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[soupy1957]

ksgal said, "The really tricky part is timing the press of the button to the action of the waves where you want it."

Exactly right!

-Soupy1957

[Steven G Webb]

So what was the purpose of this little exercise? Were you wanting to get input on how different people would select shutter speeds and f-stops? Were you wanting to know if you should buy a photographer's notebook and record your exposure settings? Were you wanting to know how to decide when the timing was correct for shooting waves?

[soupy1957]

Songman45: Yes, yes and yes.

-Soupy1957

[BambersImages]

When you get film developed, they can put all your images onto a disc in digital format for a very small extra charge.
Why don't you do this with your next film developing and let us see what you have done?

[soupy1957]

BambersImages: Yeah, I noticed that I could get a disc done..........I may try that. Or just create a video slideshow and post the link......

-Soupy1957

[jerryph]

The slideshow idea... not that good. Most people will not watch an entire slideshow of 20-30 photos of the same thing but with 20 different settings.

Try flickr out... it is free or $25/year for a pro account. Upload your photos there and link them here.

BTW, in all fairness, to a very good degree, Songman had a valid point. You were asking everyone here how to use your camera at it's most basic level. The attempt to hide it was a little obvious too.

[soupy1957]

jerryph: You said, "......20-30 photos of the same thing but with 20 different settings."
-Not so. I meant creating a video of a few DIFFERENT photos I had taken, in sucession.

You said, "You were asking everyone here how to use your camera at it's most basic level. The attempt to hide it was a little obvious too."
-I made no attempt to be mysterious or play dumb (as it were). I am honestly revisiting the basics to re-familiarize myself with those concepts. Although I have been taking
pictures fairly regularly, I had about 3 years in the digital point-n-shoot world in which I had not been doing any manual film photography or manual digital photography, and wanted to re-visit the basics, in an honest attempt to remember the right way -vs- the wrong way to do things. Especially since I was entering a new medium for me, with 120 film, which I have ZERO experience with. The "basics" could have dynamics that although similar to 35mm, could have been slightly different in the Medium Format world.
-Soupy1957

[Mike_e]

Originally Posted by soupy1957

ksgal said, "The really tricky part is timing the press of the button to the action of the waves where you want it."

Exactly right!

-Soupy1957

Use a tripod and a long shutter cable. Grasp the cable near the camera with your off hand to minimize camera movement and move your forearm in time with whatever you're shooting to help you gauge when to release your shutter.

[quantumhelp]

The basics are all the same. Just that your exposure control has to be very tight vs the wide latitude of film. You could do the testing on the P/S if it has manual mode. To get the best color definition in digital of film, you have to use the correct exposure. If you go over in digital you are spoiling for trouble. If you go over, you get wishy washy colors and loose contract. With film that will happen also, but not as noticeable below 1 f/stop over. Going under on both digital and film results pretty much in flat, unsaturated images, with artifacts showing up more in digital.
Digital with a full frame or small frame in nothing different that shooting 35mm or 120 film. Good exposure counts whatever the media.

[jerryph]

Originally Posted by soupy1957

-Not so. I meant creating a video of a few DIFFERENT photos I had taken, in sucession.

Yeah, same thing... please don't subject people to that, it's just rude. Two or three different photos is more than enough to get what you are trying to say across... I personally would not click the link from anyone knowing it is a slideshow. I doubt many here would feel differently too.

Originally Posted by soupy1957

I am honestly revisiting the basics to re-familiarize myself with those concepts.

There is nothing wrong with revisiting the basics... but there is a big difference in revisiting the basics, and asking to be hand held through them. Honestly, the basics can be covered in a small video of several minutes in duration... after that, it is practice, practice, practice... use the basics and expand on them and don't be afraid to show a little independence. You decide if the shot is good or bad in relation to similar shots others have taken. I earlier mentioned Flickr... they have hundreds of thousands of photos about similar subjects that you can reference for comparison purposes.

Don't believe me about the basics? HERE is the proof... a video right here on the camel in the tutorials section from one of our own members.

Originally Posted by soupy1957

...and wanted to re-visit the basics,

There is zero difference between digital and film when it comes to the basics, so all that you learned with film applies 100% to digital.. so that review should happen very easily.

Originally Posted by soupy1957

...Especially since I was entering a new medium for me, with 120 film, which I have ZERO experience with. The "basics" could have dynamics that although similar to 35mm, could have been slightly different in the Medium Format world.

Not at the level you were asking info on, unfortunately. The dynamics of using different formats doesn't change when discussing ISO, aperture and shutter speed.

Light is light.