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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: MR.FEESH on May 22, 2009, 06:02:21 pm

Title: New Camera!
Post by: MR.FEESH on May 22, 2009, 06:02:21 pm

I've recently come into a free camera (and tons of accessories)-- a Panasonic FZ50, due to the generosity of one of luminous-landscape's very finest.  Extreme generosity.
I'm still plowing through the manual, but I had to take it outside for a little while, while there was still light.
This is my first 'actual' camera, and the differences between it and my old low end compact p&s are astounding.  Color is so much better, and I'm fairly certain manual focus is the best invention ever.

So anyway--

(http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt18/MR-FEESH/Misc/DSCN0027.jpg)

(http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt18/MR-FEESH/FZ50/Flowers/P1050757.jpg)

(http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt18/MR-FEESH/FZ50/Flowers/P1050761.jpg)

(http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt18/MR-FEESH/FZ50/Flowers/P1050764.jpg)


I know they're not the best, but I've had the camera for a matter of hours-- not that I've posted them necessarily for intense critique, but rather to start off line of pictures to come from this great camera.

Elby

Title: New Camera!
Post by: situgrrl on May 22, 2009, 06:41:17 pm

Woo!  Stick it in RAW and leave the mode dial at M until you can do it in your sleep, compensating for the meter by using the histogram and working it out in your head.  Go read this http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorial...ose-right.shtml (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml)  

I've attached a sharpened version of one of the pics so you can see a bit more of what the camera is capable of.  Learning LR shouldn't take you long though Michael and Jeff's tutorial is very good and a worthwhile investment.  

Title: New Camera!
Post by: Jonathan Wienke on May 22, 2009, 11:04:51 pm

Quote from: situgrrl

Woo!  Stick it in RAW and leave the mode dial at M until you can do it in your sleep, compensating for the meter by using the histogram and working it out in your head.  Go read this http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorial...ose-right.shtml (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml)

Read this one too:
http://www.visual-vacations.com/Photograph..._strategies.htm (http://www.visual-vacations.com/Photography/exposure_metering_strategies.htm)
I expand on some of the "expose to the right" concepts.

Title: New Camera!
Post by: MR.FEESH on May 23, 2009, 01:14:00 pm

Another one- ...still learning...

(http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt18/MR-FEESH/FZ50/Flowers/P1050800.jpg)