Dan's Whore It Up Picture Thread...

[Zembonez]

Here ya go Dan...

 

Make us proud.

[2000DV4.8]

Well you gotta wait a couple days, I don't have the camera just yet...

 

And I've posted every picture I've taken in the last year.

[Zembonez]

Well you gotta wait a couple days, I don't have the camera just yet...

 

And I've posted every picture I've taken in the last year.

Trust me Dan. It'll still be here!

[2000DV4.8]

Well you gotta wait a couple days, I don't have the camera just yet...

 

And I've posted every picture I've taken in the last year.

Trust me Dan. It'll still be here!

 

 

Really? Ya sure?

 

You wouldn't be foolin' me now, wouldja?

[Zembonez]

Well you gotta wait a couple days, I don't have the camera just yet...

 

And I've posted every picture I've taken in the last year.

Trust me Dan. It'll still be here!

 

 

Really? Ya sure?

 

You wouldn't be foolin' me now, wouldja?

 

I'm getting a 70-210 lens for my Nikon. Good mid level focal length lens. I'll help you fill this space.

[2000DV4.8]

Well you gotta wait a couple days, I don't have the camera just yet...

 

And I've posted every picture I've taken in the last year.

Trust me Dan. It'll still be here!

 

 

Really? Ya sure?

 

You wouldn't be foolin' me now, wouldja?

 

I'm getting a 70-210 lens for my Nikon. Good mid level focal length lens. I'll help you fill this space.

 

 

 

 

Cool. I'm still a SLR/DSLR newbie, so I barely know what that means, but I've got a photography book I've been reading. Just starting to understand how shutter speed/aperture are related, and damn am I getting excited. I've always liked taking pictures (obviously ), but now I'll be able to compose pictures.

[Zembonez]

Cool. I'm still a SLR/DSLR newbie, so I barely know what that means, but I've got a photography book I've been reading. Just starting to understand how shutter speed/aperture are related, and damn am I getting excited. I've always liked taking pictures (obviously ), but now I'll be able to compose pictures.

It really is fun. I have an 18-135mm lens on my D80 now but the new lens will give me more options... especially doing stuff like action shots.

 

[Darkanion]

You first pics should be of what you get, too.

 

The AE-1's and lenses I bought before I realized the PITA setting up a color dark room was going to be :

 

My Canon Film Rebel that I still take on trips, as a backup "just in case" the dReb dies :

(why there's an AE-1 manual in that picture, I'm not quite sure... I think the AE-1 stuff was in the close cased)

 

The AE-1P I used most. That zoom lens turned out to be a piece........

[2000DV4.8]

Cool. I'm still a SLR/DSLR newbie, so I barely know what that means, but I've got a photography book I've been reading. Just starting to understand how shutter speed/aperture are related, and damn am I getting excited. I've always liked taking pictures (obviously ), but now I'll be able to compose pictures.

It really is fun. I have an 18-135mm lens on my D80 now but the new lens will give me more options... especially doing stuff like action shots.

 

 

 

 

Nice, action shots are always cool.

 

Ok, newbie question here: I understand how aperture and shutter speed work in regards to action shots, but how does the longer focal length relate?

 

And damn, Michael, got a few cameras there?

[Zembonez]

Ok, newbie question here: I understand how aperture and shutter speed work in regards to action shots, but how does the longer focal length relate?

 

And damn, Michael, got a few cameras there?

Well... lets say you have a person standing across the street from you. With 50mm lense you are going to get a lot of stuff around them and a small distant pic of the person. With a 210mm lense you can see if they have any wrinkles around their eyes and they fill much of the frame. It just allows you to get closer to the action... Downside it that it takes more light to create a good image and a steady hand or tripod to get good sharp images.

 

What lens did you get with the Canon?

[Darkanion]

And damn, Michael, got a few cameras there?

Yeah, that was when I first discovered eBay.. I went a little overboard.

 

When I first started looking at digital, it just seemed SO expensive to get into it. So, I was going to buy some older film-based cameras (which I was already familiar with), setup a dark room, and go that route... That is until I realized the trouble & expense of setting up a color dark room.. and the expense of getting "allllllll that film developed." A few $50-60 trips to the film developing place (plus film) and digital didn't look quite so expensive, then...!

[Zembonez]

And damn, Michael, got a few cameras there?

Yeah, that was when I first discovered eBay.. I went a little overboard.

 

When I first started looking at digital, it just seemed SO expensive to get into it. So, I was going to buy some older film-based cameras (which I was already familiar with), setup a dark room, and go that route... That is until I realized the trouble & expense of setting up a color dark room.. and the expense of getting "allllllll that film developed." A few $50-60 trips to the film developing place (plus film) and digital didn't look quite so expensive, then...!

 

I still have my Nikon 35mm stuff. Don't think I'll be getting rid of any of it. Film still has its place. Very artsy medium. Less sterile than digital. Has warmth that digital can't produce... sort of the same reason I have an extensive vinyl collection and a nice turntable.

[Darkanion]

What lens did you get with the Canon?

With the Digital Rebel? It came with the 18-55 EF-S "kit" (consumer) lens. I still need to upgrade that. Since I take so much landscape-style photography, I really should've upgraded the "short" lens before I got the nice (to me) "long" lens. But, I had taken a couple of road trips and felt like I had "missed" some far off shots of things, because the 75-300mm zoom couldn't reach quiiiite far enough (and it the images always looked 'off').

 

So, I upgraded.

 

The old lens is the black one... The new one is a beast. But if you can give it enough light, it shoots some damn good pictures. All of the Space Shuttle pics were shot with the big'un, hand-held... most of them, I had it fully extended.

[Darkanion]

I still have my Nikon 35mm stuff. Don't think I'll be getting rid of any of it. Film still has its place. Very artsy medium. Less sterile than digital. Has warmth that digital can't produce... sort of the same reason I have an extensive vinyl collection and a nice turntable.

Oh, I agree! Some of my favorite pictures were taken with the film Rebel on a quick weekend trip to Colorado. I really need to make a point of pulling it out more often and taking at least a few pictures with it.

 

I haven't sold any of my film stuff (even that zoom lens that turned out to be a piece)... I've managed to hang on to every one of these cameras.. and I have no intentions of selling them (unless someone offers me way more than would be reasonable to turn down! ).

[2000DV4.8]

Well... lets say you have a person standing across the street from you. With 50mm lense you are going to get a lot of stuff around them and a small distant pic of the person. With a 210mm lense you can see if they have any wrinkles around their eyes and they fill much of the frame. It just allows you to get closer to the action... Downside it that it takes more light to create a good image and a steady hand or tripod to get good sharp images.

 

What lens did you get with the Canon?

 

Ok so it's mainly just a zoom thing (I always over-think stuff )

 

And like Michael said the kit lens for the Canon is an 18-55mm. Should do me just fine for a while.