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Originally posted by Saka Can anyone else view TaurusNYY's account, I keep searching and nothing. :/

Yeah, nothing showed for me either.

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This little critter was following me, was funny how he kept buzzing round me, in a silent wood he was quite loud ha

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Originally posted by Saka Went out this morning early start: This little critter was following me, was funny how he kept buzzing round me, in a silent wood he was quite loud ha

That's a Robin, right? I love the Robins we get here, they're just like you describe. They follow you around and make noise

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It would appear so

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Originally posted by Sushipunk It would appear so

You'll have to help me though, I know you won't do as much landscape as bird pics, but I've been taking a few landscapes recently and because the sky is so bright the tops of tree's and the sky look funny, which filter do I get to fix this, there are so many, I have no idea about filters

Oh, an yes it was a robin, whats your robins look like?

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Originally posted by Saka You'll have to help me though, I know you won't do as much landscape as bird pics, but I've been taking a few landscapes recently and because the sky is so bright the tops of tree's and the sky look funny, which filter do I get to fix this, there are so many, I have no idea about filters Oh, an yes it was a robin, whats your robins look like?

I'm not too good with filters either :/ What do you mean "the tops of tree's and the sky look funny"? Define funny

The Robins we get here are called Eastern Yellow Robins. Pics below:

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Ha awesome, great pics.
I'll give you an example.
Took a couple pics today in the dim light with long exposure and got great results, but as it got brighter, this happened:

The light from the sky looks too bright, it doesn't reflect what your eyes see, and I know its because our eyes can adjust various lights in one view but I don't know how to reflect that in my photos, in other pics if it were any brighter it would start interfering with the quality of the outline of the tree's, am I making sense? lol

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Originally posted by Saka Ha awesome, great pics. I'll give you an example. Took a couple pics today in the dim light with long exposure and got great results, but as it got brighter, this happened: The light from the sky looks too bright, it doesn't reflect what your eyes see, and I know its because our eyes can adjust various lights in one view but I don't know how to reflect that in my photos, in other pics if it were any brighter it would start interfering with the quality of the outline of the tree's, am I making sense? lol

Yeah ok, you're making sense. The reason it's bright like that is because of the long exposure. Light hitting the sensor tends to have a cumulative effect. Even if there's only a tiny bit of light, a long exposure will intensify it quite a bit. I've taken quite a few shots of the horizon waaaay after the sun has gone down, when there's almost no light at all, and the pics come out with all these beautiful rich reds and oranges. Great to look at on the computer, but nothing at all like what my eyes were seeing, it was just from the long exposures I was doing. Example:



If you're looking to cut out the light from the sky, while keeping the same amount of light in your foreground, look at getting a circular polarising filter. Essentially, the filter is darker on one side than the other (top to bottom I mean), and you can turn it around with your finger while it's still attached to your lens, so you would set the darker side to be on the top so it lets less light through, and the lighter part on the bottom lets the normal amount of light through. They come in various types and densities, but the standard ones should do what you're looking for.

Hope that makes sense

Edit: Actually, depending on the shot, you might want to check out using a gradiated neutral density filter instead.

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Last edited by Sushipunk on Jan-02-2011 at 03:21

Could also be metering. What happens with digital is there's some kind of algorithm it uses to work out the exposure, so if you point it at a dark subject (trees) it lightens the whole shot so they're exposed properly.

I suppose the cheap way to fix it is point the focal point of the shot slightly more towards the sky, and turn your e.v. compensation down to -1. That will stop the sky from blowing out.

Got a tripod? You could get two photos of the same thing, one over exposed and one under and then blend them.

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One thing i suggest for photo mangement is Lightroom. Its AMAZING for mangement and intergrates with facebook and Flickr. If you can't afford that then Picasa seems like a good free alternative.

If you can, I also suggest a fast lens as well. I have a Nikkor 1.4G, but cost around $500. The Nikkor 1.8G is alot cheaper. I'm sure Canon has something generic as well.

If you getting into photography you should check this youtube site out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FontanaKnowledge

I'm not saying its the best photography class on the internet, but its pretty good....and free.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Yeah ok, you're making sense. The reason it's bright like that is because of the long exposure. Light hitting the sensor tends to have a cumulative effect. Even if there's only a tiny bit of light, a long exposure will intensify it quite a bit. I've taken quite a few shots of the horizon waaaay after the sun has gone down, when there's almost no light at all, and the pics come out with all these beautiful rich reds and oranges. Great to look at on the computer, but nothing at all like what my eyes were seeing, it was just from the long exposures I was doing. Example: If you're looking to cut out the light from the sky, while keeping the same amount of light in your foreground, look at getting a circular polarising filter. Essentially, the filter is darker on one side than the other (top to bottom I mean), and you can turn it around with your finger while it's still attached to your lens, so you would set the darker side to be on the top so it lets less light through, and the lighter part on the bottom lets the normal amount of light through. They come in various types and densities, but the standard ones should do what you're looking for. Hope that makes sense Edit: Actually, depending on the shot, you might want to check out using a gradiated neutral density filter instead.

A Circular Polariser would not work very well, especially at sunset. They tend to make the sky very blue. What he needs is a Neutral Density filter, which does exactly what you describe. Those cut the light by various Stops.


EDIT: sorry i didn't see your edit at the bottom. Sushipunk, I'm sure you know this, but you take some amazing photos.

Please please please, do not buy into the HDR bs.

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