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Set my camera setting to macro WW. Focuses in on the close up stuff.

Here's some ear buds I shot some time back in my light box, for a review. Note that the focal point is on the front object:

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Same buds with different tips. By lifting the camera slightly, the lens focused on the rear object. It's a pretty cool effect really:

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So for all you photo geeks - and BTW, Dubz, whatever you do seriously works for you - the technical way to get that sort of shot is to use aperture priority and open up the aperture to f/2.5 or the like. It reduces the depth of field (DOF determines the range of what will be in focus) and larger apertures reduce depth of field (only what you focus on is in focus) and smaller ones increase DOF (almost everything is in focus) Basically the "macro" mode opens the aperture all the way and leaves it there, doing the exposure by shutter speed. Most modern cameras have a focus lock as well (even the less expensive digital ones) and if you press the shutter button partway down while centering the object you want to be in focus then reframing while holding the button down you get the result like what Dubz did with the headphones.

This is what happens when you grow up with Kodak in your back yard. So sorry.
 
Haha, I'm not that technical, I just use the macro. :D Point and shoot, wth.
 
tradewater said:
May the fourth be with you.
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I will hunt you down and take back both your THK's and break them while you watch if you say that again. I was hoping to go the entire day without hearing/reading that, and you spoiled it :grumpy:


rawr!

worldwood said:
I just tried taking a "nice" picture of my wife's orchid.
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She grew that? I'm impressed! I don't know much about orchids, except that I've heard they're tricky to take care of.

Noswad0208 said:
First play practice turned out good. One of the cast was missing, but still worked good.
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Sometimes that's for the best. One of my old bands always sounded better when we turned down the rythmn guitar player's amp... :p
 
The Warrior said:
Haha, I'm not that technical, I just use the macro. :D Point and shoot, wth.
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HAHA, Mike lost me when he got to "open up the aperture to f/2.5 or the like" then it just got more confusing from there :D

I dont know how to set my camera to macro, probably in the settings somewhere.... But i do notice my camera automatically goes into macro mode when i get close to things. Probably was in macro on the first photo i posted, although i wasnt paying attention if it was or wasnt. This time i payed attention and it was indeed in macro.

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I dont notice much difference in the detail, so probably both in macro. The wall is only a 6-8" behind the plant so maybe that keeps it from blurring as much.... hell i dunno. I think the flower is in plenty enough detail, just not as crisp looking as yours. Better light, as you said, would also help im sure.
 
My wife's SOny point and shoot uses the macro automatically. Mine you have to adjust.
 
Thought you guys might like this, dad and I finally got around to fixing up the old jeep



It's a 1985 CJ7, I really love this thing
 
spikebot587 said:
Thought you guys might like this, dad and I finally got around to fixing up the old jeep...
It's a 1985 CJ7, I really love this thing
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Fun stuff! There's nothing quite like a good old Jeep. Shoot, even the bad ones have their merits.
 
james terrio said:
She grew that? I'm impressed! I don't know much about orchids, except that I've heard they're tricky to take care of.
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I love the woman to death but she couldnt grow mold to save her life, much less a beautiful orchid HAHA!!

Its "hers" but i care for it. Honestly though Orchids dont seem to be much more difficult to care for than other ornamental plants. And they are awesome plants, I have read they can live... well forever if taken care of properly.

I water it with distilled water once the media is dry and keep it in indirect light. Its doing great...but needs re-potted though. Its root bound pretty badly.. But i want to wait till we move before putting it in a bigger pot. I prefer terracotta/clay pots, its in metal, clay breaks easier... Plus its going to go through a little shock during the move anyways im sure. Better to re-pot afterwards.
 
spikebot587 said:
Thought you guys might like this, dad and I finally got around to fixing up the old jeep



It's a 1985 CJ7, I really love this thing
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That's not old. I did a job last week and the guy had this in his barn:

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1944 Jeep, with plates and ready (and able) to roll.

Also had one of these on the wall, which I also thought was interesting:

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worldwood said:
Plus its going to go through a little shock during the move anyways im sure. Better to re-pot afterwards.
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I'm no botanist, and I don't know diddly about decorative flowers like orchids, but I suspect that's a good idea. Whenever I deal with any plant, I try to only make one major change at a time and give them at least a week to settle in before messing with them again.

I hang out in a couple chili pepper and general vegetable gardening groups, and I often see people who top off a seedling, transplant it into a bigger pot or the ground, slap 'em right from a shady windowsill indoors to full sun outdoors, and hit 'em hard with massive doses of fertilizer all in one or two weeks, expecting to get miracle results... then they bitch about the seed or plant company when the poor things keel over and die. :rolleyes:
 
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james terrio said:
I'm no expert, and I don't know diddly about flowers, but I suspect that's true in general. Whenever I deal with any plant, I try to only make one major change at a time and give them at least a week to settle in before messing with them again.

I hang out in a couple chili pepper and general vegetable gardening groups, and I often see people who top off a seedling, transplant it into a bigger pot or the ground, slap 'em right from a shady windowsill indoors to full sun outdoors, and hit 'em hard with massive doses of fertilizer all in one week, expecting to get miracle results... then they bitch about the seed or plant company when the poor things keel over. :rolleyes:
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HAHA thats funny!!

I use to know a guy that took a few plants from indoors and put them in direct sun light and when i tried telling him he needed to slowly acclimate them to the sun he thought i was full of it. He said plants are made to grow in the sun blah blah blah... His plants nearly died, and then he put them back inside and blamed bugs :rolleyes:

I have had my own misadventures with growing different plants.... But it doesnt take a genius to understand too much of any good thing is bad. Im not big on extra nutes with most plants. I only give them when absolutely needed. All too often people over feed... And even more often people over water... The best thing you can do for your plants a lot of the time... is leave them be!!! And if starting with a good media extra fertilizer "can" do more harm than good.

I have sent plants into shock, stunted their growths, killed them.... You learn as you go, one of the things i had to learn is to let nature run its course.

I never checked out any gardening groups.. I bet i will be soon enough though once i start a garden up again!!
 
worldwood said:
Im not big on extra nutes with most plants. I only give them when absolutely needed. All too often people over feed... And even more often people over water... The best thing you can do for your plants a lot of the time... is leave them be!!!
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That's been my experience as well. They'll let you know if they're hungry or thirsty... and even then they just can't deal with a whole bunch all at once. Nutrient lockout caused by overwatering/overfeeding is a very common problem that many people just refuse to understand. Not to mention root rot... my theory is, "you have to grow roots before you can grow fruits"...

Peppers, tomatoes, carrots, corn, pole beans, cannabis, roses, whatever... they don't like extremes, and they definitely don't like sudden changes in their environment. It's always better to err on the side of caution... you can always give them a little more (nutes or water or whatever) later, but it's almost impossible to take too much of anything back out. Relax! It's a plant, not a steroid-crazed hyped-up racehorse on meth! :D

All that is one of the reasons so many people are going back to organic mediums and nutrients... obviously it's not that it's a "miracle", it just breaks down slower so you're less likely to screw everything up. (there are many other reasons to stick with organics, of course... but that's a whole other ball of wax)
 
granitestateofmind said:
So for all you photo geeks - and BTW, Dubz, whatever you do seriously works for you - the technical way to get that sort of shot is to use aperture priority and open up the aperture to f/2.5 or the like. It reduces the depth of field (DOF determines the range of what will be in focus) and larger apertures reduce depth of field (only what you focus on is in focus) and smaller ones increase DOF (almost everything is in focus) Basically the "macro" mode opens the aperture all the way and leaves it there, doing the exposure by shutter speed. Most modern cameras have a focus lock as well (even the less expensive digital ones) and if you press the shutter button partway down while centering the object you want to be in focus then reframing while holding the button down you get the result like what Dubz did with the headphones.

This is what happens when you grow up with Kodak in your back yard. So sorry.
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This^^^^^ old school photography. This how I learned. Works great. You had to stop the lens down to see the results in the viewfinder before you shot the picture. Those of us that couldn't afford macro lens back then used extension tubes.

The good old days ...

Doc
 
Jerry D. said:
I believe that I have a new contender for favorite knife.
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I was really glad to see those perform as well as they did. As most of you know the idea came from the question "what if a BK4 didnt have the bend in the handle" something myself and Murph had wondered for a couple of years now. So, we whipped out three of them for the gathering for everyone to beat on, and as I said, I was pleased how they worked.
By the end of the weekend, Ethan kept one, Murph kept one, and Jerry took the one in the pic home. It by far was the most used one of the weekend. My son LOVED it and cleared just about all of the fallen brush at Gus's camp site before he arrived. He even asked for one for his birthday lol.
Its nothing I plan on making a lot of, I made 3, and I may make a extremely limited run of them (say 10 for some of the biggest contributors of the gatherings and one for my boy) but really was just scratching a itch of mine.

 
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