Photograpgy at Disney/Universal

[Madabouttigger]

Lovely photos, can we see more please? [msnwink]

[seanchai]

As a bit of a photographer and a oil painter i like experimenting .....the folks that go out with me (usually family) get a bit fed up of me click clicking away hahahahaha.
As a younger man i always wanted to take many pictures but cost was a major factor ...that cost does not come into it these days and i can take as many photos as i want .
Its amazing the different setting even a inexpensive camera has these days ...... spuddybaby and snapper ....your photos are excellent ...if i can get mine something like yours i will be more than happy ...thanks for posting.

[Snapper]

Beautiful photos Spuddy. Really lovely!

[Spuddybaby]

thanks for the comments guys, here are a few more, i dont have access to many today but here are a few.

The thing i have imeediately noticed is the quality of the image with a DSLR camera compared to a point and shoot. The moment, you first see it on a PC screen, you can immediately see the difference i image quality. i would highly recomend getting one.
I upgraded my kit lens to a 55-200mm zoom and a prime 35mm lens. most of the photos i took where with the 35mm prime lens. it was amazing!, so much better than the kit lens.
for those that know their photograpgy, it has a 1.8 aperture, to allow for good low level light shots.

[Lyn]

Great Pictures all of them but my favourite is No.2

[Snapper]

I upgraded my kit lens to a 55-200mm zoom and a prime 35mm lens. most of the photos i took where with the 35mm prime lens. it was amazing!, so much better than the kit lens.

That is some of the best advice you will ever give ... but you'll be surprised how few people will ever heed it.

Back in the days of 35mm film there was a saying that a photography teacher once told me ... The lens takes the photo, the camera just holds the film flat.

[syrup]

[QUOTE=Back in the days of 35mm film there was a saying that a photography teacher once told me ... The lens takes the photo, the camera just holds the film flat.[/QUOTE]

So true, that is what I used to say when I was in photography. I still think it applies to a great extent on today's digitals, although there is more to consider as well.

[CERICROWLEY]

I am no experienced photographer, having had the usual point and shoot cameras upgrading them as time needs, as I want to achieve a bit more from the camera than it allows etc. I am at the stage of being in between the auto snapshot and DSLR. I would love to be able to do this and that, but understanding the full capabilites of the DSLR and bit over my head. I do want some manual control to experience different exposures and focus, but I am not at the stage that I can do it without thinking, and by that time the moment of the picture has gone.

I got a new camera for christmas last year, the Nikon V1 with the additional 30mm lens, which is just about enough as carrying anything larger for me a little squirt would be exhausting all the time. Experimenting has been great, and although not knowing a lot about manual control of shutters etc, I did find I was getting some great results. I was using the continuous frame option over that of single frame shutter. just to get some good photos of motion shots. but I was finding it very cumbersome as it was taking ages to reset for the next shot, and when you are sea world in the amphitheatre, you can't say I didn't get that one, and we do it again. My battery was dying really quickly it would not last the day, so I know I need a backup battery. I have a few sdhd cards, so taking many photos and choosing the right one, and deleting the rest is going to be the best thing to do.

I have now understand a bit more about the camera and how to adjust some of the settings that I think I can cope with. I have change the exposure to a programme mode, instead of the automatic of the point and shoot. still not totally confident of my ability to focus etc. so wanted to have the camera take some control. There is also the option to choose the shutter type. Which I have gone for the faster shutter speed, which on this model is the electronic hi, which gives me the option of 10-30-60 frames per second, which I think will be the better option that holding down the shutter release on the continuous option before. Still learning, so not really sure. But from doing a few test shots, it looks like it may achieve what I want, and can then move on to understanding manually adjusting aperture and shutter speed. There is still so much on the camera that I do not understand fully.

So any help for an idiot with a reasonably good camera is much appreciated.

[syrup]

Cameras today I feel are over complexed. Basically old film cameras run on two parameters, shutter speed and aperature. For action shots you chose the highest shutter speed that the available light would allow you and for shots where there are large areas you wanted in focus you would chose the smallest aperture (which is the highest number) to give you a greater depth of field. Everything else, group pictures e.t.c would be a satisfactory shutter speed to avoid camera shake 1/60 and let the aperture sort itself out from there.

It may be a good idea if you joined a local camera club even if only temporary or joined your local education evening classes. Books and manuals are very useful but you cannot beat hand on experience.

[florida4sun]

Mster the manual functions and you will open up a whole new world. It takes a while but once you get famiar with them it will broaden your scope. Most DSLRs have all manual functions at your finger tips. Using auto is fine but very limiting and really a waste of a good camera. I shoot a lot in low light and auto is just too slow, cumbersome and limiting (even with top end cameras). By manual functions I am reffering too shutter speed, aperture and focus. Once confident you will open up a whole new world to yourself.
Dont be thinking its all too complicated. Basicly all you are doing is controlling how much light enters the camera with aperture, how long for with shutter speed and of course image focus. Master these functions and you will reap the rewards.
My best tip is that you can never take enough photos. At a typical concert I will take around 3000 images and get a handful good images plus one or two great images.