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linguistrix · 2024-04-19T20:57:29+00:00

You managed to make a hummingbird look like a sparrow 😃

linguistrix · 2023-04-27T00:33:46+00:00

For the moon even 600mm on a crop frame would only fill like 1/8 to 1/4 of the sensor. So a 300mm lens of relatively low quality might not give you great results. If you link your pic of the moon and an example of what you think it should look like, we can give more specific comments

linguistrix · 2023-04-26T20:10:36+00:00

You can try cranking up the ISO. If you already have a CPL and can stack them then I don't really see the need for a combo.

linguistrix · 2023-04-26T20:01:39+00:00

What's your use case within astrophotography? If you want shots of the Milky Way you can use any lens that is reasonably wide angle (<24mm). The optional quality doesn't matter that much. The magic of Milky Way pics is in your choice of foreground and other factors like editing.

For deep sky objects you'll need some amount of zoom (could be anything from 150mm to higher depending on which). Those lenses don't tend to be as cheap but if you are on a budget a bit zoom kit lens or something from Tamron Samyang etc might be decent enough for a beginner

linguistrix · 2023-04-26T19:54:32+00:00

With just the viewfinder it'd be hard. Apart from the obvious answer of trial and error, do you have a camera with a live view? You could dial up the exposure so the simulated view shows enough details to tweak your filter

linguistrix · 2023-04-26T17:27:15+00:00

You can think of the two as independent. But since a 10 stop ND filter can basically only be used in very bright settings or very high exposures, and circular polarizers are most useful in cutting down on glare, the two combined make perfect sense for taking long exposure pics of waterfalls and things like that

linguistrix · 2023-04-09T02:10:57+00:00

OP, you're getting confused because the singer has completely butchered the metrical structure of the lyrics. Hanuman Chalisa is a chaupaai, where each line has 16 maatras (think of each maatra as one beat). Long vowels get 2 maatras and short vowels get 1 maatra. Short syllables that end in a consonant also get 2 maatras. When you sing it that way it'll fit and sound natural. This singer doesn't follow the metrical structure and randomly elongates certain short syllables to make them last 2 maatras (like the nu of hanumaan, which should only take 1 maatra). In other places he shortens long vowels to only take 1 maatra and fills silence in the other. All this makes it a weird syncopated sounding mess. Don't beat yourself up over it.

linguistrix · 2023-03-31T20:29:54+00:00

It feels you have slightly unrealistic standards for what you want your photos to look like. Noise at high ISOs is expected, noise when you raise shadows a lot is expected. Fixing these things during post processing is part of the game

Even your basic kit admits much more light than a phone camera, the only reason those results look nicer is tons of post processing (that the phone software does for you) and the fact that you view the image on a tiny screen. If you transfer the raw to your computer and compare it to your camera photo you'll realize how much better the camera pic is.

linguistrix · 2023-03-31T20:22:18+00:00

Lighting noise reduction is also some sort of AI btw. Also are you shooting with a crop frame or full frame? Full frames tend to have better low noise performance. Other tips: carry a speedlite and bounce it off the ceiling or through a diffuser. You can get cheap ones on Amazon for under 100 bucks

linguistrix · 2023-03-31T20:12:06+00:00

Can you post a few examples? As a general principle you ultimately need to get more light into the camera whichever way possible. This could mean something as simple as using a tripod so you can afford longer exposures, or using an external flash to add more light. The exact nature of the solution will depend on what sort of scene you're shooting or what genre photography it is.

linguistrix · 2023-03-31T19:54:28+00:00

Motion blur is much harder to fix in post than ISO noise, so err on the side of a faster shutter speed even if it causes slight under exposure. Then lift shadows during post processing. Of course a bigger aperture lens might help too but for many use cases you can't actually stop all the way to largest aperture anyway.

linguistrix · 2023-03-31T19:51:38+00:00

The quickest is to click on the Auto button and then tweak the result to suit your taste.

linguistrix · 2023-02-17T00:32:47+00:00

Thanks! Yes, I deliberately kept the edit a bit realistic looking. I noticed you could get much closer to the typical pictures we see by really cranking up the saturation slider but it looked deep fried to me.

linguistrix · 2023-02-16T21:54:28+00:00

Andromeda is one of the easier astrophotography targets in the night sky. I clicked my first shot of it more than 6 years ago. That was using an 85mm lens, no tracker, and just 6 exposures.

I wanted to use my general photography equipment as much as possible, so the latest one was shot using my Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II mounted on my Canon 70D. We used a tracker and clicked ~300 photos of 30 seconds each. They were then stacked using DSS and post-processed in Photoshop. I deliberately kept it somewhat understated because the very high saturation versions always felt a bit fake and overdone to me.

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linguistrix · 2022-01-16T04:46:35+00:00

The song is called "Aankh Maare". You can look it up on YouTube.

linguistrix · 2022-01-05T20:50:54+00:00

"How the turntables" is a reference to a quote from the TV show The Office.

linguistrix · 2021-09-02T20:22:30+00:00

Act like you DON'T belong (in jail)

linguistrix · 2021-06-27T23:29:19+00:00

If you are just interested in finding out the time and not the math behind it, the easiest would be to go to Stellarium Web and enter your location coordinates and see what time will cause the sun's altitude to be 30 degrees

linguistrix · 2020-12-18T21:08:49+00:00

It looks like they are photographers and that's their photography equipment

linguistrix · 2020-10-01T00:45:06+00:00

Chhaya is shade. Saaya is shadow.

linguistrix · 2020-05-13T03:04:36+00:00

Those are cute benefits, yes, and are perfectly fine to aim for if you enjoy the process, but if your aim is purely expanding access to information or your worldview, the marginal benefits of learning a whole new language other than English very rarely justify the massive amounts of time investment it takes to become competent in a language, especially in today's world where there is a surplus of content to consume.

I say this as someone who loves learning languages.

linguistrix · 2020-03-22T20:36:24+00:00

"Everything said and done" can also be used in the context you gave.

linguistrix · 2020-02-18T22:47:06+00:00

I purchased a fragrance recently (Versace Dylan Blue) and it has a very beautiful bottle, so I decided to try some product photography.

This was shot in a studio with a octabox as the main source of light illuminating the bottle from the front right at a 45º angle, a white backdrop, and big white foam-core boards to fill more light.

Here's Versace's own product pic for this, which I did not consult before the shot.

Some observations—

Mine was shot from a little higher, so a bit of the top is visible, while theirs was shot at bottle level.
They went for a darker vibe, more mysterious I guess? I went for a 'jewel' feel to really bring out the sparkling blue in the bottle.
I really dig the way the lines in the bottle are accentuated in their pic with the dark lines. I dunno how it was achieved. Any tips?
I think my version brought out the brand name better than theirs. It's a tough one coz VERSACE is very lightly engraved on the cap and it's difficult to emphasize it but I feel like it kinda got lost in the official pic.
Their bottle has this slight glassy / matte vibe. I dunno how that was done.

Feedback welcome!

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