S5600 came today-first pic

Arsey · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:34

So my new S5600 came today, first real camera and I want to get into photography more.

I was playing with the settings and found how to do the 15 seconds exposure thingy. So I made a light trail for my name

I'm so pleased

Scam · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:42

Heh, cool. How is that done? Obviously with the long exposure, but whats the light source?

Nazbit · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:56

LED tourch im guessing.

Im sure you will have some fun with your new purchase!

Helium_Junkie · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:57

My smartphone creates that colour light

Nice work

Arsey · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:59

Yeah it's a torch with 3 white LED's in

tigerstyle · 23 Jan 2007 at 01:30

for a similar but different effect, try a long exposure with the flash too looks tops!

hardc0re_tid · 23 Jan 2007 at 14:24

is the 5600 better than the 9500?

Arsey · 23 Jan 2007 at 14:57

hardc0re_tid said:
is the 5600 better than the 9500?

A quick google says no as it is about twice the price

After a bit more playing, I am looking for some opinions on this photoshop I did.

Here is the original in black and white

and now this picture but photoshopped to try to remove the background.

I still prefer the first as it gives a longer view but what are all your "expert" opinions? I'm looking for comments on the photoshopping, not how my DoF is wrong or my aperture is too fast or something

Tonks · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:28

Hope you don't mind but I had a go at editing it myself, using Elements I used the skew control to take out the background areas, then cropped the result to take out the distracting black key at bottom left, then some adjust lighting shadows/highlights and increased the contrast a little... there's more to be done yet I think, the keys could be made more horizontal and the whites could be made more white.

StevenG · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:35

the only thing i would say about the piano shots is that the white keys have a grey tint to them. but other than that its a nice pic and a good camera too..

i have the 9500 and i havent really had a chance to play with it yet.. but all my recent pics have been taken with it.. of my setup etc.

im waiting on some good weather to go out and try to get some nice shots

Arsey · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:38

StevenG said:
the only thing i would say about the piano shots is that the white keys have a grey tint to them.

It's not like I cleaned the keyboard or anything before taking the picture

Thanks for that Tonks, I didn't notice the distracting black key, but I guess I will just pick these things up. I also like how the white keys are whiter and how the background is gone but the picture is not long like my photoshop attempt.

Windle · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:46

Reckon you could drop the bottom white key altogether from tonk's photoshop.

Tonks · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:50

I have re-edited the shot straightening the keys and making them a little whiter. My edit does lose the 'long' look of the original but it only loses 1 key in the process. With the edits the jpg is starting to lose its quality now as you can see with halos around the keys

StevenG · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:51

i might have gone a bit far with the contrast on this.. but it was just a quick attempt

i left the full length of they keys in as i think its a good effect having the full length in there..

a really good shot actually i like it..

keep up the good work!

Alu_ATC · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:35

That's one of the first things I tried with my new camera too

Unfortunately, I didn't have an LED torch, so I used just a regular torch. Came out well though, kind of like RHCP's Fortune Faded in colour.

El Gringo · 23 Jan 2007 at 20:55

Nice! What's are videos taken with the camera like? I know I can't expect much from a 5mp

( thought it was 6...) cam but I'm hoping

Arsey · 23 Jan 2007 at 20:57

El Gringo said:
Nice! What's are videos taken with the camera like? I know I can't expect much from a 6mp cam but I'm hoping

I haven't actually tried yet lol

El Gringo · 23 Jan 2007 at 21:44

I'm thinking of the s5600, but is 5mp a good number, considering the type of cam it is? The positives are that it has a great zoom and excellent low-light capabilities (possibly an IS?), but not sure about the 5mp part...

Arsey · 23 Jan 2007 at 21:53

El Gringo said:
I'm thinking of the s5600, but is 5mp a good number, considering the type of cam it is? The positives are that it has a great zoom and excellent low-light capabilities (possibly an IS?), but not sure about the 5mp part...

The 5.1 MP makes perfectly good photos. Check out my flickr for pictures but bear in mind I have only had the camera 2 days

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14439508@N00/