I take pictures of stuff

A few days ago I bought a Canon EOS 1000D DSLR camera, and I received it today. Been playing around with it most of the day, and I really like it!

Right now I'm reading up on some tutorials and working with a few RAW pictures I took. If anybody got some good tips, I'd like to hear them.

I'll also dump some of the good pictures I take in this thread. Hopefully I'll get a few shot of tonight's firework.

The objective is 35-55mm.

:D


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Behold! Watertap!

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4406/watertap.jpg

Fiddled a little around with it in Photoshop to make the colours better.

By the way, expect big pictures in this thread. I'm using a 24" display, so I like to keep the size big.

That camera is hot. Take pictures. Lots of them.

Your tap...wash it. lol

jk nice camera... :)

Found a nice piece of software that can be used to record high quality videos with the camera. Not really anything crazy, and YouTube has decreased the quality (and brightness), but it shows the power.

I ordered a tripod, which I will probably get monday or tuesday. If my friend is up for it, we might go on photo-spree in town. Otherwise I'll just go by myself.

Try making a stop motion animation with your DSLR.

The epic of VGA connector and USB plug.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...ropresizef.png

I might take a jab at stop motion action later :P

This tasted so good :)

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4...breadframe.png

Holy jesus that camera is god like! How much did it cost?

It's known as the EOS Rebel XS in the US, and I guess it roughly costs $700 over there. It's a starter DSLR and one of the cheapest you can get. Nikon has an equivalent, though I can't remember the name of it. It can do about the same as the canon.

I'm thinking of getting a macro lense, though something wide angle is also apealing. Hmmm

$700?!

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The Nikon equivalent is the D90, I think. I have a D40, myself. Also, Nikon has better glass. ;)

Very nice so far, Marvo. Nice composition in the last two, especially the VGA/USB love affair. The lines of the keyboard draw the eye nicely. The other feels a bit empty in the left, but maybe that's just me. :) Looking forward to seeing more of what you do with her!

Edit: Actually, how was your lighting set up for that VGA.USB pic?

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The Nikon equivalent is the D90, I think. I have a D40, myself. Also, Nikon has better glass. ;)

Very nice so far, Marvo. Nice composition in the last two, especially the VGA/USB love affair. The lines of the keyboard draw the eye nicely. The other feels a bit empty in the left, but maybe that's just me. :) Looking forward to seeing more of what you do with her!

Edit: Actually, how was your lighting set up for that VGA.USB pic?

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Thanks, glad that you caught the love idea :P

The lighting was just a lamb in my room actually. I put the camera on the table, so that I could use a low ISO and higher shutter speed.

I'm still working on formatting pictures, and maybe you're right about the bread. I think it becomes a bit more nuanced when the picture is like this though. Guess it depends on the motive.

Slayer, the price is more like $620 actually. Maybe it's cheaper in the US, sometimes electronics are.

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This tasted so good :)

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4...breadframe.png

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What's that between cheese and salad?

Nice shots, btw. :) Lightening is terrific on these last two, but watertap I don't like at all. Too close-up to get anything of it, and cut in the wrong place, in my opinion.

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Thanks, glad that you caught the love idea :P

The lighting was just a lamb in my room actually. I put the camera on the table, so that I could use a low ISO and higher shutter speed.

I'm still working on formatting pictures, and maybe you're right about the bread. I think it becomes a bit more nuanced when the picture is like this though. Guess it depends on the motive.

Slayer, the price is more like $620 actually. Maybe it's cheaper in the US, sometimes electronics are.

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I really like the subtlety in that one, yeah. The pink mouth of the USB cable, the blue, more masculine housing of the VGA cable, resting possessively at the USB's shoulder . . . all in a dark, gritty, almost film noir-style setting.

You can make a makeshift tripod from a small eyebolt and a piece of string about 2-3 meters long. Just thread the eyebolt into your camera's tripod mount (choose the right size, obviously, not sure if there is a difference in European cameras, but it should be 1/4", I think), tie on end of the string to it, then run the string down and under one foot, using tension on the other end with your hand to hold the camera steady. Gives it three points of contact: both hands and the string. Works marvels for when you don't have a tripod or can't fold one out because of space constraints.

Instead of an eyebolt, you can use the tripod mount foot (the little piece that screws onto the bottom of your camera, then slips into the slot on the tripod head) to attach a string. I do this most of the time, since I always leave it on my camera.

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What's that between cheese and salad?

Nice shots, btw. :) Lightening is terrific on these last two, but watertap I don't like at all. Too close-up to get anything of it, and cut in the wrong place, in my opinion.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medisterp%C3%B8lse

Some danish food :)

MoS, that sounds a bit confusing, but I already ordered a tripod. I'll be going to Copenhagen in a month's time, I'll probably take a lot of great pictures over there, provided the weather is good. February is a weird month.

Man, it does sound confusing now I read it over again . . .

http://www.instructables.com/id/String-Tripod/

I received my tripod today and also went to buy a bag and a jacket for the cold weather. Tomorrow I'm getting a bit earlier off from school, hopefully I can go take some pictures finally :P

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You can make a makeshift tripod from a small eyebolt and a piece of string about 2-3 meters long. Just thread the eyebolt into your camera's tripod mount (choose the right size, obviously, not sure if there is a difference in European cameras, but it should be 1/4", I think), tie on end of the string to it, then run the string down and under one foot, using tension on the other end with your hand to hold the camera steady. Gives it three points of contact: both hands and the string. Works marvels for when you don't have a tripod or can't fold one out because of space constraints.

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I tried working with some silhouettes from a plant in my kitchen. It's a bit hard to tell what it is though, which maybe is a nice thing. Let your fantasy fly :)

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8938/weirdplants.jpg


I did a bazillion macro pictures of a candle light aswell. Only 1 of them turned out good :P

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7...lightclose.jpg

edit: by the way, if any of you want these pictures in giant resolution, just say it.

That is very good!

That is awesome! I wish I had a good camera to practice on..... But that first one, omg what plant is it? It looks like a dead rolled-over cockroach to me, but that's probably because of reading to much Kafka, or simply my terrible bugophobia...haha.

My niece is getting baptized this sunday. I'm hoping that I can grab some really good pictures. Portraits, specifically, perhaps some good church shots too.

Excellent stuff, I want a good camera badly.

Also... how did you manage to eat the corn? Did you bite down on the center where the stem is? I can imagine it would be good without the centrepiece breaking my teeth ;)

Those are very small corn. A baby could bite through them. I think they are called babycorn actually :P

Ah okay, that changes everything :P I eat that all the time.

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That's pretty much the best picture I got out of that. Got a bunch of other good pictures too, but they are a bit too personal to put up here :)

That is my niece by the way.

Aw. That's a great picture as well.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9...ngerframed.jpg

This entire snow flake fell on my finger, true story!

Marvo owns a camera which makes just about anything look awesome :3
I swear. Your pictures look darned professional.

I thinking of buying a Lensbaby Composer. It's a pretty awesome objective, where you can chose exactly what you want in focus. It also gives a pretty cool blurry effect and it is good for macro photography, with the right tools. It should also be good for portraits.

It's pretty cheap too, which is pretty nice, since my economy has certainly seen better days :P

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Cute. :banana:

Terrific pics, Marvo. :)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2709/fastcar.jpg

This one took a lot of tries!

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7557/snowdropspp.jpg

Just some generic snowdrops from my garden. Soon spring will come, and everything will become pretty!

Ah, lovely stuff. Snowdrops for some reason always love getting their pictures taken, at least at my house :P nice job all around though, I can tell you've gotten more used to your new camera :)

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...aplantpijp.png

A little different kind of a plant this time.

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5...inmygarden.png

Also found these out in my garden. I think they are burrowed zerglings.

The piranha plant image is wonderful. There's something about the colors, and then the texture of the pipe in particular that ties everything together. There's something more, I don't know what it is. That's the kind of image I'd expect to see featured in a magazine. I'm saving it.

Your last image does look alien. Like the teeth of a hidden creature.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/67/wutk.png

Erantis out in my garden. I stopped putting frames around my pictures, I think it looks a bit better without :)

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4...mflashyome.jpg

That is my mom's old flash on top of my camera. Amazingly they can communicate, even though there is 2 decades between them, and it works pretty well.

Been a while since I updated my thread :P

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In school I printed a trollface and then asked different people to hold it over their faces while I took pictures of them. Made for a pretty interesting .GIF.

Also got a new lens recently, though I haven't taken any really good pictures with it recently. It's difficult to use, but I'm sure that I'll get used to it in time.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/778/wood.png

I guess this qualifies more as a stock photo or something though I thought it was technically pretty good.

Indeed it is :)

Bahaha, that GIF is awesome man.

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7...ttelowress.png

Taken with the new lens mentioned earlier. If the focus is adjusted right, the detail on this thing can be stunning. It's difficult though.

Click for super duper hiress:

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really nice camera! that food looks appealing :)

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Guy in my class. It's an old picture actually and I didn't quite like how blurred his face is, but I think it's still a quite okay picture.

Click for super duper hi-ress.

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Hi-ress link. Picture linking is broken, must rage on Alex.

do like

you have such an excellent camera
makes worlds of difference

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4341/rensmall.jpg

Photo of a fellow graduated classmate.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2338/renwo.jpg HI RESS LOL

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Reminds me of a crocodile mouth. :P

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1330/frejafinal.jpg

Been a while since I posted in here, so here's a photo I took my niece the other day. I think it turned out pretty well, even though her attempt at posing for me kind of failed :P

I'm gonna shoot some family photos of them on sunday and I'll probably end up putting them up on here as well.

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http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2...sepiaframe.jpg

That's pretty much the best picture I got out of that. Got a bunch of other good pictures too, but they are a bit too personal to put up here :)

That is my niece by the way.

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I like how you used the focus here, man.

Also, I agree with your desire to get a wide angle lens. I bought one once and it really increases the number of shots that I can do.

Great pictures :)

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6...sclarafina.jpg
Full resolution.
Went to do a photo session of my older brother and his family today. I got a lot of great photos. This is one of the first ones I'm run through processing, and it turned out very very impressive, compared to the original. I'm especially amazed by how much I could reduce the noise, without damaging the photo at all.

Check out the (cropped and resized) original to get an idea of how much I've done to the photo.

http://i.min.us/idtiWQ.jpg

Took this outside today. A lot more photos to come soon.

High resolution.

http://i.min.us/ibMoAK.JPG

http://i.min.us/ibMoAK.JPG

Must be nice to have money ;-;

Do you do requests?

A smiling mail(wo)man. Go.

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Went stargazing last night. Got some cool photos. I call it "celestial painting".

http://i.minus.com/ipQnj7xthp5C9.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iLPxaHmtMZlCB.jpg

http://i.minus.com/ibz7Vjq9LU92dH.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iFNZZHihTT95J.JPG

http://i.minus.com/ikx89qHo4xJT.jpg

Took these pictures last night.

http://i.minus.com/iLouBZWeFVir5.jpg
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http://i.minus.com/iWorOuUWbOTgr.jpg
http://i.minus.com/iWorOuUWbOTgr.jpg

Also took a funny picture the other day.

http://i.minus.com/ibbRmo1G0C6fPo.jpg
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For christmas my brothers got two prints done for me. Awesome :D

http://i.minus.com/ib09Rx34eZcwzt.jpg

The one with the cloudline is 135 centimeters across.

Make sure to check out the pictures in maximum resolution, since DreamViews tends to resize a lot.

Those last few are really great marvo. You've got some skill.

http://i.minus.com/i9D1xp0b7KnuA.jpg
http://i.minus.com/ibkkqU9J3AZRbJ.jpg
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Pictures from my trip to Berlin this summer. I went over them a long time ago, but I forgot about them and never uploaded them anywhere.

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I like this one the most.