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FatBoy
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| Stuart wrote: | | Quote: | the spider is a moulted skin someone gave him and the scorpion is one of those preserved ones.
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Ya cheat!!!  lol  By the way that poster you done for Scott is in Reptile care and looks great.. |
Well it was either use a skin and be fine or use a real one and every time it moves I would tremble a little bit more until it reaches the point where I squeal "MUMMY" involuntarily and run for a cuddle....yes, yes I am scared of them. 
Ah cool, I may pop out and buy a copy then. 
| Stuart wrote: | | Don't think you buggered anything up mate..its just depth of field..with a face on shot like that you will struggle to get everything sharp and in focus.. |
The DoF was deliberate, I had tried it the day before and failed, so that was my major goal yesterday, I meant more along the lines of the natural light overexposing the tail...maybe had the ISO off a bit?  |
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Stuart
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry mate mis read that...could well be the iso as it does look a little noisey,as in grain,which happens when using a high iso....try it with a lower setting and see how you go. 
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FatBoy
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheers mate, I'll put your advice to good use. |
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Joe
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Some great pics in there Ross
As you are looking back through your photos on your camera can you check the histograms? If you can then these will tell you the spread of the different tones in your image, if you have any areas where the highlights have blown then these will be indicated by a spike at the very right hand side of the histogram, the solution would be to come down a stop or two, to effectivly under expose your image, the dark areas are much easier to lighten than the blown areas are to darken....hope this makes sense lol
Also by viewing the histogram you can tell before you view your image on the comp that there are areas where the highlights have blown. |
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FatBoy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Some sound advice there, Joe...cheers for that mate.
I'm not too sure if I can view the histogram on the camera (I'll have a play and see)...but there is a function called bracketing which takes one underexposed copy, one exposed and one overexposed copy also, so I may have a play with that and see if it helps me get my head around the setting etc. |
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Reishtak
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| JohnC wrote: | I subdue the flash for close-ups by putting tissue over the flashgun aperture.
I hold the tissue on with blutack. |
Aye - Personally I keep a packet of rizla in my camera bag. That way you can just lick and stick a 'filter' (hehe) over the flash. I find it easy doing this to just add another on top if it isnt filtering out as much of the flash as I want.
Same idea, just gets rid of the need to have blutac with you
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Billbow
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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Some good tips there, I may be getting the bluetac out imminently.
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