Anyone experienced with digital photography?

I'd like to talk one on one to someone who is, mainly for advice and such....and most of the deviants I watch are way to busy to even talk to someone as unimportant as me. Help would be appreciated

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I don't do much digital photography but I do have 1 hint. Better black and white photos then with desaturate.

Take a color picture take it into photoshop go to image>adjustment>gradient map and choose the black to white gradient. It makes a huge diffrence

Desaturated


Gradient Mapped


Thats all I have to offer

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Anything helps, so thank you

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and not to mention get outside and look in odd places. I always found the best potential pictures walking in abandon parts of my neighbor hood. Exception for this most amazing sight Ive ever seen In the smoky mountains of Tennessee it was a hills of bliss, kind of like windows bliss wallpaper but better and 1 single huge tree with the most amazing structure, I wish I had a digital camera.... but to get the best pictures you definately gotta search and expirment.

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It isnt necessarily taking the picture that I need advice with, it's more of the hardware. I need to know what camera takes the best quality pictures for the lowest price, good for novices but has all the expert features, what do I need to artificially improve lighting in a certain area. I was thinking of a cannon powershot A95, but the price is so low I'm wondering whether it's too good to be true and I should get something better..... Is it worth the hassle of developing, printing, buying film, and not getting direct results to buy a film camera? I've noticed they usually produce better results but I dont know if I have the money nor the experience to go through all that yet.

I just need help >.< lol

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I know a guy that takes extremly high quality and probally have plenty of time to help.
http://dputz.deviantart.com/
He dont exactly have the best gallery but he has the camera of the gods.

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canon is good, even though it is a low price, probaly still good... my digital camera sucks, but atleast it works.

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any particular reason you need to stick to digital? you can take the photos on film, take them somewhere to be developed, and scan in the negatives. (film does cost $$$ though). just a thought.

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see that's where I'm not sure, and I feel that I need to be sure before making such an investment.

With digital cameras, I like the fact that you have instant results. I can take a bunch of the same shots and different angles and quickly choose which one I like best, while deleting the others, saving space and allowing more pictures. With film cameras, I would have wasted all that film for maybe 1 or 2 good shots, and film + printing costs me extra money. Usually all my photos end up on the computer anyways, and I have never been in a darkroom in my life....two more reasons why I am not so sure about film cameras. The only plus that I know of for film cameras is a little better quality and initial price for the camera....but is that really worth it?

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well thats the price you have to pay and the things you have to think about. i think i read somewhere that one professional photographer/videographer for a skateboard magazine and freelance work (with skateboarders) would have spent somewhere around $32,000 on film and developing the pictures. but keep in mind that skate photographers take lots of sequences, about 9 frames a second, so you could get 4 sequences on a roll of 36 exposure film. the thing is though, he didnt spend that 32 grand because he got a digital camera . (im not sure if the 32 grand is lifetime total or not, but either way, its a lot of money)

but if you do the half traditional and half digital where you take the photos and someone else develops the negatives, then it would lower the cost and the most important things you would have to worry about would be scanning with high quality and printing with high quality.

since you're so unsure about what you would like to do, i think i would recommend getting a digital camera just to go ahead and save some $$$ right from the start. then if you decide you want to get into it more and know what is going on in side of those cameras, you could buy a camera off ebay or a local shop for little $$$ and still get good pictures. the other thing about that is whether you would want small, medium, or large format. (35mm is typical camera and small format, unless im super stupid). the size refers to size of the negative, and the larger the negative, the higher quality the print and the larger you can make a print. i think that all goes down to megapixels when it comes to digital cameras (i could be wrong).

we have a 8.2 megapixel digital camera and it takes very good pictures. it cost quadruple digits so you might want to settle for something less.

ok, so, i would say start with a good quality but reasonably priced digital camera and then decide if you would like to get into traditional film.

im currently on summer break, so i dont have assignments or a darkroom to work with, so i wish i had a scanner (downside to film). and i cannot develop my film without buying stuff or taking it somewhere.

another thing you might consider, ive noticed that manually focusing a film camera is easier than a digital camera because digital is all on lcd screens and it just doesnt work too well with my eyes. that might just be our camera though.

i got my film camera from my parents, maybe yours have one they wouldnt mind giving you. (worth a try).

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I would have to say that depends on the mood or noise of the picture..

I'd choose the desaturated if I wanted to make the picture look more.. oldish type. You know what Im saying...

Well Im no pro, nor do I do these stuffs, just posting my opinion..

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I've been taking some pictures outdoors with a digital camera lately. And all I do in photoshop with them is change the level-settings. You can make a huge difference there. Black&White photos is easy to change as well, just configure the contrast and intensity. But don't overdo it though, the result won't be any good at all =P. I use a standard 5 Mpx camera, it works damn good. You can take good pictures with any camera at all. I'ts the motive and lightsettings that makes the differens. So I think you should buy/rent/borrow a digital camera, find a really nice place to shoot and return home and finish them of in Photoshop =).
But it also depends what you want from your pictures as well. To get focus on just one single object with a standard digital camera is hard. Use one that you can zoom manually bu turning on the object etc etc.
I hope I've helped you... somehow xD.

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Muzik, I use both digital and manual, although no one looks at the threads I make for photo's because you all are sig whores.

Anyway, if you are just getting into the more "professional" photography start with the basics, not with the best. Get a cheap little manual camera with no auto funtions, this way you learn what auto is REALLY doing for you and you will get a better grasp on how it all works. Then just have the film scanned in at one of those 1 hour places although I develop my own negitives, you may not have the ability to get to a darkroom.

After you do manual look at Nikon cameras, however know that if you are going to do photography for a side job do not get a D50 because every dumbass and their mom has one, I got one yes but you try to do a wedding and the people will complain that they have one as well etc etc people will say that it is not a pro camera but also these same people are douche bags and don't even know what photoshop is. Moving on, if you want to feel pro get a D70S or something.

Oh and Brunbeck said any digi cam will work... No, no not any will work, no matter the mpx the non SLR digital cameras will suck, big time.

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