The warbled old glass really made this one for me. Great job.

1/7/2008 10:21:46 AM

^ Thx. I like that one a lot too. I'll probably get a print of it and hang it up.

1/7/2008 12:13:28 PM

1/10/2008 6:12:16 PM

1/11/2008 10:28:37 AM

To the guy in Cup of Joe this morning, unless you are making a movie you might want to take your D70 off sport. Your shutter rate is obnoxious.

1/11/2008 12:03:25 PM

K, so I think I'm going to upgrade to a Rebel XTi sometime soon. I'd like to find a kit for less than $600 which has been offered a few times in the last few months. That way I can swap the kit lens onto my current camera (Rebel 300d) and sell it for a few hundred bucks at least.

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 1:41 PM. Reason : l]

1/11/2008 1:41:26 PM

^^ I really like that one quagmire

1/11/2008 9:16:08 PM

1/11/2008 9:23:35 PM

Mei Xiang, at the National Zoo - I'll get other pics up later, but TGD noticed how sleeping pandas have a striking resemblance to passed out senators



My first foray into long exposures: Pullen Park and Brooks Hall

1/12/2008 10:44:24 AM

brooks <3

and awww at the panda

1/12/2008 10:46:55 AM

1/16/2008 12:42:38 AM

1/16/2008 4:36:43 PM

Kick ass pic!

1/16/2008 4:40:45 PM

1/16/2008 5:33:57 PM

I definitely thought of Stiletto with that last one

1/22/2008 2:00:55 PM

1/23/2008 12:53:12 AM

^ That last photo is very tight.

1/23/2008 1:16:58 AM

These are from a series titled "The Drought: A faggy myth, or reality?"

p.s., I should take the polarizer off every once in a while.

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 12:56 AM. Reason : lol]

1/24/2008 12:53:07 AM

I didn't get great shots, so I'm doing a first - a collage. Just not tonight.

Click my flickr page for more information on the bags. They're $1.

1/26/2008 1:01:23 AM

1/26/2008 1:58:02 AM

what are some of the settings you guys used? or is that all the mystery?

1/26/2008 3:18:48 AM

get my macro lens in a couple weeks

1/26/2008 9:49:44 AM

^^^ where were those taken?

Quote :

"The Drought: A faggy myth, or reality?"

i'll go with reality...it's kind of hard to make up a drought

[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 11:28 PM. Reason : .]

1/26/2008 11:22:23 PM

Quote :

"what are some of the settings you guys used? or is that all the mystery?"

You can get an EXIF reader to view shot settings saved for most digital images.

I'm still trying to figure out the exact sweet spot of my current lens, but for basic situations I try to shoot around f/8 as much as possible. I do a lot of low light stuff, so I stay in aperture priority and shoot at ISO 100 almost all the time. If I get to my limit of 30 sec exposure (don't have a remote for good BULB exposures yet), doing macro, etc then I get out of my routine.

I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my new tripod right now. I just broke my second cheap tripod in the past six months so I'm biting the bullet and getting a bogen.

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 2:41 PM. Reason : ,]

1/29/2008 2:40:12 PM

Question - when using your tripod and with like a low ISO 100, is there a technique in taking a shot or do you use the timer or a remote?

1/30/2008 3:43:31 PM

I've got a Canon mount, Sigma 8mm f/4 EX Circular Fisheye for sale, $450.


^Use the self-timer or remote, pressing it like normal will shake the camera.

1/30/2008 4:47:59 PM

^ Is that the lens designed for APS sized sensors?

1/30/2008 5:24:40 PM

No, it's designed for full frame 35mm sensors, but it will still work on 1.6x crop DSLRs. It won't make full-circle images, instead it'll make images that look like this:




Or you can crop the image so the black vignetting is cropped out:



[Edited on January 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM. Reason : shots taken with a Canon 10D]

1/30/2008 5:54:43 PM

nice shots, rob

1/30/2008 7:15:26 PM

Took some shots last night

1/30/2008 8:42:44 PM

thought y'all might find this interesting and useful in a pinch:

http://lifehacker.com/350647/diy-camera-stabilizer-on+the+cheap

1/31/2008 5:28:31 PM

^^^^Very nice shot of the stadium rob

^Thats a great idea; I will probably work on one tonight. Thanks for posting the link quagmire

[Edited on January 31, 2008 at 6:21 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2008 6:19:12 PM

I've also seen the bolts epoxied to old folding fiberglass tent support rods for a fairly rigid rest.

1/31/2008 7:22:22 PM

^^^^Yo, Pez, where is that?

1/31/2008 8:46:34 PM

seeing as ive only been shooting DSLR for about a month now, im pretty happy with this shot...just wish i had gotten the focus a bit better.



so, anyone got hints on how to get the perfect focus for small objects within the viewfinder, or do you pretty much take a shitload of pics while manually zooming in tiny increments?

1/31/2008 11:26:34 PM

That last location is in Greensboro by the railroad yard

2/1/2008 2:37:51 PM

While getting things in focus is important, you may want to also try and think about some type of composition.

2/1/2008 7:44:30 PM

^^^ I think you would be happier with that picture if you closed your apeture down a stop to increase your depth of field. I don't think the focus is that bad. For a scene like that, manual focus is a must.

2/1/2008 9:16:43 PM

2/2/2008 12:22:30 PM

jvp you rock!

2/2/2008 3:42:27 PM

^Thanks, Kiwi

[Edited on February 2, 2008 at 5:55 PM. Reason : .]

2/2/2008 5:54:49 PM

gonna post more later.. This is from the Iguazu Waterfalls in Argentina.

2/3/2008 12:48:21 AM

i'm officially jealous...closest i got to those was a brief hike in the andes, and only after we crossed over from chile

2/4/2008 1:01:58 PM

Outer Banks 2/2/08























[Edited on February 5, 2008 at 1:31 PM. Reason : i]

2/5/2008 1:28:19 PM

2/8/2008 1:56:05 AM

Two topics for discussion:
1. What do you guys know about selling stock photos? Anyone here into it? What do you use/recommend for indoor lighting? Noise reduction software?

2. I think I have dust inside one of my lenses. I can see little specs on the inside of the front piece of glass (the piece furthest from the camera body.) Can the lens be taken apart and cleaned? Does this happen from using the camera in dirty environments because I know I have always been hella careful when switching lenses.

2/11/2008 9:32:31 PM

The Drought...Pt II

2/11/2008 11:12:56 PM

2/13/2008 2:04:17 AM

skack... don't take apart your lens. it would have to be a hell of a lot of dust to affect your picture quality. unless you see something fairly large in there you should be ok. and i wouldnt recommend taking a lens apart. they arent' too easy to put back together.... trust me...

stock photography, i havent' jumped into that. still debating on it. you can basically google it and come up with some good sites. i think Istock photo is one of the biggest

2/13/2008 7:39:58 AM

seafan taken with (obviously) UW camera, no editing done.

what do ya'll think?

2/13/2008 8:39:38 AM