The Assemblergames User's Photo skills Topic!

Two years ago I took real non-everyday-photos of a girl, unfortunately not naked lol. They turned out pretty nice, she even used one on her page of our graduation yearbook. Too bad she is a dumb bitch, mwahahahar

Last night.




The RAW versions look crispier and brighter for some reason. Anyway, I though I would share some of my impressions just taking shots out of my window including the moon and Ursa Major (Great Bear). It's fascinating to see how fast the earth is spinning, everytime I have taken a photo from the same fix position, the moon was to be found slightly next to its former position and I'm talking about seconds between those shots.

 

try to find a night with no moon in the sky (new moon) and do a multiple-hour exposure. Star-trail photography can be quite entertaining so I'm told, but I've yet to try it myself.

 

results of a visit at the ferrai museum, in maranello:





lastly me On Michele Alboreto's Car, (one of the drivers i was rooting for)


more in my fotki's album, here: http://public.fotki.com/soulkarsten/ferrari-museum/

 

Hard to get this lens to do anything of quality close up

 

what did you after-shooting?:110:

 

Some pictures i took by the sea, in something like my very first photo session ever:


my wife's brother's wife, tanya



tanya and my wife

 

Same here. Feels weird to be like "NOW TURN YOUR HEAD A LITTLE TO THE LEFT" or even physically move someone because something would be perfect if their face was another 8 degrees tilted or something.


Stolen from Facebook because I don't feel like re-uploading them just to resize. That is assume they'll show up.

Yesterday was very very foggy so I went to a pond.

and gave the self-timer a good working over.



Unrelated to the fog:


I do a lot of self-portraits because I have no friends or something cool like that.




Then I've been messing around with these:
Yes, I know this sort of stuff is easy, but it's also pretty fun to try and actually compose these instead of waving your camera around like a neanderthal.

This one was in a parking lot near a grocery store with a large red sign and some faint distant lights, as well as a car driving by.


This one looks like a seagull or something. Used a street light and the red display on my car's radio (4-second wipe exposure over the radio LCD then a cross under the street light) then a final wisp to make the center line with the red LED on the dash (security system).

 

Just got myself a D90 so might add something to the thread in the coming weeks once i learn how to use it! (My first decent camera ever!)

 

welcome to the club

 

Some leaves in the garden.

 

nice 2nd one! i like it

 

Past month or slightly more:


Surprise fireworks while driving through the center of town:

 

Did some photos at "Retro Gathering 2009".
Pics here: http://www.ym2149.com/rg2009/

 

Black and white digital conversions never feel right to me. But then I do them anyway.

 

Colors arent quite right on this one, just did a quick auto-adjust on photoshop since Im getting ready to go out. But you get the idea (And its overly sharp for some reason)

 

nice one, a little too bright, but you can correct it in photoshop, and colorify it a bit

 

Yep, I know Was playing with a new lens, and wasnt really expecting that shot since it was facing the sun. The original is even worse, so its something I can play with

 

It's a constant battle to get decent pictures of my cat, his fur is just too much

 

I've just borrowed a very nice lense from the photographer who visited the Kindergarten I'm working at. An attractive female photographer I might add :love2: ^^
It was a fucking hard job to get a half-decent shot of my current cam setup as I had to work with a crappy small bathroom mirror and obviously couldn't use the flash, but here we go:


It's a Cullmann flash on top of my 450D, the lense is a Sigma 50-150mm EX APO DC HSM (1:2.8).

As far as I can tell this lense is an amazing piece of equipment. I have taken only a couple of shots as you can hardly use it inside (minimum zoom is 80mm on a Canon, maximum 240mm) and the weather has been very depressing during the week.

What do you say about this? Anybody here who has used that particular lense before and can tell me his thoughts? The owner told me she was very satisfied, it costs approx. 350-420 Euro on ebay which is exactly my budget for the telezoom lense I want to buy someday soon. The retail price was/is 800/600 Euro w/sunshade.

Any other lense in that priceclass of 300-400 Euro you can recommend for a Canon 450D?
I'd also love to shoot macros, is there a middlelense (dunno how to call it in English, I am talking of those "adaptors" that can be put between the lense and the body to make it a macro lense) that's any good?