Photography

[LordKOTL]

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Check that...the Nikon remote's P/N is ML-L3. I've confirmed it will work for the D5000. Anyone else here owns a Nikon SLR/DSLR...it'll probably work for it as well.

Ally: the actual Canon-issue wired remote for your camera is RS-80N3, which after a cursory search, runs about $50. You can probably get a knock-off for $5 but no guarentee on how well it will work.

[Xxgxpstreet08xX]

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Ally: the actual Canon-issue wired remote for your camera is RS-80N3, which after a cursory search, runs about $50. You can probably get a knock-off for $5 but no guarentee on how well it will work.

If I have to, i'll spend the $50. I don't mind spending the money if its better quality. I'm sure I can ask the people at best buy or wherever but what Lens do you guys recommend I get next? How'd you get the Pano pix? I'm sorry for all the quests but like i said i'm still really new to it and i'm a horrible learner. LOL

also- how do you all get the pix to be B&W but leave one or two things in the pic the regular color? just photoshop?

[strikeaholic]

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If I have to, i'll spend the $50. I don't mind spending the money if its better quality. I'm sure I can ask the people at best buy or wherever but what Lens do you guys recommend I get next? How'd you get the Pano pix? I'm sorry for all the quests but like i said i'm still really new to it and i'm a horrible learner. LOL

also- how do you all get the pix to be B&W but leave one or two things in the pic the regular color? just photoshop?

If I were you, I wouldn't spend the $50 on a shutter remote unless you plan on using it ALOT. Otherwise, you can just put it on the 10sec timer and take it that way. Unless you are really wanting to get pics of the stars with trails.

What lens next.... what type of photos are you looking for? Close-up, wide-angle, high power zoom?? It's all about what type of things you're wanting to shoot!

The pano pix, you just take several pics moving across what you're wanting to capture, making sure you overlap about 20% of the image at least and then I have photoshop merge and blend them together in a program it has called Photomerge, which works great. No worries at all about the questions, that's what I made this thread for!!

For the B&W pics with selective colors in them, some cameras have a setting to pick out certain colors and have that stick out while it shoots the rest in B&W, but for me, I'd do so in Adobe Bridge where I edit in Camera Raw and it lets you adjust alot of features of photos and there is one section where you can alter all the colors and then you'd just desaturate every color except the one you want to keep. Something like that

[LordKOTL]

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Ally: for your remote, I'd do some research on some of the off-brand ones from reputable names (ie: Vivitar) from people who've used them on your brand of camera.

As for the B&W, I'd usually never take photos like that. For me Taking a B&W photo is slapping some low-ISO (100 or less) B&W film in the camera, and applying the proper filter to the lens based on how I want the final exposure to look. But if I wanted that look, yeah, photoshop, gimp or any other photo editing program could do that.

And finally for the lenses: You have a 28-135MM. If you're going for more panoramic, you'll need a lower MM-rated lens, and those can get very pricey Your bet bet at this point for shots like that, the cheap way, is to shoot at 28mm and then use some photo-editing softwae to crop the top/bottom of the image.

For zoom-shots, you can expand a bit. You can usually get reasonably-priced zoom lenses up to about 300mm. Anything beyond that and you will be spending a lot of money. And really, I've never had any need for anything more than about 300mm zoom.

I would highly sugest getting a library card and checking out some books on photography and the theory behind it. then, since you have a digital you don't have the excuse of film and developing is expensive, so read and practice.

[Xxgxpstreet08xX]

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thanx for the info guys! i'll def be hitting the books to learn some more

[Granite]

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What Format odes everyone shoot in Ex: Raw or Jpeg Etc.
Myself I'm mostly jpeg but do like jpeg+Raw from time to time.

[snowmanG6]

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cannon EOS 50D

CLICKY

And now I really want to get a shutter remote

CLICKY

[strikeaholic]

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All Raw for me! It captures way more levels of gray. JPEG captures 256 levels of gray, while RAW captures 4,096 levels of gray allowing for a greater tonal range capture but requires more intensive post-production.

[snowmanG6]

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and a shit load memory haha

[CaptRage]

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RAW here too.

[snowmanG6]

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RAW here too.

[LordKOTL]

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What Format odes everyone shoot in Ex: Raw or Jpeg Etc.
Myself I'm mostly jpeg but do like jpeg+Raw from time to time.

35mm negative film between 50 and 1600 ISO, both color and black & white (I'm not yet brave enough to try slide film since it's very unforgiving). A lot of my existing pics were scanned from Ritz to a PhotoCD, but I prefer using my negative scanner when I have the time.. Then I usually scan to a 48-bit uncompressed TIFF for my master image and then save it down to a web-friendly .jpg.

And yeah, if I did do digital, I'd always go RAW. IMHO your master format should never be a lossy-compression format like .JPG.

[strikeaholic]

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Here is my latest piece. I rigged up a little studio type deal in my room and took some shots with a friend of mine, who is absolutely gorgeous!

[snowmanG6]

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Here is my latest piece. I rigged up a little studio type deal in my room and took some shots with a friend of mine, who is absolutely gorgeous!

[Xxgxpstreet08xX]

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great pic! shes beautiful