星期日, 十一月 05, 2006

谈论 平民如何拍GOOD照片


转载真是好啊,

这个星期不用自己写周记了,真好阿。

同鄙视IE。



引用




平民如何拍GOOD照片



看到一篇反器材论的帖子,我不知道他说的对不对,但是我相信不是任何东西都要有钱才是王道,让那些炫耀烧钱的阔少拿着他们的单反去拍他们喜欢的人体艺术吧~





不过说实话本文根本没提到相机好坏对照片的影响,只是在讲拍照的态度和思路,说白了就是自然,俺们老百姓玩的是简单,是快乐,像素高低俺们don't
care~



同时bs一下IE,用IE拷贝整个网页过来直接cpu占用率100%,网页全死掉,用firefox啥事都没有,瞬间拷贝完成,差距啊……怪不得IE
team都在firefox2发布的时候送蛋糕。

How to take a better photograph



Getting acquainted with your camera is important, but it’s not
the end-all, be-all of taking a great photo. I am a firm believer
that the cheaper your camera, the better the results. The bells and
whistles of an expensive camera are great if you know how to use
them but they are not essential building blocks for creating a
beautiful visual record of your life. What follows are some simple
steps to consistently taking better photos in the most common
scenarios.



a cheap camera



Cheap camera.



cheap camera 1



cheap camera 2



cheap camera 3



Not so cheap lookinng photos taken with a cheap
camera.



Shoot from the hip

I can’t tell you how many photos I’ve taken without looking
through the viewfinder. Why would I do that? Well, for one, I hate
being stuck behind the lens. If you go through your life with one
eye shut, you’re missing half the fun. Then put that one eye
behind a lens designed to crop off my view? Forget about it. No. I
can see who’s coming and going, and that’s where the action is.
Plus, when you’re not aiming, your photos don’t end up looking
like everyone else’s photos. They’re instantly entertaining
because they not only capture the story of the moment, but they do
so from a unedited perspective. Ah, that’s the stuff!



don't aim 2
don't aim 3



These were taken by holding my arm outside and above the
car.



shot from the hip



From the aisle. Seated. One handed. Slam dunk.



martha pbhbtbhtbh



Above the head.  



I shoulda had a V8



My wife is constantly making fun of the way I shoot photos. I
absolutely refuse to hold the camera steady. If you want the
easiest way to make a scene a little more interesting to look at,
tilt your camera. Your brain will ask you to make a perfect
horizontal line with the horizon. Forget about it. Tilt the
horizon. Make those moments more interesting by giving them some
weight and balance problems. Photos on the edge are just plain
fun.



tilted beers



Quick! Get that beer before it tips over!

me beer tilted



What’s good for the tilted goose is good for the tilted
gander.



omg there goes the church



OMG! The church is sliding off the earth!



Kill your flash



Especially in low light situations. It may be a little funky at
times, but more often than not you’ll get a perfect photo that
keeping your camera on auto-flash would have otherwise killed.
It’s kill or be killed.



One of the reasons I love to turn off my flash, by the way, is
that you can see much more clearly how yellow and rad most indoor
lighting is. The more photos you take over time, the more you see
how colors around you are affecting the quailty of your image. In
low-light situations, where there is often only one source of
light, you get to see exactly how light works. Take that knowledge
outside and you’ll see marked improvements, I guarantee.



One word of caution: make sure you haven’t had too much
caffeine. The shaking in your hands will show up in the image.
Often you will need to find a hard, steady surface to set your
camera on in order to stop “the shakes.”

flash car



Flash.



flash no car



No flash.



flash walkers



Flash.



flash no walkers



No flash.



flash indoors lean in



Flash.



low light



No flash.



no flash groceries



No flash. Preserve those colors!



no flash grocery



No flash. Colors and action. Blurred, but no worse for the
wear.



no flash tv



No flash, indoors, night. Very steady hand. Why would anyone
photograph themselves in their PJ’s watching TV is another matter
altogether.



no flash park manor



No flash, bright backlight, camera-phone. Kind of a cool
image.



steph and pozzi



No flash, plenty of light, but action is captured
better.



Don’t be shy



Seriously. If you’re going to take on the mission of being the
documentary film-maker of the bunch, get rid of your inhibitions.
What’s the worst that could happen? The worst thing that ever
happened to me while I was taking a photo to its logical limits was
accidentally stepping in a pond at a restaurant. And what a better
memory than that? So get out there and step in it!



up close



Sometimes its about the audience.



hotel demo



Sometimes it’s about the show.



eagle on 4



Sometimes it’s about a hole-in-one.

its so important



And sometimes you just can’t resist the urge.  “It’s
so important.”



Kids



As an adult it’s always a challenge to photograph kids.
Here’s a couple of things to keep in mind. Kids love it when
you’re on their level. Get down on your hands and knees and shoot
upwards toward them. They love it. Same is true of most adults,
although they rarely admit it!



Don’t waste your breath making kids behave for the photo. If
they are doing things in a photo that you would let them do anyway,
what’s the harm? If they’re being goofy, let them be goofy.
You’re not a wedding photographer, so don’t worry about losing
your job. You’re not stuffing a portfolio - you’re capturing
the moment. Look at it this way. In twenty years you’ll have an
embarrassing photo for the kid to boot!



micaela top



Up high is OK.



micaela under



But eye-level is better.  



just koko
dancinge crew
>



Kids of all shapes and sizes.



katie 2
katie



Some are tame.



kids 2
kida 3
kids 4
kids



Just let them be.



low level
lower level



Eye-level is good. Carpet-level is great! Now if only I’d
used a flash! :-)



down low whiffle ball



That’s a little fat me. My mom took this!



Let the kid shoot the picture



You’d be amazed what they come up with. Kids have an untrained
eye. The less intimidated by the fear of “shooting a good
photograph” the better the image. Kids have pure talent. Let them
go wild with it. Their perspective is just as important.



I wish I had some examples of this: SEND ME A PHOTO AND
I’LL INCLUDE IT HERE
. email: kelly ‘at’ dandelife
‘dot’ com



Be The Hef



Fact: when people are gathered for a group photo, they tend to
tilt their heads toward the person in the center. It’s as true in
the society pages of your local gossip mag as much as it is in the
oodles of photos you have in your photo albums. Why do people do
that? All it does is make them look uncomfortable. So if you see
somone tilting his head, make sure you help him straighten up. Or,
as Stephanie says, “Just be The Hef”



“The Hef?” you ask. My wife once pointed out to me that Hugh
Hefner never tilts his head in a photo. Why? Because he’s “The
Hef.” People are always gathered around him in group photos. The
Hef knows that it’s the photographer’s place to get all the
heads in the shot.



mormor is the hef
mormor is the hef 2



The Hef in our family is MorMor. She’s 94 years old and
leans in for no photo.



not leaning in



No lean-in. Good.



the lean in but not so bad



Lean-in. Not bad, but could be better.  



the lean in



Lean-in.



the not lean in



No lean-in.



Get personal



Most people are uncomfortable with you getting right up in their
face for a photo. But you know what? You get a better portrait that
way. Most of don’t have time for messing with the zoom. Nor do we
have the money for “good” zoom lenses. You’ve got the best
zoom in the world with your feet. Get close. The closest
you’ll ever have to stand for a close-up is normal conversational
distance. So don’t think of it as a photo but as a conversation.
In the end, you’ll have a better picture and they’ll thank you
for it.



Tip: keep breath mints cose at hand.

cassie far



Far away, no detail.



cassie close



Up close, detail.



mom and koko
one yummy cup of coco
steph's face up close



The closer the better!



Links



Most of the examples here are of social situations, featuring
people in their environment. Some of you will be photographing
buildings, streets, the countryside and places of interest. For
those situations I don’t have much advice. They’re not my
forte. I did find a couple of good photographic resources for you
to look up though. So follow these links and learn some more.





Links via lifehacker’s photo
archives
:





星期六, 十月 28, 2006

美版无间道果然很难看



我能为光电子事业做得最后一点努力似乎就是买两张光盘回家看了。。。


 


看的什么?无间道。。。


 


过了片头,电影进入枪版时间〉〉〉


 



bxc突然大吼一声,我靠,他竟然是用针孔摄像机排的!



我立马对他的业务精熟感到无比敬佩!!!


他马上解释了。。。。。。


 



一般的CMOS摄像头都不会拍出这种效果,……


 



从马特达蒙和雷昂纳多两个人一从警校毕业,我们俩就一致认为


拍得不如无间道好。


 


长官的废话太多,搞得像电视剧一样。


而且给雷昂纳多的暗示也太多了,



似乎就预示着他一定是一个大好人一样,让他受了很多无聊的委屈。


 



我说:应该把雷昂纳多和达蒙的角色换一下。


bxc说,嗯,这个人看上去太愚蠢了。<他指的是达蒙,相当于刘德华的角色。>



我觉得是他看上去太乐观了,完全没有那种做卧底的警觉和危机感。



bxc说,无间道里面,那个人是做了十年卧底,所以整个人看起来就很压抑;\


       
这个人刚从警校里面出来就干了这么多坏事,\


        只能说,他是个坏人。


 


bxc决定去看他自己的东西。



我看到雷昂纳多和心理医生上床,bxc出来吃面。


我也跟着去吃面了。


 


不怕不识货,就怕货比货。


比来比去,好莱坞也就so-so吧。



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好像丢了五十块钱

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星期一没赶上去北京实在是有些遗憾


但也到此为止吧,


 


这颗虚荣的小心灵在乎的太多了。




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也许每一个男子全都有过这样的两个女人,至少两个。娶了红玫瑰,久而久之,红的变了墙上的一抹蚊子血,白的还是床前明月光。娶了白玫瑰,白的便是衣服上的一粒饭粘子,红的却是心口上的一颗朱砂痣。

星期二, 十月 17, 2006

请推荐电视剧吧



发现我的英语听力退化了,于是下班也开始跟着bxc看桔子郡男孩。


 



看着看着突然意识到我为什么不喜欢看绝望主妇和欲望都市,


因为里面的女主角都又老又难看。


 


我说的是难看,没有说丑。


 


Friends我还是挺喜欢看的。


 



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Windows还是难搞,在厕所问了别人一个问题差点把人家憋坏了。




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也许每一个男子全都有过这样的两个女人,至少两个。娶了红玫瑰,久而久之,红的变了墙上的一抹蚊子血,白的还是床前明月光。娶了白玫瑰,白的便是衣服上的一粒饭粘子,红的却是心口上的一颗朱砂痣。

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