shutter speed faster :-)

Is the aperture dependent on the camera or lens?
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The aperture is dependent on the lens. When you look at lens like 4.2-5.6 that means that depending on the focal length the largest aperture you can get is 4.2-5.6. For you next lens purchase look for something that is prime, i.e. 1.4 or 2.8 (no dashes) like the 50 1.8 or 50 1.4 great lens!
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I was wondering what kind of camera you use
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Some Holiday shots I took tonight!

Happy Holidays to All!!

-Doug

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I was wrong...4.8 is the largest I have..I guess it would only allow me to get down to 5.6 because of something I was tinkering with..


Dux great pics.:-)
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The second numbers on your lens is the max aperture at full zoom.

Ps. Im enjoying my new 50mm 1.8 that Santa brought me.
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Love this picture! I just went and leveled and balanced it.

If this is unacceptable let me know I did not see a copyright.

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Wow Thanks :-) You even removed the wall hooks :-)

Shot looks even better now :-)

What ap did you use?

-Doug/Dux
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Photoshop CS3 at the moment but CS2-CS4 are all wonderful programs
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Christmas ornament.
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