A Snap And A Link

Hey guys!

This week I thought I'd post a photo I took (as usual) but I also want to post a link to an article that I found pretty useful and I think will help you out a lot, whether you are just learning or you think you know what you're doing. Here's the photo.

I took it at DIA and I made it black & white because I didn't like the full color version (^_^).

Here's the link: http://www.expertphotography.com/a-beginners-guide-to-photography
This site always has a lot of tutorials and tons of good info. It's updated regularly.

Happy shooting!

Day Out With Mike

This picture was taken with my Canon on November 22nd during a "shooting" day with my friend Mike.  It was taken at approx. 4:00 in the afternoon, so it was all natural lighting.  I wanted to get a shot of the ducks in motion, this is the best one that turned out.  I used my 75-300mm zoom lens in AF mode.

Canon Direct Store

For those of you with Canon SLR camera's (as I do) this is a great site to get accessories.  I bought my EF 75-300mm zoom lens (refurbished), lens filter, battary pack and a few other items from this site.  They offer some really good prices on refurbished accessores (and camera's for that matter).

http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/subCategory_10051_10051_-1_29751

Check it out.

First From Tommy

Hey guys, Tommy here.

I figured I should introduce myself (chances are you already know me).

While I'm at it I'm going to post, for you, a photo I took a couple months after I got my first DSLR, a Nikon D3100.

I took it in Las Vegas outside the Aria Hotel. There was long wall with water streaming down and few flowers. There was one bloom kinda standing alone so I decided to snap it. The light was low so I had the aperture as open as I could get it with the 18-55mm kit lens I had at the time, f4.6 I believe. I have the ISO set to 800 to help so the image has some noise.

After I got back home I decided to try my cool new investment, Adobe Lightroom. In Lightroom I cleaned up a little of that noise. I wasn't sure what I was doing at the time so the changes I made are minimal but they worked for me. Let me know what you think.

I'm going to try to post more soon and I'll try to go into more technical detail about how I got the results I did.

Also I might be adding links to articles that helped me as I was learning about composition and camera settings and such. Until then, feel free to comment. (^_^)

Here is a picture of my dog, Dori.  I took it about 10:20 in the evening in my living room.  I used my Canon with a Vivitar flash and my 75-300mm lens.  I wanted to post this because the blog has been active/online for about 26-hours now with over 30 viewers, yet no posts, so I decided to post this picture of Dori, perhaps it will help to incentivize others to start posting.  Don't worry, Dori gave me her permission to post a picture of her.  Enjoy!

Using my Canon D5 EOS Mark II camera with a 75-300mm AF 1.5m/4.9ft lens I took this picture.  The picture taken on 1-9-2011 is of the rear corridor of the officer's quarters, accenting the gunnery doors of the old frontier, military compound Fort Scott in Ft. Scott Kansas.  It was taken from the east side, looking horizontally to the west.  I used all automatic settings.