Jul. 29th, 2004 11:33 am
'Cos I live to see the music
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vin_petrolMy Screaming Banshee Aircrew pictures are finally online at:
http://vinpetrol.fotopic.net/c244168_1.html
I took my Kodak digital camera along to this one. It's 3.1 Megapixel
DC4800 zoom camera, but a few years old. I never really intended to use it for gig photography, but seeing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wendles's pictures recently relit my passion for this sort of photography. I thought it might work out OK 'cos I can set the aperture and "film speed" and let it decided for itself the shutter speed. I used to do this all the time with a Minolta SLR back in the 80s and early 90s, and got good results. So I set it for ASA 400 (as high as it will go) and f2.8 (wide open). Sadly, this was still only giving me 1/8th of a second shutter speeds, which explains the blurring on some of the pictures (I was braced against stuff, but the subject was moving). I switched to flash for most of them, but AFAICT it was still going at 1/8th of a second *with* the flash. This has a slightly odd blurring effect on the pictures.
Reading up on my camera this morning I discover that I can set the shutter speed manually too, so next time I may just set this to 1/30th and see what sort of results I get.
Another thing about all digital cameras I've used: pressing the shutter doesn't really take a picture, it more tells the camera that you would like it to take a picture sometime in the near future. It's nothing like using a manual SLR, which really is point and shoot. I suspect this is entirely a "money related" feature, and that if I spend more money this effect will lessen. It's worse on my cheap little ickle Agfa pocket camera compared to the Kodak.
I've a horrible feeling this could all cost me a lot of money in the future...
I must admit I really do like this one:
http://vinpetrol.fotopic.net/p6292124.html
There's a manic gleam inmister_ed's eyes and a lovely wicked grin on ant_girl's face - "he's going to jump that barrier in a minute."
http://vinpetrol.fotopic.net/c244168_1.html
I took my Kodak digital camera along to this one. It's 3.1 Megapixel
DC4800 zoom camera, but a few years old. I never really intended to use it for gig photography, but seeing
wendles's pictures recently relit my passion for this sort of photography. I thought it might work out OK 'cos I can set the aperture and "film speed" and let it decided for itself the shutter speed. I used to do this all the time with a Minolta SLR back in the 80s and early 90s, and got good results. So I set it for ASA 400 (as high as it will go) and f2.8 (wide open). Sadly, this was still only giving me 1/8th of a second shutter speeds, which explains the blurring on some of the pictures (I was braced against stuff, but the subject was moving). I switched to flash for most of them, but AFAICT it was still going at 1/8th of a second *with* the flash. This has a slightly odd blurring effect on the pictures.Reading up on my camera this morning I discover that I can set the shutter speed manually too, so next time I may just set this to 1/30th and see what sort of results I get.
Another thing about all digital cameras I've used: pressing the shutter doesn't really take a picture, it more tells the camera that you would like it to take a picture sometime in the near future. It's nothing like using a manual SLR, which really is point and shoot. I suspect this is entirely a "money related" feature, and that if I spend more money this effect will lessen. It's worse on my cheap little ickle Agfa pocket camera compared to the Kodak.
I've a horrible feeling this could all cost me a lot of money in the future...
I must admit I really do like this one:
http://vinpetrol.fotopic.net/p6292124.html
There's a manic gleam in
mister_ed's eyes and a lovely wicked grin on ant_girl's face - "he's going to jump that barrier in a minute."