I use a G5x as it’s solid point and shoot AS WELL as solid on video and sound.
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Just jumping into photography as a beginner. I would appreciate any tips for someone just getting started, I’ve put some of my favorite shots I’ve taken.
Taken with an iPhone X
Taken with a Sony A6000
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Starting to take a deep dive into this thread in preparation of using an actual camera for the first time in a decade next April. Here is the best photo I’ve gotten so far this year from my IPhone 14 Pro. Looking at getting into some photo editing here soon too!
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With your Sony - what settings are you using?
Really like the framing of all your photos!
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I shoot with the manual setting. I have a basic understanding of F-stop, shutter speed and iso but not much beyond that. I have a little experience with lightroom and snapseed but I’m not well versed in all of the tools those programs provide.
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For your middle photo, I would have probably made it portrait instead of landscape. Zoomed in to where the closest waterfall goes off the edge of the screen and then have the other waterfall peaking around the rocks. Still, some nice shots!
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Love the thread. Here are some of my favorites. I love film photography but also enjoy using digital to its advantages in dark situations and for stitching large landscapes and even some brenizer method portraits.
Here is a stitch of some long exposure photos of the Santa Monica Pier at night.
Here is a shot from a jetty in the south bay on a decent swell.
Here is a shot of some pelicans surfing a wave in Ventura.
I have a surf housing that I sometimes take out and got this photo of a galapagos shark out in Hawaii.
And a panorama of the San Bernadino mountains on a relatively clear day.
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You have an appropriate username!
I tend to shoot in aperture priority (Av) mode, but I’m constantly messing with the aperture and the exposure compensation.
I always find it interesting how well our eyes adjust to different lighting conditions: what you think of as pretty bright, you pull up your camera at f/4 and it says “1/5th of a second required here…” … and you really start to understand how little light there is.
I’ll add one photo from a time when I was just messing around. It’s just a light bulb shot from straight on. Almost untouched, but probably -2 stops exposure to really have the shadows fall hard. Could have put something on the back side of the light to block the shirt from getting a little light, but again… we were just messing around.
Not claiming it’s a good photo, just thinking it might inspire a little experimentation in others.
Further edit: That photo was probably M mode, because I don’t think -2 would have been enough. For most standard shots, outside especially, I like Av. For any kind of studio shot, M mode. Av mode still means you control aperture and ISO, so you’re basically letting the camera determine the shutter speed only… if it’s 1/2000th or 1/2500th, I don’t really care, except when I’ll add some exposure compensation up or down as needed. It’s like M mode except you’re hard wiring two sides of the exposure triangle, and only slightly manipulating the third with the EC.
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I love the shot. Also, I tend to switch modes depending on what I’m shooting.
As an example, for stitching shots, I shoot in manual and lock AE through all shots. Ive successfully stiched as many as 20+ shots to make a print.
For sports and underwater or anything with movement, I’m almost exclusively shooting in Tv mode as to control how to stop the action or let it blur. as an example, this was shot in a night market in Israel. I wanted to capture the moment but add some motion. Shutter was set to 1/60 aperture WAO on an old minolta 50 1.4 on my Sony.
I tend to select AV mode for people stuff. Wife and dog below.
Another full manual mode shot is some star trails and light trails stuff.
Aim at the north start and let it go for a few minutes.
Boats returning from July 4th celebration. Sturdy tripod and a nice view.
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Tried testing out some light painting shots this summer with fireworks - really need to practice to capture what you’ve shot (which is great stuff btw)
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Heres another long exposure I liked playing with. On a dock is hard cause it moves so you cant leave it open too long. but I like the lens flair and the smoothness the exposure creates
This is a shot I took using the stitching method. Wide open on a 70-200 2.8 and at about 135mm. focus lock on the shoulders frame, then have the subject stay in place and start shooting in the extra areas with about 30-40% overlap. stitch in lightroom. gives a large format feel from a crop sensor.
Brooklyn Bridge panorama.
this shot was one of the first shots I captured with a RB67 on provia film at a local executive course when I was pickup golf. nothing like film captures the detail and the dynamic range (I did enhance a bit digitally, but the information is there).
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These are a pair of my longer exposure shots (not super long). Myrtle Beach in February on a golf trip… just an amazing sunrise the last day. I’m thankful my trip buddy let me stay an hour past when we planned to be there so I could take photos on the beach for awhile.
So much light was reflecting off the ocean I didn’t need to use a graduated ND filter.
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Sick! The colors are amazing!
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Bought a decent camera last year and could probably use some different “assignments”. I bought the camera primarily for aviation photography and that’s what about 99% of the pictures have been. Here’s a couple of favourites (you’ve seen these if you’ve been in the Aviation Geeks thread).
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Anyone looking at the moon right now with the maybe planet to its side? I can’t get a good picture with my phone.
Got my XT5 in along with a 10-24mm and a 70-300mm so far. Took it out last week after work to shoot the sunset at this driving range that I knew had decent views of the skyline. Here’s what I got…
Definitely a learning curve with the camera. Fumbled around with it a few times. Hopefully with practice it will become natural, but the touch screen along with electronic viewfinder made it interesting at points
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I know what you mean. You can switch off the touch screen. If taking those types of photos interest you, maybe take a look at the HDR and exposure bracketing features of the camera.
Yeah I wasn’t sure how much it would be in my way when shooting. It was pretty cold and I didn’t want to mess with the bracketing at that time. But I am excited to use it
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