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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Len90 » May Thu 09, 2013 5:20 pm

acp wrote:
Len90 wrote:Well done acp. Looks like you got the hang of the camera pretty quick. With nighttime shooting and no flash you will always have difficulty in autofocusing, much like a regular point and shoot. Good to hear you flipped it to manual and took care of that issue.
Yeah, getting the hang of that was helpful. Need to have a look at the photos at some point. Took quite a lot of DreamLights last night, although they're going to need cleaning up.. Some of them are a bit noisy.
Too noisy would mean you bumped your iso up too high. Try opening up your aperture more by going to a lower f-stop and see if you could still get a clear shot if you were to slow down your shutter speed just a bit.
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Epcotmaniac » May Sun 12, 2013 4:26 am

Last night I took some night shoots of the Brandenburger Tor and Reichstag in Berlin. This is my favourite photo.

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The rest of the Photos are here. I dont like every photo because sometomes it looks to bright but it was just for testing.

http://abload.de/gallery.php?key=oP2FdkNc
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Amy » May Sun 12, 2013 8:12 am

That is a really lovely photo Lars!

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by acp » May Sun 12, 2013 10:16 am

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acp wrote:
Len90 wrote:Well done acp. Looks like you got the hang of the camera pretty quick. With nighttime shooting and no flash you will always have difficulty in autofocusing, much like a regular point and shoot. Good to hear you flipped it to manual and took care of that issue.
Yeah, getting the hang of that was helpful. Need to have a look at the photos at some point. Took quite a lot of DreamLights last night, although they're going to need cleaning up.. Some of them are a bit noisy.
Too noisy would mean you bumped your iso up too high. Try opening up your aperture more by going to a lower f-stop and see if you could still get a clear shot if you were to slow down your shutter speed just a bit.
Yeah, I had another go tonight. Much better results. These are straight off the camera with no fiddling (other than resizing):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_2017.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_1991.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_2026.jpg

I've loads to go through, but it likely ain't gonna happen until I get home next week :P

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by acp » May Mon 13, 2013 2:22 am

acp wrote:
Len90 wrote:
acp wrote: Too noisy would mean you bumped your iso up too high. Try opening up your aperture more by going to a lower f-stop and see if you could still get a clear shot if you were to slow down your shutter speed just a bit.
Yeah, I had another go tonight. Much better results. These are straight off the camera with no fiddling (other than resizing):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_2017.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_1991.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_2026.jpg

I've loads to go through, but it likely ain't gonna happen until I get home next week :P

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Here's another I meant to add to those. This one was the result of three days of attempting to catch it :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... om-exp.jpg
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Amy » May Mon 13, 2013 9:03 am

Excellent photo of Mt . Prometheus erupting acp!!

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Len90 » May Sun 19, 2013 11:38 pm

Nicely done acp.

Here is a quick treat for everyone. This was taken from the balcony of my hotel room this year. The weather was absolutely perfect at night that I decided to play around.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93082249@N02/8755504107/
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Amy » May Mon 20, 2013 12:27 pm

Len90 wrote:Nicely done acp.

Here is a quick treat for everyone. This was taken from the balcony of my hotel room this year. The weather was absolutely perfect at night that I decided to play around.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93082249@N02/8755504107/
Very nice Len ~ amazing how clear and sharp everything is!

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by acp » May Mon 20, 2013 8:32 pm

Len90 wrote:Nicely done acp.
Ta :)

I pretty much got the hang of it as the trip went on. I got quite a few not-bad photos of the Electrical parade (which was the bit that proved the most difficult to shoot). I ended up using manual mode (!) and just about got it to work. The characters, which obviously aren't as well lit as.. well.. the lights.. didn't come out great, but the floats came out quite well.

I need to have a good look through the photos I've taken at some point. I'll be uploading them to my Flickr account when I've got round to it.

<edit>Speaking of Flickr, I just quickly went over to my Flickr page to check that link worked. When did Flickr's design change? :o</edit>

In the meantime, here's another hasitly-edited one to keep you going: (I'm in the departure lounge at Narita Airport as I type this.. They have free wifi :) Also, it's quite hot in here...)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... mickey.jpg

Mickey in The Legend of Mythica. At the end of the show, the barge he's on floats around Mediterranean Harbour so you can get better photos (he's a bit too far away for my lens during the main show), and so the guests can wave at Mickey.
Here is a quick treat for everyone. This was taken from the balcony of my hotel room this year. The weather was absolutely perfect at night that I decided to play around.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93082249@N02/8755504107/
Ooh, view of the boardwalk. Nice.
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Len90 » May Fri 24, 2013 10:50 pm

I actually ended up sitting out most nights and just taking it all in. Probably the most relaxing thing I ever did.

Here's another quick favorite of mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93082249@N02/8810507197/
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by acp » May Wed 29, 2013 3:50 am

I've been working my way through some of my photos from Tokyo. I've uploaded a few (although no Disney ones yet, just a few general Tokyo ones and some from the Ghibli Museum) to my Flickr already, and more are on the way soonish.

A couple of things I've noticed include that I apparently have a natural lean to one side, since a lot of my photos (and I've noticed this before, too) tend to be not level and need correcting :roll: and that a lot of them are quite noisy, probably due to me forgetting to change settings after using the camera the previous night (and I've also discovered that somehow I managed to enable the auto-ISO setting, which apparently makes odd decisions and doesn't help much.)

It's not all bad, however. Here's one I found amongst the Disneyland ones. All together now... Awww:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... -heart.jpg

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by cy1229 » May Wed 29, 2013 7:07 am

acp wrote:
It's not all bad, however. Here's one I found amongst the Disneyland ones. All together now... Awww:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... -heart.jpg

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Amy » May Wed 29, 2013 7:28 am

That is a nice photo acp :D

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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by Len90 » May Wed 29, 2013 10:21 pm

cy1229 wrote:
acp wrote:
It's not all bad, however. Here's one I found amongst the Disneyland ones. All together now... Awww:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... -heart.jpg

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Awwww indeed. Great timing to get that.
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Re: Camera Discussion

Post by acp » May Fri 31, 2013 4:59 pm

Len90 wrote:
cy1229 wrote:
acp wrote:
It's not all bad, however. Here's one I found amongst the Disneyland ones. All together now... Awww:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... -heart.jpg

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Awwww indeed. Great timing to get that.
You know, I've just realised something.

As above, I took this photo at Tokyo Disneyland just over two weeks ago:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... -heart.jpg

Back in 2010, I took this photo at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/disneyandy/4466834851/

Apparently I'm good at timing. Or something. :lol:
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