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Re: Need a Good Replacement for 18-55
Narrowed Down my Choices - More or Less ?? Here is what I am thinking about, would appreciate any comments. My primary goal is to replace my kit 18-55, which I use about 80% of my time. My secondary goal is to add an ultra wide, thinking that I could enhance and expand my landscape shots with both a wider view and a better… -
Re: iso
I like the "where do you want to go" response that someone wrote. It certainly helps to know what you want to achieve. I'll share with you my thinking and my choices as a result. Goal: weddings, indoor shooting without flash Result: all my lenses are fast lenses. "Fast" means they support larger aperatures. So my lenses… -
Re: Lens For Portraits
Your blurry shots are probably caused by camera shake. As a general rule the minimum shutter speed that most people can handhold their camera's and still avoid camera shake is 1/x where x is the focal length of the lens in 35mm terms. So if your camera has a 1.5x crop sensor (not sure if it does as I'm not familiar with… -
Re: GOOD Lighting Equipment, on a budget
Generally speaking I stay quiet and learn during these posts. But I feel I should share my experiences, I am a fairly new photographer and just recently (2 years) started doing alot of portrait work. I was in the same situation as yours, low budget, high quality stuff... I shoot Canon but I really don't think it matters. I… -
Re: Lens suggestions
Let's start with the usual questions. What sort of portraiture do you wish to do? (Explain as completely as you can regarding formal/informal/environmental, etc. and head shot/full length etc.) What space do you have available for the portraiture? Since you have a 50mm prime, is that focal length limiting for your style of… -
Re: The Slide
Dwayne: I sympathize with your desire to keep your photography skills sharp. Look at the slogan under my signiture! But your photography skills only begin with your camera work. I spent countless hours in the darkroom in the 70's and early 80's. We ALWAYS had to work with images right out of the camera. The camera is a… -
Re: The perfect rugged standard DSLR?
Another vote for the Pentax K20D If money is truly no object for you, just buy a fullframe Nikon D3 and call it a day. You specified rugged and live view. That basically puts you in Canon 40D, Nikon D300, and Pentax K20D land. I just ordered a Pentax K200D because money IS an object for me, but in researching the two… -
Re: Need help shooting people indoors with my D90. Please help.
My thoughts, fwiw: 1. Shoot raw. Don't try to to second guess yourself, just get some bigger cards and shoot raw, or at least raw+jpg. You'll thank us for it afterwards :D Lighting in convention/sport centers is often funky colours (you'll want to adjust white balance afterwards) and, more importantly, what your eye sees… -
Re: Home Studio and Lighting for Candid Portraits of my Kids
When I bought my stuff, I discovered that there was no pricing advantage to the packages. They are just stuff "pulled off the shelf" and the prices added up. If you are going with just one light to start with, the Beginner Bee is not too bad. More than that, I would build it myself. BTW - Their DigiBee includes a radio… -
Re: Some Very Significant Race Cars Of The Past
Hey Lee, Now that's an event I'd like to go to. If you can't have fun there, somethings wrong with you. As I read your accounting of things, it brought back memories of an event very similar to that in which I was a participant. It was in the early 80's....1982 I believe...and I was invited to attend the introduction of…
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