Nick Posted January 21, 2005 Posted January 21, 2005 Ok, after some discussion in another post, it was said that it would be beneficial to add a post on photography skills. I am an amateur at best that shoots mainly with a Casio 3000 digital camera and limited studio equipment. I'll get things started with this pic: The Fstop on that pic was at 2.8. To me it turned out somewhat "artsy" even if overexposed. I had one "umbrella" unit with the flash reflecting into the umbrella. This was a "slave" triggered from the flash on the camera. The problem that I encountered with this oic is that the modeling lights did not provide enough light for the camera to make it's own exposure adjustment, so I over compensated manually. Please share your own experiences and ideas! This is how I learn to make her work better every time she does a shoot. Thanks! Nick
heelsRus Posted January 21, 2005 Posted January 21, 2005 I like it. Yes, it's a little overexposed but the white blouse she's wearing blends into the background. Yeah, kinda artsy, but a neat effect. The black leather corset works well for contrast too. As I've said before, a smile really adds a lot to a picture for me. I think people look better smiling (even a slight one). Anyone in the Ottawa or Toronto area that want to be a model? :-)
J-Nation Posted January 22, 2005 Posted January 22, 2005 try 'bracketing' the pic with more exposures a stop or two either side of where you think you should be, until you get an idea of what the end result is going to be. With a digital camera, film is cheap!
Nick Posted February 8, 2005 Author Posted February 8, 2005 Can someone please help.... When saving pics from digital cameras...what format do you use? I normally use .jpg, but I now here that saving the pictures as a .tiff will work better. Can anyone confirm this? I am always seeking ways to get the photo delivered to you all with the highest quality possible! Thanks! Nick
J-Nation Posted February 9, 2005 Posted February 9, 2005 Do you know what format your camera uses on it's own card? If it's a jpeg, not a tiff or RAW file, then you won't gain much by saving as a tiff. However, if you do a lot of subsequent editing on the photos, every time you save as a jpeg you will lose a little data due to compression, but tiff is a so-called lossless format, so you don't lose information when you repeatedly save it. In any event, always try and keep a copy of the original, unmolested file as it comes out of the camera. When you are ready to post the edited version on the net, it's better to save as a jpeg as the filesize will (generally) be smaller than a tiff for faster downloading. Hope this helps Emma
heelsRus Posted February 9, 2005 Posted February 9, 2005 Can someone please help.... When saving pics from digital cameras...what format do you use? I normally use .jpg, but I now here that saving the pictures as a .tiff will work better. Can anyone confirm this? I am always seeking ways to get the photo delivered to you all with the highest quality possible! Thanks! Nick TIFF is a lossless file format. But they are huge! I've been shooting in RAW mode, which is like a digital negative, and you can edit thoroughly in photoshop or whatever. But again, these things are large. The photos I'm taking in RAW mode are 5-6MB in size (3008x2000 pixels), JPGs are 700-900kB (full size). Try shooting at high resolution, lossless, etc., and then resize to something smaller (and lossy). But when you save the file make sure you save with higher quality. Hope this helps.
heelsRus Posted February 9, 2005 Posted February 9, 2005 Ok, so I'm still taking the camera with me everywhere. I keep trying to find something nice to take pictures of, but either I'm in the car (tough to take a pic without crashing) or it's night or there's nothing worth it. Well, ok, ferrets excepted. They're generally photogenic. I've been thinking of heading to downtown toronto some evening and taking pics of buildings, where I'll just _happen_ to photograph some nice scenery in the process, but haven't made it down there yet. Oh well. Maybe I should have put this in the rant section? Anyone in the YOW YYZ area that would like their photo taken.....?
Spikey Dan Posted February 10, 2005 Posted February 10, 2005 Can someone please help.... When saving pics from digital cameras...what format do you use? I normally use .jpg, but I now here that saving the pictures as a .tiff will work better. Can anyone confirm this? I am always seeking ways to get the photo delivered to you all with the highest quality possible! Thanks! Nick TIFF is a lossless file format. But they are huge! I've been shooting in RAW mode, which is like a digital negative, and you can edit thoroughly in photoshop or whatever. But again, these things are large. The photos I'm taking in RAW mode are 5-6MB in size (3008x2000 pixels), JPGs are 700-900kB (full size). Try shooting at high resolution, lossless, etc., and then resize to something smaller (and lossy). But when you save the file make sure you save with higher quality. Hope this helps. I recommend TIFF if your intention is to publish the pics in a publication (ie magazines, books, or newspapers). If they are only for pics on a website, then shoot RAW, resize the images to a 400x600 pixel image, then save it as a JPEG. If you have a photographer's profile on One Model Place, the maximum you can post an image is 500 pixels on its longest side, and 50 mb per image. Hope this helps Dan
heelsRus Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 I recommend TIFF if your intention is to publish the pics in a publication (ie magazines, books, or newspapers). If they are only for pics on a website, then shoot RAW, resize the images to a 400x600 pixel image, then save it as a JPEG. If you have a photographer's profile on One Model Place, the maximum you can post an image is 500 pixels on its longest side, and 50 mb per image. Hope this helps Dan You've got some nice pics! TIFF and RAW are about the same, in the sense that they are lossless. My camera, for instance, doesn't output in TIFF, only RAW and JPEG. I'd also be interested in any suggestions and recommendations you have for people wanting to get into this (amateur) hobby.
Nick Posted February 12, 2005 Author Posted February 12, 2005 Wow! Thanks for all the great info! You all are super! My camera saves as .JPG as a default, but there is a way to make it save as .TIFF files. I haven't tried that as of yet. There is a chance that she will be doing some print work for a magazine in the coming months, so I will experiment with the TIFF images soon. I haven't found a way to switch to any other format with the camera we have now. We will be switching up to a better camera this year so we'll see what happens. Thanks again! Nick
Spikey Dan Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 You've got some nice pics! Thank you so much. I got into this very expensive hobby many, many years ago. But I started photographing models 3 years ago. My biggest expenditures was paying the models to photograph. A few of them brought the right kind of heels I wanted to photograph, but a lot did not. So I ended up buying a lot of shoes for them to wear. I was recommended by my other photographer friends to shoot RAW, then make the changes (cropping, color corrections, remove skin blemishes, etc) and then save as TIFF or JPG. Thank you again Dan
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