I do it all of the time. I love the weird look i get sometiems. Super saturated and often very abstract looking. I've never fooled much with shutter speed but you guys are giving me ideas.
I also use the TV to practice my timing. You can easily learn when to anticiapate the shot buying picking from moving scens on the TV.
James56 wrote:
I have a meeting at church tonight that I can't miss, so I can't make tonight. Glad you get to go, have fun and get some awesome shots. Post here if you want. Maybe we'll meet somewhere else in Nashville sometime, I am usually at most Nashville Photography Club events, check their website for upcoming outings under the groups tab, then adventure group. The website link is in my signature line below. The club is for amateurs and beginners as well as advanced photographers, and is an excellent way to mingle and enjoy the company of others who have the shutter bug. Nice meeting you and take care now.
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Do you got to the other Titans practices?
I live in Dickson so I have kind of avoided joining the Nashville Photography Club due to the travel distance over the eyars but recently I decided to do it anyway. I even planned to do it today until I realized I was out of checks and at least from the website I think there is no other way to pay the initial dues. When I realized I only had one check left I went to the bank to order more. When I get them I am going to join.
If you don't mind please "message" me. I'd like to hear any advice or opinions you have about the club.
Thanks in advance.
Brian
Your pictures are nice but the news that tthe scrimmage has been moved to tonight is even better. I had to work Saturday in Mississippi so I was sort of bugged that I coudln't go. No I can. Weather is going to be better as well. Might see you there.
jerryc41 wrote:
Welcome to our forum!
I don't know if you're talking about the actual eyepiece on the camera or the rubber extension piece that you can buy. Mine never falls off so I'm thinking that it may be a different brand that you have. However I do not know which brand mine is. But you might want to look around. I hope that helps
unlucky2 wrote:
My name is Randy and I am a Hummer aditic. I was setting up multiple cameras on tripods for yet an other attempt to capture a female black widow (mirror below, multiple cameras above) when he landed on the feeder and started flashing me. Yes the 7d with the 400/f 5.6 was mounted on a tripod, but the tripod was not touching the ground. this technique, the famous "grab and snap" usually results in my better shots. The camera was in aperture priority ISO 400, and I was in a hurry.
What is "grab and snap" without the tripod tuching the ground?
Steven,
Before I forget let me say "Welcome to the Forum." I think I am going to start "following you" or "befriending you" or whatever I have ot do to see see where you go from here.
On whether or not it would actually sell in a gallery I don't know. I am an amatuer myslef but I do know that I might consider buying it if I saw it only display in a shop. It's a unique piece. If you want to ever see it again you need to take it home with you.
To be truthful I am probalby a sucker for this kind of shot. I often like photos that express a mood more so than the reality of what was photographed. You hit the mark in that way.
quote=StevenG]Thankl you so much for yur thoughtful comments. I am very pleased you liked the picture. Your gallery comment is interesting. I have many, many pictaures (as we all do). And, probably like most of us, every time I look at a gallery or street fair, I say to myself, "Mine are better than that"! Whether or not it would sell I don't know. What I do know is that it is very difficult to have a gallery take your photos, and selling on line, so I hear, is also very, very difficult. Although, I have never actually tried. Ironically, I was on the eastern end of Long Island recently, and just out of curiosity I stopped into a shop that sold photos and paintings. I asked the owner about the possibility of showing my work, and was told she had five photographers, and that people aren't buying. Anyway, this is just a hobby for me, and I am happy to make prints that I enjoy. Thanks again for the kind comments. By the way, the sky, as several peope have commented, was not blown out in the original. I agree that the processed version makes it look a bit blown out, though. But, that's by choice. I like it.[/quote]
JennT wrote:
LOL If you ever were at Mystic, the post is there and everywhere else---baberic
I've been there and got a folder full of photographs to show for it but I don't have this shot so I compliment you on your abiluty to see this as a successful composition. In fact, when I first saw your image I was shocked to realized I had been all over this scene and took a couple of dozen of pictures but had never seen this particualr compostion just sitting there.
boberic wrote:
A coupla things I find distracting from an otherwise OK image. The posts in the foreground and the overcooked sky.
I like the addition of the posts. I think that is a very clever composition. You could argue that the sky is a little over-cooked but once you turn something into an impressionistic piece to this degree it really becomes a matter of taste as to what you like and what you don't like. When I first looked at this picture I thought that the sky, the posts and even the focus in this photo were purposely designed to focus your eye to the center of this photograph where the subject is. The sky may have been burned out in the original and the effects are primarilly used to cover that. Either way I consider this a very successful photogrpah and one that would sell if placed in a gallery. I know that if I had taken this photo and processed it to look like this I woudl have been very proud.
Jcmarino wrote:
Here is a good example: Say you are outside shooting a sporting event and you want f/11. The sun may be going in and out and at the moment you want to shoot the light may not be as bright as you would like. You take the shot. Preview, your son, sliding into home is all blurry. Now you look at your settings and the they read, f/11, ISO 100, 1/60 sec. The exposure is perfect. But you did not want the person blurry! So you switch to manual, select f/11, shutter 1/500 or higher to stop the action and your ISO may have to go to 400. If your ISO has to go up so high that you have noise, you may want to lower your aperture. Some may say, well in this case, just soot shutter priority. But again the camera may select a lower aperture or a higher ISO resulting in a look you do not want. Your son may be sharp but you may have so much noise it does not matter, or the umpire designating your son is safe may be totally blurred out. In manual you can have it all.
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Jcmarino,
You said it all for me. I can't see a single use for AP or SP other than they are possibly faster to use but with less predictable results. I've had much better photographers than me try to talk me into using those modes but the merit in doing so seems to be over my head.
AntonioReyna wrote:
I think he meant to say that they would only give him $250 as a trade in, not to go from A6000 to A6300. I was at a Hilary rally couple of weeks ago near Disneyland and the guy next to me at a A6300. We talked about it and he absolutely loves it. I have a NEX-6 for walkaround and it produces great images images although I am a Canon guy (formerly Nikon). I hope that the A6300 price comes down in the near future.
The A6000 was/is cheap for the quality of camera it is but, at this point, the A6300 is too high for what it is.
I'm not sure why anyone would bypass the leading mirrorless cameras to wait for Canon to catch up. Plus, just making a camera mirrorless won't get you up to speed with the Sony for example.
In my pinion the two most impressive mirrorless cameras are the Sony A6000, A6300) and the Panasonic G4. I choose the Sony because of its price, it's features, it's fan support on the internet and it's aftermarket support. I am happy with that.
Currently the A6000 is going for prices that make it a "no brainer" purchase.