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13 comments:
Beautiful..!!!!! You don't see this but once a year!
Ok so I gotta ask. I have a 40D as well and when I tried my hand at the foliage shots, they didnt turn out as nice. It was hard to get all the color to show up. I got a few spots here and there, but nothing like that. Any setting's tips?
-bryan
bmc: It's called HDR photography, or High Dynamic Range. Basically you take 3 or more photos at different exposures and combine them using only the parts from each shot that make the exposure look the best. (data for the lighter parts from the dark shot, like the sky, and data for the darker parts from the light shot, like the ground/shadows) You pretty much need a tripod and some software to combine them like Photomatix, but it's not that hard. Get familiar with the AEB function on your 40D. ;)
Hey KB, I right clicked this photo and have it as my desktop (hope u don't mind)....It's awesome and everyone that sees it at work wants to know where to go and find such beauty. I tell them it's The Gap in the Smoky mountains ... Keep up the good work and we'll all keep coming back for more....... Donald
I was going to ask if it was HDR?
Actually, on the 4th of July this year I stopped up there and you showed me where the function is on the camera. My girlfriend had all the flowers in her hair.
Oh well, have to wait till next year to try. LOL.
-bryan
Oh yeah, and I ment to ask this earlier.
What remote trigger did you use when you mounted the camera to the bike for the knee drag shots.
-bryan
It was TC-80N3 digital Canon remote trigger set to continuously shoot one shot every second until I told it to stop. Ended up getting like 600 shots per run. ;)
Don't make us beg!!!
Put this in your
WALL ART.
^^ ^^
600 shots per run? With a shot every second that would be 600 seconds = 10 minutes. You did 11 miles in 10 minutes? That averages 66 m.p.h.! Breakin tha law, breakin tha law!
Thanks! That was actully the one I was looking at last night. Need something to make my long exposure and the HDR shots easier and cleaner.
-bryan
david: Well it may have been more, just a guess, but we didn't run the full 11 miles, only from the state line to overlook. Plus I had it set for a 2 minute delay before it started shooting for tire warm-up time. It was not balls out runs or anything, as I was a bit concerned about the camera dragging...which it did...when everyone standing there before the run was saying "there's no way that's going to drag." =P I just wanted to make a nice smooth run with my buddy out front to add interest and stay close together since the wide angle makes everything look farther away.
bmc: Don't forget about the automatic timer countdown built right into the camera. I usually just use that for my HDR and long exposure stuff, while holding my hand over the eyepiece so no stray light gets in the back.
Funny story about that stray light entering the eyepiece thing...I was getting some shots of the world-record burnout at Smoky Mountain HD a couple of years ago, and got into a position with my wide-angle with the sun right behind me to get a shot of the whole burnout area. I was holding the camera up over my head for a slightly elevated angle, and wasn't looking through the eyepiece. Since it's a wideangle lens, it's pretty easy to freehand the shot if you can get the camera level. Well I kept shooting and they kept coming out super-dark/under-exposed. I finally figured out the sun was shining right into the eyepiece and onto the sensor, which was causing the light-metering to compensate by shooting darker, thinking it was a bright shot!
Wow! I never thought about the light coming through the eye peice. Might have to take a rag out with me next time and give that a shot. I really enjoy those exposure shots. Makes more a neat effect.
I started looking into some large aperture lenses with the smaller zoom. I figured they wouldn't be that expensive. Boy was I wrong. I would like to get something with a at least a 1.8... but man. $$$ for a 50mm, 1.8 its alteast 500 bucks. Do you any experience with any of these lenses?
-bryan
You can use a wrag if you want, I usually just use my hand unless it's a really long exposure. There is a little rubber tool on the camera strap that replaces the rubber eye cup and covers the eye piece for this very reason.
Not much experience with large aperture stuff other than my 70-200 f2.8...which I love. Canon does make a 50mm f1.8 for about $85 new.
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