Great work, Grekwood :D That does indeed look really very good! Your painting seems a lot better than it has in the past, and the Stargate itself is really very good.
A couple of your shots could have done with a smaller aperture (higher f/number). Ideally you want the background blurry but all the figures in focus. I'm particularly thinking of the diagonal shot you took at f/4.
After you take a shot use the review and zoom display on your camera to check depth of field.
Hi Phil
Thanks for your comment..... yeah, i had a lot of trouble with photos, i took 120 something, and it took me all afternoon lol,
still getting use to it. This was the first time i had used my new light which i bought last week. so i didn't use the flash for once.
on these i just used the auto setting and macro setting on my camera without playing around with apature etc i wasn't brave enough.... trouble is like you say i couldn't always get it to focus right. Didn't use my light tent, which may have helped. what i have noticed is most pictures seem ok in the view finder but when uploaded to the PC they don't look so good.
Gareth
yeah i need to work on that, i've just really figured out how the auto setting works so i've yet to play around with the aperture settings, but i agree, thats the thing i need to work on.
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keeper40k
Mon, 2008-10-27 05:34
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Stargating across the universe ...
Great work, Grekwood :D That does indeed look really very good! Your painting seems a lot better than it has in the past, and the Stargate itself is really very good.
Grekwood
Mon, 2008-10-27 05:55
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man down... man down..... medic
Thanks keeper, it's all uploaded now to the FOD :)
Gareth
uncle phil
Mon, 2008-10-27 07:39
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Nice
That really is rather nice! Very impressive.
A couple of your shots could have done with a smaller aperture (higher f/number). Ideally you want the background blurry but all the figures in focus. I'm particularly thinking of the diagonal shot you took at f/4.
After you take a shot use the review and zoom display on your camera to check depth of field.
Best of luck in DOD
phil
Grekwood
Mon, 2008-10-27 12:11
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Hi Phil Thanks for your
Hi Phil
Thanks for your comment..... yeah, i had a lot of trouble with photos, i took 120 something, and it took me all afternoon lol,
still getting use to it. This was the first time i had used my new light which i bought last week. so i didn't use the flash for once.
on these i just used the auto setting and macro setting on my camera without playing around with apature etc i wasn't brave enough.... trouble is like you say i couldn't always get it to focus right. Didn't use my light tent, which may have helped. what i have noticed is most pictures seem ok in the view finder but when uploaded to the PC they don't look so good.
Gareth
uncle phil
Mon, 2008-10-27 13:06
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Really good, could be better
The lighting is actually very good -it is only our old adversary depth of field on one or two that lets them down.
May I suggest once again that you use Aperture Priority setting rather than Auto and Macro?
phil
Grekwood
Tue, 2008-10-28 13:07
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yeah i need to work on that,
yeah i need to work on that, i've just really figured out how the auto setting works so i've yet to play around with the aperture settings, but i agree, thats the thing i need to work on.
Gareth
uncle phil
Tue, 2008-10-28 14:01
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if only
If only there was some kind of tutorial written by someone with the same camera as you.... :)
Grekwood
Wed, 2008-10-29 07:52
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lol, yeah i keep meaning to
lol, yeah i keep meaning to read it again, now i know a bit more about my camera :)
Gareth