Photography

[Vince]

Anyone do anything? I started with some action cams for when I was out hunting. Then added a cheap HD cam corder. Then a drone and then a 4k cam corder. Now playing around with a Nikon camera. Wanting to do wildlife and time lapse and general other basic photography.

Was just curious if anyone else did anything.

No dick pics plz.

[TheCatt]

I do not. My wife is a professional photographer doing family portraits, etc. But she is giving that up for writing. So we have lots of fancy cameras and lenses, but different than what you are doing, it sounds. She uses Canons.

Thib's wife has a fancy camera as well, but she does video mostly, iirc.

[Leisher]

I work with a guy who is a professional photographer. He's published.

In train magazines... I'm not kidding.

If you had questions, I'm sure he'd be happy to answer. Just post them here and I'll forward them to him.

[Vince]

I do not. My wife is a professional photographer doing family portraits, etc. But she is giving that up for writing. So we have lots of fancy cameras and lenses, but different than what you are doing, it sounds. She uses Canons.

Thib's wife has a fancy camera as well, but she does video mostly, iirc.

Sounds like we are starting to align. I'm just doing things on the Nikon side of the field. What does she use to shoot video?

[Vince]

I work with a guy who is a professional photographer. He's published.

In train magazines... I'm not kidding.

If you had questions, I'm sure he'd be happy to answer. Just post them here and I'll forward them to him.

One of the shots I'm wanting to set up is pics of a freight train (since I live near a set of tracks) with a fairly long delay on the shutter to produce a nice blur effect.

[TheCatt]

I do not. My wife is a professional photographer doing family portraits, etc. But she is giving that up for writing. So we have lots of fancy cameras and lenses, but different than what you are doing, it sounds. She uses Canons.

Thib's wife has a fancy camera as well, but she does video mostly, iirc.

Sounds like we are starting to align. I'm just doing things on the Nikon side of the field. What does she use to shoot video?

My wife doesn't do video. Thib's wife I think uses a Canon 5d-Mark III

[Vince]

I do not. My wife is a professional photographer doing family portraits, etc. But she is giving that up for writing. So we have lots of fancy cameras and lenses, but different than what you are doing, it sounds. She uses Canons.

Thib's wife has a fancy camera as well, but she does video mostly, iirc.

Sounds like we are starting to align. I'm just doing things on the Nikon side of the field. What does she use to shoot video?

My wife doesn't do video. Thib's wife I think uses a Canon 5d-Mark III

Sorry... skimming instead of reading. I have LOTS I want to do as far as experimenting. At first there seemed to be a whole lot more to photography than I thought. Then as I got to reading and learning, it seems like there isn't that much to the basics really. Just stuff I didn't know about (ISO and aperture and shutter speed relationship). Just lots of little stuff you can do around those edges.

[Leisher]

My photography friend says without asking specific questions it's hard to give advice. He says Google can be your best friend when learning camera tech and features.

He says this is a good start.

[TheCatt]

My photography friend says without asking specific questions it's hard to give advice. He says Google can be your best friend when learning camera tech and features.

He says this is a good start.

Are you the caboose or the engine with your train friend?

[Troy]

The wife and I are big digital media and photography nerds. I have an older CanonXSI for still shots, but we barely break it out nowadays. It has a 50mm lens on it currently.

My action camera is a Hero5. I just got a 3 axis gimbal stabilizer for it. Heading to New Zealand this weekend and plan to document plenty, above and below water. Should be fun.

[Vince]

My photography friend says without asking specific questions it's hard to give advice. He says Google can be your best friend when learning camera tech and features.

He says this is a good start.

Sorry, I didn't really have any questions at this point. Was just curious as to what others were doing if anything and what they were doing it with.

[Vince]

The wife and I are big digital media and photography nerds. I have an older CanonXSI for still shots, but we barely break it out nowadays. It has a 50mm lens on it currently.

My action camera is a Hero5. I just got a 3 axis gimbal stabilizer for it. Heading to New Zealand this weekend and plan to document plenty, above and below water. Should be fun.

What other lenses do you or have you had for the Canon? How effective is the gimbal with the Hero? I'm assuming it doesn't go in the water?

[Troy]

The wife and I are big digital media and photography nerds. I have an older CanonXSI for still shots, but we barely break it out nowadays. It has a 50mm lens on it currently.

My action camera is a Hero5. I just got a 3 axis gimbal stabilizer for it. Heading to New Zealand this weekend and plan to document plenty, above and below water. Should be fun.

What other lenses do you or have you had for the Canon? How effective is the gimbal with the Hero? I'm assuming it doesn't go in the water?

My only other one is the 15-55mm zooming lense that comes stock with the camera. It's a huge pile of poop, but it was fine when I was getting hard into Photography a few years ago.

Not sure about how well the gimbal will work, as it actually gets delivered today, I have to go home during lunch to sign for it. I was thinking about doing some before/after test footage. I'll share it - with the caveat that I don't know how to really use it yet!

The gimbal is water resistant, so I can take it with me on boats and in rain, but it's not waterproof at depth like the actual GoPro is. So I have to focus on keeping my hand steady underwater. I have a cheap "FloatPro" selfie stick with an attached inflatable for underwater shooting - that's what I used on our last video, I had no complaints with it.

Photography software talk - I'm pretty good with Photoshop(use professionally) and other Adobe programs. I just started learning Premier last December and think it's rad.

And book talk - I bought that book you suggested in the YouTube thread. "How To Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck" Really enjoyed reading it so far. Probably finish it up on the plane ride over.

[Leisher]

My photography friend says without asking specific questions it's hard to give advice. He says Google can be your best friend when learning camera tech and features.

He says this is a good start.

Are you the caboose or the engine with your train friend?

I don't do trains like Gordon does. He even stated his love for them on my FB page.

I do sometimes worry about the two guys here who go train hunting daily. One is divorced and was married to a controlling unattractive woman. The other is completely controlled by his wife. Makes me wonder if being a cuck is a key element to that hobby.

[Vince]

My only other one is the 15-55mm zooming lense that comes stock with the camera. It's a huge pile of poop, but it was fine when I was getting hard into Photography a few years ago.

Not sure about how well the gimbal will work, as it actually gets delivered today, I have to go home during lunch to sign for it. I was thinking about doing some before/after test footage. I'll share it - with the caveat that I don't know how to really use it yet!

The gimbal is water resistant, so I can take it with me on boats and in rain, but it's not waterproof at depth like the actual GoPro is. So I have to focus on keeping my hand steady underwater. I have a cheap "FloatPro" selfie stick with an attached inflatable for underwater shooting - that's what I used on our last video, I had no complaints with it.

Photography software talk - I'm pretty good with Photoshop(use professionally) and other Adobe programs. I just started learning Premier last December and think it's rad.

And book talk - I bought that book you suggested in the YouTube thread. "How To Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck" Really enjoyed reading it so far. Probably finish it up on the plane ride over.

I have a prime 35 mm lens that I bought for the f/1.8 Aperture. You can get some nice depth isolation with it. Of course, the 18-55 mm that came with it. Okay for the fast and dirty and to have on when you're out taking practice shots of nothing in particular. Also bout a 70-300 for wildlife shots. Ready to go out this week one morning and sit in a deer stand and see what I can get with that.

Let me know what you think about the gimbal. I've seen where DJI has one that they sell. Just curious how useful it will be. I have one on the drone of course, but it makes sense there as drone banks and you want the camera to stay true to the horizon. Seems like the biggest problem with hand held cameras isn't so much keeping the horizon true, but cutting down on the up and down bouncing and jitters of the camera. But they might help by allowing you to focus all your effort in reducing that bounce.

I would love to start using Photoshop and Premiere, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that all of the Adobe software is now subscription based?

I bought a Nikon D3300 for Dummies book. Not awesome, but all the "for Dummies" books are at least good as reference books. I got a From Snapshots to Great shots for the Nikon which has been much better. Bought a wildlife photography book that isn't awesome. Written for the photographer that wants to get out and take pictures of wildlife. So it's more of a camping/hunting guide. I needed something more for the hunter/outdoors man that wants to take wildlife pictures. So since the Snapshots to Great shots for the Nikon was good, I went ahead and ordered one for wildlife photography. Should be here tomorrow, so we'll see how that one is.

[Vince]

Practice shot to test the limited depth using the f/1.8 aperture. I really like how you can set these pics up.

[Troy]

Good shot - the limited depth of field really makes things look interesting. That's a rad chessboard too.

I've played with, but never owned, the big zoom lenses. They are pretty expensive too right? I know a sports photog who says his zoom lens is the most expensive thing in his bag.

All the Adobe products are subscription based now. The new ones anyway. At work I still use the Adobe CS5 suite. But you can get a monthly subscription to any newer Adobe program for 20 bucks a month (or free for a week). I think 50 bucks a month gets you the entire creative suite. A huge blessing for independent creative types.


My favorite wildlife photographer on Instagram is Paul Nicklen. His work is amazing, dude loves bears, the cold, and underwater life too.
http://www.paulnicklen.com/

[thibodeaux]

My wife doesn't do video. Thib's wife I think uses a Canon 5d-Mark III

I honestly have no idea :/ I'm terrible

[Vince]

Good shot - the limited depth of field really makes things look interesting. That's a rad chessboard too.

I've played with, but never owned, the big zoom lenses. They are pretty expensive too right? I know a sports photog who says his zoom lens is the most expensive thing in his bag.

All the Adobe products are subscription based now. The new ones anyway. At work I still use the Adobe CS5 suite. But you can get a monthly subscription to any newer Adobe program for 20 bucks a month (or free for a week). I think 50 bucks a month gets you the entire creative suite. A huge blessing for independent creative types.


My favorite wildlife photographer on Instagram is Paul Nicklen. His work is amazing, dude loves bears, the cold, and underwater life too.
http://www.paulnicklen.com/

Heh... it's actually a pretty cheap chessboard (checkers/backgammon board I bought at Walgreens years ago). The felt has come off the bottoms of most of the pieces and if you look you can see the different pieces are pointing in different directions

BUT... the limited depth hides a lot of the cheapness.

Hate that Photoshop is subscription now. I just can't bring myself to do that. I like buying software that I can choose to or not to upgrade when a newer version comes out. I hate the idea of being held captive to the software company because they more or less have locked me out of my project files. It's more or less an accepted version of the virus that locks all your files on your drive.

[GORDON]

People mock me for my copy of Office 2000.