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dieselnutjob

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Note that I haven't processed these photos in any way. They are as they came off the SD card as NEF files, loaded into RawTherapee and simply saved to JPEG (with JPEG quality set to 100%). I have no idea what RawTherapee does to the photos before saving them as I only just installed the software and I guess that I will have to learn it.

Next, also shot with the cheapo 70-300
RTP_0230 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr
 

dieselnutjob

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This one was shot through a square fence. The fence was maybe three metres away from me and the tiger a lot more.
You can see a sort of square "interference" pattern around the tiger which would be the out of focus fence.

Also the cheapo 70-300
RTP_0260 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr
 

dieselnutjob

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Just behind the tiger enclosure there was this little water fall. I took some photos on fast and slow shutter speeds to demonstrate the effect of different shutter speeds to my daughter (she has been taking some nice photos with my old D3100). Anyway I quite like this one.

RTP_0282 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr
 
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dieselnutjob

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This one is more of a snap than a proper photo I think..

We were at the cafe having a coffee and I heard the train coming. I didn't have time to set anything up on the camera, just lift it up and take three shots as it went past. The camera was in the "scene" mode for portraits because I had been playing with that.

The out of focus wooden pink man thing is kind of annoying but the other photos were worse.

RTP_0248 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr
 

dieselnutjob

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Final photo of the day as we were walking back to the car park. It was starting to get a bit sunset.
My daughter said "can you see a photo here?" and she got me looking around and I spotted the trees.
So absolute credit to my daughter.
The first photo was too bright for my liking with the blue sky washed out (this was looking at the screen on the back of the D750) so I set exposure compensation to -1 EV and took another.
This was the result.

RTP_0382 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr
 

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First trip out with my new D750. We went to Whipsnade for the day.

Some shots are taken with the kit 24-120mm and others with an old plastic mount 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G lens that originally came with my F55 film camera.

I also took some nice head shots of my daughter but she doesn't want me to post them :(

Shot with the cheapo 75-300:-
RTP_0221 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr

Final photo of the day as we were walking back to the car park. It was starting to get a bit sunset.
My daughter said "can you see a photo here?" and she got me looking around and I spotted the trees.
So absolute credit to my daughter.
The first photo was too bright for my liking with the blue sky washed out (this was looking at the screen on the back of the D750) so I set exposure compensation to -1 EV and took another.
This was the result.

RTP_0382 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr

I really like the first one. There is nice separation between the subjects and the background due to the bokeh.

And once you learn a little post-processing, you will be able to lower your highlights and do some basic editing on your tree image. You are off to a great start with all of your images! :encouragement:
 

dieselnutjob

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So I also had some "fails". My daughter asked me to take some photos of these baby crocodiles (well I think that's what they are). It was quite dark in there.

Being a newbie I guess I forgot about depth of field and so only one of them is in focus
RTP_0352 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr

I'm not quite sure how I would know that whether I not I have a small enough aperture for them to both be sharp?
If you have a lot of light it's fine because you can just put a small aperture, but if it's dark then it becomes a balancing act of cranking the ISO hi enough to get the shot, and the aperture just small enough to get the depth of field I guess? Too small an aperture means a higher ISO and more grain.

How does one know how small an aperture is needed?

Trial and error and keep inspecting on the screen on the back of the camera?

Just shoot with losts of combinations of ISO / aperture and look on a big screen when you get home?
 

dieselnutjob

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and I thought that some Camels sort of looking at a steam train is such a wierd site that it had to make an interesting photo
RTP_0295 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr

Problem is that shooting into the sun never works does it?
My composition is off.
The train is too small.

By the time I had figured this out the train (and the moment) had gone. More experienced photographer needed I think.
 

Dawg Pics

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So I also had some "fails". My daughter asked me to take some photos of these baby crocodiles (well I think that's what they are). It was quite dark in there.

Being a newbie I guess I forgot about depth of field and so only one of them is in focus
RTP_0352 by dieselnutjob, on Flickr

I'm not quite sure how I would know that whether I not I have a small enough aperture for them to both be sharp?
If you have a lot of light it's fine because you can just put a small aperture, but if it's dark then it becomes a balancing act of cranking the ISO hi enough to get the shot, and the aperture just small enough to get the depth of field I guess? Too small an aperture means a higher ISO and more grain.

How does one know how small an aperture is needed?

Trial and error and keep inspecting on the screen on the back of the camera?

Just shoot with losts of combinations of ISO / aperture and look on a big screen when you get home?


You can use a 'preview button' that you can custom set in the menu to check DoF. I think you can see DoF when using 'live view' as well.
Google "Depth of Field Tables."
 

mikew_RIP

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Great start, you will need to get into the PP, did a quick and dirty edit on the Tiger.

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dieselnutjob

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the ones from Kew Gardens are straight from the camera, I haven't edited them in any way.
It's nice that the D750 jpegs can be so nice straight from the camera.
 
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