The *Official Photography Thread*

Jesus Chaz..haha going through cameras faster then i eat a bag of M&Ms...lol

 

R/C is another one of my hobbies

I've done one race before, it was pretty good

 

I never competed. Just drove it everywhere haha sold it just last year. was a Traxxas Emaxx. Fun truck.

 

good tangent we've got going here! haha I used to mess with r/c back in the day too! Seems lots of us on TW are suckers for R/C...

Side note related to the thread we're in, getting closer to a tele lens

 

Hey Marc. Ben is in Riverton working. Doesn't have his Taco but be cool to meet him. He is a great guy! He is know to us as Batman he saw my dads rig drive through there on his way south and called me haha

and tele lens eh?

then more i browse photos..the more i still want a wide angle..haha

and yea..i destoryed that RC truck once in a crash..had to rebuild the entire front end haha...guess it was kinda my first big hobby..and precursor to what i do now...hmm..

 

^lol! yea same here with the wrecking em... Made some epic launches. I had the first edition of the duratrax evader with a tits 14T motor, climbed trees for like 10 min lol.

Batman Ben eh? I'd be up for meeting, pm me his contact...

 

Panos i LOVE. I shoot a lot of them and like editing them.

But to get good ones..need a pano head..thats 400 bucks right there too..

 

I do both. Depends on what i am trying to frame really. But i tend to keep it at 18mm

i have never seen a pano shot of your

and thanks..i do like them..to me they are the closest thing you can do to capturing what i really see. and even then..sometimes just not enough..

 

the distortion is from not using a pano head. Because when you rotate the camera still moves in an arc. You want the piviot point to be the point where light enters the lens first. L lenses its where the red line is. Hard to tell on our cheaper ones.

But by doing that you get rid of a lot of the distortion and it turns out flatter. using the software right too helps.

im sure 18 seems wide after just having 70mm be your widest for so long haha

 

here this is what i mean Ben

http://youtu.be/yw5FwrZwTdc?t=2m47s

Idk if it worked..supposed to start at 2:47 fyi..

 

you can with the right tools. You pick the crop right and you'll never see the distortion as bad.

are you using ptgui?

 

So what do you all think of this picture? Other than uploading it screwed it up completely. See it better here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/114043821@N02/11955402083/

 

ah..i have ptgui..works wonders on pano's..

 

the 400 5.6 still. I got some monies from various family members towards a lens fund... So, it will go to a lens and not the truck I'm still gonna sit on the decision for a bit because it's a pert big one and I wanna be sure. I've been debating what tele since I got my camera cuz i knew I wanted one as soon as i started shooting. I just love shooting wildlife. Everytime I read more info/comparisons/reviews or revisit it i always end up "deciding" on the 400 5.6...

Also Ben, check out Microsoft ICE if you are on a PC for pano stitching. Worth lookin at.

 

screw windows we are mac people

real color management FTW!

 

haha! Whatever... I don't get into the mac/pc war, just run what I got. Been really liking my PC lately as I've been gettn deep into HTML/CSS/Java for front end development.

 

i own both haha

just us the mac for photos/audio

and nice! i am taking an HTML/CSS class this semester. Gonna be fun. counts as a math class

 

I like the first one ben!

 

haha well look at you with two of everything Monte...

and yea, the html/css/java is all in an 8 week course called Code WY (http://www.codewyoming.com/) I got into it and so far its really good. 6 hours a day of coding is really intense! Learned an absolute shit ton in two days so far...

and yea Ben, you are really making that tammy work hard! I like the first one as well! Excited to see what you do with that 100-400

 

Good luck with making a decision. I agonized between the 400 5.6 and the 100-400 for at least a week.