Essential The Official Photography Thread

[kdslittlebro]

When I was making commercial printers the printers would always demand 300ppi.

Check your import and export settings in Lightroom and photoshop. I haven’t been heavy into photography for a minute but if I recall correctly, when you first open up photoshop, you have to select the correct orientation, canvas size, and ppi.

Appreciate you breh, that 300 is the figure I saw too. I think I’m gaining an understanding on that part of the process, but one solution I saw to gain more pixels in shooting is to shoot longer focal length, and that wasn’t computing in my head. The number I was seeing was >=135mm. I did see that one solution was to take more pics and stitch them together, which would make sense.

But the way you calculate dpi when printing is just dividing resolution by the length you want to print. I print from Nations Photo Lab, and they’ll give you a warning when your print will turn out blurry at the current size. All my shots are 6000x4000 24MP, but the longer focal lengths do get through that NPL filter, and they do contain more data (larger file size).

 

[FatherSimp]

It's been while

Day 143 by Kenneth Augustin, on Flickr
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[MikelArteta]

It's been while

Day 143 by Kenneth Augustin, on Flickr
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excellent shots you killing it

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

How do y'all feel about Seamless Paper backdrops? I need some backdrops for my home studio and they say the paper ones are the best. I'm looking at Savage Paper and it seems legit. I think I might do a tech green so I can change the backgrounds out myself.

But that's pretty much industry standard no?

 

[Dillah810]

About to post some more shots soon, but question: I’m trying to make higher quality large size prints for personal use (40”x30” is probably about the max), and I’m aware of ppi and dpi, and how it correlates to clarity of the print.

I’m looking at ways to increase those, because what I was trying to print was mostly around the 125-150 ppi mark, and a solution I’m seeing it to shoot a longer focal length and/or swap to portrait orientation. How does that correlate to higher pixel/dot density?

Info for shooting is everywhere, but printing seems esoteric af I guess because most ppl are printing 5x7s and shyt like that mainly, if at all anymore.

That focal length suggestion probably officially retired my kit lens tho, I was 15-45mm, now I’m 50-230. I was keeping the kit around for landscapes, but I’ll probably get a fixed wider angle lens as my fallback/landscape next.

I'm not sure how it works in the photography world. but I'm a graphic designer and when I send designs to print it's always at 300 DPI. Commercial printers won't accept anything less/

 

[kdslittlebro]

I'm not sure how it works in the photography world. but I'm a graphic designer and when I send designs to print it's always at 300 DPI. Commercial printers won't accept anything less/

Yea that 300 is the number I run into too. I just shot these at like 230mm and had no issues ordering these at 45x30 for the crib, even tho I don’t see any other difference in most of the other shots I’ve tried to print large, and those other ones got the “blurry” warning. My longer focal length lens does get me much better potential large prints than the kit tho, that maxed out at 45mm

I still got much to learn

 

[8WON6]

 

[Rice N Beans]

These are clean AF. Well done.

 

[8WON6]

These are clean AF. Well done.

thanks!

 

[JD2019]

thanks!

Dope pics breh and props on actually posting, I need to do the same. What size softbox were you using?

 

[8WON6]

Dope pics breh and props on actually posting, I need to do the same. What size softbox were you using?

25" Glow EZ collapsible beauty dish

 

[JD2019]

Che

25" Glow EZ collapsible beauty dish

Good looking out. If you do a lot of location checkout the Angler Fastbox. It’s a game changer.

 

[Stir Fry]

Wasn't planning on going mirrorless anytime soon, and if I was, I really thought that the canon R6ii was going be the model that I was going to get. However, a couple nights ago while thinking about an upcoming trip to spain and europe, I looked over at my 5diii with the 16-35 attached to it and realized how huge it was, so I went down the mirrorless rabbit hole and ended up copping a R8 + 14-35L setup a couple hours later. I'm really impressed with this camera. When it was first released, it looked way too stripped down and somewhat chinsey for my liking, and along with the lack of a joystick, no IBIS, and reports of terrible battery life, I had pretty much totally written it off. However, after looking at a couple long term reviews now that it's been out for a couple months, I discovered that it's actually a dope ass camera. Battery life is actually pretty good once you dial in a few settings and I really haven't missed the joystick or IBIS at all. Haven't had a chance to take it out and put it through the motions yet, but so far I am extremely impressed with this new rig I got. Probably going to cop a RF 70-200 f4 down the line, but for now I'm just going to run my old one on a neewer control ring adapter that I got in case I ever need any extra reach in the meantime. The size is amazing too, I love how inconspicuous yet powerful it is. Canon really hit it out the park for me with this model.

 

[JD2019]

Wasn't planning on going mirrorless anytime soon, and if I was, I really thought that the canon R6ii was going be the model that I was going to get. However, a couple nights ago while thinking about an upcoming trip to spain and europe, I looked over at my 5diii with the 16-35 attached to it and realized how huge it was, so I went down the mirrorless rabbit hole and ended up copping a R8 + 14-35L setup a couple hours later. I'm really impressed with this camera. When it was first released, it looked way too stripped down and somewhat chinsey for my liking, and along with the lack of a joystick, no IBIS, and reports of terrible battery life, I had pretty much totally written it off. However, after looking at a couple long term reviews now that it's been out for a couple months, I discovered that it's actually a dope ass camera. Battery life is actually pretty good once you dial in a few settings and I really haven't missed the joystick or IBIS at all. Haven't had a chance to take it out and put it through the motions yet, but so far I am extremely impressed with this new rig I got. Probably going to cop a RF 70-200 f4 down the line, but for now I'm just going to run my old one on a neewer control ring adapter that I got in case I ever need any extra reach in the meantime. The size is amazing too, I love how inconspicuous yet powerful it is. Canon really hit it out the park for me with this model.

I’ve heard nothing but great things about the R8, congrats on the new pickup. I think the R8 and the 28mm pancake lens would be a great travel combo to go along with your zoom, pickup that RF nifty 50 too. Got mine refurb from canon for $70 during one of their online sales.

Do you find yourself having any grip issues with the body being so much smaller than your 5D?

 

[Stir Fry]

I’ve heard nothing but great things about the R8, congrats on the new pickup. I think the R8 and the 28mm pancake lens would be a great travel combo to go along with your zoom, pickup that RF nifty 50 too. Got mine refurb from canon for $70 during one of their online sales.

Do you find yourself having any grip issues with the body being so much smaller than your 5D?

What's funny is that my pancake 40 was my favorite lens on my 5d3, but not so much on this R8, which is tiny in comparison. I think i need lenses on it that extrude a little more. I placed my control ring adapter on it the other day to simulate a pancake and it didn't feel very comfortable to me. It did feel damn near perfect however after I attached the 40mm to it. I'm actually leaning towards picking up the 24mm 1.8 for this this upcoming trip to use as a nighttime street lens. The wider fov, speed and image stabilization will probably trump the form factor of the 28 during this trip for me.

The 14-35 balances really well without any grip issues for me, but I do have a JJC extension plate coming in the mail for it right now just to try out. I like the fact that it gives the body a touch more real estate, as well as including a built-in arca tripod mount, which the canon ones don't. I am returning a knock off version of the JJC to amazon today as the pinky part is a bit more vertical and dug into my finger if I held it too tight. The jjc also includes a folding strap attachment point which I like along with the cold shoe portion being flush with the body unlike the amazon version. I also like that this plate sits the camera flat which some of the others do not. The JJC is a half ounce heavier and a smidge shorter from what I'm looking at the spec sheets posted online fwiw.

Here's the plate:

Product Description – JJC

www.jjc.cc