Photography Post Vol. 2

[selective beef]

barcelona.

this picture reminds me of this video:

[nairb49]

I gotcha.

Figured id cross post this here to since its more about the photos to me.

My first step into the great wide open:

http://www.wku.edu/~carl.kiilsgaard/street_scene/

Carl, inspiring as always. I'm gonna try and get some of my recent shots for critique and tips.

[Guest jeffvyain]

just got my first DSLR a couple weeks ago (nikon D1h). Borrowed a buddy's 15-30mm Sigma and snapped off a few pics late tonight after my girl and i got fucked up... here's a couple of pictures from our impromtu photo shoot...

[Guest DUM]

Yeah, there's a range depending on the aperture, if its low you can just give a general guess and you're good.

[airfrogusmc]

Theres a depth of field scale right on the front of the lens. Using that scale you can preset the lens for instance and this is just off the top of my head tri-x (400 asa) 1/125 at f22 35 mm camera with a 35mm lens if you use the scale on the lens should give you everything from a little over 3 ft to infinity in focus. As you open up your depth of field gets shallower. Use the scale on the lens.

[Guest DUM]

Yup

[7south]

I had to start an account once I found this thread. There's some great stuff on here. Here's some shots of mine. Tell me what you think, anything that you think can be improved?

on the airplane to Australia - sunrise

Oceanbeach Pier

Chinese New Year

Middle of nowhere, New Zealand

[un-]

I love this thread.

[Failure]

[Purse]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7551536@N05/

[tweeds]

Carl, i'm a little late on this but your "Street Scene" work is great. it got a little too convenient towards the end but otherwise i liked it. there are some really beautiful shots in there.

[backinthetrees]

carl liked the whole street scene series. you gotz alot of potential dude.

jeffvyain i love the first photo.

this thread is pretty awesome man

[backinthetrees]

is the new

???

[likewtfyo]

[mike lowrey]

Theres a depth of field scale right on the front of the lens. Using that scale you can preset the lens for instance and this is just off the top of my head tri-x (400 asa) 1/125 at f22 35 mm camera with a 35mm lens if you use the scale on the lens should give you everything from a little over 3 ft to infinity in focus. As you open up your depth of field gets shallower. Use the scale on the lens.

hmm I'm not quite sure if I get it.. I tried adjusting the scale to 3ft / 0.9m and shot several images from about 1m away, resulting in this. the focus seems quite good on the wall which was about 1.3m away :confused:

I did get some decent images, mind that I was just playing around inside so these are nothing that interesting, just test shots

[airfrogusmc]

Mike maybe these photos can clear it up a bit

Heres my depth of field scale on a 35 mm lens. I have it set at f22 and if you look at the depth of field scale on the lens I have it set so that everything from about 3.5 ft to infinity will be in focus. So if I were out on the street and wanted everything from 3.5 ft to infinity to be in focus I would pre set my lens like this and just shoot away.

Heres a close up showing how the pre focus would work at f22 then at f16.

If you notice when you've opend up a stop you've lost some depth of field.

It now show you that everything from about 4.5 ft to infinity will be in focus.

I hope this helped.

[mike lowrey]

Mike maybe these photos can clear it up a bit

thanks for that, ok I think I understand it... but I'm still not sure why it focused on the wall and not on the object. heres the scale on mine:

so if I'm shooting an object from pretty much exactly 2.6ft, why would it focus closer to 4ft away?

[airfrogusmc]

Could be the body focus is off on your camera? At f 2.8 your depth of field is so shallow when shooting that close to. In fact its so shallow it doesn't have a setting on the lens. As you can see f4 is the largest aperture.

[mike lowrey]

yea I guess it has to be off a bit then because I'm quite sure about the distance, I think I'll do some tests to determine it better and just try to shoot with a smaller aperture.

thanks for your help fro

[aaronS]

What do you guys know about Ryan McGinley's equipment? Whats he using all that jazz?

I've recently been loving his stuff. A lot of people might not like it all but i think everyone would appreciate the olympic swimmer stuff and the morrissey stuff.

http://www.ryanmcginley.com

[Guest DUM]

Honestly I'm horrible at guessing distances...I just use the little diamond thing in the viewfinder.

[airfrogusmc]

Ain't to hard to figure out 3.5 ft to infinity. That would pretty much cover just about everything.

Mike your lens barrel could have shifted. Some have screws on the side that can come loose over time. Maybe get someone to take a look at it.

[Carl]

No photos but....

UHhhhhhhh, put that money in my hand William Randolph Hearst.

http://www.hearstfdn.org/hearst_journalism/press_release.php?id=21

[airfrogusmc]

Is that you in 3rd place? If so congrats. Keep up the good WORK.

[ayn]

carl: congrats!

[arevalo]

she's done.

[tweeds]

money! great stuff, mr. kilsgaard

[Carl]

tweeds...double i, double a

Thanks everyone.

Arevalo - Cool bike! Pictures have great light.

Country drive on a beautiful Kentucky afternoon...

[mike lowrey]

Honestly I'm horrible at guessing distances...I just use the little diamond thing in the viewfinder.

I think there might be something wrong with ze diamond in mine cause it looks more like a stain or something, that or I just dont know how to look at it

congrats Carlito!

what did you submit? and you're in some final now?

[Spaghettini]