These are great! Thanks for bringing them to us!
Worth jumping out of the shower for! Very nice!
Walmart sells lens cleaning wipes for eyeglasses that are actually made by the Carl Zeiss company that says they are good for not just eyeglasses but camera lenses. I haven't used them on my lenses, but suspect that they might work well. I always keep them in the car and at work for cleaning my glasses.
And when the old analog devices did break, you didn't "reboot" them - you just "booted" them!
I don't do portraits, but some of the folks offering you advice here do beautiful work! TAKE their advice! Get a flash unit that offers TTL (through-the-lens) metering, and either use a diffuser or a bounce unit - bounce the light off the ceiling or use a reflector that fits over the strobe. As Bill says - if ONE flash is good, TWO is better! It is very simple to set a second strobe to fire as a "slave" - when the first one fires, it will fire automatically. And flash units can be mounted on a tripod or even on a little 6-inch flexible tripod you can set on an end table, bookcase, etc. It isn't rocket science, but you need to "just do it" and play around with it - you will find that you get pretty good results quickly.
Examples:
http://www.amazon.com/pangshi%C2%AE-Two-Sides-Diffuser-Reflector-Speedlite/dp/B00NV3DE8I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1450875648&sr=8-2&keywords=flash+bounce
http://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-Diffuser-580EXII-MK950II-YONGNUO/dp/B0051XDOZO/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1450875648&sr=8-11&keywords=flash+bounce
The more you bounce and diffuse the light, the fewer shadows you will have.
Otherwise, if you think you have enough natural light, set you ISO on automatic if your camera allows it, set you aperture on f9 or f11 so you have some depth of field, and set your shutter speed to 1/250 to minimize motion blur. Your photos may be a little noisy if your ISO gets too high, but otherwise the exposure and DOF will be OK.
Snopes says this is "probably true" and has photos of him with a huge grizzly bear, a leopard, and an elephant. Are they legal hunts? Undoubtedly, but for most of us that is not really an issue. Anyone who feels (in my opinion) that their ego needs to be inflated by killing a beautiful animal just for the "thrill" of killing it is a pathetic loser. I would never support his business and give him more money for his "sport". He obviously has too much money already.
Most of us would consider it an unbelievable privilege to see these animals and "shoot" them with our cameras.
I actually DID have the privilege of going to Katmai National Park in Alaska and photographing the grizzlies. It was an awesome BEAUTIFUL experience. And nothing died.
jerryc41 wrote:
Although I wasn't "cooking with gas," I've found that cooking also involves GAS, just like photography. I persuaded myself that I needed a KitchenAid countertop mixer to continue making delicious, nutritious cookies. :D
Oooh - the ultimate kitchen tool! Good for you. That is on my GAS list!
Our government's paranoia about anything that feels good is a tragic history. How much damage has been caused by marijuana versus how much damage has been caused by incarcerating people for using this relatively harmless plant? Another example of paranoia is MDMA. Psychiatrists have found that for patients with autism and severe social anxiety this drug can have profound beneficial effects - even with just a few doses! This is a drug that - in the form of "Ecstasy" - those who have used it describe their lives as being profoundly benefited from using it. And very little risk (from pharmaceutical grade) -so it was a drug that HAD to be outlawed! One of the last reports by Peter Jennings was a look at MDMA - very informative (45 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpFqJcJcps
Wow! Again... Keep them coming!
Bob Yankle wrote:
The videography of this clip is pretty amazing in its own right. But if you lke surfing, water, or hydrographic technology, it's purely amazing!
Yes - it is pretty amazing - I would like to see the details of the engineering that has gone into this.
The Tamron is a nice lens but is extraordinarily heavy. You might pick up a used Canon 100-400L (the older version) - now will be about $900 and is a very good lens.
waltchilds wrote:
Thanks, Steve for the feedback. It's hard for me to take shots of the park when beautiful models are wanting me to take shots of them.
I have been there a number of times, and have never seen these models hanging around waiting to be photographed! :)