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CTF Challenge 157 - Sound, is now closed for entries.

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Great job with the challenge everyone - a lot of great pics!
 
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It's all about light, my friend.
 
Here's some picys I took at work to day around an old bridge on the Brissie river.













All taken wiv the 17-55 & I had a play wiv the red filter on most of the B&Ws I can't get the hang of how the 40D exposes yet, it seems a lot different to the 350D. It's only that I'm shooting raw files now that I can adjust the exposure in the raw conversions. Otherwise I would have had to bin these for being too dark.
Regards Rod
 
Those are great Rod!!! What type/brand of Red filter are you using? I have one for the Pro1, but haven't used it a great deal. jano
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Some taken early at photography and some recent. Please comment on what you like and what you do not. Jano

 
Those are nice shots Rod, and that 17-55 is a great lens! By red filter, I assume you mean on the BW conversion from the RAW (PP)? As I am sure you have read, some folks claim the 40D is off by 1/3-2/3 on the exposure, but I think it also depends on what you are using for the RAW conversion (DPP vs AP vs LR).
 
when i look at these pics I know that its not necessary to have pretty subjects to take good pics. Problem is I dont see the same way :(

Lovely ( but a bit dark on my monitor)
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Debi
 
Being a new age type of bloke I used the digital filter:-) When you pick Monochrome as a picy style in the camera you can pick any one of four filters. I was shooting raw & then set the camera on raw plus B&W Jpeg. You can also convert the raw file to B&W & pick one of the four filters in DPP. I think like the polarising filter these filters can give a samey look to the picys if used all the time.

Thanks Jano, it was nice to be shooting something other than a challenge topic for a change.
Regards Rod
 
Thanks Angio, It did ring a bell that there were some posters saying their picys were dark but haven't followed the threads & will try & catch up with them. I will have to experiment & see wot's happening. With the 350D I mostly shot evaluative I would just aim the camera more to the brightest part & lock the exposure recompose & shoot. This seemed to work really well but doing this with the 40D is no good for me so I will have to see how to tame the beast, though nothing I've tried works on the missus:-)

When I lighten (Brightness slider) the raw picy in DDP is this the same as exposing brighter in camera?
Regards Rod
 
You may just not be a pretty postcard snapper like me & you may see other types of picys better. Geez you have one of the most powerful picys of your ole man in Eligible. So you will find you gravitate to picys that you see well.

The picys are a bit dark but us artiiiiiists like to have mystery in our picys & when someone buys one we lighten the picy up so they get more for their money:-)
Regards Rod
 
Rodman,

I am no expert with PP, but as I understand it there are many ways to change the brightness/exposure of your image. Most of my experience is with Aperture but I assume the general controls function the same with different programs.

Exposure - this adjustment changes brightness across the board, equally from highlights to shadows. often flattens out your image. I don't use this one very much at all.

Brightness - this should change the midtones only, with little effect on highlights and shadows.

Recovery & Black Point - these adjustments set you level limits for the blackpoint and highlight recovery (blown highlights can be recaptured on your RAW image). Helpful but can also be done with levels/curves

Levels - sliders in Aperture and curves in PS & LR. My preference is to do most of my adjustments with levels, using 1/4 markers to fine tune midtones.

Highlight/Shadows - AP has separate controls for this, but now with dodge/burn plugin I seldom use them.

Regards,
Angioman
 
Looks very minimalistic for you! I like the idea of using the filters in-camera - I'll have to try that. I didn't know you could take a color RAW + a B&W jpg. Did you try converting the RAW to B&W and using the red PP filter and comparing the two outcomes?
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Nice shots, Rod. 5 out of six are plain ahrtiiiistic. The fifth one is just plain manly.
rodbam said:
All taken wiv the 17-55 & I had a play wiv the red filter on most of the B&Ws
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Fun, huh?
rodbam said:
I can't get the hang of how the 40D exposes yet, it seems a
lot different to the 350D. It's only that I'm shooting raw files now
that I can adjust the exposure in the raw conversions.
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Hehe, I gotta say it, ... I told yah so.
rodbam said:
Otherwise I would have had to bin these for being too dark.
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They don't look too dark to me, but that may be just my taste. You'll probably end up wanting to be more to the slightly "over-exposed" side of the histogram, i.e. when using RAW its easier to darken slightly over-exposed than to lighten slightly under-exposed. You'll get the hang of the "big wheel" soon. Use it to adjust exposure to your taste. I don't think you had one of those before, a? ";^D

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So I'm not really sure what ones I used the red filter in camera & what ones I did in DPP. I haven't done any comparisons Carole but from what I hear you can do everything in the raw conversion that the camera can do plus you can do more too. I suppose for a start we could shoot raw plus B&W Jpeg in camera so we can see if our raw conversion is up to scratch.

In your camera menu there's a setting for raw + Jpeg so just set it on that & set the camera to shoot B&W only. When you download your raw files in DPP the thumbnails will all look B&W but on the raw file you can change the picy to the colour you normally shoot with, I forget wot they're called now on the 350D:-) Isn't that terrible & quick, must be getting old:-)
Regards Rod
 
Michael Shealy said:
Nice shots, Rod. 5 out of six are plain ahrtiiiistic. The fifth one
is just plain manly.
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Gawd thank goodness for that, just imagine if all me picys just turned out pretty when I'm using BIG lenses:-)
Thanks mate.
Michael Shealy said:
Michael Shealy said:
All taken wiv the 17-55 & I had a play wiv the red filter on most of the B&Ws
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Fun, huh?
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Fun & a bit tense as I don't know what I'm doing yet:-)
Michael Shealy said:
Michael Shealy said:
I can't get the hang of how the 40D exposes yet, it seems a
lot different to the 350D. It's only that I'm shooting raw files now
that I can adjust the exposure in the raw conversions.
Click to expand...
Hehe, I gotta say it, ... I told yah so.
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Yes but conversely being able to save the picys in the raw conversion may make me lazy & not bother to work out how to get the exposures right in the camera. I would rather get things close to right in camera & then tizz up in PP.
Michael Shealy said:
Michael Shealy said:
Otherwise I would have had to bin these for being too dark.
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They don't look too dark to me, but that may be just my taste.
You'll probably end up wanting to be more to the slightly
"over-exposed" side of the histogram, i.e. when using RAW its easier
to darken slightly over-exposed than to lighten slightly
under-exposed. You'll get the hang of the "big wheel" soon. Use it
to adjust exposure to your taste. I don't think you had one of those
before, a? ";^D
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At the moment there's far too many wheels & knobs for me to keep track of & I've never seen a histogram:-) The above picys have been lightened in DDP to how I like them but the originals were too dark. I have a long weekend coming up so I will have a good play with how the cameras exposing & maybe set one of the thingys to expose a bit lighter if need be or alter the way I shoot.

With the 350D I just used to aim the camera a bit to the brightest part of the scene & lock the exposure but on the 40D doing this makes the darker parts of the picy too dark. I'm using evaluative metering like I did with the 350D so maybe I could play with another type of metering. No doubt the new camera will become quite natural to use.............in a year or two:-)hehe
Regards Rod
 
Rod, is your monitor calibrated.

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It's all about light, my friend.
 
I remember someone saying here that he used positive exposure compensation in his dslr without getting blown highlights.

Regarding getting used to cameras ,its been one and half years and I am still getting used to the S3. I am feeling too lazy to learn about a dslr now. My exposure is better but I still need to understand panning and panoramic shots too. Oooo my head hurts thinking about it all.

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Debi
 
I have a high res crt monitor but I don't have any calibration software Aamm. The only thing I go by is is how closely do my prints match what I'm seeing on my screen & they seem fairly close................Weeeeel fairly close for me anyhow:-)

Now my son Josh is back home I've looked at my picys on his Samsung 22" wizz bang Lcd latest monitor & they're not nearly as good as my Crt trinitron type monitor. I think they talk about needing S Lcd panels or something for picys.
Regards Rod
 
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