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Thanks for the sight seeing tonight after Trixie Dix. It was good to finally see the all singing, all dancing Brick Lane Bagels!

Good night tonight, hopefully I'll learn some more stuff over the next few weeks with the help of you guys.

^^Glad you posted, there's two lurkers on here. Was thinking about your brake problem, any chance it needs a bit of truing? Could sort out your deadly front brake.

Gutted I couldn't make it tonight, ended up working until late, boohoo :( see you next week hopefully!

yup i had to much work to go 2night but ill be there next week

Thanks for the sight seeing tonight after Trixie Dix. It was good to finally see the all singing, all dancing Brick Lane Bagels!

Good night tonight, hopefully I'll learn some more stuff over the next few weeks with the help of you guys.

oh you went up today? how's your thumb? (or finger, can't remember which!).

i went up tonight and shot some pics with steve... the outcome.... and for fredd his new baby which might i add even though slightly resembles a mountain bike! haha its gorgeous!
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/icebergnsb/IMG_5355.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/3194897781_d457e9b0c2.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3194897743_72139c88f9.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/3194897709_bd19e6da80.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3405/3194897597_1566852b48.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3414/3194897813_7326f4491d.jpg

First time back on a bike for 4 weeks
WAS AMZAING

iceberg, quick note; when you resized your photo in photobucket, the image itself will lose it sharpness almost dramatically.

quickly realised that! haha
flickr brings out so much noise as well, you got any spots you recomend for uploading?

quickly realised that! haha
flickr brings out so much noise as well, you got any spots you recomend for uploading?

noise? not really, just slighty sharper, I use photobucket cause it's free and reliable just to show shit, if I were you I'd simply upload the photo already resized via photoshop instead of using photobucket to resize the photo.

Fred, just did a quick photoshop, personally I think it look better without the sticker on the rims (and probably the fork too);

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh167/edscoble/BMC.jpg

i love that geezers disc. i want one badly enough that i was seriously considering robbing him on his way home.

might have to get one of these bad boys

obviously without a cassete mounting hub/ geared malarchy

That bike only shot is so badly out of focus I would take it again, rather than worrying about cloning some stickers out of the shot when you have a poor base from which to clone from anyway. The first, second, and fourth photo of Steve I really like however, and are technically really good shots also, which makes me wonder why you didn't realise the bike shot was so badly out of focus when you took it?

which makes me wonder why you didn't realise the bike shot was so badly out of focus when you took it?

the answer really simple to be honest - the LCD screen of the camera.

it's easy to assumed that the photo is in focus when you check the inadequate screen of the camera, until you upload it into your computer when you realise it's not.

really annoying when I learn it the hard way couple months back during studio photography (never going to make that mistake ever again).

Yes the majority of screens are shit in terms of colour accuracy/rendition etc, but at least 60-70% of the screens out there on decent slrs zoom in far enough to tell you if a shot is out of focus or not, hell I can tell 99% of the time when looking through a view finder if a shot is out of focus!
Let this be a lesson kids, just cos your camera has a shit hot autofocus system, doesn't mean it will focus every shot perfectly for you, every time, like any tool, you have to use it properly!
By the way this is not a personal dig at you Jordan, but as someone who usually produces top notch stuff, i'm surprised you put that bike pic up.

p.s. Ed, if you're shooting in a studio, always try and shoot tethered where possible, mostly because a studio is either costing you or your client, (or both) a decent amount of money, so the last thing you want to do is end up finding out the focus is off in a crucial shot. It's software dependent obviously, but if you're running lightroom aperture etc on a laptop or computer they normally support tethered shooting for most nikon and canon models, and long cables aren't usually more than £20.

Yes the majority of screens are shit in terms of colour accuracy/rendition etc, but at least 60-70% of the screens out there on decent slrs zoom in far enough to tell you if a shot is out of focus or not, hell I can tell 99% of the time when looking through a view finder if a shot is out of focus!
Let this be a lesson kids, just cos your camera has a shit hot autofocus system, doesn't mean it will focus every shot perfectly for you, every time, like any tool, you have to use it properly!

actually I'm used to zone focus camera (Olympus XA2 FTW), it just take a while to use my habit from using film SLR to digital SLR, it really annoying with the sheer amount of space a memory card can hold, you end up thinking "oh I can take several shot of this, just in case some shot didn't came out nice", grrr.

The solution to my problem? stick a 1GB card (with format set to RAW) and I'm sorted, 56 shot is all I need to dramatically slow down and pretend it's a film SLR.

p.s. Ed, if you're shooting in a studio, always try and shoot tethered where possible, mostly because a studio is either costing you or your client, (or both) a decent amount of money, so the last thing you want to do is end up finding out the focus is off in a crucial shot. It's software dependent obviously, but if you're running lightroom aperture etc on a laptop or computer they normally support tethered shooting for most nikon and canon models, and long cables aren't usually more than £20.

the first photoshoot I did was free, which gave me some room to make mistake (it's my first proper one too).

sadly digital came out looking shit, but the medium format/35mm shot I took came out perfect, I just needed to get used to digital in order to advanced well in the photography industry nowadays (and I'm determined to get the shot in one go, rather than 20 of the same shot, etc.).

I'm glad that a couples month ago I managed to get a studio with the equipment for free (for only one day sadly!) which allowed me to able to learn better by practice than theory, in order to do the proper photoshoot (which was in a week after my first one), still a long way to learn by I'm getting there;

i'm not a fan of film for day to day use personally, it still has its uses don't get me wrong, but even on the very rare occasions I have used a film camera, I meter and get my settings spot on with my digital SLR and then just use the same settings on the film camera, it saves so much time. I think the problem as you said is that its too easy to get lazy with digital and tasks such as metering correctly, and setting the white balance with a white/grey/black card initially to make sure everything is pin point accurate before you even take the final shot are often skipped in favour of messing around in photoshop to correct discrepancies which shouldn't be present in the first place, and often degrade from the overall image quality when they have to be corrected post capture. Thats why I think its always important to get the shot as perfect as you can "in-camera" rather than relying on post production skills to compensate for inadequate technique.

exactly, it's surprisingly easy to get lure into a flash sense of security with digital, I was so used to being able to able to figure out the exposure setting I needed to get just the one shot, that once using a digital, everything's on automatic, a bit scary it has to be said.

The white balance is a new addition I have to learn now, before it was simply a choice of either daylight/flash film or tungsten film, and now we got Photoshop because digitalised photo never look nice straight off the wagon since it look very flat and dull to start with (finally got the hang of sorting that out luckily).

I know a mate who love Photoshop more than taking photos even, FFS (and yes, that's my same aim to get the shot as perfect as I can instead of relying on Photoshop to fix it for me, after all, I have to with film really since I have no choice, unless I get the negative scanned in high quality TIFF format*).

*Tim Walker is a great example of that, he spend age planning and sorting the shot out, and never once has been digitally manipulated.

Thats cool, studio work is good fun, not a bad shot you got there, I think the shadows on her right arm are a bit harsh though personally and would have either moved the right hand softbox further away or used a ring flash for on axis fill to help eliminate the harsh shadows or at least soften them to a degree. Also little bits of retouching such as removing the dust spot in the background, and I would have removed the mole on her body, but that is subjective of course, stray hairs can often do with cloning out as well whilst still maintaining the natural look, as I personally think too much stray hair gives a messy look to the image, but it is of course important to leave some in the shot to maintain some semblance of a natural look.

yeah I got shitload to fix in those photos, luckily I got a mate who know his shit to help me fix the photo for a short while before I send the image off to the cilent (I'm taking a photoshop night class on top of my photography course just to catch up with the rest of the bloody class when it come to PS).

By the way I am not by any means suggesting that I don't use photoshop.....alot!
But the end result is only ever as good as the quality of the data you put in, (rubbish in rubbish out etc)
White balance made easy:
Use your pre-set white balance function and use one of these to set it against, hold, point aim, shoot, white balance set, job done!

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1012689

oh I know! But it's useful to erased those stray hair for instance, and to get the colour just the way I want it, that's all I'm using photoshop for really, if I think there's too much to fix in post processing, I'll just try and get another shot.

Damn, shoulda taken out my cam, brought it along with me but thought it would be inapropriate to just snap at people, specially with flash which can get really annoying.
Next time, if people don't mind tell me and I'd be more than happy to :)