bored last night...

**EvilCerealBoX** · 05-24-2005 02:05 PM

figured i'd try and take up photography as a hobby... i gotta get a better camera than this thing... heres the best i got, i was honestly expecting better... taken on a Canon Powershot s30

advice? suggestions are welcome...

oh yeah, that is the moon not the sun =\

**ynotajb** · 05-24-2005 02:09 PM

OMG is that a ghost in the last pic... keep practicing they look good

**felo3769** · 05-24-2005 02:12 PM

the thrid one is crappy, Looks liek you tried to sharpen it? But other than that pics look decent, just gotta mess around with the exposure settings

**EvilCerealBoX** · 05-24-2005 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by felo3769

the thrid one is crappy, Looks liek you tried to sharpen it? But other than that pics look decent, just gotta mess around with the exposure settings

actually the third one i put the grain on there on purpose... and exposure settings are really all i am messing with

**EvilCerealBoX** · 05-24-2005 09:30 PM

some more, i wanted to get some with the sun before it went down but couldn't get out of work fast enough... oh well i'll try again tomorrow

not sure what i was goin for on the last one...

also, do pictures look better with black frames around them? or would it matter?

**ynotajb** · 05-25-2005 12:09 AM

the second set looks better... on that last pic maybe a longer exposure time?

**zoinks** · 05-25-2005 12:41 AM

Sometimes when photos don't come out as planned, Photoshop can be your best friend...

**EvilCerealBoX** · 05-25-2005 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by zoinks

Sometimes when photos don't come out as planned, Photoshop can be your best friend...

they're all photoshoped silly... i left it that way because i thought it looked better and gave the better feeling that its getting late... ya know?

**zoinks** · 05-25-2005 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by EvilCerealBoX

they're all photoshoped silly... i left it that way because i thought it looked better and gave the better feeling that its getting late... ya know?

Oops.

I just did some quick color correcting. I just love doing it, usually you can't tell how bad a photo is until you cc it.

**EvilCerealBoX** · 05-25-2005 10:27 PM

took me 3 hours to chase this damn storm around town... no photoshop on these

**Doug05WRX** · 05-31-2005 08:42 PM

SICK lightning shots man.

**EvilCerealBoX** · 06-01-2005 02:22 AM

Originally Posted by Doug05WRX

SICK lightning shots man.

thanks, it really means alot

heres some more:

attempting to get that damn sunset again, its like the sun doesn't want to have pics taken of it...

these are from the saturday after i took the last lightning shots... i think... i forget...

and heres some from tonight (photoshop went kinda wild with them, so i just left it since they look better)

took this one tonight as well... no moon out or anything, those clouds were literally lighting themselves...

**TurbeauxREX** · 06-02-2005 05:45 PM

You offerred a lot of good shots. If I could make one suggestion, resist the urge to place the subject of your photo in the center of the image. Learn the Rule of Thirds and apply it. If your camera has selectable focus points try shifting them off-center. This keeps you from having to use the focus & recompose method, which sometimes results in poor exposures or out of focus images.

For sunsets, get there early and stay late. The time that it takes for the sun to sink from when it is just above the horizon is very short. Sunsets take patience. Also, it has to be pretty dark to get the really saturated colors that pop (without using color correcting software).

Peace,

Curtis