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Well, I'm use to having everything in full focus all the time with a wide open aperture.
[QUOTE=iWumbo;36714658]My facepunch is broken. Every time I try to rate someone it redirects me back to the home page.[/QUOTE] It seems to only be broken on Chrome though. Welp, I guess it's time to switch back to Firefox.
Oh hey. It's working on Chrome again.
i wonder if you guys can help me, i've just managed to un-jam my dads old Chinon CA-4's shutter so now the camera functions fine.. its just the shutter release has a long delay on it which is about 4-7 seconds.. anything i can do?
Finally got another battery. Now my battery grip is actually useful!
[QUOTE=Ohfoohy;36746719]Finally got another battery. Now my battery grip is actually useful![/QUOTE] Even if my battery grip didnt even hold 2 batteries, the extra grip and extra shutter button are still the tits.
Free World Press Photo exhibition on in the Scottish Parliament. Gonna check it out tomorrow.
Wedding video shoot today, kinda nervous.
You can do it, capturing the key moments is all they want. Not much creative you can do, focus on nailing the moments and you are gold
Trogodon forgot to add that you also have to take a photo of the church door!
...and some flowers and/or champagne flutes.
Everything went well. Only thing that we had trouble with was memory cards. We ended up using my 16gb, 8gb and two 4gb cards plus my friends cf card and another 8gig card. Plus we still ran short at the end of the night. It wasn't a very formal wedding so we had no idea that his brother was going to toast, and he only did for a few seconds. But I think we can make do with what we have and put together a good video.
T3i ran out since we only had one battery, but the 60d and 7d both had 2 so we were good. But since the cf card for the 7d filled up we could Only use the 60d for the rest of the night. We were so close to bringing my friends laptop to pull stuff onto in case we needed it, but he insisted we'd be fine.
My dad just sold me his -Canon EOS 550D with these lenses -EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS -EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS plus an awesome backpack for 200 bucks. He said it's too big for him and doesn't use it anyways. [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/P1010509_2.JPG[/t] [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/P1010511_2.JPG[/t] Now I can finally get back into photography.
Might not be the right place to ask this but is 2.8 aperture really that important for a beginner photographer? On the Brazilian version of eBay full of scamming mexicans and whatnot, I can either buy a cheapo 70-300mm f4/5.6 for like $300 or I can buy an actual 70-200mm f2.8 for about $3000. Well, not really - I don't have nearly enough money to buy the second one, but would I be making a mistake by buying the cheapo 300mm? The main reason I'm looking into telephoto lens right now is because of the extra focal length, but I'm not really sure if it's really worth it. Keep in mind I have no tripods/flash guns/etc. I have a D60 with the kit lens and that's it.
for a 70-200mm that's a ridiculously large aperture, usually the only people who need that length/aperture are sports photographers and creepy dudes who know way too much about birds
[QUOTE=daijitsu;36783811]for a 70-200mm that's a ridiculously large aperture, usually the only people who need that length/aperture are sports photographers and creepy dudes who know way too much about birds[/QUOTE] ah okay, thanks. The way everyone was talking on reviews and whatnot sounded like anything f3.5 and above was complete useless garbage unless you were planning to shoot at ISO 12800 or something
[QUOTE=Samuka97;36786669]ah okay, thanks. The way everyone was talking on reviews and whatnot sounded like anything f3.5 and above was complete useless garbage unless you were planning to shoot at ISO 12800 or something[/QUOTE] people who go out of their way to review things are either snobs who prefer expensive things, illiterates who like shiny things, or sarcastic bastards who enjoy writing about how bic ballpoint ink pens only come with one built-in font that looks like a bad rip-off of comic sans I've been shooting with a 55-200mm f/f-5.6 since I first got my d5000 years back, kept using it when I got the 7000. It's perfectly fine unless you're shooting at night. Even then, I shot a concert with that lens in a dark and crowded venue and the pictures didn't turn out half bad.
God dang it, I cannot for the life of me decide on a lens.
The Lab just ruined a whole roll of 220. Not going back there again.
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;36799451]The Lab just ruined a whole roll of 220. Not going back there again.[/QUOTE] wow, that's terrible. It takes me a month or two right now to pull up the opportunity and nerve to shoot through just 12 shots of 120/220 with my TLR, I'd lose it if a lab just wrecked that.
I shouldnt use ebay often, outbid in the last 5 seconds. I think I had a heart attack. Oh well, next time.
as much as I find reddit a depressing shit hole, it's a good place to get* views, even if you only get like 10 upvotes you still end up with a couple hundred views on photos... last night one of my photos got about 13,000 views, feels pretty good man.
-eh snip-
why do views matter to you?
I guess, views mean your work is being seen.
Tagging my photos individually is turning out to be a very, very, very, bad idea. So I'm going to go back to the drawing board and reconsider my problem, while I sit here on a 2 week backlog of photos.
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7fjzp3VDs1qzna4vo1_500.jpg[/img] the flare means it's realistic
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;36845508]why do views matter to you?[/QUOTE] basically what nekro said, just feels good having like 15,000 views on a photo as opposed to the usual 30 or so i get by just posting here, even though the quality of the views/feedback etc is better here, simply because it means more people have seen it overall is all. it's not like a, I NEED THOUSANDS OF VIEWS ON EVERY PHOTO OR I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH kind of thing, i just like to exploit reddit to earn those views on photos I feel are particularly well, good
[QUOTE=Inzalonus;36849064]i just like to exploit reddit to earn those views on photos I feel are particularly well, good[/QUOTE] Exactly what my snip up there was getting at. Your photos didn't earn those views, you-exploiting-reddit did. Nothing's really there. It's empty. Might as well slather your car in prints and go a thousand miles down the highway, tallying up all the cars you pass and declaring that's how many views you have.
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