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Nezmo
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2 edits | Re: Make Your Background Work For You Terrifc advice Noel. Thanks. I'll scour through my collection when I get home to see if I have any that fall into this category. If I do, it'll be more by mistake than design  . I look forward to using this suggestion on the next shoot.
Beautiful shots by the way. Can I ask how you manage to get such sharp results at long zooms and relatively low shutter speeds? Do you just have a really good, steady hand? | |
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NoelC
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1 edit | Re: Make Your Background Work For You My zooms have IS, that helps a lot. Beyond that, I do have very steady hands. Years of target shooting practice help; shooting a camera is not unlike shooting a gun. More than just the hands are involved. Take a deep breath and let it out, feel your heart beat, and squeeze the shutter button.
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Nezmo
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Coppell, TX | Re: Make Your Background Work For You Ah, I was forgetting IS. Thanks. | |
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normat
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| said by NoelC  :My zooms have IS, that helps a lot. Beyond that, I do have very steady hands. Years of target shooting practice help; shooting a camera is not unlike shooting a gun. More than just the hands are involved. Take a deep breath and let it out, feel your heart beat, and squeeze the shutter button. -Noel In a shooting contest one time I put all 3 shots through the zero on the 10. At first they thought I missed two of the shots. However, I seem to have a hard time with camera shake  . | |
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Splitpair
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| Re: Make Your Background Work For You In a shooting contest one time I put all 3 shots through the zero on the 10. At first they thought I missed two of the shots. However, I seem to have a hard time with camera shake .
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McFly
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| said by NoelC :My zooms have IS, that helps a lot. Beyond that, I do have very steady hands. Years of target shooting practice help; shooting a camera is not unlike shooting a gun. More than just the hands are involved. Take a deep breath and let it out, feel your heart beat, and squeeze the shutter button. -Noel I was just about to say the same thing. I have been hunting since I was 13. Taking pictures is alot like shooting a gun.
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Splitpair
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| said by NoelC :Beyond that, I do have very steady hands. Years of target shooting practice help; shooting a camera is not unlike shooting a gun. More than just the hands are involved. Take a deep breath and let it out, feel your heart beat, and squeeze the shutter button. -Noel All of that says relax take the shot and be done. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Truth is most folks never get the first part right and subsequently not understanding their error they continue to score low.
Was a time when a photographer would be a stickler on the details as it took too long to reload his camera now it seems too many photographers are going into a spray and pray and photochop the target hit to the bulls-eye era.
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normat
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| My favorite example of this was a photo posted in someones personal gallery. I wish I could find the photo again. A link to the photographers gallery had been posted here.
It was a photo taken at a wedding in South Africa. There were these two little girls all dressed up for the wedding. One girl was posing for the shot and the other girl was off to the side in the background. The girl in the background was slightly out of focus but you could tell, by the subtle look on her face, she was mad the other girl was stealing the attention. | |
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jaykaykay
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Scottsdale, AZ | Fantastic shots and yes, due to the small things in the background, they show even better. Thanks for the hint. I will try to keep that in mind. | |
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NoelC
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| Re: Make Your Background Work For You Itec123, I don't mean to sound critical, but the tree behind the vulture's head is the opposite from what I am suggesting. The dark-on-dark appearance makes one's eyes go elsewhere in the image. In that particular case, it would have been better to move to the right a bit, to offset the bird's dark head against the light background.
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| Re: Make Your Background Work For You said by NoelC :Itec123, I don't mean to sound critical, -Noel That's what this is all about..
If no one would criticize, we would never learn..
Thanks, understand your concept better now.
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noe3
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NoelC
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| Re: Make Your Background Work For You Your lens flare removal job looks okay from here.
However, if you want a really smooth sky, try this:
1. Duplicate the image as a second layer.
2. Choose the lower layer, and run a Filter - Noise - Median with a large radius (e.g., 50 pixels)
3. Erase through the upper layer where it's blotchy to expose smoother sky underneath. Stay away, generally, from the edges of the leaves.
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Excellent thread and information Noel.
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