stormchaser

It's really just how much you like it. For composition, use the rule of thirds: place your subject in one of the "hot spots":

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For colours, just try to use one spectrum, like red or blue type colours. Those aside, just ask yourself if you would want it on your wall.

They deepen blue skies and eliminate reflections. Sometimes they're invaluable, like if someone is standing in front of a window and distracting reflections ruin the shot. Personally, I just leave one on my camera at all times under my protective filter.

I think so. The solution, obviously, is just to print it out a bigger size.

You know why I want to get a digital SLR instead of my 35mm Nikon? Because developing photos is ridiculously expensive, and with digital you can pick the ones you want. Plus, you can just set the ISO sensitivity instead of going out and getting a new roll.

What is it? Mine is either developing in coffee or this one guy who took a

bunch of pictures with a toy camera, onto polaroid film, blew them up to giant

size, and coated them with resin. It looked really cool.

The aperture is what controls the amount of light that reaches the film/chip. f/22 normally lets in the least light. The less light is let in, the longer the shutter needs to stay open. In other words, if you can shoot at 1/125 of a second at f/22, you could shoot somewhere around 1/1000 of a second at f/8, which is the average.

50mm lenses are the average, I think. Less then that is a wide angle lens - anything in the picture is smaller, but it shows more. Fisheye lenses, which I think are like 5mm, show about 170 degrees, but the edges are curved up. More than 50 is a telephoto - it's permanently zoomed in, and thus shows less. For wedding photography, you're good with a 50mm.

I don't think photography is about "showing the world", any more than painting is. It's meant to look good and convey a thought. So in theory, yes, as each different photographer has different things to convey.

I didn't see the site say it was set up by fujifilm. Besides, I have a fujifilm digital camera.

If I were you, I'd just use a glasses cleaner. Still, contact lens solution should be okay.

Okay, I just figured out f/stops. I'm not sure about exposure stops, but I know that when I step the f/stops on my camera up or down, it automatically adjusts the shutter speed for it.

 

I loves my camera. :D

I know... it was only aimed at people who own it... :S

Oh, really? I always thought there was a little dial or something about exposure time. But mine doesn't say, as far as I know, what the absolute "correct" exposure is. Hey, wait a minute. That aperture adjusts the amount of light reaching the lens, doesn't it? What does it have to do with shutter speed?

Mood is, well, mood. If you don't understand it intrinsically, I don't know how you could be a photographer.

The New Manual of Photography by John Hedgecoe. For a beginner, it's got everything you'll need on everything you'll want to do.

It's not, in my opinion. You know that photo God's Fury on this site? By Mircea whoever? I think it'd be better without a name. I hadn't known it was a before-the-storm picture. Where are the birds going? Why is the field so strangely empty? As soon as you know it's a storm, it becomes less interesting.

Meh, that's not what photography is. You want motion, you want movies. Photography is a completely seperate art,

Don't use flash, set the ISO up high enough that there's enough light that you don't need flash, and sidelight them with a reflector on the other side. Being a photography n00b, I could be wrong, but this should make a good photo.

I suppose it's possible to get obsessed, but with digitals after I've taken sixteen pictures and none of them look right, I just giv eup and realize that the shot just may not work.

Pull a Kertesz and just take pictures of anything that looks cool. Do studio pictures if you like them, but if you're outside with a camera and you see a cool shot, take it.

Point-and-shoot cameras. Anyone who uses them for photography, really. I used to, but ever since my dad gave me his Nikon EM point-and-shoot is a swear word to me.

How about no. fingerprint oils aren't exactly fluroantimonic acid, and if you can't see the print on your shots, just leave it.

 

How can you even see it? Are you dissecting a lens?

WHAAAAAAAAT?

 

 

 

No... no more Nikkor?...

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Joshua: Do you really need to? Why don't you just, say tape a pen onto the stub? Unless it's more than just broken plastic, of course.

 

Lazy Sod: True. I just meant that the advice about stops that most photography books have isn't really worth anything. Besides, normally when I use long exposure I'm talking like four seconds.