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yeh the focal softness i was using was just what i could use on flickr cuz i was at work.

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http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6223/...a1c11c4b_z.jpg
this?bw by thestemens16, on Flickr

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What I do when I'm bored....

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...ura3mobile.jpg

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Nice Dan, whats shakin? you make Shack this year? (I didn't)

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thought about posting this in the funny pics thread, but seemed more appropriate here :)



http://www.eatliver.com/img/2011/7969.jpg

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She could have just taken one step backwards. :-)

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Random photos some are just phone camera shots.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...0/IMG_9977.JPG





https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y...0411092045.jpg




https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...-33-29_988.jpg



https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...0/IMG_9596.JPG




https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...0/IMG_0987.JPG

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Taking a semester off from school to shoot around the country. Somewhere new every few weeks should be fun. Any MUST HAVE gear you all can think of?

2 bodies
11-16 2.8
24-70 2.8
80-200 2.8
3 flashes and wireless triggers
6 batteries
100gb+ of cards
sensor dusters
eneloops+chargers

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oh man, that sounds awesome, inspirational, and I'm officially jealous!

Specific gear depends a bit on what kind of photography you're planning on focusing on and how your getting to where you go. Driving all the time? Will you always have your car as a "home base" to store extra stuff you don't have with you?

Something to hold it all, make it a nice modular system. Maybe a way to take a subset of that with you if its raining.

www.thinktankphoto.com makes terrific gear belts n pouches. I highly recommend their stuff. I also have a number of them, so if you have "what do you think of X" questions, shoot me a message.

I took a lowepro slingshot 200AW with me to London years ago. PRO was that I had all my gear QUICKLY accessible in a unobtrusive looking sling bag (1Dmk2, 17-40,70-200,85,flash). CON that I discovered the hard way is that after many weeks of all that weight bearing down on one shoulder is NOT a good thing. Recommend the bag for short trips / days... but not for long days / many days.

Take a look at www.lensbaby.com , it might fit some of what you're doing on the inspirational side of life. I've had a Muse and a Control Freak for many years. I rarely use them, but they're loads of fun when I do!!

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Nice Wolfgang, I am officialy happy for you and unofficially jealous.

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6...20edee5c_b.jpg
Just laying around by J0eybb, on Flickr

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Specific gear depends a bit on what kind of photography you're planning on focusing on and how your getting to where you go. Driving all the time? Will you always have your car as a "home base" to store extra stuff you don't have with you?

Im generally a landscape/architecture guy. Ill have it all jammed into a Pelican 1510 roller case. I do also have a canon backpack if i do venture off. Most recently i have been looking into the Sun sniper one pro leather camera strap. Any experience?


www.thinktankphoto.com makes terrific gear belts n pouches. I highly recommend their stuff. I also have a number of them, so if you have "what do you think of X" questions, shoot me a message.

I was looking at their pixelposcket rocket to hold all the cf cards. I like my otter box but its bulky.

I took a lowepro slingshot 200AW with me to London years ago. PRO was that I had all my gear QUICKLY accessible in a unobtrusive looking sling bag (1Dmk2, 17-40,70-200,85,flash). CON that I discovered the hard way is that after many weeks of all that weight bearing down on one shoulder is NOT a good thing. Recommend the bag for short trips / days... but not for long days / many days.

Take a look at www.lensbaby.com , it might fit some of what you're doing on the inspirational side of life. I've had a Muse and a Control Freak for many years. I rarely use them, but they're loads of fun when I do!!

I loved mine before I got the 24TSE :dr


Quite a bit of negative things are stacking up right now so i jumped on the F it train and am going to enjoy myself. Plus working retail for the holiday season has killed xmas for me.

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Neat! Next time you should change your shirt. Maybe different sports teams?? Could be fun. Well executed though. :banger

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Yeah this was just a test. Bored, poor lighting, noisy, etc.

The next one, better location, wardrobe, and shaving of the face. This way there are more "characters". Maybe clean up a little too. :)

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Im generally a landscape/architecture guy. Ill have it all jammed into a Pelican 1510 roller case. I do also have a canon backpack if i do venture off. Most recently i have been looking into the Sun sniper one pro leather camera strap. Any experience?

Ahh, landscape is the style that eludes me. Much more of a journalism / people guy.
Nope, no experience with the leather strap. I've always used the stock camera straps.


I was looking at their pixelposcket rocket to hold all the cf cards. I like my otter box but its bulky.

I don't have their pixelpocketrocket. I always just threw cards in a little flip open pouch on my belt till i got home to download them.

Speaking of downloading, I'd recommend an external drive as a secondary storage device. You want to have a copy of the pics in two places at all times... and ideally, the hard drive doesn't get stored with the laptop.

Take a look at www.lensbaby.com , it might fit some of what you're doing on the inspirational side of life. I've had a Muse and a Control Freak for many years. I rarely use them, but they're loads of fun when I do!!

I loved mine before I got the 24TSE :dr

TSE = tilt shift? nice :tu


Quite a bit of negative things are stacking up right now so i jumped on the F it train and am going to enjoy myself. Plus working retail for the holiday season has killed xmas for me.

:r I grew up in a family retail business. Semi-permanently killed the xmas holiday for me, cuz all my warm fuzzy memories are working my ass off pandering to rude customers, and then we were too tired to do anything on Christmas except sleep half the day!

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Speaking of downloading, I'd recommend an external drive as a secondary storage device. You want to have a copy of the pics in two places at all times... and ideally, the hard drive doesn't get stored with the laptop.

Ill always have my laptop and external HDD along but at the same time Im not one who is usually paranoid about corruption. Should it happen I know not to format the card and just recover whats on it with Rescue Pro


I grew up in a family retail business. Semi-permanently killed the xmas holiday for me, cuz all my warm fuzzy memories are working my ass off pandering to rude customers, and then we were too tired to do anything on Christmas except sleep half the day!

Gotta pay for the tickets to go places some how. SIGH....

Some Snaps from my Miami Adventure. At the Vizcaya.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/Vizcaya1.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/IMG_2921.jpg

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Here's a link for my sets on Flickr. Most are from various volksmarches and places visited while stationed in Germany.

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Just rented a 50mm 1.2L lens for the week. Figured it would be good for capturing the Christmas festivities. I can't wait to start shooting with this one. Got to get a good family picture, tired of everyone complaining about not having one of us.....lol.

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Just doing a little messing around in the humidor, and decided to take some pictures. These are just with a HTC Inspire 4g camera. So yes, cell phone pictures. I did a little messing with them in iPhoto, but not a whole lot.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...3/IMAG0231.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...3/IMAG0234.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...3/IMAG0235.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...3/IMAG0237.jpg

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That's a sweet lens!!! But be reallllllly careful with that depth of field! I've got a 35mm 1.4L and you'd be amazed how quick it goes out of focus! ESPECIALLY with people. It's almost impossible to take a picture of two people in the same frame. Even one person is difficult, the nose might be pin sharp and the eyes blurry as vaseline. Not saying it can't be done... and when it comes out right, its a great photo! just, be aware that pics that look good in the camera often are A LOT blurrier than you realized once you get back and look on the computer.

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Luckily I tried it out on some ornaments on the tree, and you are right, at 1.2 the same ornament is tack sharp where I focused and the side is blurry as could be. When set at 2.8, they came out beautiful. We'll definitely keep an eye on it when snapping shots of people. It sure is fun to play around with though! :tu

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A few quick shots with the 50mm 1.2
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6...d536c34a_b.jpg
Taryn by Jeff Carroll01, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6...2118ddc9_b.jpg
Girft from a vendor at work by Jeff Carroll01, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6...19d4e0d5_b.jpg
Ornament 2 by Jeff Carroll01, on Flickr

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Mmmmmm, gotta love that beautiful bokeh :tu
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Something quick. Been bored lately.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6...4298eb03_b.jpg
5081 by J0eybb, on Flickr

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besides the obvious confusion you had about teams (;) :tg), thats a beautiful shot Joe :tu

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Thanks...

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http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/P1030129.jpg

Just a brown pelican, saying "Leave me alone!"

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Actually as a native Floridian I can tell you that look means "come closer and pet me ill be your best friend."

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We got our first DSLR today. I'm really looking forward to really learning how to use this thing the right way. I am trying hard to not use the full Auto setting.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...9/IMG_0221.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...9/IMG_0215.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...9/IMG_0113.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...9/IMG_0075.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...9/IMG_0073.jpg

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Here's one I took in Mosul, Iraq at the first ever televised MMA fight in that country. I laugh every time I look at the dudes face in the lower left.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/pictur...pictureid=6570

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Got off work early yesterday. Enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather with an '02 LGC MdO No. 2 and some macro photography :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6...aefa323a_b.jpg

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there was a meteor shower here on the 4th. I diddnt catch any on "film" but i still have a decent shot from the night.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...95528938_n.jpg

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With his face I am curious to see the front of these women.:confused:

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Ask and you shall receive.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/pictur...pictureid=6575

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I didn't realize we were posting girls in this thread...

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...r/TOB105LR.jpg

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...r/TOB104LR.jpg

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6...aefeed85_z.jpg
DSC_2966 by thestemens16, on Flickr


My New Toy :tu

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Ambient- Is that HDR? In the second pic, what did you do in post processing to get the water to look black? Rad pics...

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My wife and I went to Italy last year and here are my two favorite shots in Venice:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6...f5f8194f_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6...51342ace_b.jpg

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http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...ris/P130LR.jpg

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...elacitePAN.jpg

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...ris/P102LR.jpg

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Im pretty positive its not, its just great use of off camera flash or strobes.

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Joey's right. It's off camera strobes and a bit of burn before running some more extreme noise reduction filters.

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Nothing two fancy here, a couple pictures from my cell phone I took with a HDR app.

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Othe...04-58HDR-M.jpg

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Othe...27191742-M.jpg

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:tu

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Don't think I have posted these here before. Took them in Downtown Houston last year.

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-125-L.jpg

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-138-L.jpg

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-034-L.jpg

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-099-L.jpg

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http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-102-L.jpg

http://tx-tuffphoto.smugmug.com/Hobb...Walk-108-L.jpg

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Looks like blown glass!

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Well, I'm officially in over my head :r
Just ordered this lens, I rented one a few months ago and loved it.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6...b76368de_o.gif
Lens by Jeff Carroll01, on Flickr

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Nice!

I'm getting the "new lens" itch as well, but I really shouldn't spend the money, so I probably won't :( I'll just lust after them for awhile longer :p