The camera never lies!

[Thrasher (_!_)]

A few years ago I bought a 3.2 mega pixel Canon A75....great little camera. But technology moves on and I thought it was time to "upgrade" so I bought a Panasonic FZ8.

Here are some of my first attempts......
1. The moon....honest!! Just to see how well it would work
2, 3, 4 & 5 on Cannock Chase. (Local nature reserve)

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

pics 2, 3 & 5 are playing with HDR.
Where you take 3 or more pictures at various exposure levels, then get some software to combine them to create a picture with all the correct exposures...ish.

 

[Quasi^]

wow how many mpixels?

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

An example of HDR....

First picture is how the camara wants to take it. The sky is a little bright, but the grass and hedge are waaay too dark.

Second picture is -1 exposure. The sky looks better but the grass is even darker!!

Third picture is +1 exposure. Sky is way too bright but the grass and hedge show up.

Fourth picture is the result of combining the images.

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

Panasonic FZ8 is 7.2 mega pixel with 12 times optical zoom.

The moon pic is 12 optical and 4 times digital = 48 times zoom. So it's a little rough.

 

[Solar´]

nice pics, HDR => advanced light meassuring, someting like matrix meassuring of light, differnt values in different spots of the picture, gives you very nice pics, GJ andy

 

[seas_]

wow lookin awesome mate!
could you upload the ones in first post in a wallpaper format?
this road looks incredible

 

[HUEY]

 

[Quasi^]

HDR uses diffrent pictures at different exposures and by mixing the parts from lightly underexposed with slightly overexposed you get good results. You can do the same in photoshop/gimp to some extent by copying the background, adjust levels and burning through in the right spots. Sort of poor mans HDR

 

[Ðeadßoy]

nice piccies

 

[xb7]

Sort of poor mans HDR

yeh because photoshopis so unexpensive

 

[Fuler]

was that camera expensive?

 

[Humph]

I've been there.

 

[Humph]

was that camera expensive?

By the standards of cameras: No.

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

I got it for £170 (€240)

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

I've been there.

Moon?

 

[IceDragon]

yeh because photoshopis so unexpensive

use gimp you gimp

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

wow lookin awesome mate!
could you upload the ones in first post in a wallpaper format?
this road looks incredible

Thanks I will upload them to some webspace....too big for here.

 

[yako]

nice piccies

 

[M®.F®0$T]

oki i9 need a new camera xD
just have a Nokia 6288 2mp
and if i take a photo at night its totaly green