Lol... I own the same lamp. It's in my office (aka storage room). And I must argue with you - if you're looking for subject matter just to learn your camera, it's all around you. Photograph anything - stuff you have laying around your apartment (not your sex toys though), go outside and photograph a bush, a flower or a tree. The thing about photography is you can never use the excuse you don't have a subject. It's your job to make a boring subject interesting : ) So yeah, take some pictures and post that shit. I've been on you about this, too.
I don't recall you bellyaching like ehowton, but I know better than to argue with you.
I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I could really use your help in learning a few things about lighting and the science behind photography, like choosing the right ISO setting, f-stop, aperture and shutter speed. I can almost get each individual concept but the intersection of them all is quite daunting. I need someone who knows what they are doing to look over my shoulder and tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong.
Say, this sounds like an exchange waiting to happen. Value for value. Maybe we could make a weekend of it sometime soon. I could help with the book and we could go shooting together. Besides, you have a bundle of joy to shoot and shoot and shoot. Now there's one subject that is never uninteresting to shoot.
I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I'm hardly an expert on photography but in my photos I find that it helps to take time to "explore" your subject. The first 10-15 photos are pretty much guaranteed to be boring--you are getting your lighting adjusted, playing with angles, checking composition, looking for what should be the background, etc. After that, things get really interesting. If you only ever take one or two pictures of every subject and try to do all the scrap work in your head, it's very hard to get to those "effortless" looking photos. Besides with digital cameras the shots are free. Just go on a walk around your neighboorhood one afternoon and shot whatever strikes you--a colorful leaf, a fence post, the clouds, whatever.
Yeah, I've noticed that. It's annoying having to sift though all the snaps and find the one or two good ones, but when you have a good shot, it's gold.
Have you ever been to the Botanical Gardens? Could be fun to take a day and go shoot there.
I assure you that was more luck of the draw than it was a planned event. I was the right distance back and found that I had different focal points.
For what it's worth, the two pictures of the full height of the lamp were taken with the point and shoot because I couldn't get far enough back to get the shot I wanted with the fixed 50.
The 50 isn't a bad lens, it's just that you have to know what you're doing if you want to shoot with it. I've found that it works great for events, but I definitely need to get something like a 70-155 just to have something to piss around with.
This is awesome! Especially the close-up photos; they're awesome!
And I echo the first commentator - subjects are all around you! (and failing that, get a cat. They're a subject in and of themselves... even if they're not quite cooperative some (most) of the time... XP
Keep up the good work!
p.s. nice lamp! That's awesome, and now no more strained eyes! yay!
p.p.s. I was in Wal*Mart the other day and found "The Patriot's History of the United States" by Larry Schweikartand Michael Patrick Allen - did you say you wanted it/read it? I was going to wait on you before I got it (plus pay-day, but that's another story... XP)
It's bright... would probably hurt my eyes honestly but anyway - great-grandma (legally blind) has the same light and uses it to put super high amounts of light onto anything she wants to see. Most of the time she can't see much more than vague shapes etc. but she says that the extra light does help. (shrug) I wouldn't know. Thank goodness I am not blind yet.
BTW I don't know how to delete the anon. comment I left... so you'll have to? IDK anyway, I am so used to the computer keeping me logged in that I did not think anything about it until the comment had been posted. Sorry Furbie. :-)
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I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I could really use your help in learning a few things about lighting and the science behind photography, like choosing the right ISO setting, f-stop, aperture and shutter speed. I can almost get each individual concept but the intersection of them all is quite daunting. I need someone who knows what they are doing to look over my shoulder and tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong.
Say, this sounds like an exchange waiting to happen. Value for value. Maybe we could make a weekend of it sometime soon. I could help with the book and we could go shooting together. Besides, you have a bundle of joy to shoot and shoot and shoot. Now there's one subject that is never uninteresting to shoot.
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I'm hardly an expert on photography but in my photos I find that it helps to take time to "explore" your subject. The first 10-15 photos are pretty much guaranteed to be boring--you are getting your lighting adjusted, playing with angles, checking composition, looking for what should be the background, etc. After that, things get really interesting. If you only ever take one or two pictures of every subject and try to do all the scrap work in your head, it's very hard to get to those "effortless" looking photos. Besides with digital cameras the shots are free. Just go on a walk around your neighboorhood one afternoon and shot whatever strikes you--a colorful leaf, a fence post, the clouds, whatever.
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Have you ever been to the Botanical Gardens? Could be fun to take a day and go shoot there.
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For what it's worth, the two pictures of the full height of the lamp were taken with the point and shoot because I couldn't get far enough back to get the shot I wanted with the fixed 50.
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And I echo the first commentator - subjects are all around you! (and failing that, get a cat. They're a subject in and of themselves... even if they're not quite cooperative some (most) of the time... XP
Keep up the good work!
p.s. nice lamp! That's awesome, and now no more strained eyes! yay!
p.p.s. I was in Wal*Mart the other day and found "The Patriot's History of the United States" by Larry Schweikartand Michael Patrick Allen - did you say you wanted it/read it? I was going to wait on you before I got it (plus pay-day, but that's another story... XP)
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BTW I don't know how to delete the anon. comment I left... so you'll have to? IDK anyway, I am so used to the computer keeping me logged in that I did not think anything about it until the comment had been posted. Sorry Furbie. :-)
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