Photography Show Offs

These are all really GREAT pictures! I'll add one...

Trail Walks
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Apologies in advance for the large files.

Red admiral butterfly and bee.

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Ed's Easy Diner, London

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Baby ladybug in my old yard in England

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Children at the Maize Maze in York

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Swiss Re building in London (aka The Gherkin)

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The Shambles, York

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yeah, we're really lucky. that lake is about 10 miles from our house. and yes the water really is that gorgeous blue green that the last picture shows. I love it.
 
Fat Lazy Guy said:
Yep, I can see yours. They're absolutely fantastic. Great composition in all of them. What sort of camera are you using?
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Thanks! I wasn't sure if people could see them because I hotlinked them from my Flickr account.

It's a Canon EOS 350D, which is a digital SLR. I usually use the stock lens but I also sometimes use a Sigma 105mm macro lens.
 
Again, there are some very good photos in here! Hopefully, someone has to know this....
1. What is the affect that makes the "background" of a photo streaked or blurry?

2. Is there an "affect" or camera setting if you will, that gives the look as in Steve's Avitar Pic. The nice clear landscape, but the "subject" is like a sillouette? or a shadow, or dark if you will.

I am very BAD with all these terms, but there has to be someone who speaks "dork ass novice"!! I really could see myself getting into photography, and would like to learn how to take some of these types of quality pictures.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!! :)
 
You can do a lot of that kind of photo editing at . Most of the tools are free - or you can upgrade for $25 a year. I do a lot of editing so I have the membership but before I got the membership I could do all of what you are looking for.

jzthedetermined said:
Again, there are some very good photos in here! Hopefully, someone has to know this....
1. What is the affect that makes the "background" of a photo streaked or blurry?

2. Is there an "affect" or camera setting if you will, that gives the look as in Steve's Avitar Pic. The nice clear landscape, but the "subject" is like a sillouette? or a shadow, or dark if you will.

I am very BAD with all these terms, but there has to be someone who speaks "dork ass novice"!! I really could see myself getting into photography, and would like to learn how to take some of these types of quality pictures.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!! :)
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about2loseit said:
You can do a lot of that kind of photo editing at . Most of the tools are free - or you can upgrade for $25 a year. I do a lot of editing so I have the membership but before I got the membership I could do all of what you are looking for.
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Thanks!! That's exactly what I was talking about! I'm shocked someone actually understood my dribblings.
 
jzthedetermined said:
Again, there are some very good photos in here! Hopefully, someone has to know this....
1. What is the affect that makes the "background" of a photo streaked or blurry?

2. Is there an "affect" or camera setting if you will, that gives the look as in Steve's Avitar Pic. The nice clear landscape, but the "subject" is like a sillouette? or a shadow, or dark if you will.

I am very BAD with all these terms, but there has to be someone who speaks "dork ass novice"!! I really could see myself getting into photography, and would like to learn how to take some of these types of quality pictures.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!! :)
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jzthedetermined said:
Thanks!! That's exactly what I was talking about! I'm shocked someone actually understood my dribblings.
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My camera has full manual settings, so it's easy to make a silhouette with it. Take your meter reading off the sky or other light source instead of the subject. Bracket your exposures and it's practically idiot-proof.
 
jzthedetermined said:
Again, there are some very good photos in here! Hopefully, someone has to know this....
1. What is the affect that makes the "background" of a photo streaked or blurry?
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Usually when you're looking at a photo that has the subject in sharp focus and a blurry background or foreground, that has to do with the aperture setting. The smaller the f-stop number (the wider the aperture), the narrower the depth of field. So when you have an f-stop number of say f/2, only a small area will be in focus, as opposed to say f/16 which would probably have most everything in focus (depending on how far away things are).

You have to adjust shutterspeed etc to account for the amount of light you're letting in, but if you shoot in Aperture Priority mode then your camera should take care of that for you.
 
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