Quote from Stregone :

Actualy a crop sensor will reduce vignetting, since it only uses the sweet spot in the middle of the lens. Try closing down the aperture a stop or two. Should do the trick.

Actually, you are right. It is logical, smaller area bigger circle.
I will try your suggestion, thanks Strangeone.

Quote from glyphon :

nice shots halo. looks like there is just a hint of vinetting in those. where you using a couple filters, or was that just from the lens you used? regardless, i think it works really well on these pictures.

Thank you Glyphon.
Yes, you are right, vignetting is one of the issue I should concern. I don't use any filter at the moment but the lens I used for the "pigeon photos" is a little old one. Manufactured for 35 mm. formats. I think its made at 1980s or early 90s. My camera's crop factor is 1,5, maybe the reason of vignetting is this difference.

Nice shots guys.
I took these pics with Tamron 80-210, f 3.8 legacy manual lens.

Stratovarius - Forever

How?

Team name describes how the demo environment is
So its team founder's idea. But contrary the name, team members are really good guys,
and they are very clean & fast also.
There are former Sparco members, apexi members, DSR & RMD members AFAIK.
Server is running for more than two years and most fast guys already now it and joins time to time.
You may participate to race at every sunday, you can apply through the site link I posted before.

Quote from NathanRx-7 :

Has ANYONE got a good Demo server that doesent have sad acts waiting to ram you in?
If not I won't be on LFS for 3 weeks (till I get cash for S2) and it's a shame cus I really enjoy the game...

If anyone knows any, PLEASE tell me...

-Nath

Our demo server is running in private mode, like most of clean servers do.
That is the only way to avoid problems that you described.
If you want to join/more info, visit us.
(XFG/BL1)

Quote from StewartFisher :

You'd be surprised what sort of shutter speeds you could use to get the moon properly exposed. My best shot of the moon so far was ISO 100, f/7.1 and 1/320 secs shutter speed. OK, I did use a tripod, but only because I was in the back garden and I had one handy. Bump the ISO to 200 and you should be able to hand-hold that without a problem.

As the things are related with each other in photography, if you take a big picture of the moon then it means whether non zoom but large mpixels camera is used (cropped photo) or zoom. When zoom used, better it has a low f value for lower ISO or scene must have enough light (if tripod not in use), with tripod, exposure time can be anything as necessary with lowest ISO.

Shooting the moon at night is not a big deal since it has enough light if compared to overall night photography, exposure time could be low and f could be higher than overall night shoots, but mrodgers took that photo at day light condition, moon light is more balanced with background, it is more difficult than shooting the moon at night time/dark sky with large zoom lens unless he has a very low f value hi-speed lens imo.

Hi,
I have been watching this kind of "lert related" topics since them arise.
Is it necessary posting another one I am not sure, but one thing is in my mind I need to express.
Most of Lert's post was funny, but at the end he writes freely, without any boundary.
That is I admire, being honest is important.
At the other hand, when someone begin to talking about let say "dark/shaded issues" it becomes "weirdness" in "normal" world.
And entering that dark zones have a price; labeled as "crazy/insane" etc.. this one not everyone willing to pay.

I did say found funny most of his posts, well, actually, what I found funny is responses.
Some of reply posts are beyond the term funny, I laugh a lot to some of them.
For example this and response post to this: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=664453#post664453

How interesting is that the topic shifts from LFS technical issues to "seeing pigeons aura" than modern day toilets and how to use them,
small buttons and big buttons than shifting to "piano" mode.

Congratulations to Lert, he brings another flavor to forum.
It is not magic to seeing auras, telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, apor etc..
He just caught some of you unprepared imo.
Bye

Quote from JTbo :

Sun did not go above horizon level even at mid day, at best there is dark with blue shade in everything.

That brightest shot was taken at around 3pm, with flash it did look like this

Northern countries.. I should knew that.

Quote from Dru :

Hi Guys,

Just seen this 'off-topic post'

WOW lots of people with lots of good quality shots.....

I'm new to Photography but here's what I've got and what I've taken with it in the few hours of sunshine that I'm not working or driving in LFS

Dru's kit
Nikon D40
18-55mm AF-S II ED DX Nikkor
55-200mm AF-S ED-IF AF-S DX VR Nikkor
Hoya 52mm UV Filter
PrettyBoy Bag


Self Xmas Pressies
SB-800 Nikkor Speed Flash
Batteries + Battery Charger for SB-800
Tripod

Hi Dru!
I like most of the "rose" photo of you, that photo is really good imo. Fishes are good too.
You have a good kit, VR lens is big +.

Quote from mrodgers :

Couple of shots I've done over the last few days. (Photos clickable, trying out Flickr).

Good shots.
Back yard sunset is looks wonderful. It is also a bit over saturated to me, but anyway, it can be desktop bg
One thing is not clear for me, did you really took the "moon" photo without any support or without tripod?

Quote from JTbo :

Some pics from my week trip to up north, there was bit snow

Look like a little adventure
Good pictures, night & on the snowy road (I bet there was a good background music accompanied you)
I love to drive similar conditions as you did there, but there is not too much snow here.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Shhh! First rule of listening to Level 42: Don't tell anyone! If you get caught, make sure you have a bass guitar in your hands so you can say you were just practising your chops.

Why is that so?

Now Playing
Shulman - Small Grey Creatures

Last edited by halo, Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:39. Reason : np

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

People who haven't experienced the thrill of going sub 8 minutes on the Nurburgring haven't live... umm. simmed!

exactly

47 secs.
Time to overclock

Mine is roughly 7000 km, just because I drive mostly off-line.
I like to create new sets that suits myself. Skinning stuff is also consuming time.
There was great times at CTRA1 last year, I hope the same to this year. By the way, thanks to CTRA / UKCT team for their dedicated works.

I drive Ford Sierra 1.6C and I like it.

Last edited by halo, Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:53. Reason : car.

Level 42 - Love games

Quote from Osco :

some fruity loops mix..

I wish to hear them too

Elisa - Eppure Sentire

Quote from Paranoid Android :

I recently acquired a 400D too and since there seem to be a lot of photographers here, I'd like to ask some other questions...

Which program do you use for importing, retouching, cropping your pictures? I tried some like Acdsee, Lightroom etc but none of them came close in ease-of-use as a program that a friend showed me on a Mac (and I'm never too keen on giving plus points to a Mac :razz.

What particularly interests me is also batch cropping and batch framing pictures. A quick search on Google didn't give me any interesting options...Do you know any programs with these functions?

Best program for retouching is PS AFAIK.
But if you need something free&good, I strongly advice to you use "FastStone Image Viewer"
http://www.faststone.org
FastStone is very good for batch cropping, batch renaming, water dropping etc...
I may say that best free program ever I saw.
You may also find light editing tools inside the prg.

For the effects, I use several programs, but mostly PhotoFiltre.
http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/news-en.htm
It has some plug-ins you can add.

GIMP2 is far good.
http://developer.gimp.org/

Pixia is another user friendly&very good editing prg.
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

And also Deep Paint
http://www.photo-freeware.net/deep-paint.php

For the importing, I do not use anything special for this task,
I just set my camera "as hard drive", when plug in to usb,
computer recognizes it and I can copy/paste anything just like an external drive.

Enigma - The Age of Love

Quote from Dajmin :

Guys, you knew this would happen. He's 13, he knows better than all of you, despite his lack of experience, knowledge or common sense, and irrelevant of how many (a surprising number) decent photographers we have here.
He'd probably already decided what he was gonna get before he posted his first question. He does it because he's rich and bored.

He'll take a load of pics with it for a few days (most of them will be of random crap) and then the camera will get discarded, forgotten about and stuck in a drawer somewhere. Or broken when he tries to get a motion blur effect out a car window or something.

If you are right than nothing to say about it

Imo, sensor sizes relatively with lens focal length determines the crop factor. Most entry level & mid level cameras have APS-C size sensor which those camera's sensors are smaller than original "film(35mm.)" dimensions. There are many 35 mm. dSLR out there, like Canon 5D, Nikon D2X etc.

Harjun,
If you really addicted to photography, then DSLR is most meaningfull way to go, at least at the beginning. There are many sophisticated way to go like full frame etc., but for a beginner D40/x, 400XTi, K100D/super all good and all has pros/cons, dig a little and you will find out what.
Chosing a DSLR is not like buying a point&shoot, it is about buying a SYSTEM. So, think twice and, make it real. My personal advice; dont look too much only to the bodies of the DSLR, it is temporary, it will probably change in few years, look for more permanent member; lenses, lens variation and if they satisfied you.

I am a beginner, had a K100D and it is OK. I searched long time before buy it.

Some good sites about DPhotography are here;
http://www.steves-digicams.com
http://www.imaging-resource.com
http://www.dpreview.com
http://www.geofflawrence.com
http://www.flickr.com/groups/e ... discuss/72057594138421542
http://www.slrgear.com/reviews/index.php
http://www.digitalreview.com
Night photography:
http://www.thenocturnes.com/message.html

Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon

Gianluca Grignani - Falco a metà