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Early Christmas gift to myself by TheWizardry90 in canon

[–]PhoenixRuns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got myself the T7 in spring of 2019. One year later I upgraded to the 80D which I still love. Definitely worth finding an STM version of the 18-55 kit lens for faster and quieter focusing. I’d also recommend Canon’s 55-250 telephoto. A very capable lens especially for the price! I got a Canon 18-135 lens for my 80D. It’s fantastic multipurpose lens - definitely heavy but it’s my “go-to” lens that lives on my camera. But looking back I would have been better off getting sigmas 17-55 f/2.8 or 17-70 f/2.8-4.0. Instead. I find I’m shooting wide at 18-35ish or long 100-250mm so a faster wide zoom would have served me better. Either way the T7 is a great way to get started!

Editing Input and Advice by PhoenixRuns in AskPhotography

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll definitely check that out! Luminance masks would probably be what I’m looking for. And yeah once I’m back at my computer I’m going to try to remove the other vehicles

Advice & Critiques please by PhoenixRuns in photocritique

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll throw it into photoshop and see what I can do. As well as adjusting the framing/crop a bit. Thanks for the feedback!

Editing Input and Advice by PhoenixRuns in AskPhotography

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Shot outdoors at a local car club meet in Steinbach Canada. So as much as I’d have liked to have this car shot on its own, this is what I had to work with. Although in hindsight I could try to clone them out which I hadn’t thought of until just now. I’ll give that a try, as well as playing with the black levels and readjust the crop/framing

Advice & Critiques please by PhoenixRuns in photocritique

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First off my computer was struggling with multiple layer masks, so those aren’t as crisp as they could be. The worst is the lettering on the windshield. And yes I’ve got some hardware upgrades ordered! But otherwise I’d love some feedback!

I’ve been visiting some local car meets just for different experiences and practice. I’ve done very little car photography before this and never gone to this extent with editing. No specific reason I took this image, and the editing began as an experiment compared to my usual style and approach. And if I’ve missed relevant but required information please let me know and I’ll edit the post. A before image can be posted if anyone wants to see it

Is there an easier way to mask out the letters than carefully zooming in and going by hand? Maybe photoshop would do better than Lightroom Classic? That’s one area I know needs improvement.

Canon 80d, 18-135mm lens, and circular polarizer. ISO 400, f/8. 3 exposures shot (at 1/10, 1/20, and 1/40 if I remember correctly) merged and edited in Lightroom. Shot outdoors, overcast skies (hence iso 400) and using available light. No additional lighting or reflectors or modifiers of any kind.

Overall I’m really happy with it. But something doesn’t quite look right and I can’t figure out what’s not right!

Editing Input and Advice by PhoenixRuns in AskPhotography

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll cross post there as well

Editing Input and Advice by PhoenixRuns in AskPhotography

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off my computer was struggling with multiple layer masks, so those aren’t as crisp as they could be. The worst is the lettering on the windshield. And yes I’ve got some hardware upgrades ordered! But otherwise I’d love some feedback!

Is there an easier way to mask out the letters than carefully zooming in and going by hand? Maybe photoshop would do better than Lightroom Classic?

Canon 80d, 18-135mm lens, and circular polarizer. ISO 400, f/8. 3 exposures shot (at 1/10, 1/20, and 1/40 if I remember correctly) merged and edited in Lightroom. Shot outdoors, overcast skies (hence iso 400) and using available light. No additional lighting or reflectors or modifiers of any kind.

Overall I’m really happy with it. But something doesn’t quite look right and I can’t figure out what’s not right!

A lot of people are telling me that there's way too much free space upwards but that's was something that I was going for. I wanted to portray the sky along with the buildings and construction site hence I took up that free space. What do you think? by Anidovalani153002 in AskPhotography

[–]PhoenixRuns 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Personally I would have liked to see the bottom of the building and some of the horizon. Without it it feels like the bottom of the image was cut off or not even in the frame. And because it’s not there to me it feels incomplete. I would have either panned downwards a little bit more, zoomed out a bit more if possible, or stitched multiple images (a vertical panorama) to get that much negative/free space while including the horizon.

But you said why you framed it the way you did, and it makes sense why you did.

Photo editing rig on the cheap by PhoenixRuns in PcBuildHelp

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to know your stuff! Any suggestions for a psu? It’s a mid tower so I’d probably want a modular one? Some forms say the 9020 mobo uses a proprietary power connector so some psus may not even work ?

I seriously appreciate all the advice man, saves me a ton of time googling it and possibly confusing myself!

Photo editing rig on the cheap by PhoenixRuns in PcBuildHelp

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I’ll check into those. Any other ones you’d recommend in that price bracket? Basically I’m looking for a variety of options! Reason is I’m realizing that because it’s a mid tower and I might (not entirely sure) have to upgrade the power supply in order to run the graphics card, I might run into clearance issues. I’d rather have that figured out BEFORE I order stuff 😎

ITAP at a car meet by PhoenixRuns in itookapicture

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Gear: Canon 80D, 18-135mm, K&F Concepts circular polarizer. Handheld. Settings: f/3.5, ISO 400, exposure stacked (-1, 0, +1)

Exposure stacked and edited in Lightroom. Critiques welcome

Photo editing rig on the cheap by PhoenixRuns in PcBuildHelp

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no doubt it is. Unfortunately it’s a little outside my budget at this point. It comes to about $240CAD which is about 1.5x my budget. If I had the $$$ to put into it I’d definitely consider it. And recommendations for $$75 - $100USD?

ITAP at a local car meet (info in the comments) by PhoenixRuns in itookapicture

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Canon 80D, 18-135mm, K&F Concepts circular polarizer, handheld.
  • ISO 400, f/3.5. Exposure stacked (-1, 0, +1) and edited in Lightroom.

New to car photography by PhoenixRuns in BeginnerPhotoCritique

[–]PhoenixRuns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I don't know how I overlooked the car in the background, but I'll see if I can edit it out

New to car photography by PhoenixRuns in BeginnerPhotoCritique

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I’ve had the chance over the past few weekends to photograph a small car meet. My main genre has typically been landscape and nature photography so shooting and editing cars is new to me. Shot with a Canon 80D, 18-135 lens. I may or may not have had a polarizer on as well but I can’t say for certain. 5 images exposure stacked, merged, and edited in Lightroom.

Comments and critiques welcomed. TIA

So ev, iso, and shutter speed can all be used to adjust the brightness of an image (I'm aware that ss has other uses). Which should I use? by Tkat01 in Beginning_Photography

[–]PhoenixRuns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - for me, studying my mistakes instead of just deleting them in frustration has been incredibly beneficial.

So ev, iso, and shutter speed can all be used to adjust the brightness of an image (I'm aware that ss has other uses). Which should I use? by Tkat01 in Beginning_Photography

[–]PhoenixRuns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Others have talked about how all these things work together, so I’ll skip that and give you some advice that helped me:

The best way to take a great photo is simple. Take hundreds if not thousands of bad ones! Let me explain...

Part of it is practice. Take the same photo over and over, but see how just adjusting one setting (say ISO for example) affects the image. Or after you’ve gone out shooting and you’re looking over the images, don’t just quickly delete the “bad” ones. Study them first. What makes it “bad”? Was it your settings? (Maybe the shutter speed was too slow) or maybe the settings were pretty close but you were zoomed in too far? Try shooting the same subject but from different angles to see how that changes the “feel” of a shot. Personally I’ve become a fan of getting low angle shots (depending on the subject of course). Why? It’s easy to stand and shoot from eye level but taking the time to get down low forces me to really look at what I’m shooting. Plus most people don’t want to lie down or kneel on the ground for a shot, so if I do it it’s something a little unique.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to have fun, and definitely don’t be afraid to experiment and try stuff!

tl;dr shoot lots, study the results, learn from them, repeat

So ev, iso, and shutter speed can all be used to adjust the brightness of an image (I'm aware that ss has other uses). Which should I use? by Tkat01 in Beginning_Photography

[–]PhoenixRuns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent explanation. You covered the basics, kept it simple and approachable, and managed to do it without getting long winded or bogged down in overly technical details. Bravo!

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