Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The F-Word!!!

That's right guys no picture for yesterday and since the camera doesn't do anything near high speed, I bring here for your enjoyment, the mighty F WORD! I swear at thee evil camera of earth. (For the record I really love that camera so no one tell it I said that). And the f-word that I mean is actually, f-stop, the settings used for high speed photos meaning frame stops. That's right, tonight is settings night.

Now, since I am sick, I studied how to take the picture instead of the ranges of the camera itself. First of all, I definitely need that tripod I've been talking about because the stool just doesn't do for height, and for high speed, same as lowlight, you want a very steady surface because otherwise its going to add a lot of noise. *snickers* That's right, noooiiiisseeee can be heard on a picture. How ridiculous is that, its not a speaker, so why do I have to worry about noise?

Stupid noise. Noise in camera pictures is that stuff that you see that looks like hideous static that makes pictures that are nice and well taken look disgusting. Its awful!

So we need a medium f-word... I mean f-stop. Around f5.0... Next thing you need would be aperture. Remember that the aperture is just about the same as your iris. The more light in your face, the small your iris contracts, and that's what you want with the aperture. Apparently though, most of the people who do high speed pictures stay in a dark dark room with a detached light. They aren't too expensive and on top of that very nice and bright. Good for taking profiles and stuff.

Now since this theme is a 6 day week, I'm going to be continuing this conversation tomorrow based on the set up of the scene. Best of luck to me ^.^ And to all a good night.
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baggybunny

2 comments:

  1. O: Oh. This is rather useful for me... gotta keep this in mind if I ever try taking pictures of dripping iceicles again.

    Ur blog is pretty interseting btw, and so are your photographs- especically the close up water pictures. (random idea I've seen somewhere: if the background is a pattern, especailly plaid, and it'll be reflected through the water...looks pretty cool:)

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  2. Oh my gosh that's so a great idea. I want to try purple if I can find a nice purple plaid laying around the house.

    BTW THANK you soooo much for the comment. I just discovered how to check my comments, that they don't arrive in my email. Heh.

    You know, I have tried so many times to do icicles, they are so fascinating. But now that I've finally achieved the right settings I'm going to go exploring!

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