IN BEFORE THE SNAKE PICTURES

3/4/2009 8:26:32 PM

ps - i don't even know where those shots are all taken from (the raleigh skyline ones, not the snake ones)

3/4/2009 8:27:52 PM

3/4/2009 9:26:01 PM

just for Woodfoot

3/4/2009 9:32:04 PM

3/4/2009 9:33:27 PM

I just want to know if my picture is fucking crooked

3/4/2009 9:33:35 PM

lil bit

3/4/2009 9:34:37 PM

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 9:59 PM. Reason : dsagds]

3/4/2009 9:41:50 PM

yeah but now there's a wedge of white in the upper left.

3/4/2009 9:47:02 PM

haha dammit, i just noticed that

3/4/2009 9:53:23 PM

fuckin snakes man

whats your phobia

cause i'm gonna go shoot the shit out of it
(if my DSLR worked right)

3/4/2009 9:53:55 PM

swimming with sharks.

i like to think of it as a rational phobia, but you're not gonna be able to get me with pics.

3/4/2009 11:27:52 PM

death

deathphobia.

photograph the shit out of it.

3/4/2009 11:33:00 PM

^x6 It needs to be rotated slightly to the left and then cropped.

3/4/2009 11:35:54 PM

I'm done messing with that one tonight, maybe tomorrow...

3/5/2009 1:21:49 AM

that grate is crooked.

3/5/2009 9:13:43 AM

3/5/2009 11:04:14 AM

^Reminds me of The Jacket

3/5/2009 11:05:47 AM

I didnt touch the grate haha

Awesome, creepy pictures pezking. Was that stuff just lying around in that hospital? I thought they'd remove everything.........

[Edited on March 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM. Reason : ddd]

3/5/2009 2:55:36 PM

its amazing what gets left behind. Sometimes rooms full of patient records.

3/5/2009 4:54:07 PM

What hospital is that?

3/5/2009 6:32:35 PM

Great shots, pezking

3/5/2009 9:36:34 PM

they are all a-maz-ing.. but this one......



straight up gives me chill bumps. (in all honesty i'm not sure how i feel about the abrupt wall on the left, a little distracting, but nonetheless....wow)

[Edited on March 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM. Reason : dgfgf]

3/5/2009 11:47:27 PM

ooo scary

3/6/2009 3:30:34 AM

I have a D50
I want a wide angle (by mid-june, at the latest)...going out west, + all the times around here I've wished for one

I'm looking at the tokina 11-16mm

Thoughts?

3/6/2009 7:33:14 PM

on a nikon the 11-16 is a no brainer, and even on a canon I'd choose it over the EF-S 10-22, but they are both really good ultra wides.

3/6/2009 8:14:16 PM

That seems to be the consensus

I'm just having a hard time with the price tag, and continuing my research, in hopes that somehow, I'll find an acceptable compromise on quality to make it more affordable

...but I'm not counting on it.

3/6/2009 8:17:51 PM

You will not find a better lens for anything even close to the price of the 11-16. It outperforms the 10-22 in pretty much every category and is at least 100 bucks cheaper.

I've never been one for Tokina lenses, but if this glass had a dick, I would suck it.

Buy it, I promise you will not regret it. I'll even let you check out mine if you'd like to, since no one around here carries them. Southeastern and Peace never heard of the lens, maintaining their pompous "our customers usually only buy brand name lenses" attitude.

3/6/2009 8:29:51 PM

B&H is on back order as well.

I've had a good Tamron and a good Tokina lens. Maybe the hit or miss ratio isn't as good as canon/nikon, but pick the right one and you get a lot for your money.

3/6/2009 8:38:50 PM

Thanks, folks

^^I think I might take you up on that

3/6/2009 9:26:35 PM

there are/is/was supposedly a bad batch of the Tokina 11-16mms that were missing some spacers inside or something and t hey won't focus right. a shit ton of people on nikonians.org have had the problem, even on the 1st and 2nd replacements!

i want one too, but i might wait to make sure this batch sells out before i get one.

3/7/2009 11:52:06 AM

duly noted: buy on the CC, and buy ASAP, instead of waiting til the last possible minute.

3/7/2009 1:35:32 PM

Slightly OT, but I'm sure somebody here knows. I'm looking for the blog link to the guy who free climbs things around Raleigh and paints them and takes pictures. It was posted in another thread here a few months ago but I can't find it. Thanks.

3/7/2009 3:15:30 PM

what hospital were those shot at?

3/7/2009 3:30:34 PM

his blog is called "no promise of safety" google it.

3/7/2009 7:49:26 PM

I think pezking doesn't want to tell us what hospital that is

3/7/2009 10:36:38 PM

I'MA POST SPORTS SHOTS



















[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 4:03 AM. Reason : .]

3/8/2009 4:02:02 AM

^ thats some pretty good stuff Bweez. What are shooting with?


Took these while hiking in Grayson Highlands State Park in southwest Virgina.

3/8/2009 6:45:29 PM

this picture speaks volumes

3/8/2009 6:49:49 PM

I was sorely tempted to take my camera out in the canoe today, and I'm very glad I didn't. The waves were very rough and we ended up with a lot of water in the canoe.

3/8/2009 8:31:43 PM

During the road trip last summer, stuff started getting into my camera - I even posted about it in here, because it was driving me crazy. I cleaned all my lens and everything repeatedly, had the sensor cleaned, and continue pick/blow/wipe some stuff off the mirror myself.

I cannot stop my camera from getting dirty. I can't figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong.

Here's an example of what's in there now

A piece/speck of dust, and some kind of fiber, it looks like.

Sometimes this stuff stays there for weeks, and sometimes it's there for a few frames.

Suggestions?

[Edited on March 9, 2009 at 11:23 AM. Reason : dlf]

3/9/2009 11:21:19 AM

q-tip + spit

haha

yeah, i have the same issue. it just comes with switching lens outdoors, but I've not gotten to the point of annoyance where i would go through the hassle of cleaning the mirror or sensor.

3/9/2009 11:42:14 AM

Quote :

"^ thats some pretty good stuff Bweez. What are shooting with?"

Thanks, some were with a 450D with a 70-200 f/2.8, some might have been with a d40 and a 300 f/2.8

3/9/2009 1:18:00 PM

This is my cat during the last snowfall.

She really doesn't like snow

3/9/2009 1:47:55 PM

Holy butthole batman

3/9/2009 1:50:11 PM

This picture can be better, but I don't know how, other than how it's composed.

I did try a crop.
Yay/nay?


[Edited on March 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM. Reason : j]

3/9/2009 2:05:44 PM

too big, make it smaller so we can view it on one screen and see that way

3/9/2009 2:27:21 PM

get a bigger moniter

3/9/2009 2:29:54 PM

NO WAI

3/9/2009 2:32:21 PM

It's too big. Yes, that is the problem with that photo.

Honestly ambrosia, there doesn't seem to be a clear focal point. That works for some images, but not with this one I don't think. There really isn't a pattern to draw the eye either. I also think there should be more detail in the highlights.

It is just hard to make a photo like this stand out. I've got a similar shot and I feel the same way about it.

3/9/2009 5:09:33 PM