Any photographers in here?

higher f stop means that you have a greater depth of field. think of the things that are in focus as a plane that lies a certain distance away from your camera lens. you can move the plane closer and farther away with the focus, and you can make it deeper or shallower with your aperture. high aperture number means that more stuff is in focus, but calls for a longer exposure time. low aperture number means that less stuff is in focus, but calls for a shorter exposure time. I'm loving your single exposure shots. they're way better than your HDR shots.
 
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I hope you don't mind, but I did a little PP work on your shot. I love the composition of this shot, and all I did was up the saturation, change the tone curve a bit, sharpened and then I burned the sky and the water slightly. hope you like it.
 
it's a photoshop tool. think of it as over exposing the print... the more light the print gets, the darker it turns... photoshop actually lets you get a little more specific, because you can pick if you want to burn highlights midtones or shadows... I just burned the shaddows for more contrast. it makes things like the sky or water look a little bit fuller. if you want to see it in action, just search photoshop burn on youtube!
 
FlyinHawaiian said:
I did not have my tripod with me cause I was on a 12km hike (which we did in under 4 hours) and did not want to lug that AND my camera with me. That's the same reason I only had my 55-250mm lens with me (hence the non-wide angle shots).

Now that you mention it, most of them probably could have used a wider angle lens, but that would have meant lower quality photos. Once I get better wide-angle glass, I'll start bringing that along with me more. My kit 18-55mm doesn't have close to the sharpness the 55-250 gives me, and if nothing else, sharpness means more to me than anything else.

I appreciate the feedback, as you know I'm still learning and trying to get better at different types of photography. I can do airplanes and cars fairly well I think, but nature and people shots are still a mystery to me. Can you also explain the way focus works at different f/stops? Whats the advantage of using a higher f/stop over a lower one in different conditions?
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Wide angle is not a big deal. It just felt like it needed it. The other shots were fine.

DOF - Sleeper explained it pretty good.

Let's say you are a certain distance away, and focused on the tip of a human nose. At the same distance, but increasing your fstop, you are moving that focal point farther into the subject's head..now the eyes are in focus, the nose, mouth, but NOT the ears. Increasing it again, will make the ears in focus, and now most of the face is in focus.

You will also sacrifice shutter speed since increasing the F-stop means making that aperture smaller, means that less light is coming in. You slow the shutter speed to increase the amount of time the light has to enter the camera hence making the right exposure.

This is when iso, aperture and shutter speed comes into play to make that right exposure.

Hope that explains...i'm no good at teaching/explaining
 
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Understood. I knew what the f-stop does to the aperture, but not really how it affected focus. Makes sense now, thanks for the help.
 
Dang, thanks Funky! I didn't realize F-stop affected focus either!

Time to set the beasty to full manual and see what i can do!
 
That's why a lot of landscape shooters shoot landscape at high Fstop numbers and always carry a tripod...because they want that sharpness from foreground all the way to the background.

If you have liveview, it's even more useful. You can zoom to 10X on the LCD and see how sharp it is in the distance just by adjusting your aperture.
 
The downside of super high aperture numbers is that refraction starts taking away from the sharpness of your pictures. Landscapes are usually best shot at ~f10 depending on the lens.
 
Well, here's the list of goodies i get to play with.

It'll mostly be used for Macro stuff

Whatchall think?

Camera:
D200

Lenses:
AF-S 18-70mm f/1:3.5-4.5 ED
AF Micro 105mm f/1:2.8 D
AF 28-70mm f/1:3.5-4.5 D
AF-S 17-35mm f/1:2.8 ED
AF VR 80-400mm f/1:4.5-5.6 D
AF 80-200mm f/1:28 D

Flashes:
Speedlight SB-80DX
Speedlight SB-800
(2x)-Wireless remote speedlight SB-R200

Remote:
MC-20

Tripod:
Sunpak Platinum Plus 7500 Pro
Lens hoods:
HB-24
HB-23
HB-32

Memory:
1qty 4gig
1qty 2gig
 
mx-p5 said:
Camera:
D200

Lenses:
AF Micro 105mm f/1:2.8 D
AF 80-200mm f/1:28 D

Flashes:
Speedlight SB-80DX
Speedlight SB-800
(2x)-Wireless remote speedlight SB-R200
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Just send me these and noone gets hurt.
 
i shoot canon as well but that set up is definitely a step up from the 30D im currently shooting with...plus i dont have all of those flashes and sweet wireless remote. I would figure out Nikon and their bassakward ways pretty quick haha
 
I plan on it. The person sized suitcase it's all in is travelling back and forth to work and home with me for the next few weeks as i learn the settings and such.

Boss man gave me a 4hr video to watch on how to operate the D200
 
I envy you Sir. I wanted a D200 for a long time. Getting ready after x-mas to get a good 17-85 F-2.8 Nikor lense and D300s. D40x is good. But with the amount of sports im shooting. Auto focus sucks, and my hands don't work as fast as i like in manual
 
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