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catastrophoenix
Sup /p/?

I've lurked here for a few months and feel I'm ready to show pieces of my collection. Any comments or criticisms would help. But first, a litle about me.

I have two years of classroom photo experience (so I know how to develop B&W along with developing tricks, but the photoshoop is mostly self-taught). I ended my Senior year in Photo Major 1.

I use a Canon Powershot A630, and I don't have my own B&W SLR, but I borrowed a Pentax from the school. The A630 was the succesor to my A620, my faithful friend that I owe most of my best shots to. Unfortunatley, it was stolen early this year, so I got the A630. I might get a decent digital SLR for graduation, though (My dad mentioned the Sony Alpha).

I feel I know my camera pretty well, but I would like help understanding what the white balance, flash output (though I rarely use flash), and ISO does.

Anyway, here goes. This first picture was originally much too vivid to be interesting, so I decided to depolarize everything but the butterfly. I did a terrible job lassoing, so it took a few hours to clean up the edges, and they still aren't perfect. My first "real" shoop.
>> Anonymous
No advice on the digital white balance, flash output, etc, but ISO is your film's sensitivity to light. A higher ISO means a higher sensitivity to light, better for shooting at night. A lower ISO means better for shooting at daytime, since the film isn't as sensitive to the intense sunlight
>> ac
So in all that time lurking, you never noticed anyone getting flamed for posting big-ass 7 megapixel files?
>> ac
>>51571
s/film/sensor

This guy's shooting with a digital camera.

(Still valid once you make that switch, though)
>> catastrophoenix
Alright, fine, guess i still need to lurk moar. How does I reduced size? Also, I thought the EXIF would show up on it's own, how do i put that in?
>> Anonymous
>>51575
Somewhere in your editing chain you have a program that can't read EXIF data.

All the adobe stuff should let you resize + preserve exif. I know corel has some problems with exif. The gimp works with EXIF as well.
>> Anonymous
at least you barely messed up using the art history brush, I admire that.
Magnetic lasso is a bitch, isn't it?