The photography thread.

[Dogs of Doom]

no color correction on any of these...

 

[Dogs of Doom]

I took this w/ my Canon... (Canon 1D X Mk III) This little guy was about 2" long total...

 

[Dogs of Doom]

I used the 2 LED shop lights (48" tubes), 1 on each side... (Canon 1D X Mk III)

 

[Dogs of Doom]

moon 9/11/2024... (Canon 1D X Mk III)

 

[Vinsanitizer]

My old cat... she is on her 10th life, she goes to 11 !!!

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[Vinsanitizer]

picked me up a new point & shoot bridge camera...

I got a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ2500. Interestingly, I couldn't find anything too recent, that fit my criteria. This is a 2017 model. At the time, they were making digital cameras for Leica. I was looking at the Leica equivalent, but, they are 3x's the price, & unobtainable. Leica moved on from the 'super zoom', to a more compact, flat camera w/ a small lens.

these are not really photographic compositions as much as they are testing quality of image & color. All shot indoors, no flash.

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Nice camera. Colors look neutral to me. I like Canon's color profile a lot because it makes photos pop, but sometimes I set it to neutral because not everything looks good with vibrant colors. Like if I was taking a picture of something with subdued colors, like machinery in a stone quarry where there's a lot of gray, or in the woods on a cloudy November day and you're trying to catch the vibe of the grays and browns - I'd want detail over vibrant colors.

This summer I picked up the widest lens Canon makes for their R-series cameras. It's a 10-18mm, f/4.5-6.3. So for me it's 16-29mm, effectively. I bought it because I'm finding that some photos I take are missing something; like I get home and look at a shot I took of a subject, and it doesn't have the vibe I was trying to capture- like it just looks isolated; it just looks like "a thing". My assumption is that what's missing is the context that the subject is in - nothing else around it is in the photo. I've tried backing away or zooming out, but then you just end up with a smaller looking subject. My thinking is that, with a wide angle lens, I can get the full size of the subject while including more of its context, and therefore, the photo would have more character, and tell more of a "story". One thing I learned with the wide angle lens, is that's how they make the insides of campers, RV's, cars and trucks, look so big. You see these photos of small pop-up campers, and they look so spacious inside. Then you walk into one, and you're like "we can't fit 2 people in here let alone 6". LOL!

Example:

Like, here's your pop-up camper, right?


Here's what it looks like inside with a wide angle lens.


I exaggerated to make a point.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Anyway, I was really hoping to get lots of cool shots of hummingbirds and butterflies this summer, but it didn't work out. My wife set up a bunch of hummingbird feeders, and built a butterfly garden. But there was only one hummingbird all summer, who would come and perch in the top of a bush every day. We ended up naming him "George". We got zero butterflies. Taking photos of birds alone was a tough lesson: it's very difficult to get good shots of birds, because the little buggers won't stay still for one second. I set the camera up to take multiple shots at a time, but that's still pretty futile.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Anyway, I was really hoping to get lots of cool shots of hummingbirds and butterflies this summer, but it didn't work out. My wife set up a bunch of hummingbird feeders, and built a butterfly garden. But there was only one hummingbird all summer, who would come and perch in the top of a bush every day. We ended up naming him "George". We got zero butterflies. Taking photos of birds alone was a tough lesson: it's very difficult to get good shots of birds, because the little buggers won't stay still for one second. I set the camera up to take multiple shots at a time, but that's still pretty futile.

you need a longer lens & distance...

 

[Vinsanitizer]

you need a longer lens & distance...

I have a 100-400mm lens, and was at a proper distance. Another big problem is that my tripod is a cheap $40 Zomei from Amazon. It's ok for smaller lenses, but with that big 400mm lens, I have to tighten the camera down so much to keep the lens from drooping, that it doesn't rotate smoothly; it skips all over and it's impossible to frame a shot. By then the days were getting really hot and humid, and I just gave up on birds for the season.

You can clearly see from the illustration below, just how much downward force the 400mm lens was putting on my tripod:

 

[Dogs of Doom]

I have a 100-400mm lens, and was at a proper distance. Another big problem is that my tripod is a cheap $40 Zomei from Amazon. It's ok for smaller lenses, but with that big 400mm lens, I have to tighten the camera down so much to keep the lens from drooping, that it doesn't rotate smoothly; it skips all over and it's impossible to frame a shot. By then the days were getting really hot and humid, and I just gave up on birds for the season.

You can clearly see from the illustration below, just how much downward force the 400mm lens was putting on my tripod:


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always mount long lenses by the lens' mount, not the camera...



ever try a monopod? (still use lens' mount, not camera)

 

[Vinsanitizer]

always mount long lenses by the lens' mount, not the camera...
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ever try a monopod? (still use lens' mount, not camera)

Monopod... Maybe?
Good idea.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Monopod... Maybe?
Good idea.

I usually handhold...

 

[Vinsanitizer]

I usually handhold...

Ok, well I'm not usually into that sort of thing unless it's with my wife and we're at the mall or a craft fair, but if you insist...


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[Dogs of Doom]

Taken on the road, coming back from dinner at around 75 MPH...

 

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[Vinsanitizer]

no color correction on any of these...

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That's your LP Classic 1960, right? 498R / 500T's? I had a '99 honeyburst. They were $1,300 back then. It's the guitar I used on the SPANKT tracks (I might have already told you that). I loved it until I wore the frets off it. I eventually sold it and bought a new one the same color as yours, in 2007. By then they were $1,700, and chambered. Great guitars.

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Me using the guitars without permission at Thunder Road Guitars. Don't tell anyone!

 

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Tables out front of Easy Street Records

 

[bhatta]

A mating pair of handmaiden moths
Taken on mobile phone

 

[Vinsanitizer]

One of the camera's built-in digital filters:








A few of my gears during a storage room cleanup.


My current ride. Mazda CX-5. Bright red, so I can find it in the big parking lots. (I have bad dreams about being lost and unable to find my car. I wonder what it means.)