from earlier today..let me know what you think.

 

I think you took that plant & put it in the machine to color match paint at Home Depot & decided to go to town on your walls.

 

Lol it does seem like one you'd see in the paint section at HD. Nice shot.

 

^thanks jon
the background is just grass.

 

My walls are green.....I got the paint from Home Depot. LOL, thats why I made the comment!

& I totally thought that was a wall.

 

Well I've been checking this thread here and there quite often and now I get to finally post in it!

I just got my first slr today, I went with the Nikon D40 to get myself started. This is my first time ever shooting with an slr, and heck I barely ever even used my point and shoot.

So go easy on me, I'm still reading through the manual and haven't even started reading about the manual modes.

Here's a few of my first shots today...

 

wow, i finally get to see your car, pics look good though, first one is very nice
get used to using manual asap though

 

nice! DSLR crew getting bigger and better! keep it coming!

 

Hopefully things will get better for me shortly. I found an awesome deal on a 50D yesterday that I just could not pass up, so that's in the mail and will here soon!

As far as pics go, I've totally forgotten if I posted these in the past, but here they are:

 

awesome aviation pictures

 

that f-15 is sexy

 

sweet, glad you went with the 50D, you'll be happy, dont worry

 

I'm sure I will. I can't wait. Now I have to find someone selling a couple CF cards dang it, haha.

BTW, anyone want a brand new 18-200IS when it gets here?

 

dude, go to costco, i was there yesterday, lowepro slingshot 200 - 67 and they had the memory cards like 2 for 30

 

I use a 50D.
50D ftw!
make sure you firmware is 1.0.6 in the camera body, if it isn't.. update it,
the new firmware improves high iso performance, by removing vertical banding at isos above 800.

what lenses are you going to use with it?
what camera body were you using prior?

 

Will do, Firmware will be the first thing I check. As far as lenses go, I have a tack sharp 17-55IS, 100mm macro, 100-400L, 70-200L f4 non-IS, and 50mm 1.8 MKI. I'm going to be selling my MP-E unfortunately, as well as my XSi (which is what I was using before), to gain the funds to pay for the camera.

 

eh, i think you'll enjoy the 50D a little more than the MP-E

 

I dunno, getting shots like this are pretty awesome.





I just can't see dropping 600 more into takin pics of bugs (I need the MT-24 twin light flash in order to make this lens REALLY shine). But yeah, I'm thinking the 50D's features will help a LOT with other things, especially the AF on it.

 

ya i mean, if you take nothing but bug pictures then maybe you should have not, but since you take sweet air pictures and others, the 50D is more versatile.

 

K, ding dong question from my end. How do you update firmwares?