Since we have a large weekend coming up (at least in the Nordic), I'll submit yet another one. Same camera as before:
Direct sunlight through the balcony window. The cover of a notebook on the floor and on it a monkey wrench. Light blocked by two binders (out of wiev) to form a narrow shaft of light. Exposure compensated to expose for highlights (underexposed according to meter).
The advantage of "live wiev" is that you directly see the the resulting image on the screen.
Same light, same camera. And don't avoid shadows at all cost. They are much useful for adding atmosphere.
I put an empty vine bottle stand to the left, just out of sight of the camera. Its sole purpose was to cast a shadow in the image to give it character.
In post I gave it a warmer white balance and added a sepia tone to make it look old.
Sorry to say, but I don't think this is possile with a mobile. The "weakness" of a mobile is that there is no way to determine depth-of-field, since the aperture in a mobile lens is fixed. Otherwise it's as capable as any rudimentary camera. There are some expansion apps for mobiles that makes them capable to use different kinds of settings, but those are priamerly for setting the shutter speed, do some exposure compensation and setting the white balance You have to consult the brand of mobile you're using. Needless to say, it's the different models of Apple who's in the forefront here.
Well, there are a number of settings if you really want to dive into the "belly of the beast". So if you don't want to go fully automatic, there are a number of modes to choose from.
The most usefull - for me - is the A-mode (aperture priority). So - you set the aperture to get the depth-of-field as you want and the camera sets the shutter speed accordingly. Because, as we all know (?), aperture decides the depth-of-field, don't we ? In case not - now you know..
A smaller (higher number) of aperture gives more depth-of-field. A larger (lower number) of aperture gives less (more shallow) depth-of-field.
The distribution of depth-of-field is one third in front of the focus point and two thirds behind it. Always - even with a very shallow depth-of-field. Becuase that's how optics works.
Yeah, the TG5 is "yesterday" and now replaced by TG7. And the price of a second hand is close to when I bought it brand new. The TG7 is quite a lot more expencive, but is it better ? I doubt that ...
Added to it - it's a tough little thingy. You can drop it in straight down in the pavement from around 2 meters. Without anything added, you can take it down under water to a depth of 15 meters as is. So it's thoroughly weather sealed. Dustproof, waterproof, sandproof, freezeproof, you name it. It is built to handle with no care at all.
I had it with me in my pocket when I went to Rome for 15 days. All I had was that one and two spare batteries - in another pocket.
I took 1600 images with it and made 8 photobooks of that journey.
It also records video in 1080p. It can do 4K, but I've never tried it. I don't want to fry the batteries ...
... and yes, the old 13x18 cm "travel" cam is made of cherry wood.
I hope I fit in here even though I didn't get banned in the technical term. I banned myself.
DAZ Forum - C'mon ... give me strength ... Didn't take long to completely ignore it since it was utterly useless and strongly biased.
Renerosity - Yes, I got into a silly debate with the mods. Result of that was I logged out never to reurn - and now I can't log in. But before I left I emptied my gallery - or so I thought ... And judging from Nena's experience, there's no sense in trying to talk to them at all.
RenderHub - Left it after being blatently lied to. I hate lies and espcially caculated lies. So as I always do when deceived, I took down my entire gallery and left.
Deviant Art - Have you seen it ..? Jesus ... it was a nice place once, but now ... Holy crap !
Art Station - They started out well with a No AI-policy. Then they slacked the policy and are now overrun with AI-bullsheit. Well what the hell did they expect ? Pillocks ! Utter pillocks !
Besides those, every social media platform you can think of. And some you probably can't ...
So I'm a rebel with a website, but without a forum - besides this.
Okay, looks like we have a new category here - Photography. And since no posts have been done yet, I'll go first with this one:
It's really quite a simple still life and I'll try to break it down for you. It is all arranged in my kitchen, with light coming in through a window on the left, about a meter away from the subects. On top of the kitchen tablle, I have arranged the objects to form this composition as you see it. And that's it.
So, what kind of super-duper camera did I use to take the picture with ? Well - I didn't. The camera I used was this one:
Yes, a 12 MP point-and-shoot. Sensor size = Same as in a mobile phone. No viewfinder - there's a screen on the back - and no interchangeable lenses - it's equipped with a fixed 4.5 - 18 mm lens with 4x zoom - and it's about the size of your palm. Set on a rickety, bloody cheap, amateur tripod that isn't level in any way at all, no matter how you arrange it.
So you don't need a big camera equippment to make interesting photos. Any camera will do and I bet you got one in yor phone. Because it's not the camera that makes the photo.' It's you !
