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No...

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond5000/



http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/n...head-with-d90/


I really like the D5000, but I have tons to learn

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Taking action shots you have to know how to work the camera's settings and make them work for you to get the image YOU want. When I am taking action shots I usually take my camera in full auto mode and 'half-click and see what the camera is choosing' and then make my own adjustments from there to 'get what I want'. You have to know how the following work, aperture, iso, and speed, and how they work with each other.

ISO is basically film speed. The higher the number the less light you need to get a faster shutter speed. But also you get image noise as you go higher. Sometimes that is just a sacrifice you have to make.

Aperture is the setting the allows more or less light in. The lower the number 1.8 2.0 the more light is let in and the faster shutter speed you can get. But as you allow more light in with larger aperture (larger being smaller numbers...I know confusing) then the depth of field gets smaller, meaning you will have less room for error in your focusing plane.

Shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter stays open, the longer it stays open the more movement will blur your picture.

So back to the question about flip tricks. So what I would do, is in full auto half click and get the settings for where I am going to take the picture. Lets say it puts me at ISO 100, F5, and a shutter speed of 1/80. Well shutter speed is what is going to 'Stop' the action of the flipping and twisting of the board. 1/80th of a second is NOT going to do that. You need at least 1/300th or faster.

There are a couple ways you could do this. You could goto Shutter Priority and set the shutter speed at 1/300th or even 1/500th and let the camera determine the other settings for you.

I personally do not like to let the camera make decisions for me, I try to limit the decisions the camera makes. So what I would do, is drop the ISO down to 400 or 800, aperture at 2.8 or larger depending on the lens I have and shutter speed around 1/500th.

Try shutter priority first, and then make it a point to learn how to use these setting and how they affect each other.

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That's what I was looking to see!!!

:tu:tu:tu

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I am not sure if the picture will show here or not. I uploaded a file that is showing is attached. If you see it here, it is a shot at a golf tourney to benefit Altism Speaks.

I am sorry if this message does not work. I am new here.

How do you imbed an image from your hard drive to a thread here?

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Like this :D


http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/attach...7&d=1261435190

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Shutter priority on Nikons is the TV setting, aperature priority is AV.

Another thing I do, is if I know I want to shoot the action picture in a certain aperature. I will goto Aperature Priority (AV) and set it where I want it, lets say 2.8. Then I will do a half click and see what the suggested shutter speed is. If it is too slow, then I can adjust the ISO to another setting and recheck till I get the shutter speed I want. Then I set all my settings in full manual and shoot away!

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Those are Canon settings. It's "S" and "A" on Nikons

That seems like a lot of work, but getting a guage from the camera is an awesome idea!

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Yup, but it makes it all worth it when the picture on the camera is what you imagined in your head before hand. Honestly it looks like alot, but in reality it takes maybe 30 seconds once you know what your doing.

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Have your little friend say hello to my little friend.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...irrleycopy.jpg

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I shoot in AV mode I would guess 90% of the time. About the only time I don't is when I'm looking to do a "panning" shot.

-Roland.

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Now that I know it CAN be done, would you be so kind as to tell HOW it is done.
Thanks.

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You have to have the image hosted someplace like photobucket or somesuch.

then you right-click on the image and copy the entire address. Then you add it to your post with {img} {/img} except use the [] instead of {}.

It will look like this.

{img}http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Other/Tonnado-Tech/084a/745851690_3juFW-M.jpg{/img}

There you go.

-Roland.

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http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Shooting/...12_owZHx-L.jpg

http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Shooting/...84_xa6PC-L.jpg

http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Shooting/...73_tTVSv-L.jpg

-Roland.

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I know it's prob too much to ask but..can you post up the pic info..like F thingy and Iso and such? I'd like to learn please..

sorry jetjocky51...just messing with ya...I figured you would quote me and see how it was done.

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I forget what programs you can use to extract it, but that data is typically embedded in the image isn't it?

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Here is a thread on the basics, with pics to explain. Its from a photography forum that is mainly Canon, but we allow you Nikon folks to come and learn the error of your ways ;)

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=414088

And here is an exif viewer. EXIF is the info from a picture, what camera took it, what was the focal length, ISO, Speed, and Aperature (the F thingy)

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

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To me, that my friend is a photo illustrating one thing and one thing alone.
Answer: 4 very, very lucky guys.

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F thingy? Is that a Nikon term :D.

Here's a good tutorial site from Canon, http://web.canon.jp/imaging/enjoydslr/part2/2A.html. I think somebody mentioned AV (Canon) = A (Nikon) and TV (Canon) = S.

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Here Bao, probably not the best example. But I took this at ISO 1000, Shutter 1/400th and Aperature of 1.8. You can see that her feet are somewhat soft or not sharp and if you look close enough you can see that the ends of the bar are also not sharp. This is because of the 1.8 Aperature, you have a very small depth of field where everything will be in focus and sharp. I could have gone faster on the Shutter, as you see there is still motion blur in her hair.

http://ic2.pbase.com/o2/27/904227/1/...t.IMG_3595.jpg

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Updated with Exif data.

-Roland.

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cool pics all! how do you get the timing just right to capture the muzzle flash though?

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My guess would be that he is taking a burst of frames and then posting the one that caught the image that he wanted. :tu

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was thinking along those lines but had to ask.....:)

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Sometimes that's how I do it, some times if the shooter is shooting with any kind of rhythm, I just try to time a single frame with their shots. Luck has a great deal to do with it.

http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Shooting/...32_RiJnd-L.jpg
Camera Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Exposure Time 0.0015s (1/640)
Aperture f/2.8
ISO 200
Focal Length 110mm (143mm in 35mm)


-Roland.

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The girl on the far left looks like someone I used to work with....

OK so please anyone correct me.

In regards to this pic [ISO 1000, Shutter 1/400th and Aperature of 1.8. ]..if I did this

ISO 1000....Shutter 1/60...Aperture 1.8 then the pic would have more of a blur effect around the focal point? what would happen to the background?

ISO 400..Shutter 1/400th..Aperture 1.8 then the pic would have be darker?

ISO 1000...Shutter 1/400th..Aperture 4 then the pic would be darker and the background would less blurred. :confused:

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With the shutter sped at 1/60, the picture would be much darker cause it would not have enough light and the movement would be blurred cause the shutter would not be fast enough to stop the action

Now I could have gone with ISO1600 or even 3200 and used a smaller aperature like F4, but then there is the possibility that there would be noise artifacts because of the higher ISO. It is really just a balancing of everything to get the best result.

Yes the picture would be darker cause ISO400 would not allow enough light, you may be able to fix it with software but it would be underexposed.[quote]

Yes exactly, and if there were enough light in the gym, the picture would be fine, just more would be in focus like her feet, the bars, blah blah blah. Read that post on that like I posted.

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:tu

Great info..

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With an ISO of 1000 I would expect the picture to be much more grainy.

Is there any post production work here?

Was the room/warehouse pretty dim?

Either way kudos. :banger

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This was a typical gymnasium, terrible lighting. And in gymnastics no flash is allowed for the safety of the gymnasts.

I am not sure what exactly I did in PP, most likely levels and wb, a very light noise reduction and a small amount of sharpening. But I do that will all pictures for the most part. It isn't until I make a sale that I actually do heavy PP.

Both of my camera's perform very well at ISO 1000 (Canon 40D and 1DMKII) not sure which one I was using here. Noise becomes a big problem when you underexpose, I intentionally overexpose to TRY and avoid that.

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Very cool. I will keep that in mind. The flash thing I diddnt think of safety and all.

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Man, I have a lot to learn about photography. Can anyone recommend a good site to learn?




Love this shot!!

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Some gymnastics meets will ask you to go put your camera in the car or confiscate it till the meet is over if you inadvertently use your flash. They don't mess around.

Do you use any noise reduction software?? Another good tip here

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...ad.php?t=48929

when using noise reduction (or you can select inverse for sharpening) is to using masking, so you mask your edges. That way the NR works on the background and not the detail. I usually only do this on a sale, it takes a little bit of time and when I shoot an invitational I am usually looking at around 1K photos. The college gigs are much better, I shot ASU's gymnastics last year and would only do like 200 photos in a night.

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I like http://photography-on-the.net/forum/ they have some very good threads for beginners here..
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...splay.php?f=13

like this one I mentioned earlier

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=414088

and here are 3 great books to get

1. Photography And The Art Of Seeing by Freeman Patterson
2. Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson
3. Mastering Digital Photography

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Thanks for the tip. I usually just avoid shooting above 800 ISO that works for me. But when I do have a noise issue I will In CS4 go to filters and reduce noise. It works ok but thanks for the link.

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Thanks! I'll check these out!

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hi,merry x'mas to all... just want to share some of my pictures...

-flower-

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1979/img8592g.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9200/img729.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7308/img0686f.jpg

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3876/img7503y.jpg

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Great Flower photo's!

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I love this one! Very nice bro!:tu

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I learned today that taking a pic of things with lights without a flash is better :D




http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/attach...7&d=1261632085
Manual exposure, 1/200 sec, f/8, ISO 400



http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/attach...8&d=1261632093
Manual exposure, 0.4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400

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The colors in the second pic are great. Do you have a tripod? Hand holding .4 sec the picture is not going to be tack sharp like you want.

The composition and idea of your pic are great! Good job of "seeing" it. Can you go with a larger aperature than 5.6? Like F/4? Or try to bump your shutter up a little bit.

A tip on hand holding, if your focal lenth is 70mm then the minimum for hand holding would be 1/70th. You didnt say what your focal length was. If you can adjust either your aperature or your shutter, or if you have a tripod, your picture will be much sharper.

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Thanks for the positive reinforcement, Kirk. I do have a tripod but didn't think to carry it to a friend's house but it would have made trying to take that 2nd pic a lot easier.

5.6 is the largest I can get with my D3000 and the focal length was 55mm. I didn't even think to make the shutter speed faster :tu

Is the aperture dependent on the camera or lens?

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The aperture is dependent on the lens. When you look at lens like 4.2-5.6 that means that depending on the focal length the largest aperture you can get is 4.2-5.6. For you next lens purchase look for something that is prime, i.e. 1.4 or 2.8 (no dashes) like the 50 1.8 or 50 1.4 great lens!

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I was wondering what kind of camera you use

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Some Holiday shots I took tonight!

Happy Holidays to All!!

-Doug

http://focusindigital.smugmug.com/Ho...1_zbPi5-X2.jpg

http://focusindigital.smugmug.com/Ho...2_rrzFZ-X2.jpg

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I was wrong...4.8 is the largest I have..I guess it would only allow me to get down to 5.6 because of something I was tinkering with..


Dux great pics.:tu

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The second numbers on your lens is the max aperture at full zoom.

Ps. Im enjoying my new 50mm 1.8 that Santa brought me.

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Love this picture! I just went and leveled and balanced it.

If this is unacceptable let me know I did not see a copyright.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...g8810/TREE.jpg

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Wow Thanks :) You even removed the wall hooks :D

Shot looks even better now :tu

What ap did you use?

-Doug/Dux

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Photoshop CS3 at the moment but CS2-CS4 are all wonderful programs

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Christmas ornament.
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...silverstar.jpg