Posts for: drklrd
Oct 21, 2018 14:05:51 #
BigGWells wrote:
There is definely more to shooting PRO Sports than just the click of the shutter. But as they say, practice makes perfect. Go out to your local High schools and see if they will let you shoot.
With all the stuff going on with strangers in high schools these days he may not be permitted to photo any kids unless his kids are in the sports. The schools have to know a person or the agency that sent them to do photographs. Even I make sure I intro myself to the coaches and the officials I meet just so that they know who I am and why I am there. It makes them feel more at ease with me. Depends on the school some may say no and some may say yes if he volunteers to help the teams and coaches.
Oct 20, 2018 15:33:09 #
rcfees wrote:
Having problems using SD card for upgrades on Win 10. I can get upgrades to download on the computer but can not transfer the info on the card. So, I thought the USB might be another route. Contacted a repair shop and they stated not possible. So any thoughts of selling the body are probably up in smoke.
I had no problems updating my Nikon D7200 using the card. Go back to the site you downloaded the updates from and read their instructions again as I had a similar problem with my D5200 and once I read the instructions and understood what I did wrong it worked.
Oct 20, 2018 15:27:38 #
gvarner wrote:
If you shoot full frame with 30 MP and crop to 2/3 of that in post, do you get an equivalent 20 MP edited photo?
Check the properties pf the finished shot after saving it. In properties it will tell under details what the final pixels are. As well as the dpi in horizontal and vertical. There is no guessing that way.
Oct 20, 2018 15:24:04 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
My intent is not to pop your bubble but, becoming ... (show quote)
You are right about the gear and the fact that only shooting football will surely limit his income. I am a pro myself. Actually a sort of retired pro. 1500 to 1600 weddings and film went away then to get back into photography I spent several thousand dollars on gear and called one of the studios I shot for years ago. Right back to work I went. I hate retirement time as there is more fun to take pictures than the fun of sitting at home in a chair watching the TV. Again I shoot school activities primarily sports. The better and more gear I have the more jobs I find just like it was in film days. The more experience you have the more you can freelance out your talents. You are quite right about the equipment cost and your time donations to become known.
Oct 20, 2018 15:09:50 #
A. T. wrote:
Okay, well, let me ask you. I did think about that very thing but I was concerned about noise using such a high ISO. If I can use what I have and not spend an additional 12 to 13 hundred dollars, I'm all for it. Could you please address the high ISO and the possible grainy photo?
Thanks,
A. T.
Thanks,
A. T.
I wish people would stop calling the noise grain since it is actually digital noise as there is no grain in digital.
Oct 18, 2018 11:37:15 #
abc1234 wrote:
Two thoughts. After all that wear, I would have serviced it. Secondly, the culprit could be the auto-focus. I found that with sports, extraneous players and officials fool the evaluative auto-focus system so use a small zone pattern instead.
Thanks. It just might need the servicing. Only service agency close to me is K&R in Ky or Dodd Camera in Cincinnati. Are there better agencies out there close to Cincinnati Ohio?
Oct 15, 2018 14:41:31 #
A. T. wrote:
I would like you guys and gals opinion. I have a ... (show quote)
I went with the Sigma 70 to 300. I shot so many shots with it that I finally replaced it with a Nikon 50 to 300. The sigma was performing very well and still does but it seemed to hang up and not focus quick enough on some shots leaving the shot out of focus. Might have been my handling or it was just too much wear I caused shooting that many sport shots for 3 years with it. Since it also does macro I keep it around for that.
Oct 15, 2018 14:36:20 #
Low Budget Dave wrote:
I have noticed that most professional photographers find a camera they like and stick with it. The brand doesn't seem to matter as much as what they get used to.
I have also noticed that photographers who are really good can take better pictures with their cellphone than I could with a Leica.
I have also noticed that photographers who are really good can take better pictures with their cellphone than I could with a Leica.
I have shot with many a film camera as a pro and my early days as a beginner. I eventually settled in film on the Bronica SQA versus the Hasselblad and the Canon vs the Nikon. Sold all but the Bronica when I knew film was going out as I was by then rarely using the Canon gear. The Bronica sits on a shelf. Replaced now in the digital world with Nikon. Many lenses and at least 3 bodies are now Nikon. As to why Nikon? Only because I found out more about Nikon than I did about Canon when I decided to buy the gear. Research to find what the other pros were using was also what told me to go Nikon instead of Canon. The photog's using Canon that I knew seemed to think there is too much of a difference in the files saved in the camera between Nikon and Canon. I think other than file format in RAW there may be a difference but not enough to worry about. In jpeg they seem to me to be damned identical. Once you invest in one camera brand and have more than the lens that came with it you become a part of that camera brand since the lenses and the bodies have to match up. Even the off brand lenses are made to match the bodies of cameras. So once you have the initial investment the only way to change over is to sell what you had, take the loss, and move on to the one brand you now want. Not willing to take the loss and Nikon gives me what I want I stay with Nikon. Even if I loved using the old Kodak Tourist for sports shooting back in high school as well as my old 2 1/4 square Mamiya twins lens reflex, both of course film cameras. With the twins lens Mamiya I could actually shoot pin hole shots by drilling a tiny hole in the body cover of that camera since it had a film cover built in to change lenses could be flipped up to make the pinhole shot and flipped down to cover the film again.
Oct 15, 2018 14:16:17 #
billnikon wrote:
I see it's from a canon user site. That figures. Canon users are always about the money they spend on equipment. They have yet to grasp that it's not the equipment, its the photographer. Oh well.
Oct 15, 2018 13:55:49 #
olemikey wrote:
They also use the "Operation" game prior to real surgery......
This I do not doubt.
Oct 15, 2018 13:55:17 #
rcarol wrote:
So they read spec sheets instead before doing surgery?
I do not know about that but I know few ever read about your allergies. You seem to have to remind them about that.
Oct 14, 2018 13:02:57 #
SOrry I prefer to be professional and use only my images. As an artist I find using other peoples images in my work makes my work a fraud because I did not create the borrowed work. All that free stuff also devalues the work of true professionals.
Oct 14, 2018 13:00:02 #
epd1947 wrote:
And what exactly is wrong with shopping locally in your own community? - provides jobs there at the very least. Your sales taxes provide a portion of the funds used by local governments to provide services you and your neighbors rely on - it's all a part of being in a society.
Nothing is wrong with the local store but since digital came into it's own there has been only one major store left in the city and with no competition you get what they want you to get.
Oct 14, 2018 12:56:02 #
avemal wrote:
Tells it all-----clearly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam0zDnENo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam0zDnENo
Who really has time to watch a video. I prefer paper data as I can read faster than the video run time. Maybe it is because I understand spec sheets better than most people. I just wonder do doctors before surgery check out the operation in video before they operate?
Oct 13, 2018 16:46:22 #
d2b2 wrote:
I received this as an email this morning. This is... (show quote)
Yep just anothe rway for our government to make us pay them for things they did not sell.