G80FTW
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Sure I did! The 800 ISO is what I didnt really need. Most of the pictures came out too bright and I had to dim them.
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Sure I did! The 800 ISO is what I didnt really need. Most of the pictures came out too bright and I had to dim them.
Geoff
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Did you shoot in manual? You don't need that high of a shutter speed to stop motion, you could have done 1/2000 @ ISO 400, or used Av mode.
G80FTW
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I wanted 1/4000 to eliminate any motion blur. Iv got blur using anything below that on other things. Besides why would a faster shutter speed not be good for stop motion?
Geoff
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Oh it is, there just comes a point where you are sacrificing IQ, sharpness, and contrast with the higher ISO.
Hyper_Kagome
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For the life of me I cannot remember how I shot these pictures back in 2011:
Because the ones I did last night came out NOTHING close to that, and I even played around with the lighting filters in Photoshop to try and make them seem more... appealing. They just don't please me nearly half as much. Perhaps I'm being too picky?
Maybe once I find my tripod (I moved again so it's somewhere...) I can set that up and try again. I know in the first sets my light source was a lot closer than in the second sets. Just been wracking my brain trying to remember what I did to get such a crisp Black and White. Was it a program, or my built in presets on the camera itself...
Also, I find that I've getting these weird brightly coloured pixel-like flecks in my pictures as of late. Could it be dust within the shutter area that is causing this?
Because the ones I did last night came out NOTHING close to that, and I even played around with the lighting filters in Photoshop to try and make them seem more... appealing. They just don't please me nearly half as much. Perhaps I'm being too picky?
Maybe once I find my tripod (I moved again so it's somewhere...) I can set that up and try again. I know in the first sets my light source was a lot closer than in the second sets. Just been wracking my brain trying to remember what I did to get such a crisp Black and White. Was it a program, or my built in presets on the camera itself...
Also, I find that I've getting these weird brightly coloured pixel-like flecks in my pictures as of late. Could it be dust within the shutter area that is causing this?
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G80FTW
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I could have, and should have used 400. But i dont think my IQ is bad with even 1600 in good lighting. Next time ill go with 400.
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G80FTW
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Yea. I personally dont notice a difference between 400 and 800. In darker images Im sure I would see more noise, as I do with 1600, but in daylight I can pretty much use all the way up to 1600 and have great IQ. I normally shoot at 100 in daylight though, this was my first time experimenting with daylight action shots so I used 800 just to make sure they would be bright enough at 1/4000 shutter speed. It made them slightly over exposed, but I find that dimming an image doesnt effect IQ as much as trying to make it brighter in editing.
But I noticed with dimming the image the light starts to look less natural, which is why I will try to stay away from over exposing even slightly.
Geoff
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Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the images are bad and noisy, I'm just saying as you increase the ISO, you do sacrifice sharpness and contrast, as well as increasing noise.
Hyper_Kagome
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No, no ideas? 
Alright. I'll just duck outta here again.
Alright. I'll just duck outta here again.
Geoff
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It has nothing to do with the wrong filters in photoshop, you need better lighting in the shots. I flash or strobe isn't positioned in the correct spot to get the same effects. If you didn't use flash in 2011, the ambient lighting is not the same, so it's hard to recreate the shots.No, no ideas?
Alright. I'll just duck outta here again.
Hyper_Kagome
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The image itself just seems so much more crisp, too.
And the weird pixels. I'm unsure what those are all about. They show up really clear in colour photos.
Geoff
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What ISO were the photos shot in?
G80FTW
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Perhaps the sensor itself is damaged? How old is the camera?
To me it just looks like poor lighting. The EXIF data was removed from the originals so I can't tell what your original settings were, but your issue with the new ones is simply lighting.
G80FTW
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I honestly didnt see any pixel problems in any of the pictures. But if shes sayin theres problems in color it sounds like the sensor may be damaged. I think a dirty lens/sensor would show up in bw images. I think i read you can damage sensor pixels by shooting alot of direct sunlight or alot of long exposures.
For the life of me I cannot remember how I shot these pictures back in 2011:
Because the ones I did last night came out NOTHING close to that, and I even played around with the lighting filters in Photoshop to try and make them seem more... appealing. They just don't please me nearly half as much. Perhaps I'm being too picky?
Maybe once I find my tripod (I moved again so it's somewhere...) I can set that up and try again. I know in the first sets my light source was a lot closer than in the second sets. Just been wracking my brain trying to remember what I did to get such a crisp Black and White. Was it a program, or my built in presets on the camera itself...
Also, I find that I've getting these weird brightly coloured pixel-like flecks in my pictures as of late. Could it be dust within the shutter area that is causing this?
The lightning in the second one is very good! :good:
As for your problem it seems your sensor is damaged...
Hyper_Kagome
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Well, seeing as my bedroom currently lacks a door, I didn't have much to work with for terms of lighting with a privacy setting included. Ha.
Yeah, I know the lighting is an issue. I may look around for one of my old lamps. This moving three times in less than a year sucks. Major.
And here are the pixels:
Up in the left shoulder, some in the tattoo on the right and some in the lower left of the back. They're much easier to see with a bigger image, I'm just making them smaller for the forum's sake. But to see what I mean, here is a bigger size:
I've had my D60 since 2008.
Yeah, I know the lighting is an issue. I may look around for one of my old lamps. This moving three times in less than a year sucks. Major.
And here are the pixels:
Up in the left shoulder, some in the tattoo on the right and some in the lower left of the back. They're much easier to see with a bigger image, I'm just making them smaller for the forum's sake. But to see what I mean, here is a bigger size:
I've had my D60 since 2008.
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