I'm in the oil picture. Far right. Then obviously the sun glasses one screaming or something.

some spring training pictures....

Love the pretzel pic. Wish the aperture was a little lower but good stuff.

I stole that pretzel picture, if that is OK with you.

momadance wrote:Love the pretzel pic. Wish the aperture was a little lower but good stuff.

yeah thanks. thought the aperture was more open when i took it but i think i rushed the shot a little thinking it might be considered a little weird taking a picture of a pretzel instead of buying one. My next purchase is going to be a faster lens though.

Phred wrote:I stole that pretzel picture, if that is OK with you.

no problemo

I just got a DSLR late last year, not really sure what I'm doing yet. A few shots, unedited.

Love the first shot, gr.

Did you really crank the saturation of the second in post-processing? Especially blue...

phatj wrote:Love the first shot, gr.

Did you really crank the saturation of the second in post-processing? Especially blue...

i did some, yes, forgot about that. not as much as you'd think, but it felt flat to me, so i wanted the clouds to pop a bit more.

the first shot is probably my best photo, total happy accident.

i have a Canon t3i with a kit lens (i forget the specs, 18-55 maybe) and a 55-250 zoom. need an all purpose lens like some of you guys appear to have. would love to find $2200 on the ground and get that super duper 24-70.

Canon's 18-200 is not a premium lens, but would do pretty much everything your 18-55 can do, plus a whole lot more zoom. Those last 50mm on the 55-250 zoom aren't worth much; I'd Ebay both your existing lenses whatever you can get (probably not much) and put that towards the 18-200. Then start building a collection of decent primes, starting with the basic Canon 50mm, especially if you do portraits. You don't need L glass, even if you're rich. Premium lenses are larger and heavier than the regular versions, for differences that aren't going to even be detectable most of the time.

18-200 eh? You mean this guy?

I haven't done portraits (yet), mostly around town stuff, bands and lowlight shooting, and video.

Almost got the $100 50 prime around Christmas just to see how I like that style lens.

Yep, that's the one. I think you can probably get it for quite a bit less than $700.

I wanted to get a flash for my wife for her birthday, I got her a Pentax k10d a few years ago for Christmas [link]. What would be a decent flash to get for this? She mostly just uses it to take pictures of the kids and stuff pretty close by.

I was looking at this [link] it's not expensive and it gets good reviews but I don't know shit about this stuff. Is it worth it to spend the extra and get this or this?

i'll give your wife a flash

Heyooooooooo

50 prime just showed up. Lets see what we can do with it.

Some pics from vacation...

double

Went to the Dale Chihuly exhibit in Seattle and wanted to share my crappy phone pictures with youse so I guess I'll just dump a few of them here. Some really cool glass art.











Also, a random picture of some Foxgloves that i saw while hiking a few weeks back:

cool pics. i like that fourth one a lot