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    My favorite from last night:



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      you like your cars dont you Agent L, sorry i was noseying at yah flickr account. Some nice shots, how did you get the car to come out yellow with a black and white background?

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        Nosey away my man. There's only 1 cat pic on there!

        The Lotus effect is called a cut out I believe, basically just select the car/object in photoshop/whatever you use and then invert the selection so everything except the object is now selected. Then all you do is black and white the stuff that is now selected, easy.

        Getting the selection of the car right in the first place was the problem. There's probably a clever way of removing all colours except yellow but I don't know it and only use PS elements so it's not too clever at that stuff.

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          thats cool man, im only using PS 7.0 i have not upgraded to newer packages yet. Ima hafta get some good photos done when i jet over to Canada and america in the summer.

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            Love that sunset with the trees And I'm also a sucker for man-made structures against a plain sky Marty, nice one

            This is among the first results of playing with the Olympus. The pictures seem to be a bit grainier than I anticipated, but I'm happy enough with them (?2.50 gets them stuck on CD @ 1800x1200) for the time being. Am I right in thinking that negative scanners are horrifically expensive?

            Oh, and one more thing: my 80-200 starts at 3.9. That doesn't cause problems on a sunny (or even cloudy but bright) day, but I can anticipate it being a pain in the arse when it's cloudy and grey. Do 80-200s of that era get much better than 3.9? Not sure where to look to find this sort of thing. ebay, maybe.
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              Originally posted by DaiSuki
              Am I right in thinking that negative scanners are horrifically expensive?
              Jessops used to do one for less than ?100, now they all seem to be over ?400 for a dedicated film scanner. Medium format film scanners are worse!

              www.morgancomputers.co.uk usually have some end of line scanners at cheaper prices. That where i got mine from (edit - they don't seem to be listing any at the moment but i've got a flat bed and a film scanner from them)

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                Originally posted by 112
                you like your cars dont you Agent L...

                Originally posted by Agent L
                There's only 1 cat pic on there!
                I think I must have got dyslexia, I read that loads of times and still saw it as cats

                Yeah, I do love cars! Don't get enough opportunities to go take shots of them though. Next plan is to go to a motocross track and try some shots there. Got holiday on sat for 2 weeks though first so expect loads of pictures after that.

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                  I forgot to say thanks, someone on the boards told me to buy an "Easy" camera called a Casio EX-Z750, which I did, and I've been really happy with it.

                  Attached are a few shots since I bought it.

                  Thanks for great advice! It was perfect for me.
                  Last edited by capcom_suicide; 18-04-2007, 08:50.

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                    A few from this weekend's trip to the south bank - view them large, Flickr-account holders, especially the cranes (the crop is, to my mind, spot on, it's just you need a bit more scale than the little-version allows). Very, very pleased with this camera - looking forward to taking it out again very soon.

                    Can't decide between the two crops. I think this one is better, though.

                    Inside Rachel Whitread's "Embankment", Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

                    Wow, again - no post-processing. Amazing sky, that afternoon

                    Like how this came out, especially the reflection; shame the focus wasn't so hot (stupid camera) but I think it works as an effect

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                      Went to Oundle today, started off a bit grey but got a bit sunnier towards lunchtime.

                      Inquisitive Goose
                      Thistle
                      Head Shot - I like the way the eye is nearly the same colour as the water background.

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                        Paleface, I really like that B&W portrait. A top class shot.

                        Marty, the thistle's really nice. They're all very tranquil, but the thistle has that shallow DOF that makes me buzz.

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                          Originally posted by Ginger Tosser
                          Jessops used to do one for less than ?100, now they all seem to be over ?400 for a dedicated film scanner. Medium format film scanners are worse!

                          www.morgancomputers.co.uk usually have some end of line scanners at cheaper prices. That where i got mine from (edit - they don't seem to be listing any at the moment but i've got a flat bed and a film scanner from them)
                          After deliberating for months I finally plumped for a Nikon V ED.

                          The top of the range flatbed scanners like the Canon 9950F and Epson 4990 are good, and the ability to scan in 30 or so frames at a time is very handy. But there is the problem of marks on the transparent surface (I've had a flatbed for a year and I now have them on the underside! wtf!?).

                          The main thing that made me get the Nikon was when I scanned in a 35mm negative - the flatbeds just cannot compare. I'll try and dig out the photo that I scanned in on all three models.

                          Saying that - if you're not printing bigger than A4, get the Canon or Epson.

                          Whichever you go for, DICE is a godsend and you'll soon find that grain in negatives is disgusting.

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                            Morgan Computer had a few Minolta Dimage Scan Multi's in a couple of years ago. Its a negative only scanner but it scans Medium Format up to 6x9 (Needed as i have 2 medium format cameras 6x4.5 and 6x6) as well as 35mm and other formats. Knock down price of ?500. Still pricey but when you consider the retail of these was ?2500 it was worth it. Sadly the model i have doesn't have Digital ICE, it has some image correction but i find it flattens the image too
                            much.


                            Oh btw, if anyones in the market for a second hand film camera Jessops are clearing all their stock. They have decided to stop selling s/h kit in the summer. Currently they have knocked 33% off. It may get cheaper!

                            Last edited by Ginger Tosser; 14-04-2006, 21:56.

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                              Have just started playing around with photography and here are my first results:

                              Pigeons
                              Keyboard
                              Shadows
                              Mario Karts

                              Can anyone recommend a decent site that provides photography tips and the like? I messed around with my camera for that mario Kart shot for the blurred effect, but now cant seem to get it back. And that Flickr site is great.

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                                Those last two shots are nice, those first two, especially the first one (which looks to me like it was shot through a window as quite an oblique angle), should have been binned straight away

                                Bowser is certainly the best of these, shadows would have been as the composure is excellent, were it not for the specs of dust everywhere, it's very distracting.

                                The blured effect you speak of is Depth of Field. Wide apatures (smaller numbers) give shallow depth, as in your photo. Narrow apatures (larger numbers) give larger depth. It's not purely down to apature, but you can read more about that in this thread and from the related posted links.

                                Lots of promise for sure that reading through this very thread will help with, there are a lot of tips there.

                                I'd also recommend looking through Ken Rockwell's website. Some of it can come across a little arrogant at times, but the advice he provides is useful and practical, like this thread
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