goffer Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 question shoot in colour or black and white? i like black and white a LOT but sometimes a bit of colour i OK or shoot in colour and change to b&w in photoshop i just dunno I agree with blackdust, shoot in color, well RAW preferably, so you always have the option to change your mind in PP. After shooting strictly film for a few years, the last few months I've been shooting digital and really have been missing color. What software do you use for post processing? I'd recommend you check out Lightroom if you are still looking for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirezzi Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Congrats on your new camera, Yek. I have the same and love the shit out of it. yeah man, it's great. a worthy investment for sure. Indeed. Feel free to share your thoughts and observations about the camera, Nikon glass, etc. and I will do the same! Lately, I use two lenses for just about 98% of my needs. 50mm Nikkor F1.4, 11-16mm F2.8 Tokina, occasionally I'll use the 18-105mm VR kit lens because of its versatility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 question shoot in colour or black and white? i like black and white a LOT but sometimes a bit of colour i OK or shoot in colour and change to b&w in photoshop i just dunno I agree with blackdust, shoot in color, well RAW preferably, so you always have the option to change your mind in PP. After shooting strictly film for a few years, the last few months I've been shooting digital and really have been missing color. What software do you use for post processing? I'd recommend you check out Lightroom if you are still looking for one. i use photoshop 7 because i know it so well but i've heard a lot about lightroom. is it easy enough to learn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Yeah Lightroom is a piece of piss but really powerful too - completely revolutionised the quality of my photos. Make sure you keep the original photos though as you can easily go filter happy - It'll look great for the first few months but when you you learn to be a bit more subtle with your processing you'll look back at the photos and cringe a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Yeah Lightroom is a piece of piss but really powerful too - completely revolutionised the quality of my photos. Make sure you keep the original photos though as you can easily go filter happy - It'll look great for the first few months but when you you learn to be a bit more subtle with your processing you'll look back at the photos and cringe a little. i suppose you shoot in RAW ? that's something i haven't been doing. it's good to do no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 question shoot in colour or black and white? i like black and white a LOT but sometimes a bit of colour i OK or shoot in colour and change to b&w in photoshop i just dunno I agree with blackdust, shoot in color, well RAW preferably, so you always have the option to change your mind in PP. After shooting strictly film for a few years, the last few months I've been shooting digital and really have been missing color. What software do you use for post processing? I'd recommend you check out Lightroom if you are still looking for one. i use photoshop 7 because i know it so well but i've heard a lot about lightroom. is it easy enough to learn? Well Lightroom is essentially photoshop, it uses the same raw editor (Adobe's Camera Raw), just with a primary focus on post processing photos. And as a plus it does very well with organizing/building your photo library. Yeah Lightroom is a piece of piss but really powerful too - completely revolutionised the quality of my photos. Make sure you keep the original photos though as you can easily go filter happy - It'll look great for the first few months but when you you learn to be a bit more subtle with your processing you'll look back at the photos and cringe a little.Well that's the beauty of it, Lightroom doesn't actually save these changes to the photo, it saves them to it's catalog file which just saves the variables of your values. So if you bump the contrast to a photo from 0 to +15 then next time you open the photo it will still have the +15 value which you can adjust again. It never overwrites the raw file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 question shoot in colour or black and white? i like black and white a LOT but sometimes a bit of colour i OK or shoot in colour and change to b&w in photoshop i just dunno I agree with blackdust, shoot in color, well RAW preferably, so you always have the option to change your mind in PP. After shooting strictly film for a few years, the last few months I've been shooting digital and really have been missing color. What software do you use for post processing? I'd recommend you check out Lightroom if you are still looking for one. i use photoshop 7 because i know it so well but i've heard a lot about lightroom. is it easy enough to learn? Well Lightroom is essentially photoshop, it uses the same raw editor (Adobe's Camera Raw), just with a primary focus on post processing photos. And as a plus it does very well with organizing/building your photo library. >Yeah Lightroom is a piece of piss but really powerful too - completely revolutionised the quality of my photos. Make sure you keep the original photos though as you can easily go filter happy - It'll look great for the first few months but when you you learn to be a bit more subtle with your processing you'll look back at the photos and cringe a little.Well that's the beauty of it, Lightroom doesn't actually save these changes to the photo, it saves them to it's catalog file which just saves the variables of your values. So if you bump the contrast to a photo from 0 to +15 then next time you open the photo it will still have the +15 value which you can adjust again. It never overwrites the raw file. Question: the software that came with my camera "VIEW NX 2" is quite handy and transfers files off my camera. is lightroom an all in one thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Yeah it can auto transfer/organize to your library and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 aight. i'm on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 crappy pic my mom took of me with new lens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirezzi Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Once you get used to Lightroom, no turning back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Yeah Lightroom is a piece of piss but really powerful too - completely revolutionised the quality of my photos. Make sure you keep the original photos though as you can easily go filter happy - It'll look great for the first few months but when you you learn to be a bit more subtle with your processing you'll look back at the photos and cringe a little.Well that's the beauty of it, Lightroom doesn't actually save these changes to the photo, it saves them to it's catalog file which just saves the variables of your values. So if you bump the contrast to a photo from 0 to +15 then next time you open the photo it will still have the +15 value which you can adjust again. It never overwrites the raw file. Pff, tell idiot mcbpete that circa 2010 - After grading the photos I would delete the originals. I've got about 5 months of photos that look like a nuclear blast has gone off, covering everything in an orange haze (or a hipster 'polaroid' cross grade). yek - I know loads of people say to shoot in raw but I rarely do. I've only ever done it in situations of extreme dark or extreme light just so that I have a bit more tolerance to adjust the photo in post, but 99% of the time the best quality jpeg seems to be fine. This is probably the only instance that I think really benefited from shooting raw: (erm, those jpg artefacts aren't on the original - it's due to it being recompressed when I uploaded it to a photo sharing website) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 new weapon is this like the sennheiser HD550/650 of the photography world ? my mom (who does amateur photography) also got this one a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I'm loving the Sony NEX 5R its very compact, excellent high ISO performance, has built in FX and fits in a large pocket with the pancake lens. got the SEL 50mm f1.8 - great for low light and blurry low f shots SEL 16mm pancake - not the best but woks well at f8+ if partnered with the fisheye (10mm) and ultra wide (12mm) adaptors Sigma 30mm f2.8 - very sharp general purpose lens that's good value for money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adjective Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I've got the 5N and also loving it. Mostly using manual lenses on it, nikon 1.8d and a few tiny lenses from the asahi pentax auto 110. i use the nikon for lush, and the tiny pentax ones for walkin around/ vignetting/ aberrations/ etc. also have been trying pinhole lens stuff with it, fun stuff. decided to get a lasercut bodycap for science, but it's still in the mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 After a few months of waiting for a decent price to surface on ebay, I'm finally the proud owner of one of these guys: Widelux F7 Shipping from Tokyo though, gonna be quite the wait for shipping :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I have a Nikon D3100 which I got mainly as it shoots in 1080p and I had a friend who had one and he recommended it. It came with 18-55mm lens which I use for photographs and I bought a load of Zeiss second hand vintage off ebay for filming. I also have a really nice Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens which I cannot recommend enough. I use it for filming mainly and it's a great lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 After a few months of waiting for a decent price to surface on ebay, I'm finally the proud owner of one of these guys: Widelux F7 Shipping from Tokyo though, gonna be quite the wait for shipping :( those things are cool as hell. post pics when you get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens which I cannot recommend enoughDefinitely my most used lens to date (albeit a Canon version), so good for portrait work (or for everyday use really). A couple of mine last year using the 'nifty fifty' - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 that snow pic is pretty wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 After a few months of waiting for a decent price to surface on ebay, I'm finally the proud owner of one of these guys: Widelux F7 Shipping from Tokyo though, gonna be quite the wait for shipping :( those things are cool as hell. post pics when you get it. Oh I will... going to be interesting as it doesnt have any focusing mechanism, just fixed focused to 11 feet... so basically I only have my aperture to use to "focus", or zone focus. But stopped down to f11 and I have everything in focus from ~3' to infinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Some shots I took with it:Widelux_trix@100_011 by akagoffer, on Flickr Widelux_trix@100_020 by akagoffer, on Flickr Widelux_trix@100_019 by akagoffer, on Flickr Widelux_trix@100_018 by akagoffer, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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