These are pretty good photos mate!
I've always wanted to get into this as a hobby. What camera have you got to start out with? I think the quality in them shots is immense!
he has a Fuji F50fd
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he has a Fuji F50fd
Thanks very much Camalot.
The camera is a Fuji f50fd. They can be had for around £120ish. The main reason I went for it is because I bought it in package which came with an underwater housing as I'm going traveling soon and will hopefully be doing a fair bit of snorkeling and diving.
I've only had it for a few days but I'm definately hooked. Been out for a couple of hours each day just wandering around the beach taking snaps! I do sometimes feel a bit odd though laying on the floor taking pictures of old rope and twigs! Hopefully i'll get used to it otherwise i'll never be able to take cityscapes in busy streets!
I'm already tempted to buy a proper SLR camera but I know I don't have the skills set or the money for one yet so I just want to improve my skills with this Fuji for now.
The camera is a Fuji f50fd. They can be had for around £120ish. The main reason I went for it is because I bought it in package which came with an underwater housing as I'm going traveling soon and will hopefully be doing a fair bit of snorkeling and diving.
I've only had it for a few days but I'm definately hooked. Been out for a couple of hours each day just wandering around the beach taking snaps! I do sometimes feel a bit odd though laying on the floor taking pictures of old rope and twigs! Hopefully i'll get used to it otherwise i'll never be able to take cityscapes in busy streets!
I'm already tempted to buy a proper SLR camera but I know I don't have the skills set or the money for one yet so I just want to improve my skills with this Fuji for now.
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nice start mate, can tell that you will become quite good when you get a few more shots under your belt..my advice would be to remember focal points in shots and learn about histograms if you havn't already. exposure is key sometimes although if your shooting raw it can be saved..but you wanna get the shot right as you take it rly
yantorsen, that pp on his pic (post #13, the groins) is really good, hdr i take it??
yantorsen, that pp on his pic (post #13, the groins) is really good, hdr i take it??
Yes you are correct in saying they are all very dramatic, I just like that look atm
tbh most of my images of my own aren't all that dramatic, I was more trying to show with a bit of processing you can bring out quite a lot that you didn't realise was there.
The pictures being of sand and having subtle coluors do lend them selves to extrmeme processing as well I guess.
I can show you some more subtle processing if you like.
That'd be fantastic if you could spare the time. I'm in no rush though so if you dont have the time then no problem.
I do find this whole processing malarky very intersting though, like you say it can not only improve the look of what you have, it brings out things that I couldn't even see before. It's like capturing the photo is only half the work!
that underwater casing looks really good from what I've seen, I'd love to have something like that, would be great. Have you tried it in the sea yet?
nice start mate, can tell that you will become quite good when you get a few more shots under your belt..my advice would be to remember focal points in shots and learn about histograms if you havn't already. exposure is key sometimes although if your shooting raw it can be saved..but you wanna get the shot right as you take it rly
Thanks again for the nice comments. I know what you mean about the focal point, I think that's the reason I find it easier to take macro pictures as I mentioned in an earlier post. It's a damn site easier to have a focal point when only shooting one thing
.I know what histograms are as I covered them in an image analysis module I did at uni, although this was a computer science course so I learnt how to make them and how to alter them, I didn't learn how to apply this practically however! As I understand though you generally want a fairly even spread accross the graph??
Unfortunately my camera doesn't have the option to display a histogram anyway so I can only really evaluate the image after I've got back to my computer which is a bit of a dissapointment. The camera also lacks the ability to save in raw as well which is a bit of a bummer. I suppose I don't need to shoot in raw just yet but it would have been nice to have the option in future when I'm a bit more used to things.
Lol, no not yet, bit too chilly for me atm! Shall wait til I get to Thailand and Australia where the water will be a alittle warmer
Furthest I've got is the bathub to check for leaks so the only underwater shot I have so far is of the plug!
Yeah, it is important to get a good shot to start with though.
Had a go at one of them anyway, I started off with a more extreme version, then did a less extreme one, I actually prefer the more subtle one
