Real Life Photography/Photo Editing II - NO IMAGES >100kb

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

F8, ISO200 and shutter speed of 1/200 indoors in medium light sounds..  DARK. even when cranking up the exposure in pp of the RAW.

at least with my version 18-55 kit lens.

Jupp, inside you'd definitely need a good external flash - maybe even with a slave, just as I wrote. The Canon 430 Ex would be a good choice as the reflector adapts automatically to the current focal length (and even adjusts for the crop factor). In your original post you wrote about possibly shooting outside, tho - with enough sunshine you'd be quite fine with the kit lens.

Quote[/b] ]I've orderd the Tamron 28-75mm 2,8. I've heard mostly good things about it on the canon forums. =)

I'd rather have gone for the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 - it's cheap, really sharp, and 28mm on a 1.6 crop camera is (imho) just a bit lacking (equal to 44mm - almost no wide angle! ). The 17-50 on the other hand equals a 27-80mm lens, which is just perfect for a good alround lens (indoors and outside).

ah what is wide enough really depends on what you intend to shoot. In the near future im planning on taking a lot of portrait shots, and do not need such a wide lens for that.  Being the amature that i am, this felt as a good step from the kit lens for me =D

This thread discusses the 28-75mm and people generally seem very happy with it. Granted most of them have other crop sizes as many have 30Ds and 5Ds but one can find quite a few shot withh 350/400 as well = )

Quote[/b] ]The Tamron 28-75 is the lens I use the most by far. F2.8 makes for nice blurred background, it's great optical quality, and the zoom is very helpful

People seem to think that it has great value and is very very sharp. obviously being a fairly cheap lens, it has its downsides, such as that focusing isnt as good as an expensive canon with USM etc =)

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ah what is wide enough really depends on what you intend to shoot. In the near future im planning on taking a lot of portrait shots, and do not need such a wide lens for that. Being the amature that i am, this felt as a good step from the kit lens for me =D

Well, if you're happy with that zoom range, then I'm sure it's a fine lens!

I was under the impression you were looking for a replacement for the kit lens. For portraits 50mm and up can be very useful, so the longer zoom range will definitely help keeping a distance to your subjects. Just wanted to make you aware of the problems you get inside where there's often little or no room to get far away for group pictures, etc.

Just to contribute with pictures, too:

[killagee 0]

I went to Australia for a week on another tour. It was pretty busy, but I managed to squeeze in a bit of photography (and 24 episodes of Star Trek 'Enterprise'... yes I am a nerd).

Perth

Melbourne

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The band I was touring with soundchecking...

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One of the gigs was at Luna Park in Sydney...

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OVENS Oberon Class submarine at the Maritime Museum in Perth

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My friend found this walking across a car park in downtown Auckland. I took him back to my lair for some photographic experiments before releasing him into our garden...

[Tovarish 0]

As always, unbelievable shots killagee. I especially love that second Ferris wheel photo.

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Thanks Tovarish

I had a very difficult lo-light shoot at a gig where there was only really 4 flights, and three of them were red

I got a few though. Its times like these I wish i could use above ISO 800 with my nikon

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I went out to try out my new zoom lens today... OMFG its awesome!

Its a Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR with 1.7x Teleconverter

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Are there any adverse effects from using the Teleconvertor? I heard you lose a lot of light with one

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Are there any adverse effects from using the Teleconvertor? I heard you lose a lot of light with one

The Nikon 70-200 VR 2,8 mounted on an 1,7x converter would leave the largest aperture availible aperature to be f/4,8

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Yeah that 2 stops is the only adverse effect, but the autofocus is still very quick... And the VR gives an ability to make up 3 stops handheld, which is the main reason I got the lens... Now I can take handheld shots of Aeroplanes at 370mm 1/250 sec to get rotor/prop blur without camera shake... Yippee!

I have just realised that while I am in the UK next month I can attend the Duxford Flying Legends Show as well as RIAT Hooray!

[sniperuk02 0]

I have just realised that while I am in the UK next month I can attend the Duxford Flying Legends Show as well as RIAT Hooray!

I'll be at both of those too, if I see you I'll make sure to steal your equipment and skills.

My car:

[dm 9]

I have just realised that while I am in the UK next month I can attend the Duxford Flying Legends Show as well as RIAT Hooray!

I'll be at both of those too, if I see you I'll make sure to steal your equipment and skills.

Not if I get them first!

[Edit]We should arrange to meet somewhere, would be a shame for people to be there and to miss each other just because a few mins of effort werent put into organising it. [/Edit]

OT: That seawater will do your car no good you know

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Its rainwater.

Its a very big puddle.

[Daniel 0]

Nice pics killagee, we've got an old Oberon docked up outside work.

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Wow, sniperuk02, in your profile it says you're seventeen, and you have your own car. And I'm sure you have also a driver's licence for it (in my country before 18 ,,, nono). Now I'm waiting on a picture of your beautiful house (along with your beautiful wife and your beutiful kids infront of it) ...  

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I'm learning to drive. But it is my car.

And the house I live in is pretty crappy.

Quote[/b] ]We should arrange to meet somewhere, would be a shame for people to be there and to miss each other just because a few mins of effort werent put into organising it

If you do arrange a meeting I'll come say hello...and steal killages camera.

[Supah 0]

So one day I stepped out of the hangar and walked into this ghastly thing.

Was told later one some poor guy got this as a gift from his wife, awfull, probably just wanted a pair of wooly socks I can really feel his pain!

A loving wife would have gotten him something like this!

This thing makes Tom Cruise regret he ever got that second P-51 instead of this brute of a machine!

[Journeyman 0]

Taken on Tuesday in Panglao Island Bohol Philippines not by me but by my mate who is doing some building work for me, but you're not gonna want to see any of those!

Hmm! Or Maybe...

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SBK 2007

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