u only have one lens?


U know u guys can talk to me through AIM too right? ha ha

 

My photography class starts tonight, I'm excited.

 

lol, didn't you just sell everythign tina?

 

nah she just sold her nifty fifty.

 

ya man if you are ever in NY let me know.

I cant wait for Wednesday so I can try the new lens. And I agree with Jon, I cant mod my car because of the camera

 

dude i'd love to take a road trip. If all I had to pay for was gas and food then it wouldn't be so bad. But anywhere I go I would have to pay for hotel too.

 

Now you say so. After all these years shooting in AWB, now I know why my shots looked yellow sometimes. Haha

Very funny T. I dread the day when you're actually giving me answers to photo questions.

hahahaha I'm far from shooting in manual. Slowly but surely I'll get outta P-mode.

I don't shoot in RAW because I do very little PPing and don't plan on blowing up the pics. Plus they're so frikkin' huge! It wears out the hamsters powering my comp.
I agree and have been saying the same thing for years about owning the gear I do and not having the full knowledge of how to take advantage of it. Hell, I don't know jack about real photography if we want to take the truth that far. What else can I say?

Dude, you're in SE. From what I've seen if you stay in a Chapter city, you'll find someone who's accommodating to a fellow members.

 

That may be very soon. She's taking a photo class. Now you get to call her and not me! Woooo!

JK, you can still call me if you get confused. lol

 

tungsten works well for some indoor applications, its safe to use awb for outside photos though. I have mine set to awb and capture it the way the lens sees it. Thats the beuty of RAW heheh

I use TV when Im in a situation that has lighting that changes dramatically often and I need to take shots quick indoors. I don't use av because its too unreliable I tend to miss more shots in av because the sensors get tricked sometimes under certain lighting circumstances and the shutter speed drops too low for indoor shots.

most of the time I use manual, I just memorize the positions of the iso, aperture and shutter controls and I change the settings on the fly without ever looking away from the viewfinder. The light meter helps me, but most of the time I just know what settings to use on the camera within various lighting conditions. It does help that Im often forced to shoot in low light almost all the time when I first started learning, which is kind of like boot camp for photography. Anyone can take a good pic outdoors with a slow lens, it takes experience to shoot good pics indoors with a slow lens. Even more difficult to take pics indoors with a slow lens and non-constant aperture telephoto and no flash (which is how I first started) hah.

this is why I think its good to learn a camera in low level lighting situations. I learned superfast on how to use the camera and its limits that way.

you start learning how to trick the camera into taking photos and forcing it to take shots that it normally wouldnt do in any other setting aside from manual mode. And it also forces your to be precise when pressing the shutter and composing the shot otherwise you end up with motion blur.

Once you learn this, it only gets easier from there on. shooting outdoors and constant aperture lenses hah.

right now Im actually trying to learn and hope to master 3 point flash and artificial lighting.

 

I love this polarizing filter. I really need to get onto my Mac so I can see these RAW files, these basic JPEGs are meh.

 

I am actually gonna start learning to use RAW. I've shot in raw but never edited any of the files cause I always use the large jpeg. I finally got some photo editing software so I just gotta figure out how to get to and convert the raw files through it.

Can't wait to have more control and see the difference in image quality.

 

I always shoot in RAW, just started to shoot in RAW+B (that way I can have the RAW for my Mac and JPEG for Windows). I don't do any editing, but if I start, I have all my old pictures that I can tinker with. Plus, iPhoto automatically changes photos from RAW to HighJPEG's when you pull them from iPhoto to the desktop.

 

today im picking up a D40 with a 18-55mm f/3.5 - f/5.6 ED II AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor lens... i cant wait!!

 

HA, that may be WAY sooner than you think. I'm already ahead of you since I shoot in manual.

p.s. My teacher is the fobbiest Persian I've ever seen. Seriously, she opened her mouth & I lol'd. We'll get along just great. az ai espekeah to hehr lykeh deh soopehr doopehr perzhan dat ai am.

Robert, have you heard me do my persian accent? If not, ask me to next time you see me, lol.

 

lol No, I haven't.

 

That could be a good or bad thing.

 

I was reading your assignments for your class and some of them call for a 50mm. LOL! You're free to use your old one you sold me, so you don't have to spend money on buying a new one.

 

Errr...I'd still rather call you. I'd want a straight answer rather than an answer that she'll take an hour to explain going in circles. Then at the end of it, hear what an idiot I am for not knowing a "simple" answer to my question. And you'd think if it was simple to me, I'd know it ehhh?

 

Cuz you're special. AND WHATRE YOU TRYING TO SAY HERE?!