Photography

[Equin]

Originally Posted by baseballboy828

Oh and you'll want to keep the 18-55 around, but you'll want to use it when you see its results next to the 50-135.

Not want to use it you mean? The DA* 50-135 is in a completely different class quality wise than the kit lens. 18-55mm is probably a better all purpose lens size though, guess I'll end up buying a better one in that range later.

[baseballboy828]

That's what I meant. 2.8 glass is addicting.

[notabadname]

You will definitely love shooting with the 2.8! Plus, that is a pretty flexible range. Enjoy!

[Yuiichi]

Just went on a "photography trip" yesterday with one of my friend. Definitely cool shooting with another guy. Here's the photoset: click for flickr.

Constructive criticism/comments welcome. I know I'm not anywhere near the league of BBB or notabadname, but I enjoy going out and snapping some shots.

[notabadname]

Always enjoy looking at other peoples images. My favorite of those would have to be the "situational" composition of the "thin ice" warning, in a grassy field or bog. In my opinion, I would say you have an eye for interesting subjects. My biggest suggestion would be towards the composition of the subjects. In general, you are positioning your subjects in the center of frame. As much as I hate rules, and they truly do deserve to broken in the right situations, "the Rule of Thirds" is one of the easiest composition rules to follow and get better results quickly. In the case of the "ice" sign, I may have captured it in landscape orientation instead of portrait, with the blue sign falling on the upper 1/3 line (which it does) and the vertical center of the sign falling on the left 1/3 of the image. This would be even more pleasing to the eye, as well as bringing more attention to the grassy "irony" of the image.

Again it is really just a "rule-of-thumb", which I break myself. But the human eye, and mind, and the way it is pleased by certain elements of composition in photography and graphics are well studied, and worth observing when there is no other "artistic" reason to deviate. Here is a good link, with some very good examples on it of composition. There are other good rules too that relate to contrast, perspective, diagonals and more. The more you incorporate these concepts into your images, the more pleasing they will be to more viewers.

Here is one link I like (and there are many more, but this is very well illustrated) :

Yongbo Jiang’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Rule Of Thirds

Thanks for Sharing Yuiichi, and Keep on Shooting !

[studioprisoner]

Photo set from the weekend, my sisters Canon EOS 400D Digital was used, it was my parents 25th wedding anniversary party, great weekend

25th Wedding anniversary in Bendigo (Jess's Camera) - a set on Flickr

[baseballboy828]

I managed to get a reservation to go see Moose Peterson speak today at B&H Photo in New York. For those who don't know, Moose is a very famous wildlife photographer, who does a lot of workshops and teaching. Should be a lot of fun. I will report when I get back.

UPDATE: It was awesome. B&H's event space is very small, but it was filled. The presentation went for two hours. Moose had a lot of great things to share. Really glad I went.