Digital SLR Questions

[Harold Tuttle]

ya need sticks to make pictars of fast things

[mtnbkr]

ya need sticks to make pictars of fast things

Monopod?

Chris

[Harold Tuttle]

monopods are great

there are some hiking stick monopods that have pop out legs for making pics too.

One image technique I have been fiddling with is a 2 second exposure where in the subject moves through the frame and the environment is stationary. Handholding proves the tripod is required.

heres another exposure:


hold the camera still long enough and the night becomes day.

[mtnbkr]

hold the camera still long enough and the night becomes day.

It also makes moving water look like fog.  I've done that one before.  It takes a hell of an ND filter to accomplish though.

Chris

[sanglant]

or 2 polarizers(not circular)

[AJ Dual]

I suppose there's a delay shutter, but if you're going to do long-exposure photography, a corded or even better, a wireles remote would also eliminate all vibration etc.

Once we get our Nikon D60 back from factory service, I want to take open-shutter pics of our kids where they stand still in a black room, and I wave a LED light around them, and draw their name above their head in the air...

[sanglant]

that's easier to so in photoshop, or paint shop pro getting kids to stand perfectly still for even 2 min is a difficult task

now you could do 2 pics and superimpose one over the other, or do a dual exposure if you camera supports it

[Brad Johnson]

that's easier to so in photoshop, or paint shop pro getting kids to stand perfectly still for even 2 min is a difficult task

now you could do 2 pics and superimpose one over the other, or do a dual exposure if you camera supports it

The flash captures the kids, the long exposure is for the lightwriting.

Brad

[sanglant]

ah, double exposure in one frame

[Marnoot]

A little extra help for those with chronic 'camera shake syndrome'

That's me there. I won't be able to afford a DSLR for another couple years probably, but when I do I'll be getting at least a semi-decent tripod to go with it. Sometimes my hands are pretty steady, but more often than not I have a small tremor that taxes the anti-shake feature of my point-and-shoot, often resulting in none-too-crisp photos. I'm tempted to get a tripod now to use with that camera (Canon Powershot SD870 IS).

[sanglant]

that's why i like the pentax/samsung it has the shake thing in the body, works with any lens (zoom that don't report the focal length you have to tell it what length your using it at ) but, im sure someone else is making them with it by now

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Anti-shake is good.  It gives you a couple extra stops worth of hold-it-still.

Tripod is more good.  It gives you lots of extra stops worth of hold-it-still.

Heck, even if you had perfectly rock steady hands that never moved a bit, a tripod might still be an improvement.  The mechanisms inside the camera body produce their own shake and vibrations, what with mirrors flopping around and shutters snapping to and fro and and lens elements spinning and whatnot.  A heavy, solid tripod can damp out those inherent motions and keep the camera still despite its own tendency to move.  Hands, being lighter in mass and more loosely coupled to the camera body, can't accomplish the same thing even if they're steady as a surgeon.

[Harold Tuttle]

yowza!

http://saltdoco.com/movie-info/timelapse-photography.htm

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

yowza!

http://saltdoco.com/movie-info/timelapse-photography.htm

Darn.  That's right cool.

3-D photographs.   

I might have to look into doing something like that.