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Nice! Bit much chroma perhaps....?
What's Chroma?
Quote from: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on June 19, 2015, 07:33:36 AMWhat's Chroma?Colors too saturated and bright.
If it were on manual what adjustment affects that? I turn the two wheels intill the color looks good through the lcd. I will consider that. Thanks for the pointer. I'll keep updating throughout the year with new pics.
^ That's a beautiful location, so try coming back at sunset. I was recently at the Petrified Forest and and had to wait from 1pm to 5pm for the light to get right. What do hunting and photography have in common? Gotta get the shot.My legs still hurt from running up that mountain (3000 ft climb in 3 miles ) with a tripod.If you need/have to shoot at midday, consider black and white (high contrast) or use an infrared filter with the camera on a tripod (slow exposure--IR loses 9-10 stops). Personally, I get bored of looking at greens and blues when there's no warm tones present (reds, orange, yellow) so I think an IR filter would be fun to make the blues dark and the trees snowy white. I appreciate the critiquing. I will consider the other tones and how they balance the photo out.There's also some haze present that is robbing the mountain of contrast and saturation. You CANNOT make up for that in post. Put on a nice circular polarizer for that shot next time Ill be getting more accessories as time goes on thanks for the help.
I would say get out of fully manual mode until you get a grasp on the basics of photography. Work on things like focus, composition, dof, technique to stabilize the camera, and using the right ISO for the light. Will do. Have a lot to learn. Your mountain shots are over exposed and don't have enough depth of field to get the mountain, which seems to be the main subject, sharp. Again on the stellars jay over exposed and soft focus, could also be the result of severly cropping an image to make the jay larger. Don't believe I cropped it. It was shot with a sigma 300mm fro like fifteen feet. Thanks for the tips though I really have no clue what im doing. I thought my photos looked pretty god but if I can get them to pro status then ill take a lesson.Don't use the lcd to estimate exposures. They are not very accurate as far as what the image will truly look like. Use the view finder.So the screen is the lcd? and the view finder is the eyepiece? Does the eyepiece make the photo look like what I see more than the screen? Set the camera to AV mode, it lets you control how much of the image is in focus. Practice using the control wheel for exposure compensation while doing this. Bright scenes get a slight overexposure because the camera reads them as grey, dark scenes get a bit of under exposure since the camera exposure will make them brighter to get that nuetral gray. Then if the shutter speeds are too low to stop movement adjust the ISO up until the shutter speeds are at least 1/125 with the lens you are using. Whenever you can, use something to support the camera to stop movement and camera shake. I have a solid tripod. I will try AV till I get the hang of this. then post back w my results. With the deer you got the dreaded eye glow from the flash firing. Turn the flash off and increase the ISO to get proper settings for the light.Yeah the flash popped up automatically and stood him up I struggle at the moment of truth with the camera. Its like the first deer I stalked up on except its my camera bumbling around instead of my bow. I just need more time with it and ill be able to adjust the settings or set it to the auto setting I want quickly.
Quote from: Bean Counter on June 20, 2015, 01:28:53 PM^ That's a beautiful location, so try coming back at sunset. I was recently at the Petrified Forest and and had to wait from 1pm to 5pm for the light to get right. What do hunting and photography have in common? Gotta get the shot.My legs still hurt from running up that mountain (3000 ft climb in 3 miles ) with a tripod. If you need/have to shoot at midday, consider black and white (high contrast) or use an infrared filter with the camera on a tripod (slow exposure--IR loses 9-10 stops). Personally, I get bored of looking at greens and blues when there's no warm tones present (reds, orange, yellow) so I think an IR filter would be fun to make the blues dark and the trees snowy white. I appreciate the critiquing. I will consider the other tones and how they balance the photo out.
^ That's a beautiful location, so try coming back at sunset. I was recently at the Petrified Forest and and had to wait from 1pm to 5pm for the light to get right. What do hunting and photography have in common? Gotta get the shot.My legs still hurt from running up that mountain (3000 ft climb in 3 miles ) with a tripod. If you need/have to shoot at midday, consider black and white (high contrast) or use an infrared filter with the camera on a tripod (slow exposure--IR loses 9-10 stops). Personally, I get bored of looking at greens and blues when there's no warm tones present (reds, orange, yellow) so I think an IR filter would be fun to make the blues dark and the trees snowy white. I appreciate the critiquing. I will consider the other tones and how they balance the photo out.
There's also some haze present that is robbing the mountain of contrast and saturation. You CANNOT make up for that in post. Put on a nice circular polarizer for that shot next time Ill be getting more accessories as time goes on thanks for the help.
