S6500fd owners - share your pixs here
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felixcat8888
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Bigger file size and lets you photoshop to what you want
Clockunder
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I sometimes do shoot in RAW if I'm using ISO 800 or 1600.
This is because the in-camera processing and noise reduction do a pretty good job in compression and reducing noise at ISO 100-400 but there are too many obvious artifacts at ISO 800-1600.
So at ISO 800-1600, I sometimes prefer to shoot in RAW and do my post-processing in 16-bit, noise reduction with Noise Ninja plug-in to Photoshop CS2 and use photoshop compression to avoid the in-camera processing which produces too much artifacts (in its attempt to preserve details at the expense of having artifacts ........ in this regard, the camera does very well in preserving details but there are too many artifacts at ISO 800 and above. Many reviews pointed this out too.). However it would require a good noise reduction program or Photoshop plug-in .........like noise ninja.
Clockunder
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The advantage is avoiding the in-camera processing, noise reduction and compression which may produce a colour and noise-details trade off which are not to your personal taste.
In RAW processing, you're skipping the in-camera processing and dealing with the raw data and therefore can adjust White Balance, exposure and colour space etc. With a good noise reduction program/plug-in and RAW processing, you are not only able to have your own leeway to process your image but also able to get a better trade off between details and noise.
Clockunder
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For cars, you may also want to try isolating only certain parts of the car by going near and having a close-up on them or using different angles and heights (such as holding your camera overhead with arms out-stretched high over your head and shoot downwards or placing your camera near the floor level and shoot slightly upwards) to give a refreshing perspective other than shooting at eye level.
A variety of different compositions and perspectives (different angle and heights) will increase the attractivess of the album as a whole.
thesleepingforest
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liionel i can feel ur excitement after one whole week of waiting i finally got mine ydae!!! i got mine at causeway point's photo shop at 599 wif 2gb,tripod,bag,screen protector and usb card reader.
alright todae is the 2nd day of my camera so i brought it to a nearby park to test and fiddle ard to get to know it better...and so its virgin shots...i'm a noob pls dun diss mi!!
first try on the manual focusing nv compose the shot
and off i went to the park..
alright todae is the 2nd day of my camera so i brought it to a nearby park to test and fiddle ard to get to know it better...and so its virgin shots...i'm a noob pls dun diss mi!!
first try on the manual focusing nv compose the shot
and off i went to the park..
thesleepingforest
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at the bus stop waiting for bus to go home...
i :heart: my s6500fd :lovegrin:
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at the bus stop waiting for bus to go home...
i :heart: my s6500fd :lovegrin:
felixcat8888
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just ordered my 6500 with ms color!
530 with a 2 gig card! does the camera come with a bag?
super excited now!
Yes it does
Clockunder
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liionel i can feel ur excitement after one whole week of waiting i finally got mine ydae!!! i got mine at causeway point's photo shop at 599 wif 2gb,tripod,bag,screen protector and usb card reader.
alright todae is the 2nd day of my camera so i brought it to a nearby park to test and fiddle ard to get to know it better...and so its virgin shots...i'm a noob pls dun diss mi!!
This shot is very nice and would be even nicer is in landscape framing because there is, in my opinion, excessive negative spaces at top and bottom when in portrait framing.
Negative spaces have nothing interesting in them and are generally used to distribute subject weights around the frame for a better balance and composition but, if excessive, can give an undesirable distribution of weight in the picture. That is why most landscape pictures without any interesting foreground object and/or interesting sky are nicer when in landscape framing instead of portrait framing.
In this case, the weight is extremely concentrated in the centre of the picture because of the excessive negative spaces.
You may want to do a crop of the picture into landscape framing and see the effect. If cropped, the bridge and trees would appear much larger in the frame and therefore appear nearer to interest viewers to take a longer and closer look at the details. As it is now, viewer can hardly make out the bridge.
Clockunder
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i :heart: my s6500fd :lovegrin:
Good creative technique.
This technique can create very nice effect when shooting Night street decorations during Christmas or Chinese New Year.
Can also try it at the Lantern Festival decorations at Chinese Gardens now. But it's $12 per entry. :angry:
thesleepingforest
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hi clockunder...thnx for the comment...yea landscape i tried looks quite nice with the subject in focus...but some how the emptiness created by the spaces really made mi like this photo haha make me feel a sense of tranquility within lol...but thanks for the CnC though...o yea wanna ask u guys how do u increase a photos saturation?? i only managed to do it by the chrome mode is there other ways??
Clockunder
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4 : 3 ratio as in the S6500fd is usually not good for landscape framing which usually is better in 3:2 ratio. 4:3 tends to have too much negative space when shooting landscape in landscape frame especially when we try to shoot as wide as possible.
If shoot in portrait frame, it's usually good if your picture has a sense of depth in the landscape, with distinctive foreground, middle ground and background.
Personally, I prefer your picture this way :
Yes, use Chrome picture quality for slightly higher saturation. To increase saturation further, you would need to use post-processing software. I'm not sure what the Fujifilm software does and whether you can adjust saturation in there. I use photoshop CS2 to do it. You may want to use a freeware like GIMP or Irfanview to do it.
thesleepingforest
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okok...thanks clockunder for the advice...heh heh the 6500 is such a gem at its price now i'm waiting to get my first few filters :lovegrin:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...m=190147280675&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=009
just bought this package for my 6500 what do u guys think
just bought this package for my 6500 what do u guys think
UV bro
just to protect ur cam lens
CPL only used if there is a good sunny weather
to bring out the blue sky to your pic
thanks for the reply!
Clockunder
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which are the first few filters that are a MUST get?
uv and cpl ? what are the differences between these two actually ?
sorry if i OT here, hope you guys can help a newbie hoping to learn photography
I don't think there is any filter which is a "must get".
UV filter, as the names suggest, cuts off/reduces the short wave length ultra violet light (as opposed to long wave length Infra-red lights at the other end of the light spectrum) and thereby reduces the effect of haze on the picture quality. However, this is more relevant for film instead of CCD/CMOS sensors. So the only purpose of UV filter for digital cameras is to protect the front of the lens from scratches, knocks, water or finger prints etc.
However, using a UV filter may cause ghosting flares and a slight degradation of picture quality, depending on the quality of the filter and whether it's multi-coated.
I have a low cost UV filter which comes together with the S6500fd as a package but I do not use it.
Polarizing filter deepens the blue sky and also prevents reflection if the photographer is separated by a glass panel (such as car windows, hotel/office/house windows etc.) from his subjects. A polarizing filter has the effect of reducing the amount of light entering the lens and this may be good or bad, depending on what you're taking (e.g. water fall where you want a slow shutter speed).
Actually, a lot information about different things can be easily found in the internet.
All you need to know about filters :
http://dpfwiw.com/filters.htm
Clockunder
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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...m=190147280675&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=009
just bought this package for my 6500 what do u guys think
Don't know.
The main worry is the degradation picture quality when an additional lens is put on.
I have a 2x Kenko telephoto converter for my previous Nikon camera but the picture quality is so much degraded that I only used it once for testing. Ever since, it has been sitting in my dry box.
May be you can post us some pictures taken by your S6500fd with those additional lenses on later?
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