Actually that could be considered almost a money shot.....the deer is mostly in the open and nice bright light.....however the feet are cut off.....that is the only thing wrong........just needed to back off the zoom a bit and lower thecamera to get the hooves......but great shot shot of a whitetail doe......
It can feel like good photography is highly related to equipment, but what you find is that even if you have great equipment, it is still your creative eye and brain that really counts.
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My point is that many of the limitations we impose on ourselves are not real but imagined.
I shoot all sorts of different photgraphic venues. That is one of the things I like about photgraphy, there are so many different things one can wander into and learn about and experiment with.
Even thought I own a very wide range of glass, 90% of my images are still shot with a medium zoom somewhere between 24 and 105mm.
Actually that could be considered almost a money shot.....the deer is mostly in the open and nice bright light.....however the feet are cut off.....that is the only thing wrong........just needed to back off the zoom a bit and lower thecamera to get the hooves......
Thanks for the comments. I always appreciate help with improving my pictures. I agree about too much zoom. (I still need to stop snapping that button rather than squeezing the trigger.)
I guess I'm a little late popping into this thread, but here's my $.02:
There are a lot of rules that are generally true, and often repeated, like bug macros needing long telephoto macro lenses, bird photography requires 400mm or more, the smaller the bird the longer your lens better be. That landscapes use really wide lenses, that for portraiture you need super fast glass, architecture you want tilt and shift lenses.
These are all great suggestions, and helpful rules of thumb, but some of my favourite landscapes were taken with a 70-200, here's a chickadee, at 200mm (320mm effective) no cropping. (The bird feeder background gives away my secret technique)
This is probably my all time favourite bug macro, and it was taken with a 50mm prime and tubes:
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Great examples and a good point Pathfinder.
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Thanks for the comments. I always appreciate help with improving my pictures. I agree about too much zoom. (I still need to stop snapping that button rather than squeezing the trigger.)
Oh, yeah, I rule! :ivar
Thanks Art, coming from you that means a lot.
There are a lot of rules that are generally true, and often repeated, like bug macros needing long telephoto macro lenses, bird photography requires 400mm or more, the smaller the bird the longer your lens better be. That landscapes use really wide lenses, that for portraiture you need super fast glass, architecture you want tilt and shift lenses.
These are all great suggestions, and helpful rules of thumb, but some of my favourite landscapes were taken with a 70-200, here's a chickadee, at 200mm (320mm effective) no cropping. (The bird feeder background gives away my secret technique)
This is probably my all time favourite bug macro, and it was taken with a 50mm prime and tubes: