Splash!

[Brian001]

alright, simple little picture of a loonie (cant see) dropped into a glass...other than it being a little out of focus at the top what do you guys think?

feel free to edit and repost as im not to sure about all this editing lingo

[Glycerin19]

I think it's a little too close. Personally I'd like to see more above and below. As it is, it makes me want to sit back from the monitor.

[Brian001]

alright...ill rety in a minute here

[Brian001]

alright, this is what we got

[Dylan8i]

do it with a better (more plain, neutral) background. the "splash" isn't as good as teh first image either. keep trying you should get a great pic with this idea.

[Brian001]

do it with a better (more plain, neutral) background. the "splash" isn't as good as teh first image either. keep trying you should get a great pic with this idea.

hmm, i was thinking the same...i will try bluring out the background and playing with some shades...but i will take a dozen or so pictures of this tommorow and ill see what i can get.

also, if you havent read any of my other threads i just recieved this camera and i was wondering if you would recomend changing any settings...im still not sure what most of them do. for this picture i used full auto, then manual focus as i wanted the middle of the cup to be in focus. i took the picture from a realitivly close range with little zoom adn flash on. this picture worked out that it needed no cropping.

any suggestions, or changes to the procedure you guys think i should make?

[readingr]

For these sorts of shots I go totally manual,

High speed
Aperture to suit what you want to get from the photo
Pre focused
Additional lighting and reflectors
Flash if required

The photos you have are a good start.

Roger

hmm, i was thinking the same...i will try bluring out the background and playing with some shades...but i will take a dozen or so pictures of this tommorow and ill see what i can get.

also, if you havent read any of my other threads i just recieved this camera and i was wondering if you would recomend changing any settings...im still not sure what most of them do. for this picture i used full auto, then manual focus as i wanted the middle of the cup to be in focus. i took the picture from a realitivly close range with little zoom adn flash on. this picture worked out that it needed no cropping.

any suggestions, or changes to the procedure you guys think i should make?

[Brian001]

alright, this is my first D-SLR camera, andf the first camera that comes with all these settings...im not sure what each do.

if you wouldnt mind it would be great if you could explain the following terms:

Aperture
ISO
metering mode
AEB
Flash exp comp

sorry for the dumb question, i am in the process of reading the manual.

[readingr]

Aperture - controls the amount of light coming through the iris; the bigger the number the less light allowed through. This also affects the Depth of Field that is the distance that the lens focuses on which causes background and foreground to be blurred.

ISO - speed of the film traditionally - that is the amount of light which is absorbed - carried over into Digital. The higher the ISO the lower the light that pictures can be taken in.

metering mode - All SLR's have multiple metering modes - Average where the average of the light landing on the sensor is taken, SPOT where a particular spot is used to set the Aperture, and many more variants

Speed - time it takes for the shutter to open and close

Flash exposure - on some cameras you can compensate for the amount of light which the flash gun throws out so that the flash doesn't burn out the photo, e.g. skin tones

AEB - Auto Exposure Bracket - this allows you to take 3 photos which are a set exposure value apart with the middle set to what you want, e.g. if you pick F8 it could take between .5 and 2 stops either side of F8 so one brighter, one darker, and what you set

Hope those explanations help

Roger