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Happy New Year....



This was my first attempt at using a scene setting on the D-Lux3. Set to fireworks. However, I didn't have a tripod.

With a close look you may be able to figure out the venue but if you can't then here is a clue



Terry
 
Happy New Year to you as well!

Nice shots! The scene setting on Fireworks has worked well!
Shot of famous Marks & Spencer(did you spend lots there?
) is great!
 
Thanks,

No I was not in spending mode. I had just spent the last 30 minutes just across the street at Selfridges having a drink to stay out of the pouring rain and taking pictures out the window without the people on the street having a clue.

Terry
 
Smart idea! Have you tried other scene settings yet? I prefer manual or aperture setting myself but took some shots using scene mode and it was not bad at all!
 
No, this is the only time I've had the camera in scene mode. I've been generally using aperture priority or simply setting the ISO at 100 and being lazy in program. The experimentation I started with has been playing around with the exposures with bracketing and compensation.
 
I was a fan of the railing from the D-Lux 3 and also from the front page the cherries are great. I need to start playing with black and white. You use if very effectively with the D-Lux3. I have some technical issues right now needing a new laptop with more memory and hard disk space but trying to hold out until after any MacWorld announcements.

Terry
 
Thanks! I always use color and then convert in Photoshop to B&W. I have been shooting RAW from DLUX-3 but shot some JPEGS as well and they were great too.
 
Hi, Terry,

Very nice shots. I like both. Did you do the second one also in Firework setting? I am very curious about the f and speed of these shots, would you mind sharing? (I do not know how to check the exif of these photos).
Thanks and Happy New Year.
H
 
Heicha said:
Hi, Terry,
Very nice shots. I like both. Did you do the second one also in
Firework setting? I am very curious about the f and speed of these
shots, would you mind sharing? (I do not know how to check the exif
of these photos).
Thanks and Happy New Year.
H
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No, the second one had the following settings...
100 ISO
f2.8

1/10 second (hand held but I was leaning against a building to try and remain stable with OIS mode #2)
-1 2/3 EV

Here is the same shot at -1/3 EV (I was bracketing) - I like the cab better on this one but I prefer the darker sky and intensity of the other in some ways

 
Happy New Year, Terry!

Glad I logged on before I went to bed and saw this. Great job! I also like the original version that you posted best, but it was interesting to see the comparison between the two settings. This is very helpful to me, people have been trying to pound the bracketing concept into my thick head on a night shot I attempted. You didn't blow out anything on either shot though ... or at least I don't see it.

Thanks for sharing and hope to see more photos from your trip.

Best,
Joanie
 
joan55 said:
Happy New Year, Terry!

Glad I logged on before I went to bed and saw this. Great job! I
also like the original version that you posted best, but it was
interesting to see the comparison between the two settings. This is
very helpful to me, people have been trying to pound the bracketing
concept into my thick head on a night shot I attempted. You didn't
blow out anything on either shot though ... or at least I don't see
it.

Thanks for sharing and hope to see more photos from your trip.

Best,
Joanie
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Thanks Joanie,

It was a good weekend. I do have some other shots that I need to work on and then I will give a link. I've been using the bracketing on all sorts of shots not just the night ones. I am finding that it is helping me in a number of different ways. First, it is helping me figure out stylistically what I like better in different exposures of the same scene as well as what responds better when I get home and can make adjustments on the computer. Second, I am not good enough on PP to know if I can make the correct adjustments at home so I get 3 different starting points. Third, on the small LCD, even when enlarging the view, what you see doesn't seem to completely translate to the big screen. For instance, on the LCD, I was convinced that the second version of the Marks and Spencer shot was better.

There is something about this camera that is making me want to take pictures that are different than what I am used to. Perhaps because I am just learning how to use available light. I took a ton of shots at a restaurant where I had the camera sitting on top of my wine glass as its tripod. There are some good ones but nothing to compare with Jono and the M8.

The hardest thing for me right now is remember all the things that I need to do. For example when the camera was resting on the glass, I did use the 2 second self timer but forgot to turn off OIS. I need a better mental checklist!

This is the first time I have taken a lot of time to read the manual and then go out and try out everything over and over. I think it is helping me to get better (at least in my mind others may be saying oh not not another post from Terry).
Terry
 
Right Back Atcha
Hi Terry

The first one is a little small to judge - if I'm doing fireworks I usually do a little fiddling in camera and then set a manual exposure - not sure that I ever quite trust scene modes (silly me)

The second shot is great though - works excellently well.

Best wishes
--
Jono Slack
http://www.slack.co.uk
 
Thanks Jono,

I'm having fun.

We got caught having to see the fireworks at a bad angle so I had to hold the camera above my head with no tripod. I took a lot of shots and generally was impressed that I got a decent amount of good ones where there wasn't a lot of shake. When enlarged more they are pretty clean but I didn't want to go past the 800 pixels wide to post. It's the only scene mode I've used but the manual said that the ISO is set to 100 in these shots so I knew I wouldn't get fireworks that were ruined by noise.

The second one I really liked. It was fun to get so many different light sources without big blobs of over-exposed spots. I'm finding that I am using a lot of minus e/v's.
 
tashley said:
Hi Terry,

These are great examples of how flexible the camera is - not to
mention how well you use it. I particularly like the M&S shot,
possibly cos it's about 2 minute's walk from my flat!
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Thanks Tim,

I had gone to Selfridges to look at their selection of photography books and ended up having an extended visit to the food hall waiting out the rain. I've never really done much with longer exposures to get available light but I am having so much fun learning!

Terry
 
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who forgets to change certain settings between shots ... I got myself so confused I just had to reset everything to defaults and start over. laughing at myself

It sounds like you're really on your way to achieving good things, I think what I need to do is re-read the manual, work on one set of challenges at a time, and just get out there and experiment more. I have a tendency to want to know ahead of time what I'm doing, as if I'm going to hurt something if I mess up. Silly, isn't it? I don't want to let the camera intimidate me!

Look forward to getting the link to your other shots. :-)
--
joanie
 
Thanks Terry, for the exposure info. I agree with you that the taxi tail lights added some movement to the photo. You probably can darken the photo with PS to make it more evening-like. H
 
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