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Photos... Lots of photos... My annual slideshow

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This one is a long one, it was a long and interesting year for me... I have created these yearly slideshows for several years now... I make these as much for myself too... I did spend lots of time over the summer at classic car shows, but sadly mostly seeing American iron living here in hinterland...

And some good news on the photography front, I have my first photo *show* scheduled for April at a friend's cafe, with the theme of bicycles and street photography, about ten prints in total

 
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Congrats on the upcoming show - long time coming!
 
Stunning work, James. Your timing, the composition, WONDERFUL. You've made powerful use of that wide-angle lens, too. Well done.

I must admit, I was laughing and smiling thru the whole thing. Just brilliant.

Hope the show gets attention. Congrats.
 
DrEntropy said:
Stunning work, James. Your timing, the composition, WONDERFUL. You've made powerful use of that wide-angle lens, too. Well done.

I must admit, I was laughing and smiling thru the whole thing. Just brilliant.

Hope the show gets attention. Congrats.
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Thanks! I do have a longer zoom lens that gets some use, but not all that much (I'll keep it still though), I only own three lenses anyway
 
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At this point in lens development all you need are two or three! (y)
 
I don't know enough about photography to talk about it critically but you sure do have a great skill at making the ordinary look spectacular. Like something I might see every day and not even notice but suddenly it makes me say WOW!
 
Bayless said:
I don't know enough about photography to talk about it critically but you sure do have a great skill at making the ordinary look spectacular. Like something I might see every day and not even notice but suddenly it makes me say WOW!
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Simple observation, and basic people watching, simple really... :p
 
My basic rule of photography - the more expensive the camera, the more out-of-focus pictures. At least for me. Remember this: "It's not the camera, man...it's the cameraman." My daughter takes much better bird pictures than I do with the Canon SL2 I gave her. It has an amazing Tamron 18-400 tele lens. Like a bridge camera.
 
Here's one of her latest. She's also great at BIF - Birds In Flight. Owls, Hawks...
 

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Remember this: "It's not the camera, man...it's the cameraman."
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That maybe was true once upon a time, but these days, with advances in digital technology and camera auto focus capabilities, I have taken pictures with my Canon 6D, 7DII and 5DIV that I probably never could have gotten with a camera without a very good AF system. Maybe get lucky once in a while, but with a good camera with a fast, accurate AF system, the number of "keepers" increases significantly.

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pdplot said:
My basic rule of photography - the more expensive the camera, the more out-of-focus pictures. At least for me. Remember this: "It's not the camera, man...it's the cameraman." My daughter takes much better bird pictures than I do with the Canon SL2 I gave her. It has an amazing Tamron 18-400 tele lens. Like a bridge camera.
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Yup... Although most of my photography is done at what is called broad depth of field, where I don't create all that much softness and blur behind the main subject, what is called narrow depth of field can really mess me up (any photographer), the better the camera you will know if you messed, this photo is an epic fail photo from a Remembrance Day ceremony... I have found that smaller cameras tend to be more forgiving...

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But this one from the same day turned out just fine for narrow depth of field... Where I got the main subject sharp with out of focus background...

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I will tend to do a "gray scale metering" of my open palm in lighting conditions similar to the subject matter, then manually focus. AF tends to "hunt" too much, even if set for spot-sensing. My digital SLR is set up for "back button focusing" in AF to pre-focus, independent of the shutter release if letting the camera determine exposure, etc.

An analog film camera in manual used for the shot below a few weeks ago. Exposure predetermined with as wide an opening as possible to limit DoF. (Nikon F-2, 35~70 Nikkor ∱3.5 at 70mm wide-open. Open shade, 1/500 sec. T-Max 100).

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One other thing, related to what has been siad... In recent times I'm starting to enjoy doing photography that is less than perfect, quite on purpose... Does this photo count? On a snowy evening, a far from perfect photo that I took (that probably won't win anything) but I love the mood of it...

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