Digital Camera Photography

Jaliya48 · June 8, 2014

KMeeg, your point-n-shoot photos are excellent!

Pericles · June 9, 2014

Solid shots, but very over saturated for my tastes. Its all cool, different strokes -

I don't understand why people diss P&S. You can do plenty with them if you know what you are doing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/preveen/sets/72157618856735954/

kmeeg · June 9, 2014

On 6/8/2014 at 3:44 AM, Jaliya48 said:
KMeeg, your point-n-shoot photos are excellent!

Thank you Jaliya..

On 6/9/2014 at 5:42 AM, Pericles said:
Solid shots, but very over saturated for my tastes. Its all cool, different strokes -
I don't understand why people diss P&S. You can do plenty with them if you know what you are doing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/preveen/sets/72157618856735954/

Thanks alot Pericles.. Just the kind of comments needed to improve. Will make sure to keep saturation at average level. Please keep on giving these kind of comments so everyone will learn.

Also about P&S;

1. I was never able to produce good pics out of P&S until i bought my first DSLR the D3200. That is the point i started to research / learn about the first 3 basics of ISO, Shutter speed, Aperture.

2. I did not have any idea about the lenses / image sensor size come with P&S. Eg 'Carl Zeiss' lenses coming with Sony P&S cameras or better image sensors coming with cameras like Sony RX 100ii (and many more awesome P&S cameras with other manufactures). I was just hunting for mega pixels and ended up with basic quality P&S with high mega pixels.

3. Until i get my first DSLR i could not do much post-production. Eg Nikon DSLR comes with Nikon ViewNX which gives plenty of options for post-production. When i had my P&S i was using Microsoft picture manager which comes with MS Office which has basic controls from cropping, brightness, contrast & adjusting mids. (may be few more which i did not use)

4. At the time of P&S i never read any articles or watch any training videos about photography. Now when ever i get some time i watch training videos on Youtube, read articles from http://www.slrlounge.com/, Buy mags like 'Popular Photography' (http://www.magazine-agent.com-sub.info/Popular-Photography/Welcome). Which was a good way to learn.

5. I never joined any photography forums like Flicker / Picasa until last year. But now i watch the pics from others in Flickr and see the camera settings that they used and try to do the same thing. And if its from your friend try to contact them and ask how they do it or search on youtube. For eg - Even take this thread. No one told me that my saturation is too much until now. May be they think ppl will feel bad if they tell about their mistakes. But for learners its the best help.

Hope these points help to those who just started even with a P&S. Happy shooting,

KMeeg.

Pericles · June 9, 2014

On 6/9/2014 at 4:37 PM, kmeeg said:
Thanks alot Pericles.. Just the kind of comments needed to improve. Will make sure to keep saturation at average level. Please keep on giving these kind of comments so everyone will learn.
KMeeg.

No no no, thats not a critique and say you should do it my way. Look, check this -

http://fundamentallypre.blogspot.com/2009/12/random-thoughts-on-style.html

Different people have different tastes. Just coz I prefer less saturation, doesn't mean you should follow that. The final decision should rest with you. Doesn't matter what other people say, it should be your decision, coz, hey, its your work. The only time you work to make other people happy is if someone pays you to do it their way. Its just an artist thing. Maybe someday you can be enough of an artist to insist to a client that you do it your way, stick to your artistic vision (that is why he will be paying you big bucks) of go to hell, but that is when you have properly made it.

The tl;dr summary : Its all on you.

Bracket · June 11, 2014

My Pet

Hoonigan · June 11, 2014

KMeeg, those are some nice pictures. I love the composition of them. Saturation is a bit on the high side for me too. Although I bump up saturation myself. It comes down to personal preference I guess.

And you're right about P&S cameras. Until I got myself a DSLR, all I did was flick to auto and shoot away. Daunting as they are, I found it easier to master the DSLR than my P&S. The P&S controls seems to make more sense now as well

Jaliya48 · June 11, 2014

Nice cat, Bracket!

Davy · June 12, 2014

On 6/11/2014 at 9:03 AM, Jaliya48 said:
Nice cat, Bracket!

...Until he finds the cat's footprints on BRATT's bonnet.

NPP · June 12, 2014

you mean like this?

On 6/12/2014 at 4:24 PM, Davy said:
...Until he finds the cat's footprints on BRATT's bonnet.

Davy · June 12, 2014

On 6/12/2014 at 4:37 PM, NPP said:
you mean like this?

Hahahahaa! Exactly!

Yours look like it's thinking "did you feel that? I think my bed just moved!"

Edited June 12, 2014 by Davy

Bracket · June 12, 2014

@ Jaliya : Thanks ! an excellent hunter he is

@Davy : For some reason he is quite afraid of vehicles, before this one I had a cat that destroyed my wagonR's bonnet with its claws. That one loved to sleep on the bonnet when it's warm and there were scratch marks everywhere. I used to empty a bucket full of water on him whenever I found him sleeping on my bonnet

NPP : shoo that cat away man!

Edited June 12, 2014 by Bracket

Davy · June 12, 2014

On 6/12/2014 at 5:21 PM, Bracket said:
@ Jaliya : Thanks ! an excellent hunter he is
@Davy : For some reason he is quite afraid of vehicles, before this one I had a cat that destroyed my wagonR's bonnet with its claws. That one loved to sleep on the bonnet when it's warm and there were scratch marks everywhere. I used to empty a bucket full of water on him whenever I found him sleeping on my bonnet

NPP : shoo that cat away man!

Oh yeah, been there... many times with my previous car. Anyway, nice cat. We had two looking exactly like that.

Magnum · June 12, 2014

Cat Photography of mine

Bracket · June 16, 2014

Orphans...

kmeeg · June 16, 2014

On 6/16/2014 at 2:39 PM, Bracket said:
Orphans...

Hi Bracket,

Very cute little one..

Since in this thread we discuss about Digital photography i would suggest you could have pay a little more attention about your ISO level in your camera. Camera pro's please correct me if i'm wrong. I think the ISO level of the shot is pretty high and i see some noise in the shot..

In simple, have a look at this-

Sorry if you already know about this, but hope this might help for every one who does not know. Photography pro's - please correct me if i have said anything wrong..

KMeeg.

Jaliya48 · June 16, 2014

On 6/16/2014 at 2:39 PM, Bracket said:
Orphans...

Good on you for taking them in! Don't feed them cows' milk though, they're intolerant.

Bracket · June 17, 2014

@Kmeeg: I shot the pic using automatic settings should try reducing ISO.

@Jaliya: yep, took them in when they were only 6 days old, they hadn't open their eyes then. feeding goat milk ever since using an eyedropper. so far no problems, all 3 kittens are healthy, now about 4 weeks old.

Edited June 17, 2014 by Bracket

kmeeg · June 19, 2014

Guys,

Those who are looking to learn photography hope this will help. I downloaded a torrent called 'Kelby Training Collection' which is 78.1GB with 125 disk images. This contains many training videos from DSLR basics - Post production and other advance techniques. I started watching these videos couple of days back and liked very much and hope it helps you too.

If you find difficult to find it check in 'Kickass Torrents' site, search for 'Kelby' and sort for size largest. There you will find a 78.1GB torrent. And those who have Windows 8.1 you don't need any software to open the image files. It will mount with just one a click.. For others there are many small software which you can mount a virtual disk.

Great training video and highly recommend it..

KMeeg.

Edited June 19, 2014 by kmeeg

Pericles · June 20, 2014

Kelby training is among the best in the biz. They have plenty of stuff on youtube, and a big presence on Google +.

Magnum · June 20, 2014

I learnt my basics from this guy

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4S07E5NC0R7pVuzBJ0e8Q

kmeeg · June 20, 2014

On 6/20/2014 at 10:56 AM, Pericles said:
Kelby training is among the best in the biz. They have plenty of stuff on youtube, and a big presence on Google +.

Thanks Pericles for the info. I will check. BTW i checked your ones as well and very good to learn.

On 6/20/2014 at 1:47 PM, Magnum said:
I learnt my basics from this guy
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4S07E5NC0R7pVuzBJ0e8Q

Thanks Magnum. I never came across this one. Will watch those too..

Bracket · July 22, 2014

Edited November 7, 2015 by Bracket

kmeeg · July 22, 2014

On 7/22/2014 at 10:40 AM, Bracket said:

Congratz again and very nice car Bracket. I wish they would provide the side mirrors with body color (Just my thought mate may be you like this way). Anyways love the sharp look of the Lancer. And also hope that you will not try to put evo body kit and crew the look of this beauty.. Post some more pics too bro...(although i have seen some in other threads

kmeeg · August 6, 2014

May be you guys already know this but i just got to know.. DSLR vs Camcorders..

Watch this -

KMeeg.

luckey007 · August 7, 2014

Dear friends, I have a Nikon D90 and now it shows Err message sometimes. As in the internet I cleaned the contacts in thelens also but no improvement. Do you know some place or method to rectify this? Preferably nerr Kandy.

Thanks