Any photographers here?

[Big Calhoun]

Any photo heads around? Pro, amateur, semi, whatever?

I'm thinking of seriously delving into it. I never really had the time, aside from when I was younger, to really explore. I have an old Canon AE-1 that my father gave me years ago. I need to get some work done it on it though. THen I have a Minolta Maxxum 370si which I've used here and there. I'm shopping for lenses for this one as I only have a basic 35-70 for it. I'm trying to find something (lense) with a good all-around range and nice selection of features. I also have a 5.1mp HP camera that's pretty good, but I think a trip to San Diego (the salt water) has caused some focusing/electronic problems.

So anyway, I'm shopping around for this lense and am going to start taking some pictures. Between the airport and the fields around here, I should have plenty of opportunity. If I really get into it, then I'll go ahead and get a digital SLR.

[cannabis campbell]

What kinda photos we talking about here

[SpiritLevel]

i like takin photos, its interesting to be able to catch that shot which speaks 1000 words; i haven't learned that yet tho

[Gothen]

i like takin photos, its interesting to be able to catch that shot which speaks 1000 words; i haven't learned that yet tho


Same with me. I take pictures all the time, though, most of those are just of friends and the adventures we have. :cool:

[Big Calhoun]

Any kind of photos. I have a cousin that does erotic photography in Denmark. I'd post the link but hell hath no fury like a dry mod on a weed board. :p But I'm looking to take pictures of things: buildings, landscapes, nature, people, etc.

[JuggaloAtTheDoor]

I took the pic in my display picture.. I dont take many pics tho

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

I'm a real estate photographer by trade, however I like taking all kinds of pictures. :)

[SpiritLevel]

I'm a real estate photographer by trade, however I like taking all kinds of pictures. :)
Take my picture, look at it, and get used to it.. BECAUSE UR COMING WITH ME!!!!! GET IN MY CLOSET MARYJANE
appologies for explosive outburst but sometimes one is driven to do those things..:D :stoned: no skeletons in my closet ignore the avatar hahahah

[Samwhore]

yes, i know how to take photos, develope them, and print them, i took 2 photo classes in school and photo is very fun, its nice to find the beauty in an everyday object with a photo or a random picture of a friend

[birdgirl73]

I'm sort of a photography buff and used to be very good with 35mm black-and-white and color. These days with digital, I'm trying to re-learn some skills, and I need to get a new camera and work at it more. I can't find all the necessary cables and chargers for my current camera, so it's useless until I replace them or get a new one. I took three photography courses during college and used to teach it when I was teaching journalism to high school kids. I have fairly good darkroom skills.

My best work has always been at shooting people, particularly candid shots of children, and and animals. Photographing living beings is much more compelling to me than inanimate objects.

[az666]

I like taking photos
I'm not too good at it, and the vast majority of them are of the sky
but still...I like to do it

lol I have 100s of photos all taken from the same place, and all of the same view.

[josh g]

Those are beautiful, except for the third one. This sun is kinda in the way...

[flamingskullballs]

dont use the digital camera...most digital, unless your willing to spend $1500 plus, are shit

ive got a canon EOS 650, Olympus OM-10, Olympus OM-2 and a pentax k-1000...but most of my photagraphy is done with pinhole cameras...and my two Olympus are broken, however.

your camera ae-1 is quite nice, but not the easiest to find lenses for

the minolta blows, sorry to say

35-70mm is a good all-around lense, and you usually wont need more then that....its nice, to have a fisheye lense, for cool effects (make the tower look like its really "towering" over you) and maybe a 70-110mm lense...the higher you go in magnification, the more steady youll have to be, and the more light youll need...so with a 110mm lense, your going to have about an 8 degree field of range...so definantly get a tripod

monopods and bipods are useless, IMO...but a tripod is essential

one (http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_main.php)

and another (http://www.adorama.com/)

[SpiritLevel]

A bad work man blames his tools

U can get quite good standard pics of a 35mm point and shoot

U don't have to get a state of the art device to take good photos. I'm not saying it doesn't help tho.. after 35-70mm in flamingskullballs post is usefull to me.. any more info like that floating in someones pipe smoke? (am i hijackin some one's thread by askin that?)

[jamstigator]

Digital cameras work great. I used to be a big film camera buff, but my camera equipment burned in house fire last year, so I replaced with a nice, portable 7.1 megapixel Canon PowerShot A620, which I've found is really quite feature-rich and takes stunningly good pics. I considered a mid-to-high-end DSLR, which would be more comparable to what I lost, and I may yet get one, but for now this little A620 is just fine. Really, the only downside to it is the inability to exchange lenses, but as long as I don't need super-telephoto power or fisheye-caliber wide-angle capability, that's not a problem. Oh, and it doesn't save RAW images, which is a mild bummer, but not a major issue.

[onefourninezero]

I'm quite into photography but I'm not really that good. I have a canon ixus 55 which replaced my brick of a canon powershot a70.. i would love to own an slr and when i get a job i'll start saving up for one

I have my best photos uploaded here (http://onefourninezero.deviantart.com)

[beachguy in thongs]

I like taking photos
I'm not too good at it, and the vast majority of them are of the sky
but still...I like to do it

lol I have 100s of photos all taken from the same place, and all of the same view.

I like the colors of the sky.

[az666]

I like the colors of the sky.

me too!
Thats the whole reason I take the photo's... not to look professional or anything, just to capture the colours and beauty of it.

Nice pics!!!

Good to see you post again dude, was going to ask where you and Scarlett have been recently....

[beachguy in thongs]

me too!
Thats the whole reason I take the photo's... not to look professional or anything, just to capture the colours and beauty of it.

Nice pics!!!

Good to see you post again dude, was going to ask where you and Scarlett have been recently....
Thanks.

I keep forgetting to learn how to focus my new camera.

[SpiritLevel]

.... with Canon A510 mostly used on Auto setting

[flamingskullballs]

I like the colors of the sky.
i like your pictures, and i damn-near think that your half-ass decent too

but digital....its so FLAT, no depth

i wanna get a medium format camera

pinhole all the way though

theres nothing cooler then taking pictures with paintcans and cereal boxes

[azure]

flamingskullballs stop bashing digi in your posts, theres ups and downs to each medium, i prefer film myself but some of the stuff you spout is nonesense about digital.

ontopic im a photography student and have been taking copius amounts of film over the summer and also recently discovered how well my dslr reacts to nighttime conditions, im dissapointed in the recent lack of hot weather as well in the uk as im half way through a roll of infa red.

[Nochowderforyou]

I enjoy taking pictures.

I have my dads old Canon picture that I use to download pics on here. I have another digital video camera, and digital still picture cam., that I use for other uses. The reason I don't use the mini digi cam is because I don't have the software on here, and well, I'm too lazy and I have the other cam that I use on here.

Here are a few local shots about 8km from my place.

[flamingskullballs]

flamingskullballs stop bashing digi in your posts, theres ups and downs to each medium, i prefer film myself but some of the stuff you spout is nonesense about digital.
ok ok ok...digital is cool in SOME ways

my main problem with it is the price

cameras are too pricey now days

not paying $1000 for a camera

[Fengzi]

Photography has been my main hobby for many years. I first got hooked when I took a class back in high school and after that took a couple of semesers in college. Right now I've got a Nikon 6006, Nikon N-90, and a Nikon D-100. I'm planning on getting one of the new Nikon D-200's if they ever start shipping into the U.S. I also bought a set of studio style strobes a while back

I like film, especially black and white, but tend to mostly use digital for the convenience and low cost. I say low cost because, even after buying a $1500 digital, if you shoot a lot you end up paying a lot less for every good pic. I will typically get one out every 20 pics that I'm satisfied with. This is pretty much the same with pro photographers too. For every picture that you see in some photogarphy book, that photographer has a ton more that went into the trash. With digital I can just shoot away without having to worry about film and developing costs.

Anyhow, here's a few I've taken of my daughter and some from my last vacation. I've also started to take macro shots of buds when I get some nice ones. There's a link at the bottom to my bud shots.

[flamingskullballs]

Anyhow, here's a few I've taken of my daughter and some from my last vacation. I've also started to take macro shots of buds when I get some nice ones. There's a link at the bottom to my bud shots.
thats your daughter?!!

shes adorable!!!

[jamstigator]

And a stalker was born!

Kidding! ;)

[pbstar31389]

Im also a photographer, heres some of my work.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/sebas11/LilaRedone.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/sebas11/StickRedone.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/sebas11/65508149210_0_ALB.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/sebas11/34306149210_0_ALB.jpg

[chris420]

Photography is a beautiful art, my interest in photography began several years ago but I have not gotten into it like I have until not long ago. I use two cameras a Nikon n75 and a digital sony camera with 3.2 mp. Here are a couple pics

[Kryzco]

I've always loved taking pictures, and in high school I took a year of photography, the funnest class I've ever had

I'm saving up to buy a damn good camera

I like taking pictures of anything that catches my eye

I always try to get that perfect shot

[azure]

ok ok ok...digital is cool in SOME ways

my main problem with it is the price

cameras are too pricey now days

not paying $1000 for a camera

true, the price of a high end dslr is a pisstake, i got a e500 for my 18th and thats a low end one.
best camera ive ever used and am still using is my OM-10, its the don man :rasta:

[flamingskullballs]

OM is a very good series...i like how versatile the extra equiptment is for Olympus

[Fengzi]

thats your daughter?!!

shes adorable!!!
Thanks flaming. Thankfully she's got her mothers looks and not mine.

Here's some pics I've taken while in China

[Fengzi]

And here's some of my older pics taken here in California. These were all done on film and scanned

[beachguy in thongs]

i like your pictures, and i damn-near think that your half-ass decent too

but digital....its so FLAT, no depth

i wanna get a medium format camera

pinhole all the way though

theres nothing cooler then taking pictures with paintcans and cereal boxes
Thanks, filetmignonballs. I think...

My Sister gave me a digital camera with all the connections for my birthday. The connections wouldn't work with her new one. I have a video camera, do you want to make a movie? You can write the script.

Turn it in on Monday.

[smokinbass]

I make my living (at least most of it) with a camera.

Mainly these days i shoot video and i have lit many a movie set. Photography is painting with light. And it is the light u are capturing. Understand the light... take better pics. i also shoot stills for fun, news papers (the few that r left) and as my art. But i have been in the moving picture trades for quite some time.

i too am going kicking and screeming into the digital age. i love the "post" i can do, but a good film camera was as good as the lens u shot through and the film u used. Now with digi, everytime a new higher pixal camera comes out, it seriously devalues what u had, and as a pro, no one whould want me to shoot an "old camera" but when i shot film (i still do) i had a collection of tools from the most modern 35mm cameras i used for things like sports to 30 year old medium format cameras righ to a 4x5 that was built in the 1920's

i own a broadcast quality standard definition vid camera, but when i need to shoot HD or digi stills i rent for the job. and motion film is always a rental.

SB

[Tom Swierzbinski]

Not a photographer, but I have signed up for Media and Photography A-level at college today. Course fees come to nearly £300... damn. Plus I now need to buy a 35mm camera (SLR preferably), but its whatevers in my price range. My interviewer recommended that I do photography because Im interested in journalism, and I told him I would rather be an independent journalist rather than work for 'The Man'.
In two years, hopefully Ill be setting off to some war-torn country in search of the story that noone else has found. Difficult and dangerous; for me its just fun.

[SpiritLevel]

Some ''brill'' photos in this thread... Not enough discussion about tips on shooting ... I know u all got skills... Share em.. Any how, here are a couple more of my efforts?