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where do you take your pictures?

inspiron
02/03/05 11:59 PM GMT
I was wondering for a long time how so many people are able to get such fantastic pictures from such remote looking places, do you go on vacation and take a whole bunch of them, do people own some kind of aircraft or do people just live in realy nice places?

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::heidlerr
02/04/05 12:25 AM GMT
I personally take pictures wherever I see them. It may be in my yard, around town, on a day trip or a vacation. View your world with your imagination and your eyes. See the beauty in everyday things. View my Gallery. A good bit of these images were taken within 50 miles of my house. What is ordinary to your is beautiful to someone in another part of the world. I hope this helps.
Russ
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MiLo_Anderson
02/04/05 5:19 AM GMT
I personally take my pictures fairly close to home. Most arn't more then 2 hours drive from home.
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noobguy
02/04/05 4:27 PM GMT
I mostly take images near my home. Alot of the scenes you see here on caedes may not have been obvious and required a photographic eye along with precise framing in the presentation of these images to portray the remote fantastic environment feeling that you get from them. There is beautiful imagery near you, just gotta look hard enough.
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inspiron
02/04/05 8:01 PM GMT
well thanks a bunch, this is a real !

:^)

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::regmar
02/08/05 6:00 PM GMT
You know, the way I get mine is by every once in a while visiting a remote place and having lots of memory sticks with me when I do.
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*caedes
02/09/05 1:27 AM GMT
Don't forget the batteries!
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::fotobob
02/09/05 2:12 AM GMT
Mike,
One way to learn to make good pictures is to photograph things that you enjoy. For example, do you have a hobby? Lets say that you like collecting stamps. Take some photos of you stamps in differtent ways. Change the distance,or angle and lighting. Photograph your friends working on their collections. By working with something that you know you will be able to study your photos and learn why you liked some and did not like others. I went to your Profile page and then took a look at your Gallery page. You work is not bad. Some of it is very good. It looks to me that you are in a area that can produce a lot of images.Sometimes when we live in a location for a long time we get used to our surroundings and overlook the beauty there. May I suggest that one day you leave your camera at home and walk around your neighboor hood and study whatt ou see. I think that you will be amazed at all of the things that you will find to photograph. Then go home,get yor camera, and DO IT!! good luck.
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inspiron
02/09/05 3:45 AM GMT
Thanks for the info Robert, the only problom is that I live in suburbs and most of thoes photos were taken at least 5 miles from my house and the best scoreing one was taken about 50 miles away.(I can't drive) But there are alot of machines here includeing cars which happens to be the biggest hobby of mine and because of that I allready have plenty of images on engines and such on my computer, I'll look for some or go out after all the snow here melts and go find some to post here.


Thanks agian!
-Mike
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noobguy
02/09/05 8:25 PM GMT
Also try and develop a photographic eye, which relates to the intentional composition that I mentioned before. Standing up straight and holding your camera to your face will present the perspective that you see, and everyone else sees, all the time. This will by nature be more boring. Try looking at your images closer than normal, farther than normal, squatting, standing on something and getting higher up, tilting your camera, anything to change the perspective to something more abnormal and interesting.

Because we humans with our human eyes have such a wide field of view and see so much, we take alot for granted. The camera narrows your field of vision and allows you to focus on certain elements. One really good way to develop a more photographic eye is to look around with your camera to your eye, maybe even walk around that way. That way you constrict your field of view, and potentially spot more photographic opportunities. (you also get more used to isolating elements in your frame).

Good luck!
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::fotobob
02/09/05 9:11 PM GMT
Mike,
What great advice you just received from nobguy! Try what he has told you. You will be amazed at the difference. You will begin to say I like that and I am not to happy with this. When you find something that you are not happy with, make that a challenge. Ask yourself what can I do to improve this picture. It may be as easy as changing your point of view, or adding some more light to a part of the image. It will get you thinking.

As far as C-index scores are concerned , who cares? The only thing that counts to a photogrpaher is that he (or she) ceated an image that they are happy with. If others like it too consider that a bonus. I checked some of you pictures and it seems like an 87, 80 and a numbr of 75's that you have earned is a big reward. Don't let it go to your head as nobody cares about your scores except you. They voted not for Mike or Mikes Picture. They voted because they liked what they saw.

Keep working at it. Nobody became famous overnight

Fotobob
P.S. Mike please call me Bob . Robert is for strangers. All of us here at Caedes are friends willing to help each other.
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inspiron
02/09/05 11:20 PM GMT
Thanks a million fo the advice Anthony, I realy like extreme close up pictures so I think I'll try to take some of thoes and then I gotta figure out if there is a name for that.

And Robert. you have a very good point there and the score is meaningless, I'll take a second look at my pictures to look for ways to improve

You guys have realy helped me out here and I aprecateit it alot but I was just wondering were people took there pictures.
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noobguy
02/11/05 4:14 PM GMT
They are called macro images. Macro basically meaning getting your lense closer to the subject than the normal "safe" camera distance. The funny thing is, most of the point and shoot digital cameras today have a macro mode standard (even the really cheap $30 ones!?!). Using an SLR camera you would have to buy lenses that have this feature as part of the lense. And um, good luck shooting macros with a point and shoot rangefinder 35mm camera :-p
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d_spin_9
02/11/05 4:32 PM GMT
have you looked at the quality of macros from cheap point and shoot cameras? even if they can make a quarter fill the frame, i'd wager anything a crop thats about a quarter of the frame, so just over 1MP would beat a cheap point and shooter hands down, no matter what the megapixels. the lenses on cheap cameras ok in their mid ranges, but down at macro, and also often at full wide, or full tele they lose tons of quality, making their high MP sensors useless.

also for macros, i'd rather just be further away, and take a crop if thats what needs to happen, because then i can do my framing when i crop, rather than be working with a tripod when i'm a couple centimeters from my subject :P
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noobguy
02/11/05 4:48 PM GMT
I didnt say that I recommended using a cheap point and shoot digital for macros, just thought it was funny that something valued as special way back when is now something standard even in low quality digital instruments.
Althought almost a yrs worth of my gallery was taken with a 1.3 MP camera and I managed fine :-p
Using an SLR - a photo taken at macro (even if uncomfortable in the field) will have significantly higher quality than one taken at a distance and cropped (which will look more pixelated in digital and grainier in film) also the depth of field change when using your lense in macro mode may be prefferable when attempting to isolate your subject with a small aperature. The highest apeture setting (smallest size) on your lense at full zoom and macro mode will have a smaller depth of field than any other setting on the lense. I have used an 80-200 lense where the difference between regular 200 and macro mode was less than a foot so it wasnt a problem. I've used others where the safe distance in macro mode was around 6 inches, so I think you and your tripod will be ok :-p
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::fotobob
02/12/05 1:31 PM GMT
Noobguy;
you are 100% correct. I agree with your descripion fully. !:0)
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noobguy
02/14/05 12:59 AM GMT
haha, good to know I've got the support of a pro!
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