I use the 50 1.8 as my walk around lens, simply because thats the lens I have attached when I store it and im too lazy to switch lenses when im out and about with the gear.

walking around with prime lens is fine, you dont even have to move back or forward, you can still compose nice shots with the 50mm regardless of how distant the subject is. As long as you compose the photo right its perfectly fine.

I walk around with the 50mm and keep that ish at f8 for city roaming.

only time I DONT use a prime lens is when im in stationary seating and photographing a stage, than 300 photos from the same area at the same focal length, same subject distance, same platform would be crappy.

 

I'm forced to use a 50 1,8 all the time because it's the only lens I have at the moment. Lol. Works just fine for me though..

 

can I play the PS game too?

grass doesnt have enough black level information, which would require masking to fix and I didnt want to invest that kind of time for the photo.


oops too much red in this one.

anyhow for anyone that wants to know how to fix exposure
you adjust levels, then tweak with curves, than adjust color.

results may vary depending on how much time you want to invest in correcting the photo. the above examples were quickies.

I did it a bit differently than roja, I didnt use the warming filter. I adjusted the colors by decreasing blue and increasing red yellow and green levels.

to avoid blown out highlights use levels and curves. Burn tool can help darken areas that need darkening also.

other improvements may include, dodge and burn, surface blur, smart sharpen, hue/saturation correction, selective color, and masking.

however working with raw files is much easier! anyhow, the best way to speed up post processing is just to shoot the photo correctly from the camera, then little to no time is spent optimizing a photograph.

When I first got my camera, the first round of serious shots for an event needed some heavy correction(300 photos). I learned the camera's limitations. The second event I photographed needed less attention(1200 photos) and I learned a lot more, after that all the events I photograph require no editing, but I still tweak here and there just to optimize the photos. which is why I still shoot in jpg/raw

jpg to quickly view the photos, raw to edit.

 

[quote="Elijahtc"]
yeah i did it in like 2 minutes before work with a resized photo if i had the hi rez version i woulda spent some more time on it.. hard to work with an image that size without losing mass amount of quality and it was way underexposed

props to rnb tho made it look much better

 

thanks for the props nastos.

 

ok wow i just found some OLD shots. These are ALL film and weren't adjusted in any way at all. These were shots taken from when i switched from a Canon Rebel (back when it was ALL film and there weren't any DSLRs) to a Canon Elan 7e!


















































lemme know what u guys/gal think. Again those were like YEARS ago and are completely unedited. They were actually scanned from a crappy HP scanner that scanned the negatives. ha ha

 

not sure why they are sooo out of focus. they look fine on my computer until i uploaded them. oh well u get the idea. just pretend they are all in perfect focus and sharpness.

 

Here are some new pictures, pic my flesh from my bones like buzzards...

 

perfect exposure, focus and color; however, the content is lacking, with the exception of the cat and the lens cap

 

idk i kinda like that first photo. Good job. U must know what fstop means, Jon......

 

i like the light...i just think that the composition could be better and more interesting

 

maybe a perspective of being UNDER the light and compose it so that it fills the frame?

 

make it so its not so centered maybe....i dont know....can't really tell whats around it that might make it more interesting

 

thank you kind sirs, I will take what you said and put it into consideration for future photo taking.

 

Jon, google RULE OF THIRDS.

 

or the golden rule

 

now go comment on my photos. Don't have to be too brutal. THose are my first shots, they are OLD negatives, scanned on a VERY crappy negative scanner, not edited, and they are compressed by photobucket. ha ha

 

golden rule?

 

Dearest Elijah, I know this rule, YOU have showed me it many times.

 

so apply it. haha
Don't just play tic tac toe in ur viewfinder. ha ha