Photography

[tom w.]

what lenses exactly? if you don't mind me asking.

curious as to how you like sigma and phoenix compared to your canon lenses.

[MiniSimp]

Canon 28-90 kit lens (not so great after a year of hard labor, but starts out good)
Canon 70-300 (was good, but wanted a macro, started having motor problems after 2 years)
Canon 50mm 1.8 (Awesome! beautiful shots and a great price)
Phoenix 19-35mm (nice wide angle, no problems yet, good quality)
Tameron 28-300mm Macro (heavy, not a dedicated macro, not great)
Sigma 28-80 (very clean, fast focus, light)
Sigma 15mm full frame fish eye (heavy but shots are crystal clear, don't like/or use the gel filter)
Sigma 28-300mm Macro (awesome!)
Opteka Auto Focus DG Macro Extension Tube Set (not glass, but great for Macro)
Right Angle View Finder (used it a couple of times for on the ground shots, works fine)
Battery Grip (awesome, makes portrait shots super easy and has clip for AA batteries)
Body Armor (Great protection, takes a while to get used to, protects LCD as well)
Tripod ($15 at Walmart! Can't lose! LOL)


Dreams listed below:

Glass wanted:
Sigma 10 - 20mm f/3.5 EX-DC HSM Autofocus Zoom Lens For Canon Cameras $650
Sigma 10mm f/2.8 EX DC HSM Fisheye Lens $650
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM Autofocus Lens $1500
Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens $1600

Camera Wanted:
Olympus E-P2 Pen Digital Macro 4/3 Camera Kit w/17mm M.Zuiko Lens & FL-14 Flash $1100
Canon EOS-1V Film Camera $1700

Figured I'd list it all to cover your questions.

[MiniSimp]

2 shots from yesterday

Canon 40D, Sigma 15mm Full Frame Fisheye




This is Summer & Winter (need to shoot this again to get the shots matched up)

[MiniSimp]

Just found my next camera!

[toe]

Just found my next camera!

What speed of film do you need?

[MiniSimp]

What speed of film do you need?

Probably 50 and 1200 black & white.
Don't own the camera yet though. Found one on goog for $45

[muddytaco]

didnt take this one but i like it

[yota_krawler]

 

[lilbuddy]

The clarity of that picture blows. Work on that first...

[MiniSimp]

didnt take this one but i like it

Please credit the photographer if you can.

first time poster. this pic was taken in the high lakes in Northern California. The camera used was a cannon power shot 12.1 megapixel
nothing fancy but i new to tryin to take "good" pics. I think i need a better camera though

Was there vasoline on the lens?
You may need to clean it.

[MiniSimp]

One from yesterday...

Canon 40D
Canon 50mm 1.8
65mm Extension Stack
1/200

[Wermz84]

is that a berry or grain in your hand? 

[MiniSimp]

is that a berry or grain in your hand? 

Nope. Not plant or mineral.

[Wermz84]

Nope. Not plant or mineral.

Hmmmm, i like the pic.  i keep trying to figure it out.

[lilbuddy]

i keep trying to figure it out.

x2...

Looks like a blueberry turned brown

[MiniSimp]

x2...

Looks like a blueberry turned brown

Nope, not a plant or mineral.

[chim]

Skin growth?!!? haha

[MiniSimp]

Skin growth?!!? haha

Nope.

[Gixxer Jon]

salmon egg?

if you didnt edit the photo so much then we would be able to tell what it is

[MiniSimp]

Jon, that is almost SOOC, all I did was color adjust. I is the eye of a baby snail.

[Gixxer Jon]

thats crazy

[MiniSimp]

Here is the original

[lilbuddy]

Damn... nice

[yota_krawler]

Was there vasoline on the lens?

ya isnt that what you use to clean lenses? lol no idk why it was so blurry... I will try again

[MiniSimp]

Well I tried shooting a baby Black Widow (about 1cm body length) that I found, but it didn't turn out good, so I'm not going to use it.
Freaky being an inch and a half away from that spider for 30 shots.

This one turned out the best (which is pretty sad)

Canon 40D
1/1250"
F22
65mm extension stack
Portrait WB
ISO400

[tom w.]

thanks for the info mini!

[MiniSimp]

Went to SF today, some decent shots will be up tomorrow.

[MiniSimp]

Critique please

Canon 40D
Canon 50mm 1.8
Zeikos 31mm Extension
1/400
f5.6
ISO400




Canon 40D
Canon 50mm 1.8
Zeikos 31mm Extension
1/250
f4.5
ISO400

[Cheesemaker]

I like the lady bug picture.  I really like the subtlety of the grass in the lower left of the shot.  If you could have gotten more of the body in focus, would have stepped up the picture.  But overall its a good picture.  Especially dealing with bugs can be tricky.

I like the fly picture too, but the only thing that pulls my eye away from the fly, is the flowers in the foreground that is OOF.  I like the balance of colors of the fly, background and flower.  Not one stands out more, they help enhance the scene.

[MiniSimp]

Thanks, I'm working on the whole focus thing, right now my DOF is about .25cm but I found a way to get it up to 1cm that I have to try next time.