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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / January 2005General Questions From Newbie
Hi Im looking to start in photography and was partly inspired when looking at the Gherkin building in London recently. I felt that Id like to photograph it and other buildings. My first thought was how to take a photo of such a building from base to top and from standing outside the building itself. What type of lens would be required? Next, what type of digital SLR is recommended? Budget would be in the region of £300 - £700. Id like a camera which can take mono shots as well as colour. Is that a common feature of cameras these days? Id also like a camera with a fast shutter to take advantage of quick moving objects. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks. > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Thanks. I'm very pleased with my Canon EOS it works great! it does not have an option to take shots in mono... but any photo-editing program can do that. as far as how to take the right shot: experiment Is that that the EOS 300? Im surprised that it can`t take mono, is that not a common feature on much cheaper digital cameras? If you use a photo-editing program to convert from clour to mono, is there any loss of quality? >> Hi >> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >experiment If a camera offers a BW mode, all it does is convert the RGB information into BW with no added resolution. So you are much better off to leave it in color, because those 3 color channels are just like shooting with Red, Green and Blue filters. In a decent photo-editor you can then separate the channels or `channel mix` to get different effects, eg more red channel to darken skies, more green to help smooth complexions, etc.. It's a very powerful aspect of BW imaging in digital, and makes up, to some extent, for the fact that *printing* black and white on inkjet printers can be a nightmare! Actually, I should correct myself slightly - Kodak have (had?) a black and white only professional DSLR that garnered some fairly mediocre reviews*, and I think there may be one or two other p&s's (Ricoh?). But true B&W digitals are like hen's teeth as there seems to be very limited demand. *= http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/kodak-760m.shtml > Is that that the EOS 300? Im surprised that it can`t take mono, is > that not a common feature on much cheaper digital cameras? it's the EOS but the modestly priced "Digital Rebel" version... i just bought it without a lens and use the 28-105 mm from my Canon SLR. btw: i recently talked to a professional photographer... who uses all Nikon equipment...and she told me that technically the Canon is a better camera...it's juts that pros tend to use Nikons because they are a bit sturdier ...she does a lot of shooting under arctic conditions >> Hi >> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > experiment I prefer to photograph large buildings or monuments from as far away as possible using a long lens, as long as you can get, it helps to isolate the structure and eliminate converging verticals, but as the previous poster says, experiment. Here is a link to some pictures by Andreas Feininger taken with a home made camera in the 30's or 40's, he used a super telephoto lens (40 inch on a 4x5 view camera) and took some of the shots from 8 miles away apparently. <http://www.gittermangallery.com/html/Detail.asp?recmove=Next&x=19&y=13>  Signature<http://www.theweddingphotographers.com> >>> Hi >>> [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > apparently. > <http://www.gittermangallery.com/html/Detail.asp?recmove=Next&x=19&y=13> that link did not work...hopefully this was the one: http://www.gittermangallery.com/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1633 >Hi > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Thanks. "requirements" for photography are a funny thing as most of it is a matter of personal taste and style (and budget <sigh>). For example, I have a fairly nice rig (Canon 10D and assorted attachments, lenses, etc). Yet for some reason every once in a while I'll take out this $100 piece-of-garbage Aiptek "pencam" that I have which I like BECAUSE of the distortions and oddball color artifacts it creates. As for developing your own style, read some books on photography and then shoot shoot shoot! I recommend "The Digital Photographer's Handbook" by Tom Ang http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789489074/103-1641005-3651035?v=glance Drifter "I've been here, I've been there..." |
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