Cool photos you've taken

[deadmeatwalking]

and as MCC said ... dark nights in winter provide the best results .... no moon (as it will wash the sky out with light and make anything in the night sky hard to capture and yeah dark locations away from citys .... in auckland the westcast beachs like maori bay muriwai and karikari and bethells are the best locations

[3viction]

The downside with using 50mm f1.8 is the fact you have to keep your shutter speed short to stop the star trails .. which in turn causes you to push your iso causing "noise" there is a formula for lenses and "size"

max exposure time = 1000 devided by focal length

So
10mm   : 100 secs
20mm   : 50 secs
50mm   : 20 secs
100mm : 10 secs
300mm : 3.3 secs

.. you wanna keep your aperture as high as possible .. IE: 1.8 or F2.4 F2.8 F3.5 F4 ect ..

your best friend at night is wide angle as it will let more light in so if you have an 18-55 f4 ect .. but its good to experiment (the downside to using a wideangle such as a 10mm lens is that you will always get star movement towards the outside of your lens.

Lemme where your at in nz bro and i can always go out with you and give you some help or point you towards some friends around the country that are very proficient

Awesome thanks for that, that's awesome! Wanna go out and try that now. I thought I read somewhere about having aperture around 8 or 9 but maybe that was for lighter times in the day. I'm down in Christchurch so a bit far from Auckland.
Looking at getting another lens I'm really keen on a wide angle or maybe something like the 15-85mm. Also was maybe thinking about a 18-200mm as a general lens when I can't swap them easily. I've got a 550d.

[winter]

Got in my first sunrise shot on the weekend, two exposures merged in PS with a mask etc.. this was shot on my 600D with my 18-55mm kit lens, forgot my tripod lolol.

Getting some new gear in the next couple of weeks so looking forward to shooting my next sunrise with even better gear!


CC and other comments welcome <3

IMO its too red. Like... cool and all, but too processed for me, looks like one of those funny HDR's. I think that's a bit personal preference though.

What new gears you getting?

Looking at a 5D MK3 and ya regular 24-70 and 70-200 and a couple of flash units/stands and umbrellas etc etccccc'
might pick up a 5D MK2 if I can find one with not a massive amount of clicks on her.. most are like 75k+ :/

RE: photo, believe it or not that's how the sky was haha, I did bump up the clarity in the foreground exposure, however that's how red/orange the sky was haha was actually surreal standing there taking the photos as the sky wasn't moving, everything was still and it looked like crazy fireee! I tried cooling it down and messing with the white balance, but it just made it look bland.

[mycoolcar]

Dragonfly by mcctravels, on Flickr

[frankytanky]

Dragonfly by mcctravels, on Flickr

Great shot, love the shadow from the wings. Super detail.

[Benda]

Cool photos you've taken

[bigROBOTbill]

My front garden

[Growler]

Bill....... I don't know how to tell you this.... BUT YOU HAVE A MASSIVE FUCKING BLACK HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR GARDEN!

How many shots and what did you use to PP it?

[bigROBOTbill]

Lol Growler, it makes lawn mowing quite interesting


About 16 shots on a small compact Canon G10, held vertical on manual exposure, a bit of overlap and then panoramad in Photoshop. Cropped and tidied, reduced the width to about 50 cm made a copy layer, and then added 10 cm of white to the the canvas at the bottom. Changed the image size to be square, you have to untick the 'constrain proportion' for that. Rotate the image vertically. Then the exciting bit, go to filter, distort, polar co-ordinates. Then you play with cutting out the circle, rotating it and giving it some backround

[deadmeatwalking]

Untitled by Lindsay sops, on Flickr

A stink bug

(Acrosternum hilare)

Looks much better big

[mycoolcar]

Is that bug alive?

[deadmeatwalking]

Is that bug alive?

Kind of ... was out cold from flying into the lamp shade

[Growler]

what macro you using? a try 1:1 or is it a reverse?

[deadmeatwalking]

what macro you using? a try 1:1 or is it a reverse?

nah not reversed shot at 75mm with a tube at F11 @1/200th

[Growler]

ohhh what tubes you using?

[deadmeatwalking]

the one i made ... get the fstop by having lens direct on body set to F11 or what you want and then hold the preview button and take lens off and attach to tube

[Growler]

I was thinking of getting a reverse adapter for my 50mm

[deadmeatwalking]

hehe bust out the CC and get some of those powered macro tubes

[bigROBOTbill]

Bee at it.

Nifty 50 with manual tubes hand held 800 ISO

[Growler]

hehe bust out the CC and get some of those powered macro tubes

I am tempted in that too, what brand did you end up going with?

[deadmeatwalking]

none i made mine lol

[mycoolcar]

I got some cheap $16 tubes from trademe, but am unable to make things focus.

Does the front element need to be super close to the subject or something? Tips plz.

[deadmeatwalking]

with macro rings the zoom is your focus ... and if your using a prime your focus is moving closer and further from your subject 

[winter]

Bee at it.

Nifty 50 with manual tubes hand held 800 ISO

Gorgeous mate, love it.  Awesome composition.

[bigROBOTbill]

Thanks winter!