Official Post Your DSLR Still Photography Thread

[Tom Lowe]

USlatin, for the Vegas shot, I was shooting high ISO and wide iris (F4, I think) in order to get fast exposure times for a 1000-frame timelapse film. If that was a single shot, I would have stopped down to gain DOF and probably backed off the ISO a lot. Usually for star shots, you can't see much movement in the star unless you go over 30s. So, instead of 6s exposures, I could have stopped way down to F11, or backed the ISO to 400 and let the exposure run to 20s. Then again, there was a lot of wind that night, and I was worried about the wood grain on the tree blurring.

In terms of compositing, you might be able to comp a timelapse sky to a landscape, but that would be "cheating," IMO, and not something I would do, unless it was very obviously an effect. I like to be able to tell people that everything is "straight out of the camera, with no FX." Once you start with FX, it's a slippery slope, and you lose some of your "purity." This is one of the reasons Terrence Malick, for example, does not like to use artificial light for his movies.

That is not say I am against compositing for special shots, like maybe adding a singer to a timelapse background plate for a music video or something. Just for pure landscape and outdoor work, I would rather keep everything as "pure" as possible, so to speak. :wink:

But then again, even Malick allowed some sky compositing in The Thin Red Line when it served the story. That shot of Nick Nolte talking about the "Rosie Fingered Dawn" has a comped sky.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Ohhhhhhhh... that must be a stunning time lapse!!! I see now! I hate you.. I want your gear hehe

I agree on the cheating thing... perhaps not so bad it it were a still and you matched the sky quite close to it's original position but for a timelapse it would lose some of its docu magic, well any way you see it I agree

When will your reel be up on your site again? I keep getting some BS Vimeo message about embedding. I want to see that timelapse...

and by all means, do add a surreal-ly lit singer to that timelapse!

 

[Tom Lowe]

Really cool little camping spot at the foothills of the Eastern Sierras. This is a frame near the end of a very long counter-clockwise panning timelapse across the mountain range.

That little dirt road leads straight up to Whitney Portal Road, which you can see zig-zagging across the mountain.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

I'd love to see a full size shot some time better yet a 1080p QT

 

[Yannick Hagman]

gas station III

 

[Tom Lowe]

Location scouting the other day in the Imperial Dunes near Glamis, California.

 

[Paul Leeming]

A few more from me, all using the EF 100mm f2 lens:

Enjoy!

Paul

 

[kidrobot]

Ah the oft forgotten 100/2. I chose between that one and the 100/2.8 macro. I went with the macro for reason I can't remember anymore, I don't do macro very often.

5D Mk II and Lensbaby Composer:

 

[Thomas Dobbie]

This was shot 10 years ago on a Nikon D1,amazing how things have progressed.It was a grabbed handheld shot from the side of the road,wish I could do it again with my Hasselblad and P45,but never seen this kind of light since.
Tom.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Punky Sensei looks like something out of Citizen Kane. You've got skills, Paul.

 

[Tom Lowe]

A very cool location just south of Ajo, AZ, where I was shooting scenes for "These Short Days." In the night shots, you can see some crazy flares and activities of the US Air Force at the nearby Goldwater bombing range. h34r:

 

[Tico Llaurador]

"Flares," huh?

:wink:

 

[Roberto B]

A few more from me, all using the EF 100mm f2 lens:

Enjoy!

Paul

love your imagerie paul :thumbsup:

 

[Eren Ozkural]

Well, there are so many great images that I've been keeping an eye on here since this thread started...I thought that I should add something to it after taking so much pleasure admiring the work of my fellow Redusers.

Enjoy

 

[Eren Ozkural]

And here's a second batch.
I'm looking to become a regular poster on this thread, I hope you all enjoy it

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Great work Eren!

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

You guys are making me fall in love for still photography... *sigh*

A student DP that never seriously messed with stills, meh... But that's how things turned out.

Keep it up guys.

 

[Eren Ozkural]

Thank you very much Impagliazzo and USLatin,
positive comments from fellow Redusers means alot.

In the interest of not-spamming this message board i'll only post 2 sets per week.

If anybody's curious about how the photos were taken (what equipment/settings/ideas behind it) id be more than welcome to discuss it at length.

This board has given me so much (despite not being a frequent poster) with threads like "Ask David Mullen Anything" and the general quality of knowledge throught that my filmmaking and photography has vastly improved as if by osmosis.

I know I don't possess anywhere near the experience or knowledge of someone like David Mullen or alot of other folks on these boards but my pictures and thoughts are open to all as long as there is someone curious enough to look/ask...for whatever they're worth.

 

[Paul Leeming]

Hi folks,

thanks for all the nice comments! Tom, the feeling's mutual! LOVE your timelapses!

Here's a few more shot recently:

 

[Paul Leeming]

And a few more of Sredni Vashtar (shot at a live event, handheld using the EF100/2 again, my favourite lens right now!). Enjoy!