Some advice on these please – LCY Today

Thanks for all the replies, will have ago this weekend with different settings etc, and post the results :rolleyes:

Jamie

ooo oooh, lol. :p

*bows head in shame* 😮

Sorry fella, I couldn’t resist that cheap dig! I’m in one of those silly tired, sarcastic moods that tends to happen when I get back from the previous days gig at 7am! 🙂

Paul

Don’t want to be nit picky, but Tv is actually shutter priority. Av is aperture priority! :p 🙂

ooo oooh, lol. :p

*bows head in shame* 😮 😀

Aperture mode, or TV mode, as MH has said is the best setting to use. The camera will then select the shutter speeds.

Don’t want to be nit picky, but Tv is actually shutter priority. Av is aperture priority! :p 🙂

Jamie, if those are your first results, believe me, you have nothing to worry about! You just need to spend a little more time with your camera getting used to the way DSLR’s do what they do, and also digital image editing to get the most out of your photos.

Point and shoot digital cameras apply processing like increasing saturation and sharpening when they compress the RAW data from the sensor and create a JPEG file, so the photos look great right out of the camera. DSLR’s can do that, most users seem to prefer (as I do) not using any processing in camera and doing everything once you get the shot into your editing program. Once a JPEG image form a DSLR is sharpened, there’s no way to un-sharpen it afterwards should you wish to, so leaving all the processing until your shots are on the computer allows you the full scope to get exactly the look you want.

In my opinion it’s very important to get a standard workflow for when you’re editing images. This is basically just a standard set of adjustments you make in a certain order to get your shots looking as you want them to. I shoot RAW so I don’t have a standard workflow for that as I would JPEG. The first stages are pretty much based around what the histogram is doing, but for JPEG’s I usually do something like crop(and level)-resize-adjust levels-add a touch of contrast-increase saturation-sharpen-save. Some people prefer to sharpen first, some may adjust the full size image image before re-sizing. It’s all personal and that should be taken very much as a guide only. If you find a way that’s different and works better for you, use it!

Feel free to drop me a PM if you have any questions.

Hope that helps,

Paul.

I always shoot on full auto or shutter priority. To stop frozen props I always shoot at a shutter spead of 250 or less for jets 500 or above. Panning is also essencial and shooting large aircraft at airports is an ideal place to hone this skill.

Phill

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Don’t want to be nit-picky, other than to say that its the other way around on the aperture concept. The smaller the aperture number, the shorter the depth of field. The higher the aperture number, the higher the depth of field, and the more of the image you’ll get in focus.

😮 Oops! 🙂

As for the crispiness; all photos that a camera produces need to go through some sort of post-processing on your computer. Sharpening the photo using an editing program will give you the ‘crisp’ results that you are looking for. You may also have a sharpness control feature in-camera but Im not sure with the 350D; and whether that would yield results, Im dont know.

I hope that helps! 🙂

It does yeah. If you wanna do that, on the 350d go to MENU, then the 2nd list, bottom of the list Parameters, and theres options to turn up sharpness and other things there 🙂

But if you’re gonna post proccess it’s better to leave it on default IMO.

the smaller the aperture number, the higher depth of field

Don’t want to be nit-picky, other than to say that its the other way around on the aperture concept. The smaller the aperture number, the shorter the depth of field. The higher the aperture number, the higher the depth of field, and the more of the image you’ll get in focus.

Aperture mode, or TV mode, as MH has said is the best setting to use. The camera will then select the shutter speeds.

Your photos are pretty cool and are a great start with your DSLR (Ive always wanted to go to LCY 😎 ), but the first two are very slightly over exposed – the whites are two bright. Using aperture mode will help to sort this out to a degree and will also improve the look of the prop blades – although not massively. If you use even higher aperture numbers, i.e. perhaps around f 11 you will get even better results on the prop blades but ive never tried it so im not totally sure.

To get really blurred blades wihich look good, I think you have to use the shutter speed mode on the camera and use a really low shutter speed.

As for the crispiness; all photos that a camera produces need to go through some sort of post-processing on your computer. Sharpening the photo using an editing program will give you the ‘crisp’ results that you are looking for. You may also have a sharpness control feature in-camera but Im not sure with the 350D; and whether that would yield results, Im dont know.

I hope that helps! 🙂

Hi Jamie,

Sometimes its not best to use the Sports mode because of the aperture it sets too. I’m only a newbie myself, but basically, the smaller the aperture number, the higher depth of field and the limited focus you will get, (for example and this doesnt see apply to your pictures, the start of the fueslage might be in focus but the rest a bit soft).

Have you tried AV mode? Here, you set the aperture yourself and the camera decides everything else (except ISO). Typically, you should really use a miniumum of 8. So i’d set AV mode and aperture 8, and ISO 200, (the manual is quite good on the 350d and you might want to look at this).

Also, post proccessing is something that will greatly improve your pictures. Even simple things like setting horizons level and cropping so the aircraft can be in the centre of the frame. I reccomend you get a nice bit of software,(something like photoshop) and follow the many guides on the net (ill link to some later) and learn how to post proccess. You can also sharpen up images doing this.

Like I say, I’m only new myself but everything mentioned I’ve put into practice and it’s worked wonders.