This week i am blogging about my nikon D3000. I would most likely not reccomend this camera to most people. only those on a really limited budget. My camera cost about $700 for everything. including one 18-55mm and one 55-200mm lens. One problem with the 55-200mm is that it does not come with vibration reduction which most of nikons 55-200mm do. This camera is very limited as far as which settings you would like to use. I really wish it had expouser bracketing and i all around more options. It is user friendly, but this is mostly due to the limited amount of settings on it. It also does not have a live view feature so getting low angle shots gets a little tricky.
I have taken a far amount of pictures with my camera and it does do okay for a beginner camera but it does leave the user after about a year wanting more options. I added a 500 dg super flash to my camera and that helps it a fair amount. I was able to shoot some of my little sisters senior portraits this year and they turned out ok. This camera was good for getting a taste for photography, but still leaves a lot to be desired.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
10-21-10 article 2
For this i read and article on Landscapes It was called "Special Techniques". It was pretty interesting. The first thing he talks about in it is how to shoot a black and white. He did a good job of explaing when it is appropriate to shoot black and white, and also the pros and cons of shooting with your camera on black and white or just going in later with software and making it black and white.
The next thing he went into was HDR photos. I really like taking HDR pictures and he had some good adivce to give on that. the advice includded when it was appropriot to take an HDR, the pros and cons, how to set your camera up for it, what software to use, and how much of a differecne in F-stops you should use. I have been using mostly 1 stop, but he recommend experiment with 1.5-2 stops.
He then went into to talking about panoramics and how to stitch the pictures together. Setting up the panoramic was interesting too. he talk about how you need to keep the interest up in the people who are looking at it. You do this by not having dead space and keep interesting things in it from one side to another.
The next thing he went into was HDR photos. I really like taking HDR pictures and he had some good adivce to give on that. the advice includded when it was appropriot to take an HDR, the pros and cons, how to set your camera up for it, what software to use, and how much of a differecne in F-stops you should use. I have been using mostly 1 stop, but he recommend experiment with 1.5-2 stops.
He then went into to talking about panoramics and how to stitch the pictures together. Setting up the panoramic was interesting too. he talk about how you need to keep the interest up in the people who are looking at it. You do this by not having dead space and keep interesting things in it from one side to another.
10-21-10 article 1
The First artcile i read was titled "On the wing". What it was about is how to get good bird shots. The photographer writing this article was big into staging things.I did pick up some pretty nifty tricks, but i could never see myself putting as much work into taking pictures of birds like he does.
He gave advice about how he took a picture of a kingfisher. They are a really shy bird and it is really tricky getting a good shot of them. So what he did was set up a blind and let it sit there for three days. They he also went out into the pond that the kingfisher was fishing in and set a poll up. He attached a perch to this poll. He was still having problems getting the kingfisher to use the perch so he bought a kiddie pool and put minows in it. He then ran into the problem of the kingfisher eating all the minows before the lightning was right. So he then attached a piece of fabric over the top of the kiddie pool that he could remove by pulling some fishing line when the lightning was right. That seems like alot of work just to get a picture of a kingfisher to me.
Next he goes on to explain how to get a good hummingbird picture. For this what he did was set up a feeder to get the birds to come, then he would set up about six flashes, putting some on the bird, some coming down on top of the bird and two on his background. For the background he would set a print of blurred out greenery he would then light it. The biggest challenge with taking a picture of a humming bird is to get their wings in focus since they flap so fast. So by using all the flashes he could get enough light so that he could use a fast shutter speed on them and still have the background bright and the details of the bird bright.
He gave advice about how he took a picture of a kingfisher. They are a really shy bird and it is really tricky getting a good shot of them. So what he did was set up a blind and let it sit there for three days. They he also went out into the pond that the kingfisher was fishing in and set a poll up. He attached a perch to this poll. He was still having problems getting the kingfisher to use the perch so he bought a kiddie pool and put minows in it. He then ran into the problem of the kingfisher eating all the minows before the lightning was right. So he then attached a piece of fabric over the top of the kiddie pool that he could remove by pulling some fishing line when the lightning was right. That seems like alot of work just to get a picture of a kingfisher to me.
Next he goes on to explain how to get a good hummingbird picture. For this what he did was set up a feeder to get the birds to come, then he would set up about six flashes, putting some on the bird, some coming down on top of the bird and two on his background. For the background he would set a print of blurred out greenery he would then light it. The biggest challenge with taking a picture of a humming bird is to get their wings in focus since they flap so fast. So by using all the flashes he could get enough light so that he could use a fast shutter speed on them and still have the background bright and the details of the bird bright.
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