Amateur photography rant, contains Miata shots

Kinja'd!!! "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
10/21/2015 at 22:33 • Filed to: None

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Stupid dumb-ass camera preview LCD screens making me think my photos are 100000x brighter than they actually are forcing me to later molest them in Lightroom so you can actually see what’s going on to the point that they look like scans from a vintage magazine advertisement. Ugh. Have some car porn.

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DISCUSSION (9)


Kinja'd!!! JGrabowMSt > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/21/2015 at 22:40

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Always consult the light meter! It may not be super accurate, but it is good enough to tell you whether you’re close or not to a decent exposure.

My 7D consistently reports about 1/3 too bright. I learned my lesson and now shoot most things a little under, unless I’m aiming for a different look.

Lesson learned though! That’s the important takeaway from it all.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > JGrabowMSt
10/21/2015 at 22:47

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The light-meter is a lifesaver. Thing is I would look at it, take a picture, look at the LCD and go ‘pshaw, that’s too bright’ and then utterly ruin all of my settings.

Also I just learned today I can get my shutter speed, light meter, iso, battery life, etc. to show up in the viewfinder, and also how to disable the stupid LCD screen because I am shooting IN A POORLY LIT ROOM WHERE I KEEP BEING BLINDED BY THE F@#$$% LCD SCREEN.


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/21/2015 at 22:51

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Do you shoot in Raw? You should shoot in Raw.


Kinja'd!!! Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/21/2015 at 23:02

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Sounds like the screen brightness is set way too high? I'm just guessing and have zero hours flight time on proper cameras.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > TheHondaBro
10/21/2015 at 23:06

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I shoot RAW+Jpeg, because sometimes I just need to toss some unedited developed photos on a computer (cough cough, work)


Kinja'd!!! CounterTorqueSteer > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/22/2015 at 00:06

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RAW BRO


Kinja'd!!! CAR_IS_MI > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/22/2015 at 02:07

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Jake,

You need Googly Eyes...

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Just saying


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > CounterTorqueSteer
10/22/2015 at 07:40

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I do shoot in raw. That’s possibly the only way I was able to do ANYTHING with these.


Kinja'd!!! Stephen the Canuck > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
10/22/2015 at 12:08

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I agree with you. You can turn down the brightness of the screen.