Just some pics I took at church tonight

[Jaimecbr900]

Here are some pics I took tonight.

Again, comments are welcomed. These turned out better than the last ones I took of my car. I'm trying, I'm trying.

Like I said, I'm starting to get the hang of the camera. I still want to take more pics.

[A.P. Photography]

the second one I like but I think you should have been down a little lower when you took it. The first one looks like it needs a polorize filter on it to tone down some of the reflection on the side. I think I would have moved over to the left a little more and shot it that way. Just a suggestion.

[Jaimecbr900]

the second one I like but I think you should have been down a little lower when you took it. The first one looks like it needs a polorize filter on it to tone down some of the reflection on the side. I think I would have moved over to the left a little more and shot it that way. Just a suggestion.

You know, I didn't think about using a polarizing filter on that shot because I figured it would make it too dark. The sun was about setting, so I figured I'd shoot it w/o. Now that I think about it you may be right though. I think it would've cut down on that reflection. I'll try it next time.

As for getting low, I still had on my work clothes so I wasn't gonna get sprawled out in those....

I did get some shots from much lower, but they were later and turned darker than I'd like. See:



I was rushing. I had a tripod and could've done better, but I was getting frustrated with myself and called it a day.

[A.P. Photography]

A polar filter will not make it any darker but it will help with reflections and composition. I think that is what he told me, lol. I have to order some for mine. I think you might be referring to the ND filter, that will make it darker for sure.

I understand about the work clothes and not wanting to get sprawled out on the ground but if you want that killer shot

I will play around with this pic in PS and see what I can do with it. I might be able to get it a little better.

If you want to read some good info on how to set up pics and stuff Go Here and look at the transportation section. There is a guy there MoboHaji that is awesome and can give you some great pointers.

[Jaimecbr900]

I don't know bud, but when I use a PL filter on anything but sky pics it seems like the pics are darker than normal. Maybe I have the settings wrong somewhere else too, but they definetly seem darker to me.

Thanks for the link. I looked over some of his pics and they are awesome. He is using a Cir. Polarizing filter. I wonder if that's different than a simple PL filter like I have???? His colors pop really good, which is what I'd like to have myself. Maybe I'll do some reading and find out.

Thanks for the advice.

[A.P. Photography]

With a standard PL you might want to overexpose by 1 or 2 to compensate for the filter. I am not sure but it sounds like it might work

As for a cirular PL I think that might be a big difference seeing as how you can rotate it to have max PL or no PL or in between. I am going to look into getting one for my camera next.

That link is awesome with a lot of good info. A couple of more that I am on is:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/
http://www.phototakers.com/forum/
http://www.photographycorner.com/

Each one has some good things to offer but are not as indepth as the first one I posted.

[Jaimecbr900]

I think I may have found the problem.

I think I have a LINEAR Polarizing filter vs a Circular Polarizing filter.

Check it out:

http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos/fil...v_pol/faq.html

Towards the bottom of that article, after weeding thru a bunch of junk, you will see a FAQ about the circular vs linear thing.

One thing I noticed is that they keep refering to the Linear filters as throwing off the metering of modern SLR cams. That would explain why my pics, at certain lower light levels, seem darker. Probably throwing off the cam into thinking that the light is fine and therefore since I don't use completely manual settings, it snaps the darker pic thinking it's OK.

This is all conjecture since I don't know if mine is for sure a Linear one, but based on what I've been reading it sure acts like one.

I think I'm going to go today and go by Wolf and picking me up a Circular Polarizing filter and see if that makes a difference. Man, that would be awesome if it did.

Thank you for making me think a little.