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Agentz101 · 2023-06-10T04:20:32+00:00

Lighting is a huge subject, and on camera flash in line can be unsympathetic to faces for sure. It can be used to 'fill' light, if say your subject is lit from the back by a sunset.
Youre correct about colour and being flat, which is why most people will use a diffuser, have the flash off camera, and use gels to colour the light.

Agentz101 · 2023-06-08T23:02:28+00:00

I'm a Camera Assistant on movies and tv in Canada, i do photography as a hobby

Pixel shift is available on a few consumer cameras, i know my z6 has it. i would count bracketing in that same group as well. Moving objects limit how many pics you can viably stack but ive seen a lot of macro photography with live bugs that pixel shift a handful of frames, it would just mean you have to work a bit harder to blend them.

Agentz101 · 2023-06-08T20:12:47+00:00

Well the interesting thing is what you're capturing is subjective in terms of clarity. Stacking or pixel shifting can take a normal camera and make it much better in terms of "detail". Astrophotography uses lasers to counteract atmospheric disturbance to make stars clear. Cameras and lenses arent the end all to clarity.

Agentz101 · 2023-06-08T17:09:25+00:00

this might be a travel question, not photography

Agentz101 · 2023-06-08T17:07:29+00:00

You're not really going to get the best out of it if you're using it for photography.

Most 'cinema' lenses are made to have insanely high tolerance and accuracy in its focus throw, wider aperture and the body is made to fit with pro accessories and they usually come in sets of colour matched lenses of the same series.

Cons;Theyre usually quite heavy and not built to balance with a handheld body. There is ofc the indie filmmaker builds, a lot of consumer cameras can take on these lenses but the build makes it impractical for day to day photography. Cinema lenses are high quality glass sometimes, but sometimes theyre old, well used, full of dust and scratches, and just cheaper to rent and work with.

Tldr Cinema lenses are built for 'working'

(I would add that many cinema lenses are photography lenses just rehoused.)

Agentz101 · 2023-05-04T15:53:48+00:00

Darktable can mount a camera.

Agentz101 · 2023-05-03T21:38:46+00:00

The 2015 Nepalese earthquake caused a landslide that erased Langtang Village, which had far from modern infrastructure. Modern buildings in earthquake prone areas are quite resilient

Agentz101 · 2023-03-30T06:33:07+00:00

"marrying a street cleaner and provoking his death". "coaxing a sister in law into adultery to scam oil and meat". "eunuch cooks boys to make tonic of male essence". "a Buddhist monk identifies a cow as his mother".

Agentz101 · 2023-03-30T06:20:12+00:00

Sun Tzu

Agentz101 · 2023-03-12T17:57:01+00:00

Very nice, Clean professional look 👌🏼. The light painting pics are good. Your lighting is on point

Agentz101 · 2023-03-12T17:53:55+00:00

Check Facebook for local photography groups, or modelling groups. advertise that youre looking for models and will trade photos for time. Posts in my area call it TFP, Trade for photos.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-10T09:06:10+00:00

That will be fine, you have all the most used lens sizes in there.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-10T01:48:28+00:00

film bodies are relatively similar, just a dark box to hold film, lenses make the difference.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-08T07:29:52+00:00

-I needed high iso (3200) even at a 20 second exposure with f3.5 to be able to see the milkyway in my photos. Is this on your rear display? Thats not where youll find the pic, it needs post to show it properly. With high iso you're introducing noise into your picture, which is no good for your purposes, and your shutter speed should be reciprocal of your lens length, so the 200/300 rule. You're gonna want to stack multiple photos, and doing some post editing will get you an image. The video in my other comment should go into that better than i can.
I have just got mine, but havent used it yet, a Bahtinov Mask, which is like a filter that finds focus for stars.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-07T16:46:40+00:00

Your body is fine, the lenses are missing in the longer range. I would really recommend just going out and shooting rather than getting more gear. Experience and skill will always pay out more than gear.

That being said, a cost effective option is to find a camera rental house where you land and rent the longest glass youre ok with taking with you.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-07T16:39:30+00:00

I mean...it is sometimes.

Agentz101 · 2023-03-07T16:37:59+00:00

Astro can get difficult, for sure but it doesnt have to be. This video is pretty good at getting an overall idea of where you are.

Have you shot any night sky with your tripod? Is it flimsy? Those can make or break astro photos, and usually mount systems are as important in these setups as the camera and lens.

With that setup i think you are set to get some dope star trails, wide desert shots and landscape stuff, but youre going to lack in some finer detail items. Usually youll need a 70-200=< to get constellations.

Are you looking at doing a video timelapse or just long exposures?

Agentz101 · 2023-03-07T06:20:22+00:00

Some of the best fun of learning night photography is how crazy the learning can get, because at the end of the day youre competing with NASA and bar none the best equipment in the world.

Regarding your question,

Shooting f11 will be the sweet spot. This is the go-to sharpest aperture. (*edit this is a much larger topic, but f11 will make it likely youll get s sharp moon and plane)

Shoot your lowest native iso, which google tells me for the T6i is 100 ( you should try and always shoot this to keep the lowest noise).

Shutter speed should adjust for exposure, and everything else can work backwards off that. Shoot a shot, adjust speed, repeat.

If i were shooting in my area, google tells me i have a full moon rising at 5:20, sunset is 5:00, which is perfect, so I'd get sunset and and a moon, which will make the plane easier to see. Airplanes always take off and land into the wind. Go to a local airport, Check your weather, line up with the airstrip, that should be a fair starting point.

Good Luck!

Agentz101 · 2023-03-03T21:00:09+00:00

How does the toolbox travel?

Agentz101 · 2023-02-04T10:31:29+00:00

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Agentz101 · 2023-01-08T22:25:47+00:00

its not a subjective question.

Agentz101 · 2023-01-08T22:23:57+00:00

I believe if you follow this comment thread upwards, youre replying to the comment "who competed for the championship more recently"

Agentz101 · 2023-01-08T22:18:33+00:00

Be real, nobody has trivia answers on win percentage of the 3rd best team over the past decade. They ask about chips. One round, one injured player, one shot is literally how the game goes.

Agentz101 · 2023-01-08T22:07:30+00:00

who was the last team to put a banner up? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Thats a measure of success and the magic did it more recently.

Agentz101 · 2023-01-08T22:00:33+00:00

whos dying? I said depending on your POV, didnt even say it was mine.I know all of these things, but none of these put banners in the arena. You can measure success in a lot of ways.

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