RIU and Photo Quality.

Lil Czr

Lil Czr

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After looking at hundreds of photos and trying to help people with all kinds of problems. One thing is true for a vast majority of posters.

Photography lessons are badly needed. I'm not trying to be rude at all. But it's really hard to help when you can't tell what you're looking at.

Some of you do a great job and your images are great. Some of you that is...

Just a thought...
 
simpsonsampson420

simpsonsampson420

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agreed.. most of the time its little details that we need to see to help answer questions.. and its more often than not that those little details are extremely blurry and hard to see..

a clear picture of what you are wanting to show off is truely worth more than a 1000 words...
 
JeepBeep

JeepBeep

Active Member
The thing is alot of these people are using a cardboard grow box, so I doubt they have a camera above 1MP, LOL even though most phones are 3.0 and above =P Its mostly cause they take the pics with the lights on, Effing everything up.

I am just usually so happy that someone actually put in a picture on there "help me" thread I look past the quality.. hehe
 
Green Cross

Green Cross

Well-Known Member
Lil Czr said:
After looking at hundreds of photos and trying to help people with all kinds of problems. One thing is true for a vast majority of posters.

Photography lessons are badly needed. I'm not trying to be rude at all. But it's really hard to help when you can't tell what you're looking at.

Some of you do a great job and your images are great. Some of you that is...

Just a thought...
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True. Luckily I have some armature photography experience, or my pics would probably look just as bad. Some times you're limited by the camera, and cell-phone cam's are notoriously bad.

At the risk of sounding like a know-it-all; Here are some easy tips that come to mind:

1. Experiment with the settings on your camera, and the area in which you're shooting. The best picks I've seen are out doors under natural light, with a flash to fill in the shadows.

2. Turn your flash to "low" and try scotch-taping a small piece of paper over the flash to tone it down. You can even cover part of the flash with your finger on closeups. Note: When taking closeup shots directly under your lights, usually no flash is needed.

3. When shooting under HPS (or 2700k) turn your camera setting to "incandescent" It's usually the one that looks like a little light bulb on indoor light settings. This will adjust for the red and orange glow. Try turning the HPS's off and using different lighting. You're plants won't mind. Experiment

4. Most newer cameras have a macro setting for super closeups. Flash is usually disabled by default, but the shutter speed is much longer, so a tripod may help you to get clearer shots.

5. Focus! How rudimentary is this?

6. Take a few shots at different angles, distances, and lighting, then weed out the bad ones (delete) the blurry ones.

7. You can get nice macro (closeup) shots even if your digital camera doesn't have a macro setting. Pickup a set of magnifying glasses at radio shack for $8 and electrical tape any of them to the front of your lens. I took this shot using this technique. You can actually tell what sex this plant is by the photo! LOL
 
Green Cross

Green Cross

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GrowTech said:
Dude, I think even if you took that photo across the room with no magnifier it would be clear what sex it is. :lol: ;)
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Well true, but we see lots of "what sex it this posts" and not a clear close-up to be found. Not bad for a magnifying glass and some tape huh?
 
juststartin

juststartin

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Green Cross said:
Well true, but we see lots of "what sex it this posts" and not a clear close-up to be found. Not bad for a magnifying glass and some tape huh?
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most people that ask what sex their plants r dont know what they r looking for so dont know where the detail needs to be. noobs :roll:

:D
 
spiralstaircase13

spiralstaircase13

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i could go on forever about the quality of pictures that a lot of people put up. but then again i'm almost done getting my degree in photography, so i probably expect a lot from everyone. i don't want to bash on anyone though cuz i know a lot of us just work with what we have.
 
GypsyBush

GypsyBush

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I'm not sure what's worse.. the pics or the buds...:spew:

Damn gypsies... :razz:

Must be the music...:razz:


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Indicas @ 6 weeks...

















Satvas @ 6 weeks...












































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Some tunes for the show... :hump:


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 These are the moms that donated 70 big cuttings last week...








The long lost, but recently found White Widow seeds... Horray! Spring Cleaning!


























The CLAW...!!!


































































































































































































































How about another song to keep us going..? :hump:



[youtube]N505JczoEGI[/youtube]





Ahh! The ONLY Pure Breed in the Flower Room this far...
Behold the..

JUICY FRUIT

















OK! let's not get carried away.. this is just some more crappy bagseed...:shock:






























































I decided to flower a couple of bigger girls... there's always room for a few more girls in my harem... :hump:



































Here is some JUICY FRUIT starting to flower...:weed:



































Oh! Damn! Bagseed AGAIN.!!!!!... lol... :joint::bigjoint:


One more to close out...

"I strictly ROOTS!"

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Brought to you in part by...






:joint::peace:[/QUOTE]


Some trim turned Kief...:eyesmoke:


Ah... now we get a peek at the drying rack... also as of this morning...:wink:



What's your taste?bongsmilie

INDICA


or SATIVA...:eyesmoke:


































































































































I am still in love with this Juicy fruit... :roll:

She's just ... so fucking pretty...!!!:hump: ... makes me wanna eat her...:lol: :weed:































C99 at 5 weeks...:razz:











:o
 
P

PadawanBater

Guest
Dude...

How long did it take you to post all those pictures?!?!!?!
 
Roseman

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
Green Cross said:
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True. Luckily I have some armature photography experience, or my pics would probably look just as bad. Some times you're limited by the camera, and cell-phone cam's are notoriously bad.

At the risk of sounding like a know-it-all; Here are some easy tips that come to mind:

1. Experiment with the settings on your camera, and the area in which you're shooting. The best picks I've seen are out doors under natural light, with a flash to fill in the shadows.

2. Turn your flash to "low" and try scotch-taping a small piece of paper over the flash to tone it down. You can even cover part of the flash with your finger on closeups. Note: When taking closeup shots directly under your lights, usually no flash is needed.

3. When shooting under HPS (or 2700k) turn your camera setting to "incandescent" It's usually the one that looks like a little light bulb on indoor light settings. This will adjust for the red and orange glow. Try turning the HPS's off and using different lighting. You're plants won't mind. Experiment

4. Most newer cameras have a macro setting for super closeups. Flash is usually disabled by default, but the shutter speed is much longer, so a tripod may help you to get clearer shots.

5. Focus! How rudimentary is this?

6. Take a few shots at different angles, distances, and lighting, then weed out the bad ones (delete) the blurry ones.

7. You can get nice macro (closeup) shots even if your digital camera doesn't have a macro setting. Pickup a set of magnifying glasses at radio shack for $8 and electrical tape any of them to the front of your lens. I took this shot using this technique. You can actually tell what sex this plant is by the photo! LOL
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Show - Off !


LOL

just kidding, great pic, great quality pic.
 
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