Indecent Exposure 32: Inaccessible exactitude?
Getting good photos of family 'round the tree, solving the glasses-and-diopter conundrum, and your creepiest child pictures.
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Love the podcast. Looking for some advice on a Christmas photo problem.
I like to take a night time picture of my family near the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. The problem is getting the people properly lit with out washing out the tree and obliterating the tree lights with the flash. Is there any technique you can recommend or am I doomed to take two shots and Photoshop them together?
Thanks, J. White, Phoenix, Ariz.
I have a rather interesting question on manual focusing using a dSLR viewfinder. I have a Nikon D80 that I took to the zoo one day and was trying to get shots through a chain link fence. I found it exceedingly hard in this and other circumstances to get the focus just right and often my pictures would come out blurry, even though I took time to do the focusing and it looked focused to me. I do wear glasses and shoot with my glasses on since I have never been able to get the diopter settings right for my eyesight.
Any help, either in how to set up the diopter correctly, or how to focus when the picture is so small and is hard to see.
Love the show.
Chris, Lexington Park, Md.
Senior Editor Lori Grunin has been covering digital imaging for two decades, but her memory's kind of sketchy on the details. You can hear about it every week on Indecent Exposure, the podcast she co-hosts with Matt Fitzgerald.
Lori Grunin has been an avid photographer for almost 30 years, and spent the past 15 attempting to master every aspect of technology.
Matt Fitzgerald has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. Matthew's background includes work as a professional photographer, a technical representative, and a repair technician.
Cheers!
Eric
Thanks for discussing the Zeiss User Forums with the news!
We're off to a good start, with 136 members just a week after the launch =).
As always, I'm enjoying your show.
All best,
Amin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allex/3102980403/
Here a submission for the latest competition. Unfortunately for me the weather has just got warmer here in Yorkshire so I have chosen a photo from the beginning of 2008. Hope you enjoy it...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeadc/2404650971/
Regards, Lee.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/OsD3Bpe2mpkFym3UWp_xVQ
Thanks for the show.
Would you be so kind as to provide a critque of the photo submissions? As part of the critique, would you include how we can make our photos better? For example, try adjust the ISO up/down to getter faster/slower shutter. Just a thought.
Peace,
Bob
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonixgirl77/3106047868/
Mee-Jin
Indianapolis, IN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgautschi/3112439226/
Ryan
Cincinnati, OH
Another wonderful show guys,
I have a quick question about Crop vs Magnification. I have a 40D with a 1.6 crop factor, does that mean a 50mm image is cropped to look like a 80mm or the 50mm has zoomed to 80mm?
Here is my submission for the photo contest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmacke/3114176963/
Enjoy the show a lot
Keith Macke (MacKey)
Wonderful show as always.
Here is my photo, hopefully not too late, for the ice submission. Its not anything special, but I wanted to finally submit something haha. It was taken last year in Plymouth harbor; home of a rock, a mayflower and some pilgrims.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/hitekbtvs/scenery/DSC07444.jpg
Thanks and Love the show, cant wait for the next one
Keith(another one haha)
Plymouth, MA
http://flickr.com/photos/aaron-h/3120122684/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2242693251_cfb7beac35_o.jpg
Have a great Holiday and rest-up for CES :-)
I'm really looking forward to your reports from and after the show!
My best,
Joel
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by puraime
January 6, 2009 1:13 AM PST
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(18 Comments)thanks for the podcast, happy holidays..