The *Official Photography Thread*

DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO MOTHERFUCKER

at least I got to drown my sorrow in japanese whisky and bamboo forests

 

Kona those are great shots man! But seriously this forum is costing me money for cameras and truck parts! Soon I will be living in a cardboard box and have no truck or cameras lol

 

I leave hoods on all my Nikon glass. about 15% for flares and 85% because I carry that sucker everywhere over my shoulder and have banged the lens hoods quite a few times. I can't imagine if it had been the lens glass each time ha

 

Yeah, I've kept the uv filter on since I got it. I already have one scratch on the actual glass on my lens....

The polarizer looks cool outside and I'll definitely start using the hood.

I just found out I can stack them on top of each other. I'm going to play around with the 4 macros haha

I think just from posting that one thing y'all have gotten me wanting to get back into this again!

 

Stay at it! Keep it fun and take it with you as much as you can!

 

This poor guy is always drinking alone, always tries to talk to the employees but they're working so they can't sit and listen to his stories. I never know what to do. Dude doesn't want charity attention from some kid, but he is obviously down as well . . . lame world we live in.


P1050012.jpg by Adelphos4, on Flickr

 

I love to do landscapes, cityscapes and nightscapes as well as wildlife, but for me there is just no photograph that I take like a candid one with a person or people in it. Faces can tell way more for me than anything else. But I do love shooting other things a lot as well.

 

Thanks, man. You too.

 

P1020199.jpg by AdelphosChaz, on Flickr

 

I'm surprised some people don't get angry with you haha that's what scares me from doing something like that!

 

That's amazing and beautiful! How much zoom are you using to take those pics?

 

That is amazing haha

Definitely looks like it was worth it!

I may just walk down some of the trails this weekend near the base to see if I can find anything interesting. Nature is probably the most beautiful thing you can take pictures of imo.

 

Looking through your pics on Flickr, Ben. I like this one! Haha



IMG_7832 by benjaminspringli, on Flickr

 

Brent, start doing the weekly challenge. That will help force you into shooting stuff you never normally would. Think everyone that has participated can attest to that.

on top of that just start shooting more in general and figuring out and trying new odds and ends.

 

I definitely should do that, I keep forgetting about it! Haha

 

If you are a student there are discounts available

Hell if your school has a computer store check there. They might have copies for cheap.

 

Thomas Leuthard just followed my Flickr haha I've never been one to care about social media or well known people but I thought it was kind of neat haha

 

Or, just torrent them

 

I have one of two methods. 1.) Don't make eye contact, before or after the shot. Sometimes I look at the viewfinder and then over their shoulder and back and they think, Oh, he was taking a pic of something behind me, and then I keep on walking. 2.) the other method is to be polite and say hello, smile, make conversation, whatever. I am all about being polite to everyone and not pissing anyone off, but at the end of the day I'm after a candid shot and sometimes you have to shoot first and say hello second in order to get it. People have really cool stories too

 

This is depressing.

And so is this.
Hell, go buy him a beer, sit down for a little while. A few friends and I were eating a burger in a small diner after our morning coyote hunt a week or so ago, an old rancher sat down next to us. We ended up talking to him for about 4 hours. He had some awesome stories. Talked to him until almost dark, didnt get to afternoon hunt at all, but it was worth it to talk to him.