My paper stuck a nice camera in my hands, but I'm just a writer who points and shoots and hopes and prays, so be easy on criticism (and dare I hope constructive?):





Those are a couple I took last week.

5/9/2006 11:48:50 PM

^the fire + fireman is great man! nice

-ZiP!-

5/10/2006 12:09:04 AM

5/10/2006 1:50:30 AM

burt reynolds?

5/10/2006 1:51:09 AM

It's uh... funny cause it's uhh... bigger than a normal hat.

5/10/2006 1:52:01 AM

i found it backstage

5/10/2006 1:52:43 AM

We were bored in the photo office, and we found that hat, so we played with the studio lighting and my new 30D. Hillarity ensued. It was hard to keep a straight face with that hat even in the room.

5/10/2006 1:54:42 AM

Ronny, that hat reminds me of the one Hines Ward had on at the Steelers Superbowl parade back in February. Heres a picture I took of him:


And speaking of February and Boston, here's some Boston photos I took back in February:

http://metroscenes.com/boston/



[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 6:28 AM. Reason : pic]

5/10/2006 6:27:43 AM

I randomly found this guy's page, some good shots of NYC
http://www.joesnyc.streetnine.com/

5/10/2006 12:49:36 PM

Cool stuff.

5/10/2006 3:38:51 PM

5/10/2006 3:46:48 PM

from that big storm in Raleigh a month or so ago

I like it alright, but didn't catch that twig blurring across the screen until I uploaded it

5/10/2006 4:25:07 PM

a couple I just shot of some Cedar Waxwings feeding on Mulberries by my house





[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 5:10 PM. Reason : had to focus manually, so they may be a little off]

5/10/2006 5:07:12 PM

Figured I may as well take some shots of the place since I'll be peacin' out here soon...overcast weather hurt it a lil bit

















All handheld w/ a Panasonic DMC-FZ5

5/10/2006 5:50:55 PM

5/10/2006 6:19:33 PM

flash, did you do any editing to that last picture?

5/10/2006 7:24:00 PM

I shot it in raw back when I had a 20D, then underexposed it several stops in post, then boosted shadows to bring BofA and Hearst back out, the Unsharp mask with large radius (hence the slight halo) for overall contrast.

The dynamic range of digital cameras generally isnt good enough to properly expose an entire scene like this, unless you performed the newer HDR feature in CS2 with a swath of multiple images.

5/10/2006 7:33:14 PM

thats some straight startrek shit right there.

5/11/2006 2:38:47 AM

set em up

5/11/2006 2:44:57 AM

p12

5/11/2006 4:17:52 AM

ok i reread what flash said... i don't think film has the dynamic range to expose a shot like that either. but cool. i really should start shooting in raw more.

5/11/2006 10:30:30 AM

i've thought about shooting in raw...

maybe someday i will

hell maybe someday i'll actually shoot again

5/11/2006 10:47:08 AM

DON'T QUIT ON ME NOW WOODY!!!

5/11/2006 10:49:28 AM

I usually shoot in Raw if the exposure is hard to get dead on, knowing I'd be able to crrect it in photoshop. Usually it is just superfine jpeg though on my 30D (which, might I add, is fucking sweet).

5/11/2006 10:56:41 AM

sweet=gay

5/11/2006 11:06:51 AM

zip
i don't know why

but this shot is classic

<img src="http://www.pixelparlor.com/nyc3/images/slr044.jpg">
fucking html


[Edited on May 11, 2006 at 3:08 PM. Reason : fuck html]

5/11/2006 3:08:21 PM

30D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D50

[Edited on May 11, 2006 at 3:09 PM. Reason : Also, I'll post more from my P&S Archives later this evening.]

5/11/2006 3:08:52 PM

From last night. She kinda reminds me of Kylie Minogue



[Edited on May 11, 2006 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ]

5/11/2006 3:19:06 PM

^great shot man, i'm excited to see you getting into the fashion photography industry a little as well, expanding those horizons!

Quote :

"zip i don't know why but this shot is classic"

haha, thanks man i have all sorts of shots of random junk that haven't seen the light of day (ie: haven't been properly processed and are waiting in folders), but yah, lots of it is literally garbage, haha.

Quote :

"30D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D50"

relax man, the nikon vs. canon debate was pages ago.

-ZiP!-

5/11/2006 3:37:36 PM

some great shots on the last page, by the way.

southpaw, thanks for contributing to the thread with the NCSU pics -- good stuff, keep up the good work

-ZiP!-

5/11/2006 6:12:00 PM

Here is an anvil cloud with embedded mammatus from yesterday around 4:15 PM from a dying storm making its way just south of Raleigh:





Panorama of it:

5/15/2006 5:54:46 PM

gfuckingg

5/15/2006 5:57:06 PM

Im about to buy a 20D and Im prolly gonna buy just the body only.

Lens wise: I want a pretty decent macro lens so I can take good close-ups of random stuff. I was looking at these macro lens:

EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro lens
EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
EF 100mm f/2.8 USM (pretty expensive)

I also want a lens that can take good landscape pics (not wideangle) and portraits:

EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 II
EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 II
EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM (also expensive)

These are all canon lenses. If any of yall can suggest some other lenses (sigma/tamron) that are equivalent or lenses that I havent mentioned that you think would be better, that would be great.

5/16/2006 11:08:55 AM

i would suggest nikon actually

5/16/2006 11:49:50 AM

you would

5/16/2006 11:50:52 AM

you wouldn't?

5/16/2006 11:52:44 AM

^^^^Buy the 60mm 2.8 Macro USM. I just bought one for my 30D and I am super happy with it. Build quality is much better then the compact macro, and I heard it is much sharper.

As far as portraits are concerned, the 60mm is a good portrait length lens, so you won't beat that. For landscapes, you'll want as wide as possible (trust me, you will want the wider lens), so go with the 17-85. Most focal range, and sharper then the others, although none of the 3 zooms you mentioned will even begin to compare to the 60mm.


And yeah, don't go with Nikon.



[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 1:14 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2006 1:10:17 PM

I have the EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM with my EOS 20D, it came as the "kit lens" with my camera. It takes great pictures as far as I'm concerned. I can try to post a few of my wide angle pics that I've taken with it once I get home.

5/16/2006 1:46:21 PM

SO KEWL

5/16/2006 1:53:22 PM

Meh. Non-DSLR, but I guess it's decent. 12x optical zoom is the schidt!








[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 4:25 PM. Reason : Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3]

5/16/2006 4:25:00 PM

levels son

levels

way too much grey

5/16/2006 4:30:14 PM

thanks ZiP

weather permitting, I'm going to shoot some more around campus tomorrow and see how that goes...could've had a BEAUTIFUL shot of the belltower today but left the camera at home

5/16/2006 4:36:06 PM

^^ all the pics? or some in particular? i'm still new to the pic game.






[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 4:59 PM. Reason : levels for the boat pic. i thought that was decent. any insight?]

5/16/2006 4:39:23 PM

you see all that flat empty space on the ends

get rid of that

think of it like a darkroom
thats like leaving your photo in the chemical bath for a couple moments too long
or not making sure the negative was dry before you put it in the enlarger

5/16/2006 5:33:50 PM

ah!

5/16/2006 5:37:01 PM

lil better

5/16/2006 5:38:50 PM

thanx for the advice.

5/16/2006 6:59:38 PM

I'm so glad this thread has kept the bullshit to a minimum. I'm home for now, but I'll be back on thursday. I got some damn good shots over the past few days, so as soon as I can get to a decent computer, I shall be uploading them.

5/16/2006 7:14:46 PM

regarding the boat pic, i'd still say you could beef up the saturation a touch and also brighten the whites -- that change (to the newer image) got a bit dark, but nice shooting, man

-ZiP!-

5/16/2006 7:20:48 PM

not super happy with these but these are two i shot downtown (near the financial district) this past weekend




-ZiP!-

[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 7:27 PM. Reason : it was hard to get anything right with the fountain ]

[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 7:36 PM. Reason : PS: those duck shots are great man!]

5/16/2006 7:27:24 PM