official photography thread

**carvinconcrete** · 07-25-2009 10:57 AM

Wells, the clouds from a couple pages back? The ones on black?
7 longboards, thats not too bad

**carvinconcrete** · 07-25-2009 11:24 PM

I saw the coolest thing today driving down the freeway. We could see smoke from far away, but everything was blocking the view. As we drove closer we saw that a van was on fire. It was a huge fire! I could feel the heat as we went past. I managed to get some pics in, but I had the wrong white balance and overexposure from far away so I fixed that. But when we got closer, I didn't manage to fit the whole thing in the shot, and the others were blurry

I hope there wasnt anybody in there

I like the texture on this one

This one is a kinda hdr. I took one exposure for the sky, and one for the ground. I cloned the sky in on the other one.

EDIT: I just saw the story on the news website, there were 2 guys in the van driving down the freeway to go camping and their van died. Right after that they saw flames by their feet so they got out and didn't turn into crisp. (oh...and by the way, the one guy they showed in the interview sounded very gay) just thought I'd throw that in there

**GPymp** · 07-26-2009 10:35 AM

I was at a Dragon Boat racing festival here in Denver yesterday. Took a few.

**GPymp** · 07-26-2009 10:51 AM

This became a popular spot as the day progressed. I asked the guy, who doing the cooking (see right) what are Monkey Balls made from? He replied "Yes." ??

Later in the days he would ring a bell, which seemed like every 30 seconds and yelled out "bawwwllllls.'

**lexx** · 07-26-2009 03:55 PM

KROHN27, the third one down is awesome - at first I thought it was three different pictures. Only the website 'watermark' is too small to read, kind of defeats the point a little.

FL_RIDER_93, to answer your question - I wouldn't 'trade up' from an f2 or f1.8 for an f1.4 again. It's really not much of an advantage stop wise, and I've found generally there tends to be a drop in quality to achieve the faster aperture. Lenses do all sorts of funny things when stopped open at their widest aperture. I sold the 50 1.8 for the 1.4 because I do A LOT of low light photography, but what I found was that even if I stopped down to 1.8 the 50mm 1.8 was still sharper and suffered less from stuff like Lens Coma (where highlights seem to glow). I also found the 1.4 too stiff and tricky to focus - the viewfinder wasn't really any brighter and if anything it was harder to focus with because (and this is true of both zuiko 50mm 1.4 lenses I've owned) the focus ring was so stiff.

If you are going to buy a new lens, get something that'll offer you a different perspective - portrait telephoto, wide angle or ultra wide. I love the 24mm wide for all sorts of stuff, 35mm wide for portraits where I want a bit of the background, 50mm for 'general use' (actually I use the 35mm most) and an 85mm for headshots and portraits where you can't or don't want to get too close because of comfort. I don't shoot sports or wildlife so I've got no use for anything longer.

More cross processing -

and carvinconcrete, do you think the fact that one of them might have been gay was the reason the truck was on fire? I hear that gays don't know anything about cars, too busy sleezing on mechanic's ass to learn anything. I think that was probably it!

**carvinconcrete** · 07-26-2009 06:34 PM

lexx, you are probably right haha. But I originally meant his huge lisp made him sound of the gay sorts. It was a video interview

**FL_RIDER_93** · 07-26-2009 07:15 PM

those guys were Flaming! ba ba bing

**8ftbed** · 07-26-2009 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by GPymp

I was at a Dragon Boat racing festival here in Denver yesterday. Took a few.

I'll be in Denver next weekend. Aunt/Uncle's 50th anniversary. Me and my bro are leaving Thu afternoon, get in Fri morning or noon (I'm thinking about stopping at New Belgium brewery on the way in for samplers and a couple of cases.

Maybe Fri afternoon or early Sat morning I'm going to try and run him up to Blackhawk. My cousin built a big log cabin just above blackhawk and my friend's never been to CO before so I'm gonna let him check is O2 uptake at altitude.

**BradleyGT** · 07-26-2009 10:02 PM

Got a film camera for photography class and these are a few from the first roll of film i shot.

I havent shot film in forever, and now i remember what i loved about it so much. Im taking photography for my fine art credit now that im finally making my way into college, only 10 years after graduating high school. I shoot digital semi-professionally and going back to film almost seems like an upgrade!

Anyway, these are a few of my favs.

**BradleyGT** · 07-26-2009 10:03 PM

And a couple more just for fun.

**8ftbed** · 07-27-2009 05:55 AM

Dang, you just reminded me I'd said I'd check to see if I had that other X700 setup. I'll dig around the bedroom when I go up to change.

**FL_RIDER_93** · 07-27-2009 09:48 AM

**KookaSaurus** · 07-27-2009 11:28 AM

went to the Zoo yesterday

And then my personal favorite

**carvinconcrete** · 07-27-2009 12:15 PM

That polar bear is lol

+9

**carvinconcrete** · 07-27-2009 01:09 PM

A little motion blur. This was the best shot out of the 3 best photos out of the 68 pictures I took when he was swinging.

**Buddywolfe** · 07-27-2009 07:56 PM

I know it's not safe to put a film camera flash on a digital camera because the voltages are different or something. But is ok if you are using ti as an off camera flash? In other words could i potentially buy an old flash and use it with my DSLR?

**HerBDerb** · 07-27-2009 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by KookaSaurus

You went to the zoo with Crappysurfer?

**KookaSaurus** · 07-27-2009 09:16 PM

maybe, maybe not

**carvinconcrete** · 07-27-2009 10:45 PM

I also took a picture of a different moon...

**BradleyGT** · 07-27-2009 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by Buddywolfe

I know it's not safe to put a film camera flash on a digital camera because the voltages are different or something. But is ok if you are using ti as an off camera flash? In other words could i potentially buy an old flash and use it with my DSLR?

most of the time it has to do with the triggers. cheap triggers can sometimes fry due to the high voltage of some flashes. I actually used a 30 year old flash on a wireless trigger for a shoot yesterday and it did just fine. You may want to check the manual of whatever triggers you decide to go with.