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  1. Its a Nikon...hope you people are Nikon friendly. Cause I am a noob. I bought the D40 with two lenses. The 18-55mm and the new 55-200 VR lens (vibration reduction). Gotta sweet deal on it with a extra 4 hour battery and 5 year warranty (which isn't bad at all). Plus 4 uv and polar type filters...still noobish here. Anyway. Here is where I got some recommendation. Ken Rockwell is a well known photographer and here is what he said about it http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/recommended-cameras.htm also here is his dedicated page to the D40 http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm Any tips or computer programs (advice) are greatly welcomed. I would also like to get one of those portable hard drives that you can put your SD card into and it will download all your picks onto it. Anyone know if those are worth the money? I don't wanna lug around my laptop for that. Plus backing up my photos. Tips on that I really need.
  2. I've been shooting my DSLR since may of 09. I've gone through numerous lenses. and have been able to learn quite a bit about photography. Sigma 10-20mm Tamron 17-50mm Tamron 28-75mm Canon 55-250mm Canon 50mm Canon 18-55mm IS More often than not, I would just wait and hop on a good deal on a lens and then resell it for more later.. Right now the only lens I have is the 18-55mm IS. My original thinking was that my camera was to heavy with the other len's and I just wanted something light to make it easier to carry. I've been using the 18-55m for a few months now and I will say it's an excellent lens and will produce much better photo's than a point and shoot. But I will go ahead and say if your into photography and out of all the len's listed above, the Tamron 17-50mm/2.8 wins hands down. After using the much lighter 18-55mm IS for a while, I realized that it's not the lens, but the camera is the reason I'm not taking as many photos as I want. It is bulky and a pain to carry around when going places, it also attracts quite a bit of attention which I'm not really looking for. So I sold my remaining lenses and picked up one of these bad boys. Should be here next week I'm not expecting it to replace DSLR quality images, but I'm expecting it to be in with me more than the DSLR. Also, now that I have something to carry with me that is light, I will probably re trade my 18-55 IS for another Tamron 17-50/2.8 for the times that I do bring out the DSLR
  3. So I just figured out my camera had Auto Exposure bracketing and I've my camera for about 9 months.. have any of you other DSLR users used this?
  4. Help me pick some CF memory for the wifeys Canon Rebel XT. Shes got a couple 2 GB cards now, but wants something larger. How important is memory speed? I notice for speed, some companies list a multiplier, like 80X, 133X, 300X, etc. while SanDisk lists like 30 MB / s. Help?
  5. Nikon or Canon (which do you prefer?) for cheap. New is best. Start teaching me folks!
  6. Recommend any good books on photography?
  7. Has anyone heard of this? Supposedly if you have an out of warranty Canon camera (SD series) working or not you can trade it in to Canon for an upgraded (refurbished) unit, most notably the Canon EOS Rebel XT for $275 with a kit lens. I have the link bookmarked at home with the specifics so if I remember I'll post the details. From searching Google I've found the phone number to call to inquire (as Canon doesn't actively advertise this deal) 866-443-8002. I'm hoping I can take advantage of this deal here in Canada because ever since I got my SD600 I've wanted a DSLR
  8. Amazon has a the discontinued Sigmas 24-60/2.8 for $219. The charts looks really good for $200.. If you want an approx. focal length of your kit lens with upgraded optics this may be the way to go.. for cheap. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...KO/ref=dp_olp_2
  9. I've been chatting with NOFX for awhile on different lenses, since he's in the market for one. It was all in PM's though, so we wanted to bring it here and open it up to anyone else that has questions/opinions on camera lenses. One question that came up is "what's your dream lineup for lenses?" And then a followup question is "how do you get there"? Do you go with intermediate lenses, or just wait and get the best when you can? So if you have any questions about lenses, ask away! Some of us have probably been where you're at, and we're all learning. Don't be afraid to ask anything!
  10. From what I have read, shooting in Raw is basically your digital negative. When opening a RAW in Photoshop to "develop" the picture, you have more data to work with opposed to using the cameras compressed jpeg. Ever since I've read up on this and playing with HDR, I've been shooting in RAW. I basically copy the RAW files in a structured directory to my computer. Before I post online or show to someone, I will open up the RAW, develop the photo and then save it as a jpeg in a different directory. I always keep all my RAWs in case I want to develop the photo a different way down the road. Sure RAWs are a little bigger, but you can buy 1TB drives now for like $130 http://www.buy.com/prod/1tb-sata-16mb-high.../206895079.html
  11. I thought this forum got nixed back when the forums got cleaned up. Just found it again recently, was just hidden...cool... Ok, a couple of my daughter. We like to do little "photo shoots" for our daughters at a minimum of each birthday but usually we've done them every 3 months. Basically we hang a sheet on the wall for the backdrop and then just shoot some pictures. I use photoshop quite a bit for the PP as well.
  12. Anyone here use Blender for 3D rendering stuff? I've been using it for a while, and while I'm definitely no expert, I have done some pretty neat stuff. I'm trying to model a dental handpiece that is made of brushed aluminum. Using the newest version (2.45) I got the material/texture looking perfect and want to integrate it with another scene I have made. The only problem I running into is I use the Yafray renderer for the other scene because it is the easiest way to get Depth of Field in the rendering, but my awesome brushed aluminum material looks like crapola. My options are: 1. figure out how to fix my material for yafray renderer (big pain in the butt) 2. figure out how to get depth of field rendering through blender's internal renderer. (larger pain in the butt) I know people have been able to get depth of field through blender's renderer before using compositing nodes, but I can't seem to get them to work, mostly because I don't understand the whole z-buffer thing I think. If anyone has a better knowledge of this than I do, please help! I've been searching all over the interwebz, and have read more forum posts than I care to admit, but can't find a decent depth of field tutorial for the internal blender render engine that uses the compositing nodes. Thanks guys!
  13. Anyone who dabbles in PS interested in making sprays? Since K-Wix no longer makes any... wondering if anyone else would want to take over...
  14. free photo of the week - i love fall. http://www.istockphoto.com/free_image.php higher res available.
  15. With the help of discom and a couple tuts we made these two tonight.
  16. With the help of discom and a couple tuts we made these two tonight. Original files Let me know if you want full res pics
  17. I love it, personally. And I'm always looking for interesting macro shots other people have taken. Do any of you have some? Or know of some good macro shots online? Here's one I took of a jumping spider last weekend. It's very amateur-ish, but kinda cool considering these things are about the size of a ballpoint pen tip:
  18. After a bunch of research, I bought a Canon Rebel XTi with the kit lens and a 75-300 zoom lens. I don't really know what I'm doing yet, but the pictures look awesome to me so far, and it's a LOT of fun. http://www.flickr.com/photos/number_five Comments and critiques? I know these could be way better. My next goal is to learn about f-stops and more interesting framing.
  19. Here is an ambigram of my name. I made a flash file of it rotating 180 degrees to show that it can be read perfectly upside down, aswell. But, I don't know how to make GIFs, and I'd like this to be made into one. I went back into flash and saved the file as .gif and it made a gif file, but it's just black when I open it. I went on the interweb and it says I need a gif-making program that costs like 25 dollars. And if anyone has the resources in their hands to make GIFs right now, I'm sure this wouldn't take long. TYYTYTYTYTY
  20. http://www.hallpass.com/media/howtopaintmo...gmicrosoft.html pretty nifty... too much time lol
  21. By this point a few of you guys know i have a little photoshop skill, enough to create banners/sprays and things of that nature, and since this is the current forum right now, i figured i'd offer some 'services' up for you guys. I'll do just about anything for free, i love projects and i enjoy honing my skills. My specialties usually lie in banner-work / text. I know there are people who have requested sprays who i have not got back with in awhile, If you are one of them and you want a spray, Please Post here with some details. Same goes for anyone who wants any other work. Make sure to be specific with your requests, give me some colors - text/theme ideas, anything that might convey what you want a bit better. Hope to get some requests.
  22. then you might like this: http://flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/sets/72157594401819508/ don't forget to click the all sizes icon just above and to the left of the image. huge resolution, good enough for any desktop. enjoy~
  23. Greets my friends of gc. I love you guys. So i took my photoshop skills to something a bit more serious, so i shall begin the thread with a bit o' backstory. My Mothers senior picture day she took a great photograph. But due to my family being poor back in the day, they only could afford a single 8x10 print. About 2 weeks later my moms father in a drunken rage destroyed the photograph by burning it, throwing it into a corner, and doing a real number on the only copy to ever exist. Below is a picture of the photograph after it was ruined - you can see some of the burning and other damage/discoloration plaguing the picture. (warning - large image) The photo was pretty ruined - my grandmother tried some home remedies to 'fix' the problem, including nailpolish remover and some other stuff but generally the picture was 'done' by this point. 2006 comes along and my grandmother shows me the photograph.. and i decide to take it as a project and retouch it up, fix it up as best i could, and mail it to my mom as a mothers day gift - the project was just recently completed, so i figured i'd show everyone my work! Here is a copy of the redone photograph after my touch-up work. As you can see, there are a lot of changes, some minor and others major - a lot of the simple scratches and such were removed entirely, the necklace is gone and some areas that were so heavily damaged i had to basically 'paint' over.. this was a very fun project and also quite challenging, but i thought i'd post it to see what y'all think! If anyone has any ruined photographs that need touched up - get into contact with me and i might be able to help you Also, i have uploaded the 'hi-res' versions of the pictures, if anyone wants to look at the really big versions: http://kwix.shackspace.com/mom/MothersProjectfin2.JPG (new version) http://kwix.shackspace.com/mom/MothersProjectfin3.JPG (old version) Yay.. any comments?
  24. A nice site on some basic tips, etc. http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/14/i....html?tw=design
  25. My sister is big into photography right now and she put this together of the lake we stay at in Maine every year. I think it came out quite good. cant get it to show up any bigger... hmm.
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