Photography
- Recommended focal length for outdoor youth sports?
I think I'm going to lean into the FF E-mount world, which means giving up my D5300 + Nikon AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR (115 - 450 FF equivalent). Before kids, I used this lens for motorsports/landscape/travel. Post kids we don't do a ton of that, so I've been getting along well with a pair of 35mm and 50mm primes.
My kids are pretty young and are starting to play outdoor sports like T-ball and soccer. This has brought my D5300 + 70-300 out of retirement. I'm missing the conviences of my A9, so I'm trying to figure out what lens I should get for sports duty. At this point, everything is outdoors during the middle of the day so there's no need for a fast lens. It was pretty drizzly last weekend and my current (slow lens) setup still kept ISO below 1k most of the day with a 1/640 shutter. I figure I can comfortably double ISO and halve my shutter speed on the A9 while still getting a lower noise image than I have today, so I don't think I need fast glass.
Looking through EXIF data from the previous few games on the D5300 + 70-300 it looks like I use the full range of focal lengths, but the vast majority of shots are under 400mm FF EQ and above 150mm FF EQ. I'm a little wary of wanting more reach in a few years when the kids are on bigger fields, but they'll also be bigger so maybe it will wash out. Who knows if they'll still be interested in playing either.
So what do you think?
- Third part lens that stops at 400? This means no teleconvertor in the future, but this seems like it would work well for today
- First party 100-400? Adding a 1.4 teleconvertor makes this a 140-560, but it also makes the f-stop at the long end f/8 which might not be great for sports
- 500mm? Tamron's 150-500 seems decent and doesn't call too much attention to itself, but it is heavier
- 600mm? These lenses are all fairly bit/shouty visually, but are potentially more future proof....
- Colorblindness and editing in Lightroom (or other software)
So I've got a bit of color blindness going on (a bit blue and yellow, a bit more red and green (not to mention some colors are painful but that's a different story lol)) and I had a question about editing pictures to show what different colorblindness looks like. My friends keep asking me how I see things and I'd love to show them.
I've been editing pictures for years but I'd say I still have a lot to learn in the color grading and color space departments (not like it's easy for me lol)
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I primarily use Lightroom but I've been learning Dark Table recently. So either would be fine.
- Photoshoot with my pals
Hi guys, made the jump to lemmy today and wanted to share a few pictures of my cats I've taken. I bought the camera a couple years ago for macro photography, primarily surveying moth populations, and busted it back out recently.
Any comments on the photography, or anything really, is welcome!
Also, I couldn't figure out how to add multiple photos, so any advice on that would be great
- Aurora borealis (northern lights) self portrait
As seen from Colorado, USA close to midnight (May 11th, 2024).
- I don't understand the price of the EOS M10
I currently own two canon cameras, an EOS M10 i bought around 2017/2018 new for around £150 and a secondhand EOS 1300d i bought last week from a second hand electronics shop for £110 (body only, i already had lenses from an old EOS 200d)
Spec wise they seem to be extremely similar cameras just with the 1300 being larger with better lenses and more manual features
My dad mentioned that he was thinking of buying a new camera as his one was bought way back in like 2010 and wasn't a particularly up to date model at the time so i am considering selling him my M10.
looking at ebay though they seem to be going for £200-400 which i find a bit strange for a camera that first hit the market back in 2015 and is way more than i paid new (although reduced to clear) from John Lewis.
Am i missing something? How much is the M10 worth? and is it really worth more than it's newer (2016) DSLR counterpart?
- New gear acquired
Just got my hands on an OM-1 MKII and an m.zuiko ED 100-400. No bird will be safe from me ever again!
- Chipping sparrow admiring the sunny day
Pixelfed post: https://pxlmo.com/i/web/post/692562477489803431
- I love the Spring and its colors
Refreshing day trying to capture things that I find pretty. Not worried about shooting an awesome photo, just focused on capturing something I find beautiful and pleasant to look at.
- The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring
This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.
Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring
Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)
- Help me understand why rolling shutter effect happens
Hi,
I'm trying to wrap my head around the rolling shutter effect, specifically why it happens.
I'm having a hard time understanding how the readout speed affects the image. If I understood correclty, when in electronic shutter mode the pixels are exposed as indicated by the shutter speed (e.g. at 1/1000 each pixel is exposed for 1/1000 of a second).
If the readout takes 1/100 s to scan the entire sensor, what happens exactly when I take the picture? Do the pixels start firing sequentially as the shutter speed dictates (i.e. 1/1000 s each, sequentially)? If that is the case, do they wait for the readout to catch up or do they continue firing? If the latter, by the time the readout reaches the second pixel, the eleventh pixel is firing, so there are 10 pixel between the one firing and the one being read. Does it work like this?
If the pixels are exposed for 1/1000 s and then turned off and their value stored, wouldn't that mean that the image should not be affected? I mean, they saw the subject for 1/1000 s and the motion should be frozen, they are just waiting for the value to be read. Just like if you asked 10 people to open their eyes for 1 second (shutter speed), one after the other, and draw what they see. They saw if for one second each, so at most the difference in the position of what they saw should cover 10 seconds. Then they can take hours to draw what they saw (readout speed), but what they saw specifically wouldn't be afftected by how long it takes them to draw it. Am I wrong here maybe?
Also, in general, why is mechanical shutter not as affected (if affected at all) by the rolling shutter effect? Does the sensor capture light differently when in mechanical shutter mode?
I just don't get it. I feel like I'm close to understanding why, but I still don't.
I know I'm probably weird for focusing so much on something technical like this, but it just bugs me so much.
Any help is greatly appreciated, really.
- Looking for linux workflow ideas
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11308547
> Linux photogs, help me out. What does your workflow look like? What apps do you use? > > I've found that digikam is really good for managing my keywords and metadata, and organising photos post shoot, but the image editing is limited. > > And using separate image editing software leads to problems, because my camera's raw files (.cr3) aren't very well supported. > > I can make it work, by using Lightroom online, but it's not exactly an integrated system due to its cloud based design. > > I've tried running Lightroom in a VM, but ran in to trouble giving the VM access to my GPU... > > So those who have made it work, what does it look like for you?
- Gaza's Carnage Through the Eyes of Palestinian Photojournalists (NSFW)www.rollingstone.com Gaza's Carnage Through the Eyes of Palestinian Photojournalists
The U.N. recently asked photojournalists to share images, taken in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. Warning: Graphic images.
- Female Streaked Horned Lark [OC]
I took this pic while on vacation to South East Oregon (specifically a place called Lake Abert) using my Lumix G9 and my 100mm - 300mm lens at the full 300mm and f/5.6.
I was really happy that of all the critters I saw that day this one sat still long enough for me to get a decent shot.
This little bird chilled for quite awhile singing away which was pretty cool.
- Past "that seemed lost forever" revealed as 200-year-old photos revivedwww.newsweek.com Past "that seemed lost forever" revealed as 200-year-old photos revived
Researchers have developed a technique that can retrieve images hidden in degraded daguerreotypes—an early form of photography.
- Party Like It’s 1989www.nytimes.com Party Like It’s 1989
In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful.
- Redkite catching some sun (feedback appreciated)
A lucky snap of a red kit turning in some sun. I love the way the tail is illuminated and tried to brighten the body a little, but I am still getting to grips with editing in 'proper software' and would love to get some feedback.
- An adolescent mute swan (I think)
I just started a trial of Capture One editing software... My previous editing was on Google photos and a bit of snapseed on my phone. I am still pretty heavy handed, but I would love some feedback.
- Dewdrops on a Tulip (Feedback Appreciated)
F/5.6 75.0mm 1/320s ISO-200
Here's a photo I took recently, and I'm just curious if anyone has any feedback on what they like about it or what they think would improve it. No editing other than some compression to lower the file size below my instance limit.
If I were to go back to it again I would probably try to use the stem of the flower to split the background between the bush and sky. Other than that I'm not sure, I'm still trying to learn!
- Mt St Helens Moon Lit [OC]
I took this picture on the last day of a not long enough vacation this month. I was really happy with how the moon had just enough light to give the shape of the mountain some contrast and how the wispy clouds cought the light from various sources.
I took this with my Lumix G9 with a 25mm f/1.7 lens, a 15 second exposure, and the iso set to 1600.
I had taken quite a few shots with the intent of stacking them but those attempts just didn't come out feeling like it did to be there. This shit though captured that feeling IMO.
I can't wait to give My Adams the same treatment later this year.
- Eclipse Poster
I made a poster of my eclipse photos taken in southern Illinois. The PDF of the poster is downloadable as a 24 by 36 inch poster.
- Total Eclipse [OC]
Nikkon Z50 | Nikkor 28-75 | 75mm | ISO250 | F6.3 | 1/160
Shot a still well filming the transition. Wish I had a ND filter for my longer lens, but 75mm it is!
- The moon went in front of the sun
The moon went in front of the sun
There were some clouds, but I managed to catch a usable photo or two
Oympus E-M1 II, Panasonic 100-300 II
300mm, f/7.1, 1/60s, ISO 200
\#eclipse #Eclipse2024 #moon #photo #phtography #SolarEclipse #TotalSolarEclipse @photography #darktable https://zaktakespictures.com/the-moon-went-in-front-of-the-sun/