piper Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) I took my camera with me yesterday and had such a great time doing different types of photos. I really enjoyed playing with full manual controls and night photos. I tried things I had never tried before and was quite happy with the results. This was the first photo I took for the day and I love it - it just looks and feels like the show. This 1 was handheld, all manual settings and playing with the bulb function for my shutter. The rest of my photos from the day can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8799389@N04/ Edited September 15, 2013 by piper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Jac Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Wow! The colours are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Clover Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Great photos Piper. Love the night time ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 They look impressive on flickr! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCresties Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Great shots Piper You got some super ones of the fireworks and funfair! Love the little piglets and goats too :D What lens did you use? I'm off to the Perth Royal for the first time this year and wondered which lens to take with me, I'm tossing up between the 70-200 or my 100mm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks. It was fun doing something so different :) I had some "better" fireworks pics but we were near a pillar on the grand stand and that was cutting though most of them The majority were taken totally blind. I had the camera on all manual settings, shutter set to bulb and pointed it in the general direction and braced it against my body and held the shutter button down for varying lengths of time. I had no idea until yesterday if I had anything that was any good, lol. Majority of the pics I used the 70-200. Just before the fireworks I swapped to my walkaround 18-250mm lens. The fireworks were mostly at about 18 - 30mm. And then due to crowds of people and not wanting to risk being knocked and damaging lens or camera while changing lenses, I left that lens on for our walk through the rides/side show area. And just as well I did or I never would have got the Ferris Wheel picture. In terms of editing, they all just had a quick edit in Lightroom - upped the contrast and saturation and cropped them mostly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Some great photos there piper . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCresties Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks piper :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesh Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Hi Piper Love the shots, especially the two you have added on here. Would you mind sharing your settings for these? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 (edited) Hi Pesh, No problem at all. First 1 was on aperture priority with the following settings: f22, 1/250, ISO400, 70mm The ferris wheel at night was f3.5, 1/30 (resting on a table to stay steady), ISO800, 18mm They both were played with a little in Lightroom - just played with vibrancy, contrast, saturation sliders until the colours had a pop and looked "right" The first 1 I think I played with shadows and highlights as well mainly to get some more contrast in the clouds. Edited September 17, 2013 by piper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesh Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Thx Piper, appreciate that. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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