Recreation Izzy's Random Photography Shootout!

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So, I got a new camera a few weeks back, and I've been using it almost non-stop. Took out some pictures that I thought were interesting. So, yeah.

Some of the ones that I thought were interesting, anyway.












BIRTHDAY CAKE!






...ALCOHOL!




These were taken today:
Saw some crazy sky today!






Nothing fudged with other than the border and exposure settings!

 

and this is why i want a small digicam =p

one i have is some cheap $50 thing. and my cell phone is crap.

very pretty skies though <3 snail too

 

wow.. what model is your camera? The photo of the Honda logo is awesome.. i want a camera that is able to do that!!

 

My camera:


My lens:


No means a "small" Digi BB. It's a prosumer camera. The lens sucks, quite frankly. But I wanted to play with something until I got used to the camera. My next lens will PROBABLY be this $1200 wonder:

 

hehehe well, then you'll pleased to know why it reminds you of home....=p

 

Yeah, the LOCATION might have something to do with it.

 

I refused to let anyone eat the cake, since it was the awesomest thing I ever got for a birthday, EVER. It was moldy -- the hairspray treatment didn't do it any good. It was three tiered, and the bottom was broken, so we picked only on that layer.

 

So...I ended up with this lens for a few days ($1800!!, glad it's rented!):


And I decided to play around for a bit. It's quite heavy, so a lot of shots are pretty bad -- I was shooting only from my arm (no tripod) so I only took the pictures that came out good looking.







These are only airsoft guns! Me and my friends aren't quite THAT crazy!












Anyway, I went to lots of places that day, but it was all good fun!

BTW, my arm was DEATHLY sore the next day. Well, not really, but hell was it tired! The lens by ITSELF probably weighs 5 pounds. Couple that with no tripod and 100+ shots, and I got a workout!

 

love the scenery shots. =p but that was the stuff i was staring at while driving down from vegas. wish we had landscape up here =p

 

Scenery is nice, but I was constrained. The lens was zoomed in TOO much, so a lot of detail surrounding the outcrops in the lake were cut off. Ah well. I can almost guarantee a new picture of Buddha Bill with every new lens I try out -- it's a nice piece to film, and it's distance from the backwall allows me to critique the bokeh of the lens.

Yeah Bash, I had ginormous fun with the lens/camera. I took it to my sis' high school Volleyball game. I looked like such a stalker!

BB, I'm sure you have scenery in Dakota! C'mon! I will admit though, the scenery was only a mile up from my house.

Guys, I think this is the big hobby now. My car -- has taken a major backseat to this. Maybe I can make this a paying hobby....

 

i have some pics from around here and from the drive out to fargo. i'll post them sometime.

 

Picked up a Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 LD Di-II today, and here are some samples! Decently sharp wide open, but gets uber-sexy at 6.3. Quite an inexpensive lens for the quality pictures at only 400-ish dollars!

Optimus here is the only one that's been touched up. The rest are (should be, anyway) completely stock from the camera.

 

Most times, yeah. I really do need to stop messing around with it, and take some GOOD photos. But, I usually have my camera and I just shoot stuff.

The random assortment above is actually me testing my lens. I wanted to see the focal distance (10" minimum) and to see what kind of Depth of Field (as evidenced by Optimus, where only his abs of steel are in focus, while the other parts of the photo especially the background are super blurred) I can get at different stops. Color, clarity, and vignetting also figure into the tests.

...This has officially become an obsession, Bash. I promise though, I'll only put good PHOTOS up instead of the snapshots like I've been taking. Of course, my buddha will also be included very often. I love that guy! I have some pretty fun ones from Chuck E. Cheese's from a few days ago with my old lens.

 

i like "snapshots" though =p they tell you alot about a person i think. like the random stuff that gets your attention and that kind of thing.