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Very informative! Thanks!
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John_Wayne777: ...And Evangelicals believe in chrome lined bores. Praise the Lord and pass the corrosive ammunition...
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Oh so tagged. Thank you.
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No one is sending money, and attaching a note,"This is for the white family displaced by Katrina." So Jesse Jackson and the rest of his racists need to STFU.
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Nice work. What do you recommend for a good digital camera with macro or close up capabilities. I have a nice canon 5 megapixel camera, but it sucks for close ups?
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'In Unity There Is Strength'
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Nice pictures...but I'm still a fan of stickman's compositions when it comes to pictures of guns.
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I have faced down wild animals, crazy-assed women, snakes, all manner of spiders, thugs ... nothing has managed to retailate in such a rapid and decisive manner as a toilet. -jkstexas2001
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John_Wayne777: ...And Evangelicals believe in chrome lined bores. Praise the Lord and pass the corrosive ammunition...
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Check the picture thread in the AR15 forum. His stuff generally puts the rest of us to shame.... |
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Assumption is the mother of all f___-ups.
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"It's a nasty truth that those who seek to inflict harm are not phased by gun control laws. I happen to know this from personal experience"
- Ronald Reagan "You've got more guns than Fort Apache!" - My Dad |
Awesome write-up!
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"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't." - Chuck Palahniuk
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Holy hell. O so tagged.
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"We need to hit these terrorists hard. Every place over there is a 'Holy Site'! Screw that! The most holy site in the world is an elementary school full of kids on the first day of class, and those animals desecrated one."
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This thread's too good not to tag!
Thanks for the great info!! |
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I'd rather have a good scope than a good picture |
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"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want."
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Taggeth for the plethora of info and great pics! Thanks!
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I have no idea what the current crop of consumer / prosumer cameras are like. It's best to go check them out at a camera store probably. I believe you that your Canon might suck for close ups but so does my nikon 990. For macro you may be able to set the autofocus to close up mode. Then be patient while the camera searches for focus. You may only be able to focus real close at certain zoon settings. Mine only focuses max closeup in the middle of the zoom scale. Canon may have different, selectable autofocus zones you can try. Auto focus also requires a bit of light to find focus quickly. For real closeup / micro stuff, it is better to use manual focus if possible. Then use the LCD on the back of the camera to confirm focus while moving towards and away from the subject until the image is sharp. You want LOTS of light for micro as you'll need small apertures to extend te zone of focus (depth of field). I posted an example at this thread about O-Rings in the AR section. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=252822&page=1 |
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Tagged for future reference.
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sweet..thanks
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This sig has been looted by an undocumented shopper.
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eta: Excellent advice cugir, & some awesome pics.
Thanks for the tips. From hg112, (Maybe some more in here.) |
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TAG? no no..this calls for a SNAG!
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You can see the fingerprint in the last picture. WOW!
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Very cool, thanks!
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"It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people."
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I can make a couple technical obsevations. The background is a good choice. Camera looks steady. The picture looks yellow. Either your white balance was fooled by the tungsten light or was set for daylight. The muzzle is OOF (out of focus). That the part I'd want to see in focus if not the whole thing. Sometimes you have to shoot even more frames to get a sharp one. You can also use the LCD screen and 'lock' the focus. Do this by pressing the button down halfway and the camera will select a focus point, it may show this point on the screen with a box or something...then still holding the button halfway down, recompose the scene so the muzzle is sharp..then complete the button press. The image is too big to view all at once on my screen. this give your picture less impact and takes longer to load. Use an image editing program like photoshop to set the size of the image to about 600 pixels on the long dimension. This would be the same as 8.333 inches at 72 dpi. Then use some sort of sharpening to lift some of the blur. I use unsharp mask filter in Photoshop set at Amount: 80-150 Radius: .5-.7 Threshold: 4. Then Save the image for the web as a JPEG at medium to medium-hi quality. Routine images should stay under 100k each if possible. The image is kinda overlit. Thee is little you can do short of blocking the light with something. There is one thing tho'.....Photoshop! There are numerous ways to 'brush' in drama in photoshop and shadows are your friend. You can use the burn tool on a duplicate of the original image to darken the corners and background. You can also use adjustment layers in Photoshop to make a curve that is darker then use a mask on that curve layer to brush this dark correction in to the image with the brush tool and black or white 'ink' on the mask. Here are the layers for the glock image. The bottom curve used the grey eyedropper to correct some of the yellow. The hue/sat layer took the saturation down to -20 or so to further correct out the yellow cast. The next two layers are the dark curves with masks to let the effect through (white areas are active). The top mask is to add a little snap to the gun portion of the image and that curve is pictured. Here is an example that is WAY overdone in the shadow dept.... just like Ichiro. |
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I think those are the machining marks. I never knew they were there till I saw the pic. The new large format digital lenses are really incredible. They are many, many times better than even the finest hasselblad, Mamiya and Nikon lenses. They are many times better than the finest large format APO lenses. |
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Awesome. It's well lit, but not 'harsh'. Detail's are clear. |
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Why yes it is. One of the last from Clearview. It works great. I am an optics snob but do just fine with my T-168. |
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Did you shoot the uzi pic? That one is really clear. It looks more lke a softbox than a diffusion panel was used on that one. |
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The American Flag is a perfect background, simple and iconic. that image would make a great tshirt or logo. |
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Only Hippies and Homos drive Volkswagens, and I don't see any long hair or smell granola on you!!
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I was gopnna post somsethinsg funny and a picture, but I forgot to take a pictuer.
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But the 10-22 is very nice for warning shots. A .22 lr into the water makes a very nice splash.
If the splash doesn't scare them off, a sucking chest wound will. -Sylvan |
Thanks for the tips!
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"War is less costly than servitude. The choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." -Jean Dutourd
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Yeah, but theres just something quaint about the carpet pose with the gratuitous toe shot....
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...and thats all I got to say about that.
"I could have DIED!" - SP1grrl |
I agree. I also like looking at the junk in the background of any shots on the web...just to see their stuff. My favorite is the rifle leaning against the wall with the floor in the pic, then when it's posted it gets turned on it's side and looks like it coming out of a wall and floating. |
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Oh, Hell no. I'm all point-n-click. But do appreciate the talent & technology involved. Hoping your tips will help make my future pics better. Think hg_112 did that & several other's in the thread. Here's more from This Thread |
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Thanks for the tips.
I've got a few how-to photography books but, damned if they're too boring to read. You were pretty much to the point in your post. (Nice pics BTW) |
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Those suppressed glock shots are great. The have a suitable backgrounds and nice light. That type of lighting can be found on an overcast day or in the shade. A great place to find that light is inside an open garage door or regular door that opens outside to the north. It is also great to shoot portraits of people standing in a north facing outside doorway with the photographer standing outside looking in and subject standing inside looking out. Of course you want to not capture the door frame and it might be good to put some kind of solid background back behind the subject. The only thing I don't like about the suppressed Glock shot is the file size. That original image is 576K !!! Those kind of file sizes are what keep dialup users like me from enjoying the photo threads. It is everyones best inteest to keep file sizes down unless otherwise requested. Here is the Glock image reduced to 84K in file size and it looks almost the same as the original...except that I removed some of the blue and added some contrast. |
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outstanding photos
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Duly impressed! |
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Nice primer.
I get tired of the guy with the new 7 megapixel camera posting a 3064x2082 picture that spans across both of my monitors. For good web posting the biggest picture you ought to try is about 1024x768 - 2 megapixel IIRC my history. Smaller is even better. |
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