The camera/photography thread

when i get the whole shop finished and paid off i think i will look at the tamron 150-600mm

 

I was tempted by that one this time as at around £800 in the UK it seems a bargain, I couldn't find a local store where I could try one out so I decided on the Nikon 300mm. I still keep looking at the Tamron though with the great 150-600mm range and vibration control!!

 

sadly on the sony A mont it is not VC like we dont know how tha works

 

real men shoot with Sigma 800

 

i've actually seen one of those in real life before... its ridiculous. That picture is awesome.

 

This is for real? "I want to snap a picture of that moose over there, I just don't want to travel the 3 miles to get it".
"well sir have we got something for you! Introducing...The Sigma!"

What in the world!

 

More an event lens semi-permanently mounted. The handheld guy was just messing around, I think.

 

That Sigma 800 pic is great!! I have seen pics of the lens on it's own but that is the first pic I have seen with someone holding it to show the size and scale of the thing!!

Went out with the new Nikon 300mm f/4 + 1.4 converter today.
All the pics are hand held, very happy with the combo so far! I thought the lack of zoom might annoy me but it has been great so far, it does have a sort of zoom feature 'my legs!!'
Here are few from today, again all hand held. I might post the rest up in a separate thread instead of clogging this thread up with mostly standard pics

Random plane flying over, cropped from the full image


Gull just touching down


Sayyy whhaatttt




The first butterfly I have seen this year!


Very pleased so far, the lack of Vibration Reduction on the lens doesn't seem to be an issue hand held as long as you keep a sensible shutter speed

 

i shoudl be out in the woods right now hunting morning cloak buterfly i have only seen one and it would not land for me to get a picture of it. woudl mostly finish my photo collection of the local ones

 

I am somewhere between a serious hobbyist and pro just based on shear number of photos I take and because in shoot in RAW. I've been using Elements for years. I'm dedicating my year to upping my game process wise at least.

I added Bridge but it doesn't play well with elements. I tried Lightroom 4 in the past and hated it. And now Adobe has both Photoshop and Lightroom available for $10/month. What to do what to do? I could stick with Elements. I could add Lightroom 5 and tweak it for Elements. I could abandon Elements and switch to Lightroom 5 plus Photoshop CC. What kind of workflow do you use?

Edit: I started trialing Lightroom 5 and it does not have face recognition like Elements does. I'm not sure i can live without face recognition.

 

I have the LR5 and PS combo and love, it handles RAW images great, non-destructive, and great cataloging. Never used Elements so I can not compare the two.

 

i use lightroom 5 and the last version of photoshop before they moved to creative cloud... thinking about changing at some point, but creative cloud is kind of expensive in the long run

 

LR 6 due out in a few months, hope it's not a CC release. It's getting hard to NOT have PS in school now. Most assignments require PS now and I hate PS with a passion....

Serious hobbyist personally, but not outside the realm of selling images so I'd say semi pro?

I'm collecting quite an array of gear and lenses, Canon is my preferred system as it's what I used for the past 30 years so I just kept going with it. I also shoot 35mm, 4x5 large format, and looking for a top view medium format camera to try something different with. I'm really quite taken with large format and drag the Linhof around when ever I get the chance

 

Some early class projects, most where shot with my Canon 60D and a Tamron 180 Macro lens.



Now days my goto lens is the Canon 135 2.0L and I just picked up a Canon 400 5.6L. Still working out how to get better knife shots with these lenses but the razor shots are starting to come along

 

LR for primary RAW 'developing' followed by Elements for Photoshoppy type modifications. I'm woefully behind on my photos though, as my desktop MB crapped out last year and the laptop I've been using is about 7 years old. One day I'll get a new setup and catch up with almost 2 years' worth of photos

 

That wasp is a great pic (or at least I like it.

 

The sucky thing about closeups is dust and scratches and imperfections. I can usually eliminate the dust with some effort but within a few seconds it comes back, so sometimes I won't even bother anymore, like on this choilie of a Carter Muteki I'm tweaking a bit.

 

That's one cool photo!

 

Thanks! Anton wisely noted that it's hard to get a sense of scale when taking these kinds of choilies...the blade thickness at the "base" where it intersects the handle is 1.7mm, but perhaps the photo makes it seem larger. I should include scale somewhere.

 

Yeah looking at these kinds of shots over the years I found I was less impressed with out knowing scale. Some that look all kinds of chunky cut like a dream with others I thought where rather thin felt like a 2x4 on a tomato. I've wondered if there was a magnetic scale that one could attach to the side of the blade at the base of the choil to give an accurate viewing, something in the 3mm range would cover most knives and still fit inside the image reasonably.