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I could not believe my eyes when taking a peek at the very first photo in the rear display. The amount of light pollution!!!
I thought I was in a place with very little of it :P
There is a tiny little village 16 miles away that is showing in the middle. The size of the small town is such that when driving a car through it you have to pay attention if you want to see it.
And thos two other light pollution bubbles, I don't even know what those are. There should be nothing there.
Can only do a crop from the landscape orientation.. I was in a hurry inside my head (not in any real hurry, that is) and could not make my hands rotate the camera into portrait orientation.
@ElendilTheTall Thanks for the suggestion, it doesn't look bad.
@ElendilTheTall It works nicely. The subject of the photo changed. The lighthouse is the main thing now.
Here's one of the best shots of mine lately:
All of those got eaten ;)
What's a young male chicken called in English? Here we call it a "broiler" and that's broiler fillet steaks on the grill.
@ElendilTheTall After all, I'm going with the landscape orientation with slightly off-center kid. The point out there, where the photo was taken, is the space around it all. There is air. There is space. There is wind and countryside. The photo is not only about the kid jumping, it is the environment as well.
I'm not sure that is clear as is. The subject of the shot is clearly the kid. The rest just seems like the background. If you're trying to convey a sense of space, I would have taken the shot from much further back.
I would have composed the shot so the trampoline as a whole was off center
perhaps on the left third line
and then given the other 2 thirds to the landscape
This is obviously a very quick mock up, but I'd do something like this I think
Then you have a big sky to enhance the sense of space, and the well off-centre main subject adds dynamism
The story goes like this, I see my 10 year old daughter being happy after I set up the trampoline, and I run indoors to get the camera, shoot a few quickly, never really stopping to think.
and once again I notice a photo that I've "made" while I still did not quite know what I was doing... Since shooting of that photo I've learned a lot about post process.
@EsaPaulasto dead center is not "by the book" on a shot like that, particularly with the odd cropping of the trampoline itself
even better in that context would have been to center the trampoline
she felt unmoving in the first because the focus was her, in reality, you want the focus to be her on the trampoline, which means focus on the trampoline and then people will see "oh a trampoline, and look, there is a girl jumping on it"
the first shot they see "oh a girl..... hmm, oh, I guess she's on something, oh yeah, I guess that must be a trampoline cause she's floating."
proper subject selection is important in telling the story
@ElendilTheTall too much of the start of the sunset draws your eye away from the lighthouse. I find my eye focusing entirely trying to find what's going on to the right and can't pull back to the light house
either need to crop before the skyline starts brightening considerable or leave the sky as a whole skyscape with the lighthouse sitting in front of it. I do like the first a lot
but if I'd been on the ground along the rocks on the left side there
it would have been very similar to your shot
@EsaPaulasto interestingly though, that's also the hardest thing about event and particularly wedding photography, or atleast one of them. You are under high pressure with things that only happen once, but you have to not only be keeping track of how to shoot what you are currently looking at, but also what is going on around you that you could be shooting
so imagine doing that thought process, but doing it on everything in the room at the same time, all the time, for six to eleven hours straight
I've never done any night video on a DSLR. Did a quick test last night and it looked somewhat alright (on camera LCD) but pretty grainy when I pulled it up on a monitor today. Thinking ISO setting was off. I had it on 400. Any idea for a dimly lit street what sort of ISO I should look at using?
but in general, you have to shoot pretty high ISO if it is pretty dark. Did it look noisy looking at individual frames or actual video?
and the dark parts are always a bit more dark
this isn't my video, but here is a well done demonstration of what the 5D Mark iii does for low light video, just to give you an idea of what it can be on the high end
Ideally, I'd want to have a second shooter on any events I used it for
but I'm imagining things like certain dance shots or things like the tosses where it could be really awesome to move from one person's reaction to anothers
and be able to follow the focus and perspective shift the scene
I'd have started talking to the band, but after the initial poor response, I would have contacted their label and manager
who would be far more familiar with the business side
it's a business matter, not a musical one, half the time the band themselves will be pretty clueless
it isn't their job to understand rights and business, just music and performing
and you get ahold of their promoter or their manager and the problem will be resolved very quickly by someone they do listen to
which I'm sure is what eventually happened
the facebook messages they probably respond to directly, but the twitter is probably followed by someone in management that did a back flip double summersault double take and got them on the phone post haste
ah, reading his blog, thats what eventually happened: "I also sent a quick email to their Australian tour manager to see if they could be of any help, I was met with a much more reasonable and extremely polite and professional response, I don’t feel it’s appropriate the post this response, but it was very apologetic and they contacted Red Jumpsuit for me to have the image removed."
A place in the middle of a forest, not far away from our cottage.
There's a fireplace for grilling whatever you brought with you. A little barn for wood to burn in that fireplace, supplied with dry wood all around the year. And an outhouse if need arises. A nice place for a daytrip with family :)
Free to use for anyone passing by. Kept up by the local community.
Yeah, it is :) The distance is good for a walk with our dogs, so I've visited the place around the year. A fire will warm you nicely when it is below freezing point in winter, so I've lit a fire even when I've not brought anything to eat :)
My father died 17 years ago and my mother died 8 years ago. They owned their home, a rather large (by Finnish standard) house and not a penny of bank loan left. So, after our mother died me and my sister sold the house and split the money between us. I used half of my share to buy the cottage. That's how it came to us :)
^^ and today I would be stuck with 7+ years old outdated technology ;)
Back then I was driving a Toyota Camry which had mileage on it from here to moon, literally. Bought the cottage and a newer carriage and such. Buying a system camera never crossed my mind then.
thats why you can appreciate a cottage. the thought for me to stay so rural and sneeze and fight for my breath all the time , and have to fix it up all the time, is not a nice one. I hate getting my hands dirty, except for cooking and sex.
I prefer to drive through mountains in a big sporty car and stay at airconditioned hotels with breakfast and a fancy restaurant inside :)
I grew up in the outskirts of a small town, and farming fields started rigth next to our house, and the forest at the back of the house. And big lake only 200 meters from our doorstep. Nature practically surrounded the house in all forms; farming, forests, lake, wild open fields too. No allergies after a lifelong exposure to it all, I guess you grow immunity that way.
I don't mind the outdoors, necessarily, but I like my tech. I'm the guy with no problem bringing a laptop camping and having an internet connection available in the middle of the ocean