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mooksoup said:
ahh that's nicely done. Colours and all.
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Thanks :) It's a bit of a runners-up prize of a photo, I missed the previous morning due to sickness and lucked out on perfect photography conditions (perfect low flog, clouds, sunrise light). Such is life though.
A location I'll go back to though, it's quite bland during strong sunlight but it comes alive during the golden hours.
 
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JadedWriter said:
Yeah I'm quite thankful of Lightroom and still being open minded to learning new shit in post. I'm way better and more efficient than I used to be in post.
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Yeah I need to experiment more with it myself. Really I need to get out and shoot more, been lazy lately, moving and shit. T-T
 
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You know what I think? I think clouds are douchebags. Totally clear skies the whole hour and a half drive up here, and about five minutes from my destination, BAM. Clouds.
 
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Fuck you clouds I do what I want

Big Dipper by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
Mars, Saturn, and Antares by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
Cloud Illuminated Sky by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr

You may or may not notice the steadily increasing shutter times.
I feel like the clouds actually gave a lot more personality to these astro photos than what usually comes about, so I guess I won't be TOO upset. But I was sooooo disappointed, was driving an hour and a half to the site, perfectly clear skies until about 5 minutes away, and suddenly clouds. :/ But I shot anyway, finally perfected my focusing technique (though the big dipper is slighly out of focus), and really nailed alignment on my ioptron. Good day overall, and glad that the clouds didn't make it a waste.
 
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H3XAntiStyle said:
You may or may not notice the steadily increasing shutter times.
I feel like the clouds actually gave a lot more personality to these astro photos than what usually comes about, so I guess I won't be TOO upset. But I was sooooo disappointed, was driving an hour and a half to the site, perfectly clear skies until about 5 minutes away, and suddenly clouds. :/ But I shot anyway, finally perfected my focusing technique (though the big dipper is slighly out of focus), and really nailed alignment on my ioptron. Good day overall, and glad that the clouds didn't make it a waste.
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I know that feel. Last time I went out to shoot night sky it was crystal clear just a few minutes away, but it's also way too light polluted. And the place I was at was just covered with clouds. I really like the third one, the clouds made a nice "gradient".

I bought a desk light for some Philips Hue bulbs I had around and figured I'd play around with some lighting stuff for some of my figurines. Snake Nendroid only for now, but Samus Figma coming up. Any tips for stuff like this?

_DSC1046 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1048 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1042 by Christian, on Flickr
 
ricardo_sousa11

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Another set of videoframes from a music fest I went to film on saturday:

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Time for my semi-regular "hey it's the Milky Way" post, except these have special guests including Mars and Saturn!


May 30, 2016 by Tyler Jacobs, on Flickr


May 30, 2016 by Tyler Jacobs, on Flickr

Really frustrated because the second image was a lot more crooked than I realized, but Flickr is being picky about letting me replace it at the moment. Oh well. I really liked the light trail from the distant car in that shot.
 
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Groof said:
I know that feel. Last time I went out to shoot night sky it was crystal clear just a few minutes away, but it's also way too light polluted. And the place I was at was just covered with clouds. I really like the third one, the clouds made a nice "gradient".

I bought a desk light for some Philips Hue bulbs I had around and figured I'd play around with some lighting stuff for some of my figurines. Snake Nendroid only for now, but Samus Figma coming up. Any tips for stuff like this?

_DSC1046 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1048 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1042 by Christian, on Flickr
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I do a lot of figure photography (it's far and away the most consistently viewed thing I have on my flickr >_>* ), so I feel like I can give a few tips here.

I'm not seeing a lens on the EXIF data, so judging from how close the photos are, you're either cropping heavily, or using a macro lens. I'll assume macro since a few other photos you have show EXIF data.

So, the photos seem a little empty. It's got a very, very black background, which would be *great* if you were doing this as a product shoot, as promotional photos, but here they just seem a bit sterile. If you're going to keep the dark background, I'd say get closer to Snake so that he fills the frame up more.

With Nendoroids and Figmas, their greatest advantage is their posability. Take advantage of it to create scenes or gags or dioramas. A nendoroid by itself in a neutral pose isn't very interesting, but maybe Snake putting his cigarette out on an unsuspecting Samus's armor is?
Also is Snake combat dodging with a cig in his mouth smh

Otherwise, try and get just a little bit of background. If you shoot wide open with a macro there should definitely a shallow enough depth of field that you could use basically anything as background and it would add to the photo rather than detract. One thing I've started trying to do is actually taking photos of other things to use as backgrounds, and it's had a HUUUGE effect. Even printing another photo out over several sheets and then taping them together is awesome, since the background will be out of focus enough that you can't really notice. For Snake, I'd imagine it should be easy to say, load up MGSV on PC, turn off the hud, and aim somewhere to take a screenshot, and then print it out.

Also dust your figures. I can see dust all over Snake.

As for the lighting, the first photo, it's too head on. Take it off to the side more.
Second photo, I guess I see what you were going for, but without any background, it just looks entirely too yellow.
Third one, it's red enough that it's plain to see that it's intentional, and I do like the lighting on that one.
 
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Groof

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H3XAntiStyle said:
I do a lot of figure photography (it's far and away the most consistently viewed thing I have on my flickr >_>* ), so I feel like I can give a few tips here.

I'm not seeing a lens on the EXIF data, so judging from how close the photos are, you're either cropping heavily, or using a macro lens. I'll assume macro since a few other photos you have show EXIF data.

So, the photos seem a little empty. It's got a very, very black background, which would be *great* if you were doing this as a product shoot, as promotional photos, but here they just seem a bit sterile. If you're going to keep the dark background, I'd say get closer to Snake so that he fills the frame up more.

With Nendoroids and Figmas, their greatest advantage is their posability. Take advantage of it to create scenes or gags or dioramas. A nendoroid by itself in a neutral pose isn't very interesting, but maybe Snake putting his cigarette out on an unsuspecting Samus's armor is?
Also is Snake combat dodging with a cig in his mouth smh

Otherwise, try and get just a little bit of background. If you shoot wide open with a macro there should definitely a shallow enough depth of field that you could use basically anything as background and it would add to the photo rather than detract. One thing I've started trying to do is actually taking photos of other things to use as backgrounds, and it's had a HUUUGE effect. Even printing another photo out over several sheets and then taping them together is awesome, since the background will be out of focus enough that you can't really notice. For Snake, I'd imagine it should be easy to say, load up MGSV on PC, turn off the hud, and aim somewhere to take a screenshot, and then print it out.

Also dust your figures. I can see dust all over Snake.

As for the lighting, the first photo, it's too head on. Take it off to the side more.
Second photo, I guess I see what you were going for, but without any background, it just looks entirely too yellow.
Third one, it's red enough that it's plain to see that it's intentional, and I do like the lighting on that one.
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Great tips, thanks man. You see no lens info because it's an adapted FD lens. Sorry about the dust, pulled Snake out from the shelf to try this out :p

I'll definitely try to incorporate backgrounds and stuff, even combining figures.

So far it was more of a lighting test than anything, but great things to keep in mind anyway. Many thanks, I'll play around with the setting a bit more tonight :)

what's wrong with snake dodging with a ciggy? :p
 
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Groof said:
Great tips, thanks man. You see no lens info because it's an adapted FD lens. Sorry about the dust, pulled Snake out from the shelf to try this out :p

I'll definitely try to incorporate backgrounds and stuff, even combining figures.

So far it was more of a lighting test than anything, but great things to keep in mind anyway. Many thanks, I'll play around with the setting a bit more tonight :)

what's wrong with snake dodging with a ciggy? :p
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Which lens is it? The 50mm macro? Or the 1.8/1.4?
The 50mm macro is an astounding lens, and is stupidly sharp. Like stupid sharp. Literally only complaint I have is the need to remove/attach the extension tube. T-T
 
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H3XAntiStyle said:
Which lens is it? The 50mm macro? Or the 1.8/1.4?
The 50mm macro is an astounding lens, and is stupidly sharp. Like stupid sharp. Literally only complaint I have is the need to remove/attach the extension tube. T-T
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The 50/1.4. it's been my go to lens since I got my camera basically. I have the 28/2.8 too but it doesn't have the same pop imho. You think I should look into macro lenses for something like this?
 
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Groof said:
The 50/1.4. it's been my go to lens since I got my camera basically. I have the 28/2.8 too but it doesn't have the same pop imho. You think I should look into macro lenses for something like this?
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While the 50/1.4 is my most used lens, ever, I use exclusively the 50 macro for anything with figures.
I think I picked it up for ~$80 with the extension tube. That being said, most of my figure photos are done without the tube (1:2 ratio is about as close as I really ever need to get, even with Legos), so if all you're investing in is for some Nendo shots, you could save about $20 by forgoing the extension tube.
I'm considering getting the Venus Optics 2:1 (Yeah, 2:1, not 1:2) 60mm here in the future. It's a bit sharper, but can go all the way from infinity to 2:1 without any extension tube so it would be more convenient when I'm out in the woods.

20150902-_DSC9148.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
Sans Hat by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr

There's others on my flickr, but NSFW for 90% of them so :V
 
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Groof said:
I know that feel. Last time I went out to shoot night sky it was crystal clear just a few minutes away, but it's also way too light polluted. And the place I was at was just covered with clouds. I really like the third one, the clouds made a nice "gradient".

I bought a desk light for some Philips Hue bulbs I had around and figured I'd play around with some lighting stuff for some of my figurines. Snake Nendroid only for now, but Samus Figma coming up. Any tips for stuff like this?

_DSC1046 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1048 by Christian, on Flickr

_DSC1042 by Christian, on Flickr
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I made a post a few pages back with a recent shot I did of a Nathan Drake statue. In shot's of small static things I really like to use long shutter speeds and paint the light in with a portable light source (flash light, cell phone).

Something similar to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uT6tmYqFcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEoUFAjKTM

I prefer using my phone screen instead of the LED light, since it's a bigger light source and provides softer light, plus you can sort of apply it more freely without burning in or overexposing.
 
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Groof

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H3XAntiStyle said:
While the 50/1.4 is my most used lens, ever, I use exclusively the 50 macro for anything with figures.
I think I picked it up for ~$80 with the extension tube. That being said, most of my figure photos are done without the tube (1:2 ratio is about as close as I really ever need to get, even with Legos), so if all you're investing in is for some Nendo shots, you could save about $20 by forgoing the extension tube.
I'm considering getting the Venus Optics 2:1 (Yeah, 2:1, not 1:2) 60mm here in the future. It's a bit sharper, but can go all the way from infinity to 2:1 without any extension tube so it would be more convenient when I'm out in the woods.

20150902-_DSC9148.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
Sans Hat by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr

There's others on my flickr, but NSFW for 90% of them so :V
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You weren't kidding about the NSFW lol

But they look real nice. I love the Lego shots! I'll look into macro lenses but my only use case would be for something like this. For now I'll stick to what I have.

supernormal said:
I made a post a few pages back with a recent shot I did of a Nathan Drake statue. In shot's of small static things I really like to use long shutter speeds and paint the light in with a portable light source (flash light, cell phone).

Something similar to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uT6tmYqFcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEoUFAjKTM

I prefer using my phone screen instead of the LED light, since it's a bigger light source and provides softer light, plus you can sort of apply it more freely without burning in or overexposing.
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Ah that looks like a fun technique. I'll definitely try it out when I have a bit more spare time on my hands. Thanks!
 
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Groof said:
You weren't kidding about the NSFW lol
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But they look real nice. I love the Lego shots! I'll look into macro lenses but my only use case would be for something like this. For now I'll stick to what I have.


Ah that looks like a fun technique. I'll definitely try it out when I have a bit more spare time on my hands. Thanks!
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Yeah, until you can get a macro lens, just do cropping techniques to bring the framing in closer. You should have more than enough megapixels to spare if you target a 1080p monitor.
 
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Hi Photo Gaf. I've been trying to get into more serious photo work (I'm a videographer), so I asked a friend if she could model for me. I would love some honest feedback. I feel these shots are too busy (background). Slowly slowly I'm learning, but I'm not sure if I'm utilising the equipment I've got properly to get the types of shots I want.

Anyway here are some of the pics from the shoot:
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Would love some honest feedback and tips from anyone into portrait work.
 
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JadedWriter said:
They do look pretty expensive. I can also see a kid getting their mind slightly warped looking at them at too early of an age.
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Well, they are good subjects for photography (Since I suck at photographing actual people), and they can be sold off later if need be, so the expense isn't *too* bad. But yeah, only figures like Link and Samus will be visible to any kids, that of course is obvious.
Also my GF knows I've been collecting these longer than I've known her, so she knows it isn't any kind of "deficiency" or anything like that. My GF and I are pretty good at not getting jealous about shit, so that probably helps haha.
 
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H3XAntiStyle said:
Well, they are good subjects for photography (Since I suck at photographing actual people), and they can be sold off later if need be, so the expense isn't *too* bad. But yeah, only figures like Link and Samus will be visible to any kids, that of course is obvious.
Also my GF knows I've been collecting these longer than I've known her, so she knows it isn't any kind of "deficiency" or anything like that. My GF and I are pretty good at not getting jealous about shit, so that probably helps haha.
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It does lol. I oddly find it easy enough photographing people. I'd have to practice on figures, but I have no macro lenses.
 
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JadedWriter said:
It does lol. I oddly find it easy enough photographing people. I'd have to practice on figures, but I have no macro lenses.
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I don't have too much problem snapping photos of people just doing whatever, but I just find it really hard to ask them to pose in different ways.

Good thing about macro lenses is you want MF anyway, so old dirt cheap lenses work great!
 
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H3XAntiStyle said:
I don't have too much problem snapping photos of people just doing whatever, but I just find it really hard to ask them to pose in different ways.

Good thing about macro lenses is you want MF anyway, so old dirt cheap lenses work great!
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I need to get better at direction myself, but that's a confidence thing. At some point I'll just get a bunch of poses and just keep them on my phone and see if I could tweak them a bit. Just for a frame of reference.
 
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A few more from last weekend, all in Somerset, England. One day I'll revisit some of these locations, especially the field ones, and try and get more interesting light.

Getting close to ordering the new 100-400L >_< Can't afford but want so much.











 
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