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Hmmmmmm, american currency is all the same size, but you would think the number found in all four corners would be easy enough to tell the difference between denominations.

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I bought a Canon Eos 650D with an 18-55mm IS II lens. They had a great offer. The camera came with a 50 € giftcard I can spend for accessories like a bag or another battery.

I will take a few photos this weekend and I am sure I will have some questions.

Epcotmaniac wrote:Back to the Topic:

I bought a Canon Eos 650D with an 18-55mm IS II lens. They had a great offer. The camera came with a 50 € giftcard I can spend for accessories like a bag or another battery.

I will take a few photos this weekend and I am sure I will have some questions.

Sounds like a good deal. I would recommend a second battery. I always manage to go through two batteries in a day at WDW between pictures and video. The extreme heat, or in our case the last few trips, cold, really takes a toll on battery life.

Epcotmaniac wrote:Back to the Topic:

I bought a Canon Eos 650D with an 18-55mm IS II lens. They had a great offer. The camera came with a 50 € giftcard I can spend for accessories like a bag or another battery.

I will take a few photos this weekend and I am sure I will have some questions.

Must be the time of year for offers on cameras. Mine came with an offer of a £40 cashback (which comes in the form of a prepaid credit card, apparently).

Epcotmaniac wrote:Back to the Topic:

I bought a Canon Eos 650D with an 18-55mm IS II lens. They had a great offer. The camera came with a 50 € giftcard I can spend for accessories like a bag or another battery.

I will take a few photos this weekend and I am sure I will have some questions.

That is great to hear. I probably would use the money for a lens or extra battery. From personal experience I would think about shelling out the extra $$$ for the Canon brand battery as I tend to find the third party packs just don't hold a charge at all. With a DSLR you should be good for a whole day of picture taking in the parks with just two packs.

Today I went to Park Sanssouci in Potsdam and tested the camera.
I only used the automatic programm and got some good pictures. After about one hour it started to rain and I went home. I will take more pics this weekend.

http://s1247.photobucket.com/user/Epcot ... t=3&page=1

There is only one pic I really dont like. I think the bust is much too pale. Any ideas how I can make a better picture?

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg6 ... 230019.jpg

Epcotmaniac wrote:Today I went to Park Sanssouci in Potsdam and tested the camera.
I only used the automatic programm and got some good pictures. After about one hour it started to rain and I went home. I will take more pics this weekend.

http://s1247.photobucket.com/user/Epcot ... t=3&page=1

There is only one pic I really dont like. I think the bust is much too pale. Any ideas how I can make a better picture?

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg6 ... 230019.jpg

Nice photos! I like the bust the way it is ~ reminds me of the Haunted Mansion singing busts

Yeah, I waited for hours that they start to sing and talk.

Epcotmaniac: You would have to change your metering mode on the camera. Metering modes are how the camera measures brightness. This can explain it quickly: http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/ ... -use-them/ If you were to center that bust and go to a spot meter or maybe even center weighted it would come out a lot different.

I do like the results. Pictures look pretty sharp and the colors are good. As you use the camera more you will learn how to adjust even better and achieve better results. Everything I know was all self taught through playing around and testing it out.

The weather in NJ this week was pretty much perfect. I too decided to take my camera out for a quick test. Here are two shots taken with my 6D and 24-105 f4L. I tested my 70-200 f4L with the 1.4 extender as well but didn't upload any yet.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/ ... _0081r.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/ ... _1308r.jpg

Epcotmaniac, your bust photo is overexposed. In short, because the trees are medium-toned to darker toned, the camera allowed more light in to try to make them average out to "medium gray." You can fix this two ways:

1. Adjust your exposure. Do what Len said and see how you can change the metering of your camera to rely most heavily on the center spot rather than the entire image, or use the +/- on your exposure settings to allow less (-) light in.

2. Reduce the exposure dramatically using manual mode, and then illuminate the bust with fill flash. This is a little trickier but works really well when you have someone standing in front of a sunset, for example.

You can also open the image in Photoshop, look at the histogram and narrow the range, mess around with the mid-tones, and then selectively reduce the exposure of just the bust. That's not difficult to do, but it's much more complicated than clicking a couple buttons on your camera and getting a good exposure to begin with.

Does this help?

cy1229 wrote:Epcotmaniac, your bust photo is overexposed. In short, because the trees are medium-toned to darker toned, the camera allowed more light in to try to make them average out to "medium gray." You can fix this two ways:

1. Adjust your exposure. Do what Len said and see how you can change the metering of your camera to rely most heavily on the center spot rather than the entire image, or use the +/- on your exposure settings to allow less (-) light in.

2. Reduce the exposure dramatically using manual mode, and then illuminate the bust with fill flash. This is a little trickier but works really well when you have someone standing in front of a sunset, for example.

You can also open the image in Photoshop, look at the histogram and narrow the range, mess around with the mid-tones, and then selectively reduce the exposure of just the bust. That's not difficult to do, but it's much more complicated than clicking a couple buttons on your camera and getting a good exposure to begin with.

Does this help?

I personally would just adjust the metering mode and see the results. The only thing that was overexposed though in that picture was the bust. The background to me seemed pretty good yet so going negative on the exposure would result in an overall underexposed picture. As for flash it would work but you would need something attached to the hot shoe for a full effect. The flash built in to an slr really can't be controlled or deflected for fill.

If photoshopping the picture checking the histogram would help but really you would have to select out the bust and then work on that separately.

So yeah, I took the D3200 out to Tokyo DisneySea this evening. Took a load of night shots, including a few of Fantasmic. For the first time taking the camera out and using it in anger, it wasn't too bad.

I'm going to bed now, but here's a couple I quickly uploaded to Dropbox. They've been through Photoshop for a (very) quick process and scaling down to a reasonable size for viewing, but yeah.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0409.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0445.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0447.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0475.jpg

I gave up with AF failing to focus, and did them with manual focus. Went a lot better than I expected, given I've now been up for 36 hours straight

acp wrote:So yeah, I took the D3200 out to Tokyo DisneySea this evening. Took a load of night shots, including a few of Fantasmic. For the first time taking the camera out and using it in anger, it wasn't too bad.

I'm going to bed now, but here's a couple I quickly uploaded to Dropbox. They've been through Photoshop for a (very) quick process and scaling down to a reasonable size for viewing, but yeah.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0409.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0445.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0447.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192 ... C_0475.jpg

I gave up with AF failing to focus, and did them with manual focus. Went a lot better than I expected, given I've now been up for 36 hours straight

Wow ~ nice shots acp! Why were you using the camera angrily? Or was that a phone typo?

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.

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.