My daughter has a good eye too. She does a good job with her phone also. I try to compensate with gear but of corse that doesn’t work.
Correct. A few years ago, on another forum, there were suggestions of putting a cheap UV filter over more expensive filters as protection.
Hmmm, what's the point in buying expensive filters if you are going to "protect" them with cheap filters? CD
A comment up the page reminded me of a rule of thumb impressed upon my by my mentor. Back then everything was B&W for the campus news bureau. Something like this: "For every hundred frames you shoot, 2 or 3 will be worthy of publication. Film is cheap." I carried a camera with me every day and burned thru half a dozen rolls a day then spent a few hours in the dark room mining for gold. "I love the smell of fixer on my hands in the evening." Now we don't need fixer and a sim card can carry how many hundred frames. I still subscribe to that philosophy.
@Friskie That brings back memories of the dark room at high school. The only two photographers on the annual staff was my friend and I. The school gave my friend a key to the school so we could work late in the dark room, and we did some nights. We rolled our film from bulk loaders. There is something special about going taking a picture not knowing for sure what you have and coming back and turning it in to a tangible picture. I recently bought an enlarger and all the stiff I need to set up a dark room but have not set it up yet. I watched a few videos where they talked about the importance of making your photos into physical pictures. So you can hold them, hang them on a wall or give them to someone. One guy that teaches said they are not real pictures till you make a physical copy. That this is good for the photographer to complete the process. Now I have a Canon Pro-100 printer. All it is is a photo printer.I can print up to 13x19 photos. It has made a difference to complete the cycle even in the digital world. It is nice to control the process till the end. Its also nice that some pictures live in the real world not my hard drive.
I can't say that I have any nostalgic feelings for all the hours I spent in the darkroom in High School, College and as a professional. I don't have any warm and fuzzies about 36 shots to a roll of 36MM film, and loading my Hasselblad backs sucked... I don't want to think about 4X5 film holders ever again. I'll take the crappiest digital preview screen over a preview from a "Poloroid" back. CD
How does that saying go? "The best camera to use is the one that's with you." It's a lot easier to carry a smart phone with you than a camera bag.
Thought I add some photos showing the focal length of the kit lenses that came with my Canon T3i. Not the best lenses out there but seem to do a good job for what I'm using them for. Lens: EFS 18-55mm. I wish I had one taken at 18mm for a better comparison. This one was taken at 55mm. Lens: EFS 55-150mm. Taken at 250mm.
Digital has opened up a whole new world to folks who never could bother with photography before. My days of loading bulk Tri-X are gone forever. Multiple ASA's on the same roll, impossible with film. Easy peasy with digital, sign me up. I was an early adopter of digital & I won't go back to film.
The guy I bought my MINI from has this stored in a bubble in his garage. I wanted to drive it but it is not street legal. It is #13 and spent 18 years in restoration. in his garage.
Couple of panning shots from a NASA event at Mid-Ohio last weekend that I shot with my Fuji X-M1 with a XC 50-230mm lens Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Very nice Brian. Great job, especially using a cam without a viewfinder. Did you get the ST on track? I hope so.