TAKING GREAT SHOTS with lower-budget gear...

[Fast Glass]

I see videos online of amazing photos being shot with Rebels and $400 lenses

I have a Rebel XTi and only have $400 of manual focus gear. Heck, mabye shouldn't upgrade my gear....[]


John.

[barba]

Your gear list looks very nice to me.


What don't you like about your pictures? Looking at your webpage, those look good too.

[Ehcalum]

The camera helps, but its the photographer who makes the shot. Below are some examples taken with a 6 year old nikon low end point and shoot. Aside from some minor cropping and adjustment in photoshop, everything is straight out of the camera.

[Jordan]

Right out of the camera? That first shot looks HEAVILY HDR'd! Yes, it definitely is the photographer, but we're all photographers here and that's not really the point. The point is, as a photographer, what are the tricks or tools I can employ to get better results with existing gear?

[Ehcalum]

Topaz Adjust spicify on the original.

[Jordan]

That looked like Topaz Adjust... I use it too and I LOVE it But it does produce a lot of noise as I can see in the image and so needs reduction (NoiseWare Pro is what I use and it's great). I have to say though, I'm not complaining. In fact I really like that photo. Only mentioned that because I wanted to note that it was edited heavily. It's a great image in my opinion!

[Ehcalum]

It was also shot at like 640 ISO or something of the sort...