To keep the thread going, here are a few more.

My new son, born this past saturday

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6126742091/http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6126742091/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/djabel/, on Flickr

Out looking for bugs with my daughter we came across this little guy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6127288738/http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6127288738/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/djabel/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6126742165/http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6126742165/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/djabel/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6127288760/http://www.flickr.com/photos/djabel/6127288760/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/djabel/, on Flickr

 

congratulations medic!

 

congrats man!

what lens did u shoot the bug with??

 

Thanks guys.

Was shot with a 5D using the 70-200 2.8L IS II and Kenko Ext. tubes

 

Shot with a point n shoot Kodak, this lil cam sometimes gets a good shot
My wife out playing around, just clicked the "autofix" button. I love the water in this one

And I dont know why I like this pic so much, so I thought Id share it (heavily edited)

 

nice!

 

Derek you're shots are amazing! Man you've picked up so quickly since you bought that camera. Simply stunning.


I need some help guys. I have a Nikon D40 with the non-auto bracketing. So I'm trying to HDR manually. When I'm doing the -2/0/2 spread this is the process I'm doing:

1.) Set camera to automatic. Focus and remember settings (0)
2.) Set to manual, set same settings as the auto shot. Rotate wheel two clicks to adjust shutter speed (-2)
4.) Then advance four clicks upwards (+2)
5.) Export to HDR software.

The pics don't come out so well. Better than a regular pic but still not a good HDR. I read somewhere the little exposure meter in the viewfinder has to be centered, but if I try to center it, the picture is extremely dark or out of exposure. So I've been setting it to auto to get the general settings. I know I'm doing something wrong. Can anyone help?

 

i agree, derek's skills have taken off haha. and the 2 shots above are very nice for a P&S!

 

 

holy huge pics batman!


nice shots man, number 2 was my favorite. beautiful! tryna sell my camera and get like a t2i probably.. any suggestions on upgrades on anything else nice within the 5-700 range? prefer canon b/c i wanna keep my lenses

 

I agree, the second one is my favorite one out of all those great shots

 

lol, yeah, if i posted them smaller, they'd look dumb and not so much detail. what do you mean upgrades? camera body wise? or lenses? grips?
thank you! i really wish i had my wide angle for that shot, all those shots i used the kit 28-135 lens

 

Haven't posted in a while:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnycannon/6138556531/http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnycannon/6138556531/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/ronnycannon/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnycannon/6137635144/http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnycannon/6137635144/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/ronnycannon/, on Flickr

Shot with T1i and 70-200F4LIS:

 

What's a good camera to use for modeling?

 

That will be more lens than camera body. A decent lens I always been told to start with is a 50mm 1.8F IS lens. Or if you've the coin, the 1.4F models.

But that lens always looks too close to my subject in my mind.