Photography
Is there a thread on photographing poi? and what cameras and setting people think are best?
I dont want to start one if there is already one that i have just missed?
Also, didnt know where to post this, so hope its ok here? :oops:
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Photography
Yeah there should be a help forum i guess but here's fine.
I dunno if there's a photography topic or not, and even if there is i don't see why you shouldn't start a new one, this isn't the kind of place where people get mad at you for asking questions
Well i used to have a nikon finepix at work and there was no need to fiddle with any settings. There was no need to even look at the picture you were taking. Just point in the vague direction and keep pressing the button. It would take a while to sort itself out but the photos were wicked.
The other joy of that job was the nikon D100 with sigma macro lens, yum, was about £2000 camera at the time and that's where the photo of the flame that became the 'blue sphercular flame' you see behind this text. I miss that cam.
I used to have an ancient film camera without a flash and the focus was knackered. Was great fun and taught me a lot about what settings it needed and so on. But that was years ago and probably wouldn't be much help to you unless you owned the same camera
To be honest with you i've been using photoshop for about 7 years, so i just point and shoot and touch up anything i like the look of. Admittedly there's no substitute for an excellent photo but as a very good photography friend once told me.
"The secret of taking great photos, is taking lots of photos"
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Photography
There are some good discussions on poi photography on some of our fellow poi sites *ahem* but I think you're fine starting one on here- sphercular shooting gallery
I've used everything from camera phones (see my avatar when it comes back) to 2mp point and shot digicams up to £1000 digi-SLRs (of which I can now use 2- my dad and best mate both have one
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Exposure is the killer- a long shutter release with standard exposure will make night look like day, so turning that down is a good start.
It generally depends on what kind of shot you're going for- I personally only enjoy fire shots if they are pretty, clean and usually symmetrical, or purposely asymmetrical yet still clean and interesting. The initial 'ooh its a random light trail' pics I used to take now just look lazily spun and shot and thus I know tend to only really shoot for patterns (the current fad is the antispun 4 petal flower- I'll pop a pic in the new galleries
. Stalls in fir pics are rare, a) because they are hard to do properly and b) because they are hard to catch because of their speed. They do look cool though. 
Photography
thank you, at the moment i have an old SLR minolta 7000, and i am in the process of deciding on a new digi cam, (cant afford a digi SLR :cry: )
I will check those photos out, i love wire wool photos as well, i think they look really efffective