My very first....

[clgsamson]

Nyak!!! I look like a woman??? :05:

Yup, that's me... surveying my realm at Mainit.

As for the shark pic, we spent quite a bit of time down at Mainit looking for that sucker. Viz could've been better (but when does it ever do over there?). Current gave some of us a bit of a workout. Our computers were near deco already. :11:

Caloy's new toy looks really good.

Nice pics, Caloy. Where's my copy of the pics?

Johans

thanks pards..hehe I did a deco stop for 19 minutes, remember?...got you all hungry waiting for me to finish up.

 

[boljakool]

tried playing with a couple of your pics on photoshop, koya. here's how they look.

 

[clgsamson]

one more..can you identify this critter?

last..

 

[Jamdiver]

ah except for one guy...S80 guy Jam?

:rofl2: :rofl2:

He can't bear the 'weight' of the Canon quality..... :14:

 

[midwestdvr]

Now, this one is really nice. I like that glowing center effect. Very nice.

 

[CLA]

Thanks for the advice Caloy. However I'm a bit confused re aperture and depth of field. I always thought smaller apertures (f7, f8) would increase the depth of field. Is it the other way around?

When I didn't have the strobe, I would always adjust aperture to make the subject brighter. I keep forgetting that I can increase strobe power. Next time I'll try playing with the controls more.

 

[Jamdiver]

Thanks for the advice Caloy. However I'm a bit confused re aperture and depth of field. I always thought smaller apertures (f7, f8) would increase the depth of field. Is it the other way around?

When I didn't have the strobe, I would always adjust aperture to make the subject brighter. I keep forgetting that I can increase strobe power. Next time I'll try playing with the controls more.

Yup smaller apertures increase the depth of field in a photo, so generally speaking with increasing f stops, you would notice that more of a picture would be in focus, i.e. it would have a greater/deeper depth of field...

A larger aperture such as f2.8 which is the maximum on most p&s cameras I think opens up a lot of the light to the camera and induces a shallow depth of field.
So only a small part of the picture would be in focus..

Changing the aperture or f stop setting on your camera is one way of controlling the amount of light or the exposure of the pic? (don't know if that's the right terminology there).
However the side affect of just using aperture settings to control the amount of light is that the depth of field in the picture is also affected.

So basically if you want good control of lighting and preventing overexposed or underexposed pictures you have to use a combination of controlling the strobe output and your aperture..
Other variables would be the background (sand blows out easily, i.e. is a white mess in the pic) or the subject..

My 2 cents... from a non strobe owning guy .

f 2.8 - Shallow DOF

f 4.1 - Deeper DOF, if you notice more of the picture is in focus as compared to before.

 

[Zeeman]

For all you photoshop folk - what's the best way to learn your way around the program?

Z...

 

[jonix]

For all you photoshop folk - what's the best way to learn your way around the program?

Z...

get itunes and download Photoshop TV and Photoshop Killer Tips podcasts

 

[Zeeman]

thanks Jonix

Z...