[Yugoboy]

Lens Flare is also a minor deity to the Fark Photoshopping Community,

BLASPHEMER!

Lens flare has NOTHING on Gaussian Blur! Nothing, you hear me? NOTHING!!!

Gaussian Blur is the ONLY tool worth using! Lens flare is evil.

👿 👿 😈 😈 👿 👿

[Yugoboy]

Ummm… wow.

Just… wow…

[Yugoboy]

My First Night Game
I had to up the ISO to like 800, and I still had to ratchet down the shutter speed to the low hundreds.

My Second Night Game
Some of these shutter speeds are in the double digits…

Before today’s game (“My Second Night Game”), I went in early so I could get some shots of the empty stadium. I’ll be doing this at other times in other ways as well.

[Yugoboy]

It’s too bad they don’t allow pictures inside the U-boat, they would have been spectacular.

I’m assuming the museum sells photos of the interior…why wouldnt they let people take photos inside a captured German submarine from WW2?

I wonder about that myself. At Pearl Harbor there’s a submarine you can go in, and nobody stopped me from taking a whole bunch of photos. Same is true for the sub moored at Buffalo’s harbor. Both are WWII vintage. I can understand if there’s a tour of a modern nuclear sub, but…

[Yugoboy]

“Nikon’s little entry-level DSLR, the D5100, comes in just above the vaunted (but outgoing) Canon 5D Mark II …..”

makes me feel better about getting one. i couldn’t afford the D7000 and my D3000 while still fairly new lacks the D5100s features.

Fun toy, no?

My neighbor has the 3000, and he’s a bit jealous of mine. However, it seems I’m using mine more than he’s using his.

The flip out screen is really handy. It’s a good thing my wife bought mine for my birthday, because I’m too cheap to have paid extra for that, but I use mine constantly. Keeps me from having to lay on the ground, allows me to shoot over people’s heads, and other cool stuff. I know I’m not using nearly enough of the features, but I’m having a blast.

I hope you do too.

[Yugoboy]

Instagram is the Autotune of photography.

[Yugoboy]

Dammit… forgot to add “OBO ennuipoet” on the first one I posted for him… can ya get it Elsinore? TIA!

[Yugoboy]

I’m working tonight. I expect to be home around 8-ish. I’ll get your OBO ennuipoet.

If something happens and nobody sees me by 9, someone else can step in. I can’t imagine what would keep me that long, though… gonna be cold, and risk of rain… I ain’t stickin’ around any longer than I has to…

[Yugoboy]

^one thing i loathe about being in the UK – the inability to watch the Daily Show. They block it out here…it sucks.

http://www.comedycentral.com/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/ Full episodes available, including April 10’s

[Yugoboy]

When it becomes available, check out tonight’s Daily Show (April 10). Stewart did a whole segment on the acquisition and “WTF is Instagram?”

[Yugoboy]

Because I don’t use either, am I a douchebag, a cyber-luddite, or too cool for the room?

[Yugoboy]

I’m likely (given enough chances) to try all 3 of my current lenses, but the biggest difference between your shots and what I’m shooting is the fact that you appear to have been hundreds of yards away, if not more than a mile away from the fireworks. Frontier Field is only 400something feet deep at center. I’ll be shooting from maybe 100 yards away from the launching pads. Likely I’ll be needing the wide angle to get context, as well as to have more field of view and not have to guess at where they’re going to explode.

But, you’ve given me a starting point. My manual lens allows me to make the f-stop “stick” unlike the digitals (which are obviously controlled by the camera), so the 28-70 may be my best bet in this instance, once I get the settings figured out.

[Yugoboy]

Home Game 4

It was cloudy and WAY cold today. I tossed a few shots out of consideration because the stands were EMPTY. My hands are still warming up and I’ve been home for an hour.

I did a tiny bit more post-processing… just playing with saturation here…
(it’s also intentionally sized… I processed it at 1366×768… my desktop. If you want it, let me know)

I’m going to be working as much as I can (even at minimum wage, it’s money, and we need it)… if this gets to be tedious, let me know, will ya?

[Yugoboy]

Great photos. For some reason the sepia tones on the two don’t really do much for the feel of the photos to me. Maybe in a larger size it would be more effective, or maybe it’s just me. Oh, and that first shot of the castle wide open gives me vertigo just looking at it. 😮

Ditto on the quality… nice shots!

For the sepia ones, maybe a bit more brown, and then some lightening of the image as a whole? If you look at old images that have sepia’d natually, there’s no black. Even the deepest shadows or blackest cloth is brown. I wouldn’t say to ratchet it down too much, just enough to get rid of the blackest black. Just a suggestion. FWIW, I like ’em, but I can see what ‘cuda‘s sayin’

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I used my 55-200 and just walked right up to the front row, crouched down (to minimize people’s complaints) and shot away. The super close-up shot is the guy on deck. When I shot that one, I cropped out the weight on the bat in-camera so it looked like he was batting. Fortunately, it’s been sunny enough that I could use high shutter speeds.

BTW – Starting in May, every Friday game (and some Saturdays) is followed by fireworks. Does anybody remember which thread it was where somebody posted suggestions for how to shoot them successfully? TIA

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