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High School Rodeo Championship
1dx and 300 2.8 IS
1/2000
f4
iso 500
AF case #1
Nice one north star, gotta Love that 300f/2.8, well done, 1st shots a cracker.
High School Rodeo Championship
1dx and 300 2.8 IS
1/2000
f4
iso 500
AF case #1
Great action shots !
+1 I really like the first one. Nice job.
Sorry but I don't critique photos on open public forums. Why teach the countless wannabies who browse through these pages? Especially for free. My skill and tallent was learned the hard way, by trial and error...but a lot of wannabies want to take quick short cuts and think that a learnt skill can be downloaded and is free. For every poster and replier, there are hundreds of readers.
Why teach?
Because life is not a zero sum game? Because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
At my age I go to a lot more funerals than weddings. I've noticed the people who are grieved and who are genuinely missed are those who were generous -- with time and talent and love. They were the ones who gave back to their communities, and the photographic community is a community. Those who come here to learn are to be applauded, not considered leeches.
You might do well to sit down this evening and read a little story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. He wrote it so people might understand the joy of giving to one another. It's available free in e-reader editions, but you probably don't want to take it for free so there are versions you can pay for.
The community of people who genuinely care about the art of pictures is small. Those of us who do need to stick together and help one another -- even those too timid to come out and speak openly.
This Guy was a Laugh, Pretty well thought nothing could see him in the Tall Grass, even though He/She was a Baby, that's a Baby Rhino, still hard to hide one behind some tall Grass. Shot this with the 400, no crop, gives some idea how close.Man! you are brave! Where was Mama?
1Dx 400f/2.8 V2, Shot @ f/6.3 & 1/320th ISO800
LOL...chasing the photog shooting with the 200f/2
UPDATE: It is going into the weekend and despite 20 (not an exaggeration) angry phone calls they finally decided to "escalate" my call. I definitely will not hear back from them til Monday. One full week after they received my money. This is absurd. I understand Helen is a "legend" but why is no one available to cover for her while she's gone? Is my 27K not important to them? Why will no one give me a confirmation receipt that the money was sent back? No one in the company has been able to get a response from the account team to confirm what has happened to my money. This may be an isolated incident but it is so severely mishandled at this point that I would start asking myself if this company deserves my business. It has been days and tons of angry phone calls and I have yet to receive an email from accounting or customer service. The only recourse I have no is to continue to complain on this forum. It is the only way that I have gotten anywhere with this company.
Darya- 1 speedlite in shower behind model.wonderful Light & shot love the tile work LOL
Darya by Lseriesglass, on Flickr
You know, Gary, that's the first thing I thought! What great tile, I wish Darya wasn't in the way so I could see more of it!
If I understand correctly, you want both the Eiffel Tower AND your subject in focus? To do this, you need to do some things to widen your dof to infinity.
There are four main factors that contribute to dof: (I know many here know this but their are many that don't, so bear with me)
1. The aperture....shoot at f11 rather than f5.6 or f4...this will help widen your dof.
2. Distance to your subject ... The closer you are to the subject, the narrower the dof. Move further away and your dof will widen.
3. The focal length of your lens...an 85mm lens will have a narrower dof than a 24mm. So as someone else said, shoot wide to increase your dof. 24mm or wider in this case.
4. Your sensor size...a full frame sensor will give you a narrower dof compared to a crop sensor.
So for the tower shot, shoot at f11 and use a 24mm lens...this your starting point. Then, just understand that the closer you get to the subject, the narrower your dof will become, and the more likely the tower will be out of focus. The problem, is that to get the "Godzilla" effect as you describe, you need to be close to the subject, so that they appear to be as big or bigger than the tower..... This is why you need to shoot at 24mm or wider
Omar...as someone else posted, spend 5 minutes playing around with the settings on the following website and you'll learn a lot about the 4 factors that control dof....important stuff.
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
Point 3 is arguable, if you maintain subject size dof remains constant between focal lengths.
Point 4 reads incorrectly. A smaller sensor gives more dof. These kinds of forced perspective images are very easy with camera phones and P&S's because they have such small sensors and subsequent massive dof.
Look up forced perspective and use a small sensor at f5.6 or f8, P&S's often max out at f8 anyway.
Helen...I've read some of your replies and I must say I'm impressed, it begs the question "who is this Wonder Woman?"
Adorama is lucky to have you.
Thank you!
I can tell you exactly who I am........
30 years ago, when you had a problem with a company eg with a product, policy or member of the CS staff team, you would sit yourself down and write a letter of complaint.
You could expect a nice written response within 28 days. If you weren't happy with the response, you'd probably find within that letter the details of a senior manager or another department you could write to to set out your grievance; you'd fire off another letter, and hopefully, receive a satisfactory answer - maybe compensation of some kind - 28 days later.
A decent company with a well-structured management team would employ someone able to take on board your complaint; assess where the problem lay, ensure you were compensated and completely satisfied. He or she would then make recommendations for organizational (or personnel) change, training, or whatever might be needed to ensure that didn't happen again. And that is who I am! Except that I try and turn around complaints within 24 hours....... though it can take longer of I need to listen to recordings of 'phone calls, read through lots of notes etc.
Making changes and improvements is going to be harder if problems don't get reported any further than the person who caused them, or on photography forums.
@Northstar:
Thanks. I love the crop and no I never mind. Much better than my cropping or by now, mine is referred to as "crapping."
One from a shoot the other day,shot with a 24-70L and one off camera 600 ex-rt triggered with st-e3 we were going for something a little wacky
nina & sandra by Lseriesglass, on Flickr
spend some time reading the manualespecially about the AF
I load the manuals as PDF on my phone so that I can read when I have time in between (like on the train)
I also had terrible time with Adorama....... I was refused credit for delay in shipping.
I can't identify your order from your feedback, or how long ago this took place, but from the description of your experience we did not handle the situation as we should have done.
If you can contact me with the order number I can certainly see if I can get the shipping costs refunded right away: Helen@adorama.com
Bornshooter, the cruelty of Youth "she looks fantastic,,,,for 42" Or My wife's favourite when she sees Photos of me in Uniform Circa 1969 "Oh, You looked so Handsome,,,Then".
But I loved the B&W of Rhonda, and she is Lovely,,,,for 42.
1Dx 85f/1.2 L II, Shot @ f/3.2 1/160th ISO1250
I'm still amazed at the ISO levels you can push this Camera too and still return usable Images.
