Photography Thread

[Wolfgang]

Spoiled brat

Some I took this weekend.

A couple more.

In downtown Houston Sunday




City Hall

Photography is my favorite hobby. Here are some of mine.

[ambientboy]

From this week's work. Softbox Solo 101.

[MarkinAZ]

Originally Posted by tx_tuff

Nice detailed photo Frank

[OLS]

I picked up a used Canon SX1 IS yesterday from B&H and they say it is going to be here tomorrow, which would be just in time
to learn something of it over the long weekend. Always used a pocket rocket, I am not very demanding. But this one is going
to be an interesting bridge camera. Sensor is still not working too hard at 10 MP, I would really prefer 8 to tell the truth with
these small sensors, but 10 is my absolute limit, and not that attractive to me after all. I would have gone much cheaper,
but as I am in the TV business, the 1080p video was a deal-maker. While it can't replace a true video camera, it can't freaking
hurt, lol. Can't beat the 20x zoom either. So it is time to start playing around in this thread.

[J0eybb]

Originally Posted by ambientboy

From this week's work. Softbox Solo 101.

I don't like panty lines....

just looking for an excuse to repost this pic.

[OLS]

A few shots with the new camera. Too hot out to really get all that creative, for now just getting
used to the settings and playing with the controls. Again, this is a refurbished Canon SX1 IS.
I like it alot so far.

With a little work you could turn out some amazing photos. It seems like everyone and their mom is a amateur photographer now though. In my neighborhood Nikon DSLRs have completely replaced point and shoot cameras. It's funny to see moms with like 5 kids balancing all of their crap for a day with a DSLR strapped on her shoulder.

[emopunker2004]

Originally Posted by Wallbright

With a little work you could turn out some amazing photos. It seems like everyone and their mom is a amateur photographer now though. In my neighborhood Nikon DSLRs have completely replaced point and shoot cameras. It's funny to see moms with like 5 kids balancing all of their crap for a day with a DSLR strapped on her shoulder.

Love my Nikon D90

[OLS]

My bad, could someone link me to the amateur Photographer's thread?

Your in the right place. I wasn't saying you were a amateur or bad or anything I was just stating how its funny that Digital SLR cameras have replaced the point and shoot around here and the fact that everyone takes pictures now. When I first started taking pictures I had a Nikon SLR and I only knew of a few people who were into photography. It was different back then as you had to wait to get your film developed before you could see if you took good pictures. It took alot more skill because if you were a amateur you couldn't just make small tweeks till you got what you were looking. I am glad that everyone is into photography as it is one of my favorite hobbies it just reminds me though that I probably won't ever get to sell my photography as alot of people are shooting their own pictures to hang in their houses. Atleast they are around here. I still consider myself an amateur though so it is not like I had that much of a chance to begin with lol.

[emopunker2004]

DSC_1794 by thestemens16, on Flickr

[OLS]

EMO, gotta love that St. Augustine Grass.....

Tyler, I was just poking you with a stick, lol.

I agree that modernization is career genocide these days. I have been taking 35mm shots since 1978 when my
dad gave me a "Sears" Mamiya Sekor in High School, but I was never that good at it because the actual camera
body was a Salvation Army pickup, a little worn out, too messed up to trade in for somebody. All the lenses and
stuff I could throw at it never really got the right results. I slowly just became a camera perv, worrying more about
taking pix of chix than composing art. But I could time a cheerleader's high kick like an ace.

I never took the next step and picked up a good body, I got into the USAF and lost the bug. Still kept shooting women
though. But as a career, I have been using video cameras for 25 years and for fun using my trusty Canon Powershot A200
for my "glamour photog" business, read "getting girls in clubs to believe I could take great nudes for them and produce a CD
of the images and never show them around. Which I held to basically, even to this day. I picked up this camera because the A200
is a great little instamatic, but B&H had a nice SX1 IS refurb that I just decided I wanted, and not for nothing, because this megapixel
war is not doing ANYBODY any favors. I figured I needed to get one while the getting was good. They keep stacking pixels on the
same size sensor and it's gonna bite the whole segment in the a55. But never worry, if your pictures are good enough, you can sell them.
That's how I got my current job, I made a commercial and tried to sell it to my current boss, and rather than buy the spot,
he bought ME.

------edit---------

As for "around here", don't take it as total career genocide, becuase people here do the same thing all the time. I call it
the yuppie circus, although I don't mean to be insulting to ANYONE. The get into roasting their own beans, owning
suicidal looking razors to shave with, they collect wine, port, cigars, pipes, pipe tobacco, all in bulk and all in on everything...
And then 80% of them drop it like a bad habit. SO yeah, this is a tough place to sell photos, lol.

My Old camera Elph Powershot sd200...state of the art in 2004, lol. Still works though.

[OLS]

This is twice that I have bashed the people who get into everything, coffee, wet shaving, pipes, etc.
I need to apologize early to them, again, I do not mean to insult, but I do anyway. I have never been a
rich man, and I can't do most of the things a lot of our members do, I am interesting in doing just enough to
feel like a king without selling my throne. Everyone is welcome to their diversions and hobbies and luxuries.
Don't mind me, haha. As for the term yuppie circus, I made it up right then, although I do categorize this
type of activity as "yuppie" something or other. I just haven't come up with a good, patentable name for it
yet. I do not consider people with yuppie interestes to be yuppies, per se. But I'll be danged if you ain't
Young Urban Professionals, dammit.

[ambientboy]

Originally Posted by Wallbright

Your in the right place. I wasn't saying you were a amateur or bad or anything I was just stating how its funny that Digital SLR cameras have replaced the point and shoot around here and the fact that everyone takes pictures now. When I first started taking pictures I had a Nikon SLR and I only knew of a few people who were into photography. It was different back then as you had to wait to get your film developed before you could see if you took good pictures. It took alot more skill because if you were a amateur you couldn't just make small tweeks till you got what you were looking. I am glad that everyone is into photography as it is one of my favorite hobbies it just reminds me though that I probably won't ever get to sell my photography as alot of people are shooting their own pictures to hang in their houses. Atleast they are around here. I still consider myself an amateur though so it is not like I had that much of a chance to begin with lol.

Link link! We wanna see your stuff.

[MarkinAZ]

Originally Posted by emopunker2004

DSC_1794 by thestemens16, on Flickr

Nice Dragonfly shot Justin Here's a shot of downtown Los Angeles from last week looking somewhat North:



...and, looking south along S/89 towards the Flagstaff area:

[emopunker2004]

i love the last one Mark. Maybe i can get out your way one day. I have an uncle in Cali