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Some meet pics I took, please critique


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So, our usual photographer didn't make it to our meet last week so I filled in with my super amateur skills. I think I'm starting to get better at trying to find "interesting" shots or whatever they are. These pics have been edited by Mike from Performance Driving Network as I have no editing skills yet. Anyways, any critiques or advice to improve my shots is much appreciated!

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_1610.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_1611.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_16151.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_1616.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_1617.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_1629.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/img_16391.jpg

 

All pics were taken with my T3 and the kit lense (I can't decide on which one to buy second for an all around lense) and a tripod.

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Awesome, I'm going to play around with it next time I shoot. From what I gather, Brighter Outside = I turn warmer, Dark Outside = I turn cooler.

 

Read the book, understanding exposure if your really interested. It's a quick read. Basically your camera attempts to detect white balance and brightness (exposure) by looking at what it's preceiving as 18% gray. This is why snow will make an underexposed scene. Night time lights as well as room lighting will play havoc with white balance a well so compromises must be made.

 

personally I don't mess with white balance much in night shots and just try to get it to look true to the scene instead of how I think it should look in daylight.

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Easiest way is to carry around a reference card, shoot that, then shoot your subject, always in RAW... that lets you muck around with what actually landed on the image sensor, not what the camera's programming did to it before writing to memory.
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Read the book, understanding exposure if your really interested. It's a quick read. Basically your camera attempts to detect white balance and brightness (exposure) by looking at what it's preceiving as 18% gray. This is why snow will make an underexposed scene. Night time lights as well as room lighting will play havoc with white balance a well so compromises must be made.

 

personally I don't mess with white balance much in night shots and just try to get it to look true to the scene instead of how I think it should look in daylight.

 

Ok, so white balance and exposure are the same thing, aha. I'm going to check out "Understanding Exposure". Thanks!

 

 

Easiest way is to carry around a reference card, shoot that, then shoot your subject, always in RAW... that lets you muck around with what actually landed on the image sensor, not what the camera's programming did to it before writing to memory.

 

Awesome!! Just ordered a key chain white balance card!!

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So, this time I played with the white balance and the results came out pretty good I think!

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/IMG_1670.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/IMG_1674.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/IMG_1671.jpg

 

http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/IMG_1668.jpg

 

The camera would only let me select from some pre-programed choices (daylight, shade, florescent light, etc...) so I played around until I found one that seemed like a "true" color.

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