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savage
02-07-2006, 01:41 PM
A friend of mine is a budding photographer and I think he's pretty damn good. I thought I would share some of his work with you guys, as I am sure some of you also take photos and maybe appreciate good photography.

Check his stuff out @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/49334098@N00/
tanffn
02-07-2006, 02:45 PM
:shock: wow, some of those photos look amazing!
Do you know what camera and equipment he uses?
savage
02-07-2006, 03:15 PM
He used to only shoot on film stock, but now he has been "converted" over to digital. So I know he's using some kind of digital camera. I'll chat to him tomorrow and find out the finer details. Btw, most of the shots are of Melbourne, some are of a trip he did to Vietnam ( salt fields etc ).
WILL
02-07-2006, 08:10 PM
Some really nice photos. :) Your friend has a really good eye for visuals.

Did you guys know that digital cameras (video cameras that is) have gotten good enough to the point that they are actually making TV shows using all digital now? Star Trek Enterprise's 4th season was the first show in history to shoot everything purely in digital. I don't know what else has been done in that way since, but it's been a few years so there must be something now that they have proven that it's now of enough quality and much cheaper to do.
JernejL
02-07-2006, 09:13 PM
Some really nice photos. :) Your friend has a really good eye for visuals.

Did you guys know that digital cameras (video cameras that is) have gotten good enough to the point that they are actually making TV shows using all digital now? Star Trek Enterprise's 4th season was the first show in history to shoot everything purely in digital. I don't know what else has been done in that way since, but it's been a few years so there must be something now that they have proven that it's now of enough quality and much cheaper to do.

scary movie 4 was the first true hdtv movie ever filmed fully digital ;)
savage
03-07-2006, 06:27 AM
The camera kit he's using is...
Canon 350D with a 24-70 f2.8 & an 70-200 f4 lenses.
WILL
03-07-2006, 10:00 AM
Hmm... how many megapixels would that be now? :)
tanffn
03-07-2006, 11:40 AM
Lots :) (Canon EOS 350D info) (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_eos350d.asp)

and this is mine... (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_s500.asp)
savage
03-07-2006, 12:14 PM
A bit more info I got was that he only uses Photoshop for colour correction/balancing, everything else is as it came out of the camera using filters, lenses and shutter speed.
WILL
03-07-2006, 02:14 PM
Well ok a more serious question from me now; how is that Megapixel number actually calculated? Anyone know?

I'd have to say that to truely be doing photography as an art --at least in it's intended manner-- in a digital medium, would be to do it without any or as little an amount of digital enhancement as possible. The idea is to capture the beauty of the enviroment rather than simulate it. Otherwise it sort of falls under the realm of digital art rather than photography, no?
Nitrogen
03-07-2006, 03:13 PM
I always though that it was just width x height of the CCD chip in a factor of a million pixels.

So say 1024 x 768 = ~0.7 megapixels right?
Clootie
03-07-2006, 08:40 PM
Wow, photos are really amazing! :)
jdarling
05-07-2006, 01:09 PM
Well here is the camera I have Canon 10D (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos10d/)

MegaPixels are calculated as: W*H*B=MP or Width*Height*BitDepth in low end cameras (consumer). In Pro-line or Pro-Sumer cameras (such as the 10D, 20D, 30D, D100, etc...) its W*H as B is a static measure. Thus you really do get what you pay for and a 10MP Pro has a better resolution and color depth then a 10MP consumer.