Canon 60D Users, Unite! (2)

skyking517 wrote in post #13021320
Watermarks is a whole other story, I gave up on that a while ago. I tried!!!!

watermarks are really quick and easy in lightroom. it's part of the export, which i just learned from rivest 2 days ago.

yup, lightroom. i just wished it let me put my watermark any where.

well ..damn teach me..I still haven't launched the program, still doing my homework. LOL

Ideas on a watermark would be greatly appreciated

Well, Mancry, you'll be happy to know that I now agree with you on the stars thing. I took about 9 shots all at f8 and 800, 1600, 3200 ISO at 10, 20, and 30s each. The best shot I got was at 3200, 10sec.

It's looking like a wider aperture might help, as well. Thanks for making me do this test :P One of these days, I won't be such a noob. Not gonna post the pics as they were pretty OOF.

heres a site todmac linked awhile back. has tons of stuff.

http://lightroomkiller​tips.com/

mondayshift wrote in post #13021467
heres a site todmac linked awhile back. has tons of stuff.

http://lightroomkiller​tips.com/

saved. >

I have these two books but everytime I get into it, I go back to my Cs5 self. :S

http://www.amazon.com …TF8&qid=1314669​125&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com …TF8&qid=1314669​125&sr=8-3

Need help with Hawk Photo

Can someone tell me what setting to use to photograph a hawk in the trees. I've been trying to get a photo of the hawk that hangs out in the trees in my backyard, but my camera is focusing on the leaves (It's always got a few leaves in front of it) and not the hawk.

Vixen89 wrote in post #13021487
saved. >

I have these two books but everytime I get into it, I go back to my Cs5 self. :S

http://www.amazon.com …TF8&qid=1314669​125&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com …TF8&qid=1314669​125&sr=8-3

just play with lightroom. thats how i started i just pretty much moved sliders and see what they do and thats when those book might become more interesting, after a bit of time with lightroom first.

Texastrish wrote in post #13021523
Can someone tell me what setting to use to photograph a hawk in the trees. I've been trying to get a photo of the hawk that hangs out in the trees in my backyard, but my camera is focusing on the leaves (It's always got a few leaves in front of it) and not the hawk.

I would use a center AF to focus on the hawk maybe with a shutter speed at 1/250 to kinda keep him in focus with no movement blurs? What lens are you using too?

Vixen89 wrote in post #13021735
I would use a center AF to focus on the hawk maybe with a shutter speed at 1/250 to kinda keep him in focus with no movement blurs? What lens are you using too?

you could also take the lens off auto-focus, turn off the IS if it has it, and manually focus the lens. live-view will help you focus as well, since you can zoom in with live-view.

Vixen89 wrote in post #13021735
I would use a center AF to focus on the hawk maybe with a shutter speed at 1/250 to kinda keep him in focus with no movement blurs? What lens are you using too?

Canon 100-400 l lens

also for lightroom, here are some videos that really helped me understand some of the basics.
i am not good with all that fancy book learnin' but video's really helped me out.

Vixen89 wrote in post #13021735
I would use a center AF to focus on the hawk maybe with a shutter speed at 1/250 to kinda keep him in focus with no movement blurs? What lens are you using too?

Thanks. He was actually sitting real still eating a mole.

and you wanted a shot of that?:p