The Pop Picture Thread, Chapter 2

[Mindy5767]

Originally Posted by eeyoresnr

Jamian, how do you get such vivid colors and crisp images in a night shot? I have a Nikon 5000, but I"m a newbie to real photography.

[jenseib]

Originally Posted by Mindy5767

Jamian, how do you get such vivid colors and crisp images in a night shot? I have a Nikon 5000, but I"m a newbie to real photography.

Probably used photoshop or some other editing software

[MickeyWanaBe]

We stopped by Pop for some cheesecake in June.

[JenniJ]

Originally Posted by Mindy5767

Jamian, how do you get such vivid colors and crisp images in a night shot? I have a Nikon 5000, but I"m a newbie to real photography.

I'm sure the camera was on a tripod and used a long shutter speed. Probably had the shutter open for about 1 minute. This would have been done in manual mode or shutter priority mode, ussually Tv on the dial. The aperature was probably set to about 11 or 16 giving great depth of field (area in focus).

[jenseib]

Originally Posted by JenniJ

I'm sure the camera was on a tripod and used a long shutter speed. Probably had the shutter open for about 1 minute. This would have been done in manual mode or shutter priority mode, ussually Tv on the dial. The aperature was probably set to about 11 or 16 giving great depth of field (area in focus).

And photoshop, or any of the other fancy editing tools alot use now a days.

[Mindy5767]

Originally Posted by JenniJ

I'm sure the camera was on a tripod and used a long shutter speed. Probably had the shutter open for about 1 minute. This would have been done in manual mode or shutter priority mode, ussually Tv on the dial. The aperature was probably set to about 11 or 16 giving great depth of field (area in focus).

thanks for the ideas. I'm just learning about depth of field. I'm dying to learn how to shorten depth of field to blur things that always get in my background such as trash cans! lol is a smaller number a shorter depth of field?

[carley]

Originally Posted by Mindy5767

You know.... I actually HAD that Mickey phone when I was a teenager. I wish we still had it. It would be a huge hit!

i do have this phone!! lol picked it up at a yardsale this summer for $4

[Mindy5767]

Originally Posted by carley

i do have this phone!! lol picked it up at a yardsale this summer for $4

Wow...!! That is so lucky!

[Tinker_Tam]

Originally Posted by carley

i do have this phone!! lol picked it up at a yardsale this summer for $4

I think you win yardsale find of year!!!!!!

[JenniJ]

Originally Posted by Mindy5767

thanks for the ideas. I'm just learning about depth of field. I'm dying to learn how to shorten depth of field to blur things that always get in my background such as trash cans! lol is a smaller number a shorter depth of field?

Yes the smaller the number the shorter the area that shows up in focus. Makes portraits look really nice and the faces "pop" in the picture. The photogrpher could have "tweeked" some things in photoshop, but you can't edit in focus. You can make things a little more crisp but not THAT crisp. And even if the person did edit with Photoshop, that is not a bad thing. Many professional photographers use photoshop in some way. You have to with the loss of almost all film. You can think of Phiotoshop the modern darkroom.
<sigh> I really miss the days of taking picture with film. I always loved seeing the images "appear" on the paper... <sigh>

If you have any more questions, PM me. I will try my best to answer.

[Mindy5767]

Originally Posted by JenniJ

Yes the smaller the number the shorter the area that shows up in focus. Makes portraits look really nice and the faces "pop" in the picture. The photogrpher could have "tweeked" some things in photoshop, but you can't edit in focus. You can make things a little more crisp but not THAT crisp. And even if the person did edit with Photoshop, that is not a bad thing. Many professional photographers use photoshop in some way. You have to with the loss of almost all film. You can think of Phiotoshop the modern darkroom.
<sigh> I really miss the days of taking picture with film. I always loved seeing the images "appear" on the paper... <sigh>

If you have any more questions, PM me. I will try my best to answer.

Thanks so much for your advice. You know... digital cameras are now finally as good as or exceeds some of the best photos that we used to get with our film camera. We had a Kodak camera with the oval shaped film canisters. Can't remember what it was called. It took excellent pictures that weren't matched until the current generation of digitals (not counting my BIL's digi which is a professional camera). When I was little, I had a camera that had 127 roll film that you had to load with a towel over your head (at the beach) to keep it from getting exposed. It was a Brownie! lol I'm sure glad those days are long gone!

[JenniJ]

I hhave two of my gradfather's brownies! I love them. I actually wish they made film for thme still. I would love to see how the pictures turn out. I have n old 4x5 that I haven't used in YEARS.... Again, don't know if they make the film anymore. Then again I haven't tried looking. I've also made a few pinhole cameras and even custom made an attachment pinhold to fit over my Cannon film camera to get the ponhole affect using film.
Can you tell I'm a photo freak! Got my degree in photography but can't make a steady living taking pics. So I now it's just a "hobby" lol

[JenniJ]

OHH just posted for the day! 3 months exactly! Whoo Hoo!!!

[Mindy5767]

Originally Posted by JenniJ

OHH just posted for the day! 3 months exactly! Whoo Hoo!!!

85 days and we'll be at Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa for 5 nights and Pop for 1 night.

[JenniJ]

Originally Posted by Mindy5767

85 days and we'll be at Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa for 5 nights and Pop for 1 night.

We will be at Pop for one night too with a tranfer to AKL. When will you be at Pop? We will be there on 11/27 our arrival day.