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Heres my first attempt at a City Night Shot with a little motorway traffic thrown in for good measure


Reply #1225 Posted: May 08, 2011, 04:49:07 pm

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Hoping these are acceptable. Still haven't quite figured out how to reduce the noise but still get the colour right.

These were from tonight's sunset at CHCH Intl.

http://iforce.co.nz/i/tq2a0mnb.ooo.jpg
F/5.6 , ISO 100, 1/15


http://iforce.co.nz/i/s1v3e53j.fo4.jpg
F/3.2 , ISO 80, 1/320


http://iforce.co.nz/i/15edtklk.2f2.jpg
F/2.8 , ISO 400, 1/40
Last Edit: May 09, 2011, 09:24:25 pm by Tandoori

Reply #1226 Posted: May 08, 2011, 07:21:22 pm

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Highly noisy.

What is your ISO set at?

I try my best to stay at 100. Hate high ISO pictures.

Like this picture was taken with an ISO of 2000, and i despise it. The lighting conditions were deplorable. Was taken yesterday at my sisters hockey game, with my new 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. I love the lens so much.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/swind1e/post.jpg
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Where as this shot was taken at ISO 200. Much sharper. I have desaturated the colour a little bit. However, this was with my older 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

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Last Edit: May 09, 2011, 05:52:30 pm by swindle

Reply #1227 Posted: May 09, 2011, 05:36:05 pm
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added exposure/iso/aperture details. Any suggestions comments welcome. As mentioned, struggle to get good colour without noise.

Reply #1228 Posted: May 09, 2011, 09:25:28 pm

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Turn the saturation level up a notch and manually set the ISO at 100.

Manual mode ftw.

Remember, your little LCD screen is a habitual lier. Trust nothing it shows you to be correct, because as soon as its up on a monitor it can (and most of the time) looks different. A little, to a lot. Its just interesting to see a picture you think looks rather good, become really crap on a bigger screen.
Last Edit: May 09, 2011, 10:50:33 pm by swindle

Reply #1229 Posted: May 09, 2011, 10:48:03 pm
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that's more sensor limitations and jpeg artifacts than 'noise', nothing wrong with the pics.

I will show you real noise tomorrow, huge difference.

Reply #1230 Posted: May 09, 2011, 10:50:36 pm
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Quote from: swindle;1381881
ts just interesting to see a picture you think looks rather good, become really crap on a bigger screen.

If you are pixel pushing, which lets be honest, most people aren't. Most peoples print needs are met with a 10mp camera.

Reply #1231 Posted: May 09, 2011, 10:52:31 pm
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I guess i'm just a little obsessive with certain things. When i notice bad detail, it will simply annoying me like crazy and i will strive to prevent it in the future.

I could not longer use a camera that gave me poor results in certain conditions, especially conditions that one could be in often.

Coming from a Canon user, whos camera performs pretty bad in low light conditions. Lol. Its fcuking horrid sometimes.

Reply #1232 Posted: May 09, 2011, 10:59:26 pm
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But, in good light... She does well.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/swind1e/Resizedbird.jpg
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I quite like this one. The face off is always good.

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Last Edit: May 09, 2011, 11:32:01 pm by swindle

Reply #1233 Posted: May 09, 2011, 11:07:15 pm
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Quote from: swindle;1381887
I guess i'm just a little obsessive with certain things. When i notice bad detail, it will simply annoying me like crazy and i will strive to prevent it in the future.

I could not longer use a camera that gave me poor results in certain conditions, especially conditions that one could be in often.

Coming from a Canon user, whos camera performs pretty bad in low light conditions. Lol. Its fcuking horrid sometimes.

have you got long exposure noise reduction set to on in the cameras custom functions menu (second option in and set to always on) ;)  that and a piece of software called imagenomic noiseware professional (pm me if you want it i have the link for the cs5 version)

Reply #1234 Posted: May 10, 2011, 10:43:23 am

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The best piece of noise software I have ever used, and I have used alot with my line of work, is in the niktools for photoshop.

Dfine 2.0   http://www.niksoftware.com/completecollection/usa/entry.php

I think there is a free trial, and it's available on your usual off site backup places too.

Reply #1235 Posted: May 10, 2011, 11:11:02 am
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There is a better way to do noise reduction on long exposures (over 30 seconds) that saves you having to wait for the camera to do it.

Google 'black frame subtraction' It has always given me a better result than in camera processiing, this is also good if you want to do star trails etc as you cant have in camera noise reduction on for that, you only have to shoot 1 noise reduction frame for how ever many shots you have at the very end of the sequence.

Reply #1236 Posted: May 10, 2011, 11:14:31 am
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Reply #1237 Posted: May 14, 2011, 01:34:15 pm

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Reply #1238 Posted: May 14, 2011, 06:04:07 pm

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Reply #1239 Posted: May 15, 2011, 12:20:15 am

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Nice. Like the hdr.

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http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5261/trails1resize.jpg
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856 sec exposure ISO 200 f8

Reply #1241 Posted: May 15, 2011, 11:03:09 am

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Mothers Day lilies. by faulkick, on Flickr

Is Lilies really the correct spelling for that? What a strange word.

Reply #1242 Posted: May 15, 2011, 04:24:45 pm

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one from last night


Reply #1243 Posted: May 15, 2011, 05:07:08 pm

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http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/swind1e/IMG_3890.jpg
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Reply #1244 Posted: May 19, 2011, 04:50:08 pm
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http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/swind1e/Resizedmental.jpg
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Reply #1245 Posted: May 20, 2011, 02:52:50 pm
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http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/668/longbay12.jpg
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Reply #1246 Posted: May 22, 2011, 02:35:15 pm

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Heres some photos I took Saturday nite whilst out and about






and a few random fireworks shots that we just happend to come across (first time ever photographing fireworks by the way)



and some from Piha on Sunday


Reply #1247 Posted: May 23, 2011, 06:58:23 pm

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Nice fireworks capture dude!

Cool light trails to. The 3rd one is brilliant.

Reply #1248 Posted: May 23, 2011, 08:55:25 pm
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Lovely DOF on the cat photo. Nice.

Man...some really nice photos in this page. I have not had my camera out, but once again have been fiddling with a friends photos. Here is an HDR I made and tweaked from her photo. I was too busy surfing to play with camera's :D


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