[xBhp Universal Thread]: Photography and Critique

[Aryan]

Originally Posted by haxor

what you said went over my head...pz elaborate

In simple terms, keep the focus on the subject and maximize your aperture by setting it to something between f9-f11 or more (if your camera allows)..That's as simple as I could get..

[Speed Pujari]

When it comes to maximizing the DOF, the hyperfocal distance is a very important concept.
Simply stated, the hyperfocal distance is the shortest distance from the camera such that everything from approximately half that distance to infinity will appear sharp. Focusing the camera at the hyperfocal distance results in the greatest DOF possible for a given combination of aperture and focal length.

An approximate hyperfocal is somewhere near the 1/3rd of the image. To make it clear - Divide the image horizontally into three parts, focussing on the intersection between the second and the third part will give a probable max DOF, of course keep the aperture max small and lens max wide.

Hope this ray optics is clear this time.. if not then I have a diagram also which m lazy to put here.

[theslayer]

Originally Posted by leon_nerd

@theslayer: Hmmmmm....I would suggest you go for the superzoom Semi DSLRs first. It makes more sense in terms of the money invested on learning photography. In case of DSLR you will have to invest a lot for each "thing" that you want to learn. No doubt the quality of DSLR is better but I would always go for a Semi DSLR to learn photography. I can learn everything from macros to people photography to ultra zoom shots to Panoramas to blah blah...name it and you can more or less learn it on your Semi DSLR.

Thanks for the critique... thanks for the suggestion too.. so superzoom it is!

[themadrussian]

all pics taken from mobile camera

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[anvancy]

@the slayer:some decent pics.

Originally Posted by Speed Pujari

Loved this tooo much.. My wud be mother in law was blown away yesterday after seeing this pic ..

To impress her I said I only taught anvancy how to take these macro shots .. (Hope anvancy has not changed his color balance to "RED") ..

Ok jokes apart- Dude tell me this , is this foto straight out of the camera or u have done some PP .. have u sharpened the foto? lemme know bcoz m on the verge of learning PP , and yes gradually inclining towards Macro after seeing ur pics buddy .. gradually planning for a lens later on!

waa bhai...meri mehnat teri kamai??

this shot is straight out of the camera..just touched up a 70 sharpness at 2 radius in LR.nothing else.

one of the most fantastic functions i find in PS is unsharp mask..and DSLR users surely get more juice from their pics.i simply believe that a photo looks top notch once it has been edited.not once it has been shot.

if u are going into macro i would simply suggest to first go for raynox before the actual macro lens..raynox really teaches you macro photography and still you get awesome shots.the 250 at 200mm is 1:1.so at 300mm it goes beyond 1:1 and still you can crop..so intricate details.

some of which are:













none of these have been cropped.all originals.

anvancy.

[praveensuchindar]

Some from my side...They might be quite amateurish..

Forgive the bad picture quality.I took them using an archaic 4 Megapixel Canon i-Xus
Hornet's nest









faces...



This is the broken bridge - a little further from Elliots beach in Chennai



Sunset from my apartment's terrace

[archistar]

been to Jaipur yesterday for some official work and the first set 'm sharing from my 1000D...

[anvancy]

my favourite subject...water drops:












aryan:the Js continue..



that is a 100% crop.

anvancy.