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sharing a totally casual shot.. Love T2i!

RafaPolit wrote in post #11257226
That's it Peter!!!!

Great improvement!! The second image is just what I was hoping you would get as it was hinted on the image you posted earlier: the trees silhouetted against that lit background. I love how the deck's color come to live and you can almost feel the wood.

I see what you were looking for on the 3rd, instead of a squared camera with the rail, shifting in order to bring more depth to the shot! Alas, you are missing the first 3 inches of the pole... since it's so close to showing the base, it seems cut instead of intentionally framed .

This are now good night shots! I am missing something of color to break the brownness of the images, but wouldn't know what that could be!

Kudos for experimenting! That's the key to learning (and really have fun at it )
Rafa.
ps. Hint* You can also try the picture without the wooden construction... move behind it and get the trees beyond... leave them as silhouettes against the lighted sky, that may be a beautiful image!

Thanks Rafa I appreciate it, I applied ev and learned something really good. And I thank you for pointing in out to me in the early post, I know my bad I was too close coz that is why I missed about 3 inches of the post, that is something I have to remember in all the subject, atleast have them all inside the frame as much as possible and have some breathing on the foreground.

Question...In Manual Mode shooting I noticed that the exposure compensate in my camera is in -2 when I press the shutter is that normal? So when Iif I want to shoot Manual mode you have to utilize the flash or my 430ex II, is that the default setting? I tried to bring it to 0 it won't let me.

Thanks,
Peter

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how many images do you get at large jpeg with a 4gb and 8gb cards ?

im getting a 550D this afternoon and am needing new cards as my 400D was CF

Also will class 4 be ok for photos ?

Rich, class 4 is enough if you don't plan on doing 1080p movies.

As of now, you shoot Jpeg but it'll change to raw fast enough

My 16gb cards hold exactly 600raw files. So it'll be around 300 for the 8gb and 150 pictures for the 4gb.

I highly suggest at least 8gb. But that is my opinion and others might disagree

rich_cooper wrote in post #11257952
how many images do you get at large jpeg with a 4gb and 8gb cards ?

im getting a 550D this afternoon and am needing new cards as my 400D was CF

Also will class 4 be ok for photos ?

I agree with rivest. 8gb would be an excellent starting point. You may be surprised at how easy it is to fill that card up in one outing. Class 4 is great for pics and JPEG, but if you plan to shoot in Burst mode and in Raw...you might want a class 6 or class 10, though the T2i's buffer in burst mode is not great, I've heard that a faster SD card will help a little with that. If I'm wrong on that, someone please correct me, cuz those 16gb class 10 cards are pricey!!!!

Thanks everyone, i will get an 8gig then just to be safe for now

Im not that fussed about movies at the moment but its something i would like to try at some point

Here are two pictures I took tonite at the lantern festival here in Seoul. These are SOOC with zero processing. I have about 75 shots all bracketed 2/3 of a stop. A couple of theme need to be HDR'd but most are fine with the correct exposure setting - probably delete the over/unders once I've had more time too look at them.

Once I do, I post them in a new thread for C&C - feel free to let me know how you would improve these two pics either with the camera or in post processing.

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In a situation like that, I would definitely bracket as much as possible! I took pictures at a lantern festival here in Taiwan with a point and shoot, and the poor camera had no idea what to do (I was trying to shoot my family members in front of the lanterns). I spent hours trying to fix that mess in Photoshop...

Decided to upload a bunch SOOC to flickr - Lantern Festival Photo Set

I had to look twice, I thought the last one was NSFW

wigloc wrote in post #11257803
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I like this shot.

lostpacket wrote in post #11258189
I had to look twice, I thought the last one was NSFW

Could be misinterpreted that way, but it's actually a "game" that middle school boys do here. Not so often any more, but occasionally you can still see it. Very strange to see real kids doing that.