SLR Learning Curve...

[JJM]

How True...

Edited by JJM on Tuesday 4th May 11:39

Edited by JJM on Tuesday 4th May 11:40

[strudel]

Whatever that picture is, I can not get it to load in any shape or form.

[Scott330ci]

Thumbsnap has gone awry for the last week or so.

Tis true. Although I shot some pretty flowers yesterday. Sigh

Edited by Scott330ci on Tuesday 4th May 11:46

[Simpo Two]

I can't see it but smell a repost.

Good graph though!

[...Mole...]

haha, thats brilliant.
very true.

[clonmult]

...Mole... said:

haha, thats brilliant.
very true.

Truly brilliant. I'm squarely in the HDR hole right now.

[john185k]

so true it hurts!

[Pints]

clonmult said:

...Mole... said:

haha, thats brilliant.
very true.

Truly brilliant. I'm squarely in the HDR hole right now.

And I fear I may be stuck here for many more years.

[tinman0]

Myself and Zebrano are at the bit where is says "Damnit, I suck".

[itsnotarace]

Excellent

[forty-two]

So true.

I have just got to the 'found the old film camera' while still in the 'damn it I suck' valley.

To cap it all, I was explaining to a friend yesterday how I can't take a picture of a light foreground with a dark sky without a filter. He said 'put it on full auto' (D300s) which I did. 'oh how wrong he will be, I will just entertain his directions' I thought to myself, when the damn thing exposed it correctly.

[dibbly dobbler]

I'm about 5 months in to DSLR ownership and now know enough to know how bad I am - most of the 'unknown unknowns' have become 'known unknowns'

So the 'HDR hole' must be just around the corner

[cs02rm0]

I'm going to die, and soon?

[d1d215]

cs02rm0 said:

I'm going to die, and soon?

I'm very, very sorry. I hope you had a wonderful life, and please send your equipment to the address sent via email !

[itsnotarace]

forty-two said:

I was explaining to a friend yesterday how I can't take a picture of a light foreground with a dark sky without a filter. He said 'put it on full auto' (D300s) which I did. 'oh how wrong he will be, I will just entertain his directions' I thought to myself, when the damn thing exposed it correctly.

That situation is pretty easy for the camera to meter. It's the other way round when you will blow out the sky or underexpose the subject if the camera is left to it's own devices

[clonmult]

Pints said:

clonmult said:

...Mole... said:

haha, thats brilliant.
very true.

Truly brilliant. I'm squarely in the HDR hole right now.

And I fear I may be stuck here for many more years.

For the moment I think I'm more trying to ignore being in the HDR hole rather than being squarely "in it". Change the name of the problem and it isn't too bad.

Absolutely fine with taking the bracketed raw images, camera handles that nicely. The problem has been in following the on-line tutorials for GIMP to get it all put together. It just fails every darned time (GIMP, that is). I've also tried a few other separate apps that either claim to fake HDR (and generate a horrendous looking image), or automate the generation. And fail.

I could probably just do with spending a few hours in front of the laptop on an evening going through the tutorials. A few minutes here and there throughout the working day just isn't enough.