Convertibles Photos Thread

[cbrookre]

Well I did my best to learn the basics on my wife's new (to her) Canon D50 and took some pics today. The lens is a 72mm, 28-153mm, 1:3.5-5.6 IS (I do not know what any of that means. Her friend had it set on 'raw'. The images downloaded to my iMac as .CR2 files. We both thought they did not look that good. Like my Samsung S5 phone's pictures were crisper! :shrug: But after I (in Graphic Converter) reduced the size to 900 pixels wide and cropped them down from there slightly more, those resulting 'saved as' .jpg files, looked much crisper. Whew! :clap2:

At the risk of over posting my new pics, here they are.

Very beautiful! Looks fantastic!

On a side note, I have had similar cameras for years (Canon 20D and now 7D). With the 50D and similar (any camera actually), the Raw mode is taking the data straight off of the sensor with no post processing. It is not meant to be used directly but it is for near-professionals that can do a better job post processing than the camera in it's various .jpg modes (you can get more details and more realistic colors that way but it takes more work). If I were you I would put the camera into .jpg and leave it there unless you have a ton of time to learn how to use the image processing software (Canon Digital Photo Professional software or something similar like Adobe Lightroom) and want to tweak each picture independently. Cell phone cameras (and all digital cameras really) typically do a huge amount of processing/color correction/sharpening after the image comes off the sensor so that is why they look more pleasing to the eye. Just a little advice.

Best Regards,

Chris

Sponsored

 

[davekro]

Very beautiful! Looks fantastic!

On a side note, I have had similar cameras for years (Canon 20D and now 7D). With the 50D and similar (any camera actually), the Raw mode is taking the data straight off of the sensor with no post processing. It is not meant to be used directly but it is for near-professionals that can do a better job post processing than the camera in it's various .jpg modes (you can get more details and more realistic colors that way but it takes more work). If I were you I would put the camera into .jpg and leave it there unless you have a ton of time to learn how to use the image processing software (Canon Digital Photo Professional software or something similar like Adobe Lightroom) and want to tweak each picture independently. Cell phone cameras (and all digital cameras really) typically do a huge amount of processing/color correction/sharpening after the image comes off the sensor so that is why they look more pleasing to the eye. Just a little advice.

Best Regards,

Chris

Chris,
You just saved me hours of reading. And I mean just to confirm I should change the camera settings from raw to jpeg!!! Thanks for the tutorial that (all) cameras do processing to get the pictures we see after snapping our shot. I was not familiar with any of that. As I am Googling how to change the 'Quality' menu item from raw to jpeg, I wonder if there is a master reset to reset to oem defaults and if that would be helpful for us as complete noobs.
Thanks
(back to the Google now ;))

 

[cbrookre]

Chris,
You just saved me hours of reading. And I mean just to confirm I should change the camera settings from raw to jpeg!!! Thanks for the tutorial that (all) cameras do processing to get the pictures we see after snapping our shot. I was not familiar with any of that. As I am Googling how to change the 'Quality' menu item from raw to jpeg, I wonder if there is a master reset to reset to oem defaults and if that would be helpful for us as complete noobs.
Thanks
(back to the Google now ;))

If you push the Menu button, under the first set of options there should be a "Quality" option, where you can cycle between different levels of RAW (resolutions) and different qualities (resolutions and level of compression).

See here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos50d/11

JPG Large Normal would probably be best for most things you do, pictures with more detail you could do in Large Fine and it will use less aggressive compression (less loss of detail but larger sized picture).

Also you can go under Picture Style in the second menu from the left and select more or less sharpening, color saturation and contrast. Might want to read that whole review, dpreview is awesome about talking about the different settings and what they do, almost better than the menu!

Chris

PS: Sorry this is off topic, probably should have done through IM

 

[Rickycardo]

I always shoot in RAW. I might use RAW+JPEG if I'm shooting a kid's birthday party or something. But that's just the astrophotographer in me. I like the control I get in RAW and when shooting through a telescope I don't want any compression of the data. Here's my backyard rig.

 

[toplessfun]

I always shoot in RAW. I might use RAW+JPEG if I'm shooting a kid's birthday party or something. But that's just the astrophotographer in me. I like the control I get in RAW and when shooting through a telescope I don't want any compression of the data. Here's my backyard rig.

Wow! Would love to see some pictures you took with that beast.

 

[cbrookre]

I always shoot in RAW. I might use RAW+JPEG if I'm shooting a kid's birthday party or something. But that's just the astrophotographer in me. I like the control I get in RAW and when shooting through a telescope I don't want any compression of the data. Here's my backyard rig.

That is a really cool setup, but really would not be useful for shooting cars unless they were in another state... Trying to pull this back on topic. For the type of shooting Dave is doing, until more is learned on the various aspects of photography, JPG will be much better.

Or he could just get a real lens, like any real photographer. Come on Dave, do not be cheap, imagine your Mustang with this beast of a lens!

Me an my photography friends at work got a kick out of the various photoshops that people did of this lens at work. That is a Sigma 200-500mm f2.8 and it sells for a cool $25,000!

 

[Rickycardo]

Lol! Yes, back on topic. :focus: It would be fun to have a sub-forum for photographing our cars with discussion of cameras, techniques and huge, cool lenses like that. :eyebulge:
I'm at work but if I get the chance I'll start a thread in the off topic forum and post some astronomy pics. :coolphotos:

 

[Rogues Gambit]

My ruby red stang!

Been looking this combo for a long time, now unless the '16s offer Ruby and Saddle, sticking with this

 

[davekro]

If you push the Menu button, under the first set of options there should be a "Quality" option, where you can cycle between different levels of RAW (resolutions) and different qualities (resolutions and level of compression).

See here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos50d/11

JPG Large Normal would probably be best for most things you do, pictures with more detail you could do in Large Fine and it will use less aggressive compression (less loss of detail but larger sized picture).

Also you can go under Picture Style in the second menu from the left and select more or less sharpening, color saturation and contrast. Might want to read that whole review, dpreview is awesome about talking about the different settings and what they do, almost better than the menu!

Chris

PS: Sorry this is off topic, probably should have done through IM

Chris, Awesome. Tks I thought the same off topic thought after posting my last message. This should cover me for now. I'll PM or start a new thread if I want to ask another question.

 

[broncobuff]

Maggie the Mustang (Race Red, V6, auto) with Meeker and Longs Peak in the background. Happiness is a sunny Colorado Day.

 

[cbrookre]

Chris, Awesome. Tks I thought the same off topic thought after posting my last message. This should cover me for now. I'll PM or start a new thread if I want to ask another question.

Sure, PM me any time. would be good to get some advice on how to clay bar, etc., to get my Stang when it comes as beautiful as your pics!

Chris

 

[davekro]

Lol! Yes, back on topic. :focus: It would be fun to have a sub-forum for photographing our cars with discussion of cameras, techniques and huge, cool lenses like that. :eyebulge:
I'm at work but if I get the chance I'll start a thread in the off topic forum and post some astronomy pics. :coolphotos:

Rickycardo,
YES, please do this!!!! I thought about doing this so as not to railroad this thread. But it would be much better started by on of you actual picture takey people!

Who was the person with the Magnetic with the real nice B & W pics. Was that you Rickycardo?

 

[cbrookre]

Rickycardo,
YES, please do this!!!! I thought about doing this so as not to railroad this thread. But it would be much better started by on of you actual picture takey people!

Who was the person with the Magnetic with the real nice B & W pics. Was that you Rickycardo?

I think that was smdandb2 but I could be thinking of different pics...

 

[Rickycardo]

Yeah, I think it was smdandb2 also. Unfortunately mine's still in order processing according to cotus. EDD 4/18.

 

[Rickycardo]

Rickycardo,
YES, please do this!!!! I thought about doing this so as not to railroad this thread. But it would be much better started by on of you actual picture takey people!

Who was the person with the Magnetic with the real nice B & W pics. Was that you Rickycardo?

I started a thread to discuss photographing cars:
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20008
and I added an album of my astronomy pics here:
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/album.php?albumid=282

Sponsored