*Official* Post Your Pictures Thread

[G80FTW]

It's got 'ED glass' in it which can reduce chromatic aberration (read about it here

Both of my lenses it came with say ED on them. Is that what it means?

This is my lens:
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Pr...-S-DX-Zoom-NIKKOR-55-200mm-f%2F4-5.6G-ED.html

Wow, I paid $50 more for a $200 lens with it. I think thats a pretty good deal.

 

[Punk]

Tried shooting some long exposures tonight, first time ever really trying it.

Yes, very nice!

 

[spirit]

Some B&W animal portraits taken at the zoo today.

It was hard to capture the leopard through the fence (this is a different zoo to the one I went to a couple of weeks ago on that wildlife photography course by the way).

...and a shot of some autumnal-looking leaves.

This is probably going to be it for a little while now since I am back at school on Monday and I don't intend on taking any photos tomorrow. I've used my camera every single day since last Sunday now.

 

[G80FTW]

Did you increase the exposure compensation in post production at all. Because if you bring it up several stops in post production then you may get some noise creep in. When I do these shots, I always use live view and set the exposure compensation to roughly what it needs to be on the camera to avoid having to increase or decrease it too much in Lightroom.

Hope that kind of helps...

I did, I process all my photos in photoshop but anymore I dont really edit anything outside of the RAW editing window. I increased the exposure by 0.20 which wasnt hardly anything I just wanted the sky and the grass on the sides to show up more.

But there wasnt an INSANE amount of noise, but even before increasing the exposure I could see it. And I am very picky when it comes to any grain in my pictures. I bought this camera because everything I read said it has amazing low light ability but so far I havent seen it do too much better than the Canon S110 I was shooting with which from everything I read said it has a horrible low light ability haha.

But.. I am still learning so perhaps I have yet to really take full advantage of this camera. And I probably dont have the best lens for night shooting. I only use the 18-55mm at night.

 

[spirit]

Well, I used the 18-55 for my night shots and it works fine (see the last page for some examples of the classic car lights long exposure shots which I've done).

I think it's partly down the aperture you used. Try widening it to about f/10 next time. I used f/10 in one of mine and f/13 in the other and it came out fine. I didn't get any real significant noise either.

Perhaps the exposure was slightly too long, maybe try a slightly faster shutter speed next time.

 

[G80FTW]

Well, I used the 18-55 for my night shots and it works fine (see the last page for some examples of the classic car lights long exposure shots which I've done).

I think it's partly down the aperture you used. Try widening it to about f/10 next time. I used f/10 in one of mine and f/13 in the other and it came out fine. I didn't get any real significant noise either.

Perhaps the exposure was slightly too long, maybe try a slightly faster shutter speed next time.

Yea, Ill for sure try something different tonight if I get out. Right now I have almost 200 pictures to process from this 5 hour hike I went on. All shot with the 55-200 as well because I was stupid and didnt think I would need the 18-55 as I planned on just shooting wildlife so I missed out on some really good wide shots But took one with my phone to make up.


-EDIT-

All I have done so far, picked what looked the best to me. Still got almost a hundred to go through.









And in my opinion, the best shot of the day:

 

[Punk]

That last shot is amazing!!

Are you on 500px.com? If so give a link to your profile so I can follow you and see your new photos regularly.

 

[spirit]

Are you on 500px.com? If so give a link to your profile so I can follow you and see your new photos regularly.

I'll follow you on Flickr if you're on there. I didn't like 500px too much when I tried it and with Flickr you now get a free terrabyte of storage and it's really improved this year.

 

[G80FTW]

A few more I finished up:







One of the wide shots that I missed:






I think I still got more but too lazy to continue going through all of them.

And no, I am not a part of any of those photography blogging websites. Iv always thought about setting up a flickr account but never got around to it. If I do Ill let you know.

 

[G80FTW]

Here is the last shots I will post here from this weekends adventure. I have millions more, and still more yet to be processed but these are the best I think and if anyone wants to see more I will look into setting up a flickr account or something.

Since I had neglected my 18-55mm lens yesterday I made up for it by using it almost exclusively today. I did carry the 55-200mm with me just in case and took a few shots with it but these are none of them:











My favorite. Should have had ADR turned on for this but completely forgot. I think photoshop did well with it though:




On the drive home:


-EDIT- In color:


And I may have been doing something wrong before, but it looks to me as though the 18-55mm lens does have alot better image quality than the 55-200mm. I may find myself using it more and cropping.

 

[spirit]

I like the last shot of the road. :good:

 

[G80FTW]

I like the last shot of the road. :good:

Thanks. I actually didnt like how it turned out very much which is kinda why I made it black and white haha.

On a side note though I need to redo pictures 2 and 6 because upon full screen viewing I noticed that my "enhancements" caused some serious noise that I dont see here or at a normal viewing size.

 

[spirit]

Thanks. I actually didnt like how it turned out very much which is kinda why I made it black and white haha.

Those sort of shots of roads often turn out best in B&W I find anyway.

Since the weather was nice yesterday I went into Norwich and got some photos. I'll get them posted here later today.

 

[G80FTW]

Those sort of shots of roads often turn out best in B&W I find anyway.

Since the weather was nice yesterday I went into Norwich and got some photos. I'll get them posted here later today.

Well I had it black and white in my head before I took the picture, but at the same time I thought it would be cool to have the fall colors in there as well.

And I take it back, the road was shot with the 55-200mm at 95mm according to the RAW info.

Either way, I think I like how the 18-55mm handles colors better. Dont know how it does, but the contrast just seems better. Of course it could just be my shooting. I also think the 18-55mm provides much sharper images. If you look at the image above the b/w road that was taken with the 18-55mm and to me the contrast and lighting and sharpness were just so amazing I actually didnt have to edit it much, just increased the temperature.

 

[spirit]

I've hard that as you increase the focal length, the image quality can be reduced a little bit, so that could be why you think the 18-55 produces better images than your 55-200.

 

[G80FTW]

I've hard that as you increase the focal length, the image quality can be reduced a little bit, so that could be why you think the 18-55 produces better images than your 55-200.

Yea that makes sense. Been looking at some more all around lenses to maybe replace my 18-55mm and thought this might be the best I could get:

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Pr...s/2193/AF-S-NIKKOR-24-120mm-f%2F4G-ED-VR.html

But I read that more lens elements are not always a good thing. And that has millions compared to my 18-55mm! If I could find a photography store somewhere near me it would be cool to try one out and compare though.

EDIT btw it appears that I have had a flickr account since 2008!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fearofdreams/

Working on getting everything uploaded now...

 

[Geoff]

I've hard that as you increase the focal length, the image quality can be reduced a little bit, so that could be why you think the 18-55 produces better images than your 55-200.

I wouldn't use that as a blanket statement, as there are lots of better quality photos you'd get from a 70-200 lens than 18-55 kit lenses. The only truth I can see to that is that as you increase the distance, there is more "stuff" between your lens and the subject - such as dirt, the atmosphere, moisture, etc., so as you look out further things appear more muted. But I don't think you'd see that at 55mm vs 200mm.

 

[G80FTW]

I wouldn't use that as a blanket statement, as there are lots of better quality photos you'd get from a 70-200 lens than 18-55 kit lenses. The only truth I can see to that is that as you increase the distance, there is more "stuff" between your lens and the subject - such as dirt, the atmosphere, moisture, etc., so as you look out further things appear more muted. But I don't think you'd see that at 55mm vs 200mm.

Well a telephoto lens will almost always have more lens elements than something like my 18-55mm right? And as I understand it, the extra lens elements can actually degrade the quality of the image because its more that the light has to travel through. I mean, it makes sense to me why a wider focal range like say 55-200mm would have worse image quality than a narrower like 18-55mm as there is alot less lens for the light to go through. Not saying its true for every lens, but for cheaper lenses that could be the case.

And Geoff why didnt you tell me I had a flickr account? It says you are following me on there haha.

 

[spirit]

Re-processed some shots taken back in January of the snow. I needed to make some Christmas e-Cards and since my Lightroom skills have improved since January, I thought I'd dig out the RAW files for these older photos and re-process them.

 

[G80FTW]

I didnt think snow photography could be that cool! Ill have to try it out when it snows here. How do the lenses handle the cold and moisture though?? Thats why I dont like taking my camera outside when its humid or cold.