The 420 Fotographer Collective: Advanced Cannabis Photography

[kelticBlue]

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This photo was taken on a tripod. PLUS for that added insurance I used a 2 second timer.

Pro tip: Even the movement of your finger could cause enough camera shake to cause a portion of your image to be blurry.

I had a wireless trigger but it broke. I have a wired one on order.

for what it is worth, I use the 2 second timer to reduce camera shake. I don't hardly use a Tri pod cause I am lazy. But when I do I almost always take/retake the picture with the timer on. Helps me : - )

Those wireless thingy things are the bomb! I should get one.

 

[Agemon]

Originally Posted by UrbanAchiever View Post.

This photo was taken on a tripod. PLUS for that added insurance I used a 2 second timer.

Pro tip: Even the movement of your finger could cause enough camera shake to cause a portion of your image to be blurry.

I had a wireless trigger but it broke. I have a wired one on order.

=kelticBlue;3850495]for what it is worth, I use the 2 second timer to reduce camera shake. I don't hardly use a Tri pod cause I am lazy. But when I do I almost always take/retake the picture with the timer on. Helps me : - )

Those wireless thingy things are the bomb! I should get one.

Depending on your camera you may have a custom function for locking the mirror up. Your shutter prolly isn't causing the camera shake, it's the mirror. On my camera if I use the mirror lock up I have to push the button twice to take the picture. This is where a very sturdy tripod comes into play. You can use sandbags on the legs of the tripod also, if your concerned about camera shake.

I imagine if you use the timer the first push will lock up the mirror and then the timer will fire the shutter, thus eliminating your shaky finger syndrome.

 

[Scrogdawg]

Username:

Scrogdawg


Grow method and strains:

RDWC baby. Many indicas and hybrids.


Camera, Lenses and Gear:

Many Canon DSLR bodies and most of they're L glass over the years. I don't shoot a lot any more and have sold most of my gear.
Currently I have Canon 70D and 5D bodies.
For glass I have kept the Canon 24-70mm L and 70-200mm 2.8 L.


Experience level and photography background:

Self taught over many years.
Experience level...


What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various)

Sports and wildlife mainly. Anything action or moving.


Favourite lens or type of shot:

70-200m F2.8 IS "L"
300mm F2.8 IS "L"


Other introductory options:

Choose a few of your favourite photos and share them. .

Shot this off my back deck one night years ago with a 100-400mm Canon lens.
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Got lucky here with a 500mm F4.0 "L" lens.
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Big Papi and Manny being Manny.
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He's not with me anymore but best bud I ever had.
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[kelticBlue]

The 420 Fotographer Collective - Member Bio

Username:
kelticBlue







Grow method and strains:
No till soil in a very small tent behind my couch. I like landrace and inbreedline hybrids. Like Ace Seeds does. I am not in a position to grow true landrace lines I just don't have the environment. But hybrids have the vigor to get me to harvest.



Camera, Lenses and Gear:
I have a Canon rebel Ti3 orTi4 cannot remember but I don't hardly use it for plant fotos.

I use a point and shoot Casio Exilim Ex-ZR-100. It is a good little camera that is covered in sticky resin. Yucks.


Experience level and photography background:
Ok so after high school I went to a technical school that taught me how to fix great big motors and pumps and things. At some point in time just for fun , I went to the local community college and took two classes in black and white photography with film 35mm. I was a long haired boy following the Grateful Dead taking all sorts of fotos. Never had such a good time. It was the 1980s. Then came the 1990s, I got a haircut and got a job like my big brother Bob. Lost my old 35mm camera and all the negatives I had kept from my long strange trip on the road.

So I am just an amateur but I learned the basics.



What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various)
I dig animal or wildlife photography most. Sunset or sunrise and weather landscapes next favorite. These are what I use my Canon for.

For the canna foto capture I love the up close macro.

Favourite lens or type of shot:

Favorite macro shot is with the point and shoot.





If you could give 1 tip for new photographers:

My tip and personal how to with the Casio I use. For Macro.
I set the camera up first with biggest file size
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iso to 100
then auto white balance to manual for tungsten light 3000K (my cob lights are 3500K)
Then flash off.
then the camera is in a 'best shot' mode I select flowers which puts it into macro mode
then I go into the Menu-focus and select super macro.

In summary, the tip is setting the white balance to match my light as close as possible with the tungsten setting.
And have my lights turned up all the way.
I have not used PShop since version 5.5 I think? I dunno. I just use iPhoto. I should do more. I have been super out of it lately.






Other introductory options:

Please share 1 of you favourite photos and explain why it works so well for you. What equipment did you use?

Please share 1 technique you use in a step by step how-to.

Choose a few of your favourite photos and share them.

Talk about a piece of your equipment you can't live without.

the super macro mode in my focus menu Trichs in focus looking for cloudy. ......

Share the link to other photography related content you have created.


Welcome![/]

hard to find a picture in the gallery on my phone
here is an up close I like.
Cropped to small size

And the random purple bud with the ever present cat hair in the shot. There is a lesson there somewhere.

 

[DobeWan]

Awesome shots, Scrog. GSDs are great dogs.

 

[Skullman420]

I use a Canon 5d mark III with a Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM Lens. Also have one of those rebel cameras. A third of the prize of the mark III, but with the good lense it's also a great camera. The rebel is hacked with magic lantern, making it my favourite for timelapse photography.

Not on the pc now so no photos to share. Just wrote this to subscribe to the thread so I can find it back later.

 

[Skullman420]

The latest 420 related photo I did

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The rebel doing a timelapse

Some video I never finished due to getting sick

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The magic lantern hack makes the rebel my first choice for the VDSLR rig


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[Skullman420]

Fuck- I see you have a certain format you want us to do the posts in - sorry! Didn't read the first post before I posted. Let's see if we can answer the questions:

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Username:
DeVille

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Grow method and strains:

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Hydroponics, soil
big-bud, train wreck, white widow, jack herer, bubbleicious, pure power plant​

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Camera, Lenses and Gear:

Canon 5d Mark III, Canon 550d (rebel)
Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM​
Misc Canon lenses from the 70's & 80's which I use via an adapter
The kit lenses (which I never use)

The VDSLR rig - This one I built myself from misc parts. Costed approx. 5000 USD to build. Could put together a parts list, but that will take some time. Also - all the gear is not on the rig at all times, try to keep it as light as possible. Also have misc microphones for it and misc lights I can attach to the rig. The battery is enormous and can last a couple of days in the field
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Experience level and photography background:

Been producing video material on a semi-professional level. Mostly filming, editing, producing of music video's for bands. Can't show you any of that stuff though as it would reveal my true identity. I know better photographers than myself, plenty of them, but I ain't so bad. Not at all
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What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various)

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I try to do as much weirdness as possible, photo, video, animations, potraits, outdoor, animals, our cats. Anything that inspires me really

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Favourite lens or type of shot:

Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM​

​ is the best lense I have. Very flexible. Do want to get myself a manual 35" lense for videography though. Also love those lenses from the
70's & 80's. I have a 100mm that was the most used lense in the Vietnam war for press. The adapter makes everything a little blurry though so I only use them for special fx
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If you could give 1 tip for new photographers:

Have fun. I mean - if you can't have fun, then what's the point?

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I only have one video I can show you, and I am actually a little ashamed of it because despite of all my cool gear, I filmed it handheld without the rig and it's quite shaky. I also composed and performed the music you are hearing. That one I'm more satisfied with.
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[Skullman420]

oh I do have a tip for new 420 photographers - Especially those growing under LED. Use custom white balance to get true colors on your photo's. To get rid of the blurple color from the LED lamps. Most cameras can do that

 

[Tony Urban]

Username:

Scrogdawg


Grow method and strains:

RDWC baby. Many indicas and hybrids.


Camera, Lenses and Gear:

Many Canon DSLR bodies and most of they're L glass over the years. I don't shoot a lot any more and have sold most of my gear.
Currently I have Canon 70D and 5D bodies.
For glass I have kept the Canon 24-70mm L and 70-200mm 2.8 L.


Experience level and photography background:

Self taught over many years.
Experience level...


What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various)

Sports and wildlife mainly. Anything action or moving.


Favourite lens or type of shot:

70-200m F2.8 IS "L"
300mm F2.8 IS "L"


Other introductory options:

Choose a few of your favourite photos and share them. .

Brilliant introduction Scrogdog, stoked you found the place and appreciate the bio. Those are some serious shots with some nice glass! Being in the right spot at the right time is not easy with wildlife. Very nice.

I love my 70-200, but I was putting it on a t1i so I went with the F4L. Kinda knew I was taking photos of plants on a tripod. Still wasnt cheap.that 2.8 would be awesome though. Which brings up a very interesting tip, one you touched on as well, that a good quality lens is more important than the camera. So if you have a dslr already and you want a new one...maybe check out a new lens. You can often rent them for a day from local shops.

Love that moon shot too, anyone thats ever tried taking a detailed shot of the moon knows how much of a challenge that is, I have always wanted to cheat and get a telescope that I can hook the camera on to lol. I had a cheap telescope, saw some incredible things in that, always wanted a good one. Great stuff Scrogdog, looking forward to having your knowledge and general bad ass self kicking around.

 

[Tony Urban]

Originally Posted by UrbanAchiever View Post.

This photo was taken on a tripod. PLUS for that added insurance I used a 2 second timer.

Pro tip: Even the movement of your finger could cause enough camera shake to cause a portion of your image to be blurry.

I had a wireless trigger but it broke. I have a wired one on order.





Depending on your camera you may have a custom function for locking the mirror up. Your shutter prolly isn't causing the camera shake, it's the mirror. On my camera if I use the mirror lock up I have to push the button twice to take the picture. This is where a very sturdy tripod comes into play. You can use sandbags on the legs of the tripod also, if your concerned about camera shake.

I imagine if you use the timer the first push will lock up the mirror and then the timer will fire the shutter, thus eliminating your shaky finger syndrome.

Ahh yes! The mirror lock up function. I havent used that in a while. Definitely another source of shake, and with cannabis, its a stable object generally. Perfect candidate for that. I will tell you this, I preferred my plants in a scrog, the plants were held in place. Being free they are never still. Pain in the backside.

 

[Tony Urban]

Username: DobeWan

Grow method and strains: I grow in tents, in coco under LEDs. My journal breaks out more detail for the curious.

Camera, Lenses and Gear: I used an old Canon EOS Rebel XS. It's about a 10 year old camera but is still very capable. I used to use a telephoto for long shots, but now I just have the 18-55mm kit lens and the 50mm "nifty fifty". I'd love to have more, but priorities. Later in life I'm sure.

Experience level and photography background: No formal training or experience. I got a Sony point and shoot back in 2001 with few manual settings and started to learn a little about lighting. Got a better point years later with tons of manual settings and enjoyed it. Graduated to the DSLR around 2010. I used to take a lot of concert and nature photos when my then-girlfriend and I were out and about. Got dogs and started in on portraits. Most of my photography these days is plants and kids.

I also have lots of old and not a lot of recent experience in Photoshop. In the early days I did web design and development, and taught myself how to do both. Part of that was learning how to do what I needed in Photoshop. These days (as in, in the last few days since I installed CC 2017) I just use it for touch ups.

What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various): Most of what I shoot now is for my journal.

Favourite lens or type of shot: I like the 50mm and portrait shots.

If you could give 1 tip for new photographers: Read up on lighting and experiment with it. I'll really help you understand how some shots look the way they do. Also pick a subject you're interested in to practice with. For me, my dogs taught me a ton about photography.

I honestly don't have good 420 photography... yet. My photography to this point was less about taking a great shot, and more about having a progress marker, so it was almost always done on my iPhone without any care. I'm tempted to post up some dog pics, but they can be reverse image searched to find out who I am IRL and I would like to avoid that. My good recent pics are all family photos - once you have kids, your photography becomes all about the kids. So... good photography to come I guess?

Welcome DobeWan! I saw you brother, great bio, full of some great tips and things we all share in common. Incredible snapshots of your terrier! You have a talent in your journal for taking us through the process often with clean images. Similar to how Sue walks us through her day or routine.

Stoked you made it DW.

......Evenin' all...thanks for the link Urb!...I'll forego the bio for now...wanna sit in and learn some techniques...I just use a small Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3...pretty much point and shoot, but when you go into the menu for all the different modes, there are numerous settings to play with...although I do sometimes, its usually just playing with flash and different modes...interestingly enough this thread go me checking a little...seems I have a pretty simple white balance adjustment in macro mode...sunshine...inside...lights on inside...that type of thing...will have to check that out...
...also had bought a clip on 3 in 1 lens for my galaxy phone...was most interested in the macro lens and was just getting used to it when the phone went to Samsung Heaven...sighs...I suspect I will be getting some sort of phone in the spring...an Iphone hand me down from my sister...
...So I'm gonna sit back fer' the next little while...enjoy some sun and Pacifico and hopefully learn some skillz from you fellas!...the skill set in the photo's in the different contests demands it......cheerz......h00k...

Welcome! Dont be so modest, you are a seasoned veteran in the photo contests, but more importantly a fine cultivator of cannabis! Glad you joined us, we are just getting fired up, mutiple puns intended. You are not the only point and shoot user. Folks can still benefit from your tips or tricks. I know some of the settings on the point and shoot are pretty sweet, like the macro modes, I still miss my Canon Elph power shot.

 

[Tony Urban]

I use a Canon 5d mark III with a Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM Lens. Also have one of those rebel cameras. A third of the prize of the mark III, but with the good lense it's also a great camera. The rebel is hacked with magic lantern, making it my favourite for timelapse photography.

Not on the pc now so no photos to share. Just wrote this to subscribe to the thread so I can find it back later.

Wow a couple of you big swingers here, sporting 5d's, love that 24-70 too. Really glad you joined us, you really have a talent and an incredible set of skills, folks will have fun picking your brain!

Hey, thanks for filling out a bio!, you gave a pretty good introduction so its just icing on the cake. I am really looking forward to seeing what we can do in 2018. My D80 can take video, but I dont have the processing power or programs to store and edit, but you never know.

 

[Tony Urban]

Setting a Custom White Balance in a Canon DSLR using a grey card.

Step 1. Have a Canon DSLR. Also a grey card.

Step 2. Take a photo of the grey card IN the light you will be shooting pictures. Fill most of the frame with the card to make it easy. Here is an example. Also note the photo in the camera display is a different shade of grey than the one in my hand. These are the same card under two different lights.

Step 3. Go into your menu. Find Custom White Balance.

Step 4. Choose the grey card photo to set the white balance.

Step 5. Now go to your White Balance menu, and choose the Custom White Balance you just created. Now the camera knows that yes, its not normal light, but "i will see what I can do".

Here is the in camera result. You can also accomplish this in software. Open the grey card photo in your editing software. Find Custom White Balance. You can create a custom white balance preset or template to apply to every blurple picture with the touch of a button.

Cheers!

 

[ilikemsticky]

The 420 Fotographer Collective - Member Bioi like this

Username:

ilikemsticky the name says it all






Grow method and strains:

organic soil or los just finished some lemon sno cone,tangerine cookies,sssdh and m2







Camera, Lenses and Gear:
i use a nikon d3100 lens is a nicor af 18-55mm








Experience level and photography background:

i have been taking photos for years but I'm a point and shoot guy I'm a total novice don't no anything about shudder speeds and such i use the auto settings!







What is your style? (portrait, journal, macro, outdoor, instructional, various)


i prefer outdoor pics




Favourite lens or type of shot:

my favorite type of shots are on the macro setting i like close ups buds flowers whatever!





If you could give 1 tip for new photographers:

i would say take lots of pics of each thing your photographing then you have choices to pick the best one!, also when i can have something to lean on for support the shaky hand is a killer for digital and i also recommend a tripod to get the best pics,lighting is important experiment with different lighting to get different effects!






Other introductory options:
i don't have an all time favorite ill have new favorites as they come but this pic has been a favorite for a while it was taken in jackson wyoming on a trail my wife and i were walking on to a spot called hidden falls 5 mi. each way quite a walk for an old man lol

i used my nikon d3100 with af 55-200mm lens free hand it was an absolute beautiful day!
Please share 1 of you favourite photos and explain why it works so well for you. What equipment did you use?

Please share 1 technique you use in a step by step how-to.

Choose a few of your favourite photos and share them.

Talk about a piece of your equipment you can't live without.

Share the link to other photography related content you have created.
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[ilikemsticky]

i just wanted to add a thank you to urban achiever for starting this thread i love taking photos of these girls and I'm always ready to learn something new and this will be a good place to learn it thanks ua!

 

[Skullman420]

Great guide. With the magic lantern hack it's as easy as pointing the camera towards something white and tell magic lantern to use that as white.

Setting a Custom White Balance in a Canon DSLR using a grey card.

Step 1. Have a Canon DSLR. Also a grey card.

Step 2. Take a photo of the grey card IN the light you will be shooting pictures. Fill most of the frame with the card to make it easy. Here is an example. Also note the photo in the camera display is a different shade of grey than the one in my hand. These are the same card under two different lights.

Step 3. Go into your menu. Find Custom White Balance.

Step 4. Choose the grey card photo to set the white balance.

Step 5. Now go to your White Balance menu, and choose the Custom White Balance you just created. Now the camera knows that yes, its not normal light, but “i will see what I can do”.

Here is the in camera result. You can also accomplish this in software. Open the grey card photo in your editing software. Find Custom White Balance. You can create a custom white balance preset or template to apply to every blurple picture with the touch of a button.

Cheers!

 

[Skullman420]

-magic lantern will also use mirror lock-up when you do timpelapses so you don't ruin your shutter. Very useful. Just check if your camera is compatible or not. My mark III is not, but mark III's with lower firmware than mine can use it. It works on all rebel cameras and most other Canon cameras as well. It will basically give you pro video functionality on your dslr. Don't know if I'm allowed to put up a link to the hack here, but you'll find it very easily on google

 

[Skullman420]

I want to get good at timelapse photography this year. That's a goal I have. I want to do timelapses of several strains from clone/seed to harvest. But I would like to invest in a few small cameras, like go-pro or something similar for this. In order to capture the whole grow. My lenses are no good for photography inside small rooms. Great for close-ups, but not for capturing the entire grow. So a combination of my rebel and a couple of go-pros would be cool. For now I will just use what I have and see what we get

Wow a couple of you big swingers here, sporting 5d’s, love that 24-70 too. Really glad you joined us, you really have a talent and an incredible set of skills, folks will have fun picking your brain!

Hey, thanks for filling out a bio!, you gave a pretty good introduction so its just icing on the cake. I am really looking forward to seeing what we can do in 2018. My D80 can take video, but I dont have the processing power or programs to store and edit, but you never know.

 

[Agemon]

Just foolin around this morning, shot this with the iPhone used Snap Seed to process.