I feel very sorry for you I know how you feel, a few months ago i lost 50GB of music, 20GB of photos, and 70GB of my life :|

http://migz.awardspace.com/gallery/house0305.htm
Tadaaa, C&C are welcome again.
This time i was messing around with mainly just Aperature.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Thats a really good ratio.

Sometimes if I go out on a day trip taking photo's I'd take close to 1000, I'd maybe get 5-10 that I'm really proud of.

I've probably just let in aload of bullcrap ones though :/ Im uploading them now and ill post the link in a few mins.

Quote from Bose321 :

Same 'problem' here. using 3.5 Beta 4


No problem with that, might be some hardware-ish thing, because FF uses more blabla, dunno

What is this? Is it expensive? Can i upgrade it?

Quote from SamH :

Oooer.. do you go bald down there when you get older? Maybe I can stop shaving there now, then ......

I don't do nearly enough messing about with my camera in the house. There's no excuse for not getting practice and learning the craft, now that it costs nothing to do! Experimental photography used to cost a piggin' fortune!

Oh that is disgusting! Haha!


Yeah i guess so, back in the olden days it probably did cost quite a bit as you had to buy film everytime you wanted to do anything :/.


Oh and i took 80 photos, and ended up with only 20 after deleting all the shnizz ones :|

We all know that Sam is at the age where he has gone bald down there

Oh and thanks for the tip Sam, ive taken a bunch of pictures of random things and im just waiting to install photoshop on this computer.

My daddy used to have a supra a few years ago, can i join

It was black, and sexyy! And went vrooooom TISHHHH, and then we'd goo whooooo, and we get sucked into our seats and then we poop panties cause he go very fast


*all of this in a 5 year olds voice*

Whats the difference between this and the beta?

Quote from atc quicksilver :

you can't take close up pictures of something, wack on too much contrast, then call them "artsy". Congratulations on owning a bad camera and a g25 though.

+1

Quote from Scrabby :

Jus take pictures of stuff in your house, garden etc.. enough to shoot

:/ Dont have a garden, and theres nothing interesting in my house to shoot. But smeh, ill have a try.

Quote from mrodgers :

Migz, after you RTFM, check out these links that I found extremely helpful when I first got into the photography thing a little bit more than just shooting a little autoshooter.....

Shortcourses - Very good.

Digital Camera Help - They either changed this, or it's the wrong site. This isn't what I was looking for...

Beyond that, if you want some reading material for the next year, check out the list of links I created. I haven't even finished organizing them yet... Here

On the photos of the VW, was it sitting in heavy shadow from the buildings? I wonder because of the settings of many of them. I am seeing ISO 400, f/3.5 aperture, and shutter speeds of 1/6 to 1/15. I find that very odd and the only thing I can figure is that the car was sitting in very dark shadow from the surroundings. My camera is not all that capable, but I think I would have been using ISO100, f/3.5, and a much faster shutter speed of 1/200 or so judging by the way these look.

So, finish the RTFM, check out the link above as well, and get that thing out of auto exposure! Having an expensive dSLR and using it as a point and shoot is a crime!

Any questions along the way, do not hesitate at all to post up. Plenty of folks with a lot of knowledge on here. I myself have pretty good grasp of the knowledge, just lack the equipment to put the knowledge to good use.

Ahah, thanks for all the links Ive bookmarked them all.
Ive finished reading the F***ing manual and i understand my camera a bit more. Although i cant really test out anything ive learnt as i dont really have anything to take pictures of.
But in the meantime ill have a look through some of your links

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I'm sure some moron will take you seriously and go "OMG STFU DEVS R AWESUM!1!!".

Ahah right i see, and having a hose pipe and a ladder will protect me from morons?
SWEET, ima getting a ladder and a hose pipe and ima putting it on ma front door!

Quote from Zay :

ooooooooooo grovey. accordin to the world helth organisation swine is goin 2 kill millions......ya sure...and guess what. tomorrow their gonna be sayin that la la flu is gonna kill billions.

If only itd kill 2 million chavs

Quote from danthebangerboy :

And BMMHTSHHSHIIOIHBHHTHHHBMMM, oh shit, drum kit fell over lol

You'd best pick that up before someone trips over it!

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Hope you're a firefighter.

I dont getz it?

Quote from Gills4life :

The Scirocco threads are a result of Whine Flu... ba dum pish

And whine flu came from DevsWorkWuperSlow Flu ba doom doom tish

Fapping Flu?

Sorry im bored and feeling rather random.

Quote from STROBE :

Yes. Sony likes to give things really gay names.

Haha, fair enough.

Quote from STROBE :

Keep it on manual. Not sure about the A350, but my A700 has the option to specify the ranges of auto ISO - eg you can leave it on auto but restrict it to 100-400 if you're outdoors for the day, or 400 - 3200 if you indoors or in low light.

I dont think the A350 has that, it just has an option for either Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 or 3200.

Quote from STROBE :

Top left shoulder dial, set it to "A". Use the control wheel to change aperture. The camera will calculate the required shutter speed accordingly.

It's all in the manual.

Ahah, found it, im going to have to buy a tripod if i want to change the aperature, as if the shutter speed is ever so slightly slow then my image is going to be blurred like shiz!
And im going through the manual now

Quote from STROBE :

I'd still be more concerned with that crime against style called the bonnet.

Haha, its not THAT bad is it? Ive never noticed anything wrong with it.

Quote from STROBE :

I don't want to discourage you, but much better results should be possible with a nice shiny car and a Sony A350.

• Ignoring composition which is always subjective, some of the shots look technically wrong. A couple of them are blurred, presumably due to camera shake and too long an exposure. The A350 has image stabilisation built in - no excuses!
  
• One or two other images look way too noisy - as if you've left the camera on auto ISO and it's defaulted to ISO800 or more. The A350 has a lot of megapixels on a small sensor, so it does produce more noise at high ISO. Keep it under ISO400 for daytime shots.
  
• Some other shots have part of the car in focus, but other parts blurred. Maybe this was intentional, but I found it distracting - make sure you use a small enough aperture to render the whole car in focus when doing the typical front or rear three-quarters shots. Keep the selective focus for detail shots like when picking out the headlamps.
  

Keep trying, there's plenty potential there. Just give the car a good wash and wax, and shoot it on a day with good light (I noticed your pics were taken on a typically bright but cloudy/overcast day, resulting in very flat light and blown out highlights everywhere).

PS. I don't know if you've noticed, but VW appear to have mistakenly fitted the wrong bonnet to your Golf - it doesn't fit.

Thank you very much This is exactly what i need, ive only just recently gotten my a350, and i really dont know how to use it, i pretty much just leave it on auto or auto with no flash as most of the time when i change things they just come out crap.

Im guessing the image stabisilation is the "Super Steady Shot" switch in the bottom right corner?

I have left the camera on auto iso, as i said before i pretty much just leave it on auto, but from now on ill remember not to have over 800 iso during the daytime.

Due to the camera being on auto i cant really choose whats in focus and what isnt, and i dont even know how to change it on this camera but ill have a look through everything for aperature.

I really am quite new to the DSLR scene so i dont have a clue on how to do anything, but i am really up for learning!

Oh and the car isnt mine, its my brothers, ive told him to clean the bloody thing and go for a drive with me so i can take some pictures of it looking nice, but he's a lazy sod haha.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Woops, didn't see this page.

Oopsie haha :P


Anyways
http://migz.awardspace.com/gallery/volkswagongolf0105.htm
Ive noticed all my images look fine if their squeezed down to a smaller size, so like orignal size is 3xxx by 2xxx but if they're squeezed down to 1280x852 then they look pretty good.
I may perhaps replace all my images with original sized ones and then just use width & height tags to squeeze them down :/

Anyways C&C are welcome about my photos.

Last edited by Migz, Sun, 3 May 2009 22:58.

Quote from mrodgers :

I don't shoot RAW, I can't, don't have the capability. But I do read quite a bit on the photography forums.....

I think I've read where Photoshop doesn't support some of the older RAW formats. I don't see where you report what Sony camera you are using, nor which version of PS either.

There should be a download section to download plugins/updates/drivers/whatevertheycallthem for specific RAW file types. I'm not sure if this would only work for "legit" copies of Photoshop or not (not that I'm suggesting or accusing anything here, but probably 90% of Photoshop users are not legit....) I think I remember reading that the RAW file type updates only work on registered versions of Photoshop.

I'm using Photoshop CS3 and my camera is a Sony a350.
But strobe pm'd me a link to a plugin on the adobe website, which lets me open raw files in my photoshop
So thank you Strobe!
Photoshop now does everything i need, batch processing & resizing.

I'll post up in a bit the pictures i took.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Not really, if I were him I'd want to prove to the rest of the forum that I could make a very high quality product, should anyone else think of buying one.

So why does he not just create another thread offering to create people another high quality product? And post his videos ect in there?

Well i cant :/ If i try it it says "Photoshop cannot open this kind of document"

Edit: My photos look slightly better using this other converter, but ive deduced i just suck at taking photos.

Quote from SamH :

I keep everything as RAW. I don't convert an image unless I'm specifically going to export it, in which case I open the RAW in Photoshop, tweak and export directly.

I would normally do that but A) I havent found anything that lets Photoshop read RAW files. And B) I need to have all my files as Jpeg's because my computer is rather old, so it takes forever to load up RAW files, and i can only load up one at anyone time.

Quote from STROBE :

Fixes? Yep. Avoid Sony's RAW converter. It's shit. For some reason the first version of it, which came with my A100, produced brilliant images (one of the best RAW converters available for the A100's raw files) at the expense of a slow, clunky interface and no batch processing facilities. Later versions, like what was supplied with my A700, are still clunky to use but seem to have shit image quality too.

The best (apparently, this isn't something I've tried with) are SilkyPix and CaptureOne, although I just Adobe's raw converter which is ok for Sony.

Ahah, well ive uninstalled Sony's software and found something called "Contenta Converter" which has a 30 day trial which doesnt seem too bad so far as it can do batch processing and it can automatically resize the picture from the original. But ill check out those two as well.

Quote from (SaM) :

In addition to Strobe's comment, I also recommend never converting JPGs into new JPG files. You essentially recompress the file after it's already been compressed, turning the quality into shit, no matter what compressor or quality setting you use.

Always create JPGs from the source, the RAW image.

Ahah, well i would have done this, but the sony software which i had didnt have an option to resize the image, it only had an option for selecting image quality. So i had to reconvert it again after.

Anyways thank you all for you replies I see now that Sony software = fail

Quote from pololo40 :

Hi:

Let us put aside all kinds of controversy, this much I feel misunderstood.
I leave a video on the wheel running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaQluv52jw

Greetings

Wtf?
Your posts are bassicly "Oh Vinny look at this video, look at what you couldve had, hahaha in your face"
Which i find rather evil.

I need some help with the post photo stuff :/
I take my photos in the RAW/ARW format. And then i convert them to JPEG's using "Image Data Lightbox SR" which came on a CD which came with my sony camera.
I then convert these photos to a smaller jpeg using another programme.

In the end i have 3 folders.
A RAW folder with my RAW files in.
A RawJpeg folder with my Converted RAW files.
and A Jpeg folder with my converted RawJpeg files.

My RAW's look sexy, but then my RawJpeg's and my Jpeg's look crap, their not very sharp, and are slightly blurred, and its making all of my photos look shite.

Any fixes? Maybe a different programme to use? Or should i just start saving files in Jpeg format rather then RAW?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FMZZDqHd0
A remix of the song Day N Nite by Kid Cudi that my friend did.
Its called Daylight, and its about Josef Fritzl.
I wouldnt listen to it if you're easily insulted by jokes about incest/rape/enslavement.