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I love the artistic beauty of all of the above and photograph them often, but my photos are often blurred of just not quite perfect. I have a Kodak 16.1mp camera with a touch screen . ANY SUGGESTIONS on how to get great pictures I may not have steady hands either. I do have a tripod if that helps
plus I love TT and cartridge closeups or while spinning a great LP would love to see yours and any tips are appreciated.
peace Bill
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Astatic MF-100 / Technics HS / Sumiko MMT
...and it will improve the quality of pictures taken with any decent camera. Hell, even the new iPhone has a decent camera included.
This pic was taken without a tripod but with a macro lens to take full advantage of available light.
Audio Technica AT-33ev tracking a yellow copy of Devo's "Are We Not Men"....
VPI, Souther and Shure ...It's old but it works!!
Here is my contribution of vintage "super" cartridges with Technics SL1200 Mk 2:
AT20SLa Limited Edition, ADC Super XLM Mk 2 and B&O MMC 20 CL
These photos have been previously posted by yours truly.
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all I could hope for is to come up with something abstact as this Nikon Coolpix is not going to give me a super detail of über cameras & lenses.
Natural light. No tripod.
A long time ago, a photographer friend told me shoot more than you need. All you need is ONE shot. Taking more increases the chance of having *the* shot. Made perfect sense to me as in those days, 'fixing in post.' was a lot more difficult.
...tight cropping and unusual angles as your photos nicely demonstrate.
A cartridge with a picture window? Nice rig. What kind of wood is that in the plynth? It's beautiful.
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Since you already have a tripod, the next thing is a secondary bounce flash slaved to the one on the camera. Or better, a lighting set-up off the camera for bounce and direct.
I have none of that anymore but find that decent pix result from ambient lighting with the camera flash turned off.
Canon Powershot A630 set on "Auto"
Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a
drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist'
Zyx UNIverse
Tripod
ISO 320
f43
20s
NT
There are two theories to arguing with women, but...neither has worked
That's freakin' awesome !
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Serious skillz at work. Well done.
N/T
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
That's an amazing photograph!
Excellent work
a thing of beauty. Does it sound as good as it looks? You don't have to answer that as it doesn't matter. Sometimes a picture is worth...
;^)
I like that stuff too but I love the software...........
The TT photo was handheld with flash on macro setting.
Still spinin"...
;^)
The main things you need to know about photography are simple to learn and challenging to apply in the field. IMHO, digital photography has made things much worse because of its tendency to automate everything. A little knowledge will beat a computer chip any day of the week.
A camera controls light in three ways - shutter speed, aperture, and sensitivity. "Correct" exposure requires balancing the three for proper effect.
The higher you set the sensitivity, the lower light you can work in, but it gets noisier (film got grainier, and somehow digital does something similar but looks much worse).
Shutter speed is always an inverse, so 50 is 1/50th of a second, and will let in more light than 100. The rule of thumb is setting the shutter speed below 1/60th of a second and you will have problems with camera shake (just your blood flow will prevent you from holding still enough). If you set the speed low, you can get a motion effect, set it high if you want to stop a moving car (or record!) Slow shutter speeds are one of the places where tripods become essential! Use of a flash essentially functions as a very high shutter speed, in terms of stopping motion.
Aperture, also called f/stop, is the size of the opening in the lens that lets in light. It is set in a positively bizarre archaic ratio based on the focal length of the lens to diameter of the opening that has its roots in the history of photography. The "stops" are 1.2, 2.4, 4, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 64, 128. Each of those numbers represents a doubling of light, going down. The lower number you set, the more open the lens is, and therefore the more light it lets in. The tradeoff is in something called depth of field. If you set your aperture to an "open" position, let's say 4, then you can focus on something close up (like a person), OR far away (like a mountain), but not both. If you set it high, then you can have both in focus, but you need more light (either from changing settings or environment).
So to tie it all together, if you set your ISO for 400, and the shutter to 500 and the aperture to 4, you would get the same exposure as setting the ISO to 400, the shutter to 30 and the aperture to 22. The difference being that you would have less in focus in the 500 f/4 exposure but if you move while taking the 30 f/22 exposure, you'll see it in the shot. ISO 3200 shutter speed 250 f/22 would again be the same exposure, but noisier.
The type of photography you are interested in, low light and close up, is complicated technically. Learning how to shoot manually is pretty essential in my book, mostly because once you know what is going on, you know how to get the effect you want, even if you let your camera handle the nuts and bolts.
Most basic photography books will set this all up in a much clearer way. For an excellent treatise on this, the Ansel Adams books are quite good (three volumes, The Camera, The Negative and The Print).
The best tip I can give is find out how to turn off auto focus and do it. Let the camera pick the exposure if you must, but there is nothing more obnoxious than setting a perfect composition and then have the camera "decide" it knows where to focus and screw everything up.
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"In music, the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not. You can't intellectualize music; to reduce it analytically often is to reduce it to nothing very important."
-Ornette Coleman
Of what can be a very complicated subject.
Thanks, I tried to strike a balance between too much and not enough information. I guess getting a degree in art is worth something! I'm of the last generation to be schooled in proper analog photography. My professor would show us Photoshop, but my general reaction to it at the time was "that's great, I'm going back to the darkroom now." When you shoot film and print on silver gelatin paper, knowing how to get the right exposure matters because it's costing you money and time. Nowadays, it's just keep shooting until you get something useful and you can always "fix" it later. It's a reasonable method for some stuff (particularly commercial), but it lacks the elegant beauty of good lens, good film, good paper, good technique. I don't have a single digital print hanging in my house, and I have seen some of the best digital prints ever made, but something is still off about them. Kinda sounds like a different arcane hobby some people hanging around here might know about...
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"In music, the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not. You can't intellectualize music; to reduce it analytically often is to reduce it to nothing very important."
-Ornette Coleman
Funny you mentioned all that. Dad had a darkroom in the 60's, black & white only. He did the advertising shots for Grand Upholstered Furniture Corp. in Philadelphia. Had the whole setup, enlarger, dryer, etc. Learned how to shoot, develop, & print. Some things you never lose.
Agree on the stiffness of digital media.
At the link below...
Ed
We don't shush around here!
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof
One is bound to be good!
nt
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Later Gator,
Dave
I like the big ominous shadow like the cartridge monster is about to attack Turntableland
...but this shot came out well:
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Well, I'm working on it. How'd you get it so clean?
Hey Dean, interesting shot. Good composition. You've got some good photography skills!
Your posts are always insightful or humorous, and you could be a budding photographer. So, I hope you don't object to a little constructive criticism.
There's too much contrast. It's especially noticeable on the headshell, partly because that seems to be the subject of the photo. Most of the headshell is very nicely exposed, but there's way too much washout where the key light reflects off of it. The pronounced shadow below it confirms that that light should have been at least a stop lower.
There's also washout on the left side of the image, on the record grooves.
These sorts of things are caused by too much contrast in the lighting. Softening your lighting is the first thing you should do. You can do this fairly easily by using a larger main light source, and less light from a key light, and being very aware of excessive contrast.
This is a very nice advanced amateur photo. Toning down the contrast, and reducing the highlighted areas can move it toward the arena of professional photography. I suggest shooting it again, with "reducing contrast" being one of your goals, along with bringing out a bit of detail in the background LP, so it's not just plain black.
hth
hth,
I enjoy photography, but have to admit to being pretty lazy about it. I don't have an SLR and use my Canon S3IS in semi-manual mode.
The criticism is much appreciated.
Lighting is clearly my biggest problem. I find taking pictures indoors much more difficult than outside, where a cloudy day or setting sun make things easy ...at least they do for me. Even when using a lightbox I have trouble with lighting !
Thanks for the tips and nice comments.
Dean.
Note: If you go to my profile there is a link to my website. I took all of the pictures. You'll see what I mean about inside verses outside.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
nt
Well i am. Some 34 years as a pro. Now i teach online.
You did a heck of a job Nice, Specular Highlights. Clear and sharp too.
Well done.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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Sounds like the blur is caused by camera shake.
Most likely you don't have enough light and therefore the camera has to choose a shutter speed that is too slow for you to hold steady.
Some things you could do:
- use a tripod or something else like a small bean bad to lay the camera on.
- get more light on to your subject
- up the ISO (sensitivity)
- pick a faster shutter speed
- hold the camera with two hands close to you, not the one handed job with the arm all stretched out like you see soooo many people do.
- use a flash
A tripod is essential, particularly for low light and/or close up photography. Your camera may be limited in its close-focus ability. If so, just get as close as you can. As with any photography, lighting and composition will make or break the shot.
I particularly like the shot of the reel-to-reel.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
nt
SAWEET, THANKS
those look awesome
So do I ! I don't buy my gear for the looks - but I like looking at gear.
I also like looking at other peoples set-ups - especially the room. I must be a nosey-parker !
Below is a link to a Japanese site who do lots of show reports. The photos are pretty wild - as is some of the gear. Just click on a link. The real photos tend to start around page 5 or so.I am useless with a camera. It's shocking. It's my deck in the photo - but I I didn't take the shot.....
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it seems to have helped with the clarity, now I must dust all my gear before I take it's picture.
Cool ! What are those speakers with the lattice on the baffles ?
The worst thing is I have no excuse. My other half is a pretty good photographer with a ton 'o gear 'including tripods!) and my dad is pretty hot with a camera too. He has his own darkroom & everything. But since we went from silver nitrate to mega-pixels I just can't get the things to do what I want - and it's only partly to do with menus & stuff. I'm pretty good with tech-stuff generally. I was OK with the Canon Power-Shot (just the right degree of 'manual' about it) but there is a Nikon D3100 here now and I cannot get to grips with it at all.
Pioneer cs 66
They don't make 'em like they used to !
I love them, in that system with Jazz I replaced my Snell K5's with those just sounds sweeter
The pictures look very 'noisy', meaning that the ISO was set very high and the size of each pixel is rather large.
Try to set the ISO on a lower setting, also try to increase the quality setting on your camera.
i am so new to photography and have bad eyesight, mostly I just listen to music. But I must say I love looking at gear and even more hearing it..............so many here have so much cool gear vintage and newer it all very cool
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