Photography thread...

Catalina!

Do you ever read strobist? They are having a bunch of contests and the prizes are some pretty awesome flashes and equipment... You and your new macro lense should check it out!

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/07/boot-camp-ii-assignment-2.html

Thanks, I will. I am having so much fun....waited almost 35 years for a macro lens so it is delightful to have one now. Woke up this morning to find we had a trespasser in the house, so whipped out the camera, took some shots, let it outside, then went back to bed...F slept blissfully through it all. :D

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/3689723147_3bf476ce0b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2572/3691844940_53382e3b8b.jpg

Catalina:catroar:
 
I really do wish you'd quit posting these great pictures with the macro lens. Back in the film days, I was a bit of a camera buff. I even had a room mate that had an enlarger but it was for B&W. Still, it was fun, just the special effects you could do with that. But, everything just gets so expensive as your tastes get refined.

I have two SLR cameras and one rangefinder (all film cameras) that all take very nice pictures but my finances just couldn't keep my addiction afloat. I still see shots that make me nearly cry, "if only I had a camera", but I now channel my creative juices in other ways. I'd also love to get into making films and doing the soundtracks myself. I could do the soundtracks now with the computer hardware, software and VSTs that I have, but the video camera is far beyond my finances. So, I just drool over the catalogs and let it all go.

I've got a cheap camera (under $100) that shoots simple video clips, so maybe someday I can link a few of them together and make me a simple little movie with soundtrack. But, it's just not the same when you know you could do wonderful things, if you only had the cash.

I know, when I'm dead and gone, there will be great cameras out that are so cheap that simple finances will be able to purchase them. Just like the audio recording area has been slowly changing in that way. I could never afford the audio studio that I have, if the digital age didn't now provide the hardware and software to the end user. It's not cheap, but it's affordable. The photographic area is slowly going that way, but I'll be dead by the time it matures to the point audio has. And if I'm still alive, my hands will probably shake so much, I could never get a decent shot anyway. :rolleyes:
 
LOL, I know. I too lusted after a macro lens back in the day when I shot only film, but it was always beyond my finances. I am rapt to have a cheap one now, but have also taken a lot of macro shots with a standard digital lens. They are getting ridiculously cheap, especially cameras that now do it all for you including compensating for camera shake and HDR processing in the camera. On my shaky days, image stabilising would be wonderful, but for now I opt for the challenge of doing without it. I keep saying I am going to try and understand and master how to do HDR, but being a computer challenged being, I keep putting it off.:D

Catalina:rose:
 
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