New Camera! - Page 4

xoxoxoBruce · 10-15-2015, 07:38 PM

Who's that squirrel?
And who the hell is that squirrel?
The Shadow knows.... muhahahahaha.

bbro · 10-16-2015, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Who's that squirrel?
And who the hell is that squirrel?
The Shadow knows.... muhahahahaha.

I cannot reveal my contact's names

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Originally Posted by classicman

Nice pics ... Cute squirrel and nice shroom.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Bbro, do your squrls speak with a British accent? All my squrls speak with a British accent.

They didn't speak this time. Just threw their nuts at me

BigV · 10-20-2015, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bbro

I went out on the same trail today with the zoom lens. It's much harder to take pictures with it since you have to plan being so far back. I still got a lot of good pictures of squirrels. It also seemed like there were a lot more leaves on the ground.

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Originally Posted by bbro

Any critiques are welcome

Since you asked...

I think you're thinking of the zoom function "wrong". The zoom function is not an impediment to taking the picture you want because the subject is "too close". For the subjects that are "too close" to easily use the zoom function, ... just don't zoom. Really. Just take the picture with the wider lens setting (less or no zoom), and voila', your picture.

Now, what I think is probably happening is that you're just enjoying playing around with your new camera, exploring all the features and functions of the ~~toy~~ machine. And the zoom is a cool part of that. So you see something interesting to photograph, you think you'll try the zoom feature, and unfortunately, it's "too close" to easily use the zoom for *that* subject. In this case, pffft, let the "rules" go out the window. Zoom in on something close up, knock yourself out. It's your camera, it's your artistic vision, if the plebs don't like it, tough. Your muse, your pictures.

Anyhow, you're doing great, the pictures are nice and you look like you're having a lot of fun. *THAT'S* the main point, and you're totally getting that one. Well done.

bbro · 10-21-2015, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

Since you asked...

I think you're thinking of the zoom function "wrong". The zoom function is not an impediment to taking the picture you want because the subject is "too close". For the subjects that are "too close" to easily use the zoom function, ... just don't zoom. Really. Just take the picture with the wider lens setting (less or no zoom), and voila', your picture.

Now, what I think is probably happening is that you're just enjoying playing around with your new camera, exploring all the features and functions of the ~~toy~~ machine. And the zoom is a cool part of that. So you see something interesting to photograph, you think you'll try the zoom feature, and unfortunately, it's "too close" to easily use the zoom for *that* subject. In this case, pffft, let the "rules" go out the window. Zoom in on something close up, knock yourself out. It's your camera, it's your artistic vision, if the plebs don't like it, tough. Your muse, your pictures.

Anyhow, you're doing great, the pictures are nice and you look like you're having a lot of fun. *THAT'S* the main point, and you're totally getting that one. Well done.

V - thanks for the advice. The issue isn't the zoom function, it's a zoom lens. The normal lens stops at 55mm and the zoom lens starts at 70mm. Because it starts there, it just takes a bit of planning since I can't pull the lens in any further than 70mm

Thanks for the compliment

I am very proud of my pictures. I wish I could post them all here - lol!

xoxoxoBruce · 10-21-2015, 08:50 AM

A 70mm lens is the preferred "portrait lens", which seem counter intuitive. But if you think about it, a portrait is usually head and shoulders, think school pictures, without the camera being right in the subjects face. Try it with your friend, seeing how close you have to be to get the same school picture with the 50mm and 70mm.

Now if you apply that same reasoning, you can take a sort of fearless squirrel, or cowardly flower, filling the frame without being on top of it. Then you can take same wider shots as the 50mm, without walking way over there, 'cause walking is so 20th century, plus really hard walking up a tree trunk.

footfootfoot · 02-19-2016, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A 70mm lens is the preferred "portrait lens", which seem counter intuitive. But if you think about it, a portrait is usually head and shoulders, think school pictures, without the camera being right in the subjects face. Try it with your friend, seeing how close you have to be to get the same school picture with the 50mm and 70mm.

maybe weighing in late, but another reason for a longer focal length lens for portraits is less distortion. A 135 is also a nice portrait lens.

The ideal (in my opinion) beginner's phalanx of lenses would be a 35mm, roughly equivalent to our field of vision when scanning a scene, a 70 to 135 zoom which somewhat replicates what we see when we focus on things that are distant. This has to do more with what we edit out in our brains and not what our eyes actually see:
Normal lens

classicman · 10-16-2015, 08:10 AM

Nice pics ... Cute squirrel and nice shroom.

Gravdigr · 10-16-2015, 09:59 AM

Bbro, do your squrls speak with a British accent? All my squrls speak with a British accent.

bbro · 10-17-2015, 08:35 PM

Got it!

bbro · 10-17-2015, 08:36 PM

I love mushroom pictures

xoxoxoBruce · 10-17-2015, 10:33 PM

That first picture look like a great place to gawk at scenery and fall flat on your face. Be careful, don't try to look through the camera and walk at the same time.

bbro · 10-17-2015, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That first picture look like a great place to gawk at scenery and fall flat on your face. Be careful, don't try to look through the camera and walk at the same time.

LOL - I always stop because I would face plant INTO the camera.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-17-2015, 10:52 PM

Turn it around quick, 'cause pics or it didn't happen.

Griff · 10-18-2015, 08:24 AM

These are wicked cool bbro! Your mushroom shot are really interesting but don't tell classicman where they are, he'll eat your subjects.

bbro · 10-18-2015, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Turn it around quick, 'cause pics or it didn't happen.

My friend I was with would've happily taken the pictures before I got back up

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Originally Posted by Griff

These are wicked cool bbro! Your mushroom shot are really interesting but don't tell classicman where they are, he'll eat your subjects.

Thanks

I think I am getting the hang of this. I am loving the manual focus. That was a huge problem with the point and shoot - it would focus on the wrong thing.

He can eat them......as long as I get my shot first

10-15-2015, 07:38 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Who's that squirrel? And who the hell is that squirrel? The Shadow knows.... muhahahahaha. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-21-2015, 08:50 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	A 70mm lens is the preferred "portrait lens", which seem counter intuitive. But if you think about it, a portrait is usually head and shoulders, think school pictures, without the camera being right in the subjects face. Try it with your friend, seeing how close you have to be to get the same school picture with the 50mm and 70mm. Now if you apply that same reasoning, you can take a sort of fearless squirrel, or cowardly flower, filling the frame without being on top of it. Then you can take same wider shots as the 50mm, without walking way over there, 'cause walking is so 20th century, plus really hard walking up a tree trunk. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-16-2015, 08:10 AM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Nice pics ... Cute squirrel and nice shroom. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-16-2015, 09:59 AM	#8
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10-17-2015, 08:35 PM	#9
bbro Insert witty comment here Join Date: May 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 2,182	Got it! Attached Images __________________ Camping

10-17-2015, 08:36 PM	#10
bbro Insert witty comment here Join Date: May 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 2,182	I love mushroom pictures Attached Images __________________ Camping

10-17-2015, 10:33 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That first picture look like a great place to gawk at scenery and fall flat on your face. Be careful, don't try to look through the camera and walk at the same time. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-17-2015, 10:52 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Turn it around quick, 'cause pics or it didn't happen. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-18-2015, 08:24 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	These are wicked cool bbro! Your mushroom shot are really interesting but don't tell classicman where they are, he'll eat your subjects. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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