Finally back.



The Tenaya Lake 3 shot panoramic shot.

Seriously reduced resolution

Too bad, I can't upload a bigger shot. Viewed this on an 50" HD display and on my Dell Ultrasharp 3007. Amazing. Wish I can beam this over a 4k projector.

I am so going back there one day and make more time to shoot all those sunset shots.

Hoover Dam bridge - Brand new, just opened 1 week when I got there. Shot from the Dam. 2 shot vertical Pano

I have some panoramic for the Grand Canyon and Hoover dam. Will post more then I get my backup drive back.

Btw, have you guys seen any of Peter lik's shots?
http://www.peterlik.com/

I was in both his Galleries in Vegas. Those back lit poster-sized medium format pictures are for the lack of a better expletive ...f*cking amazine.

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 12 2010, 06:55 PM

whooops...my 18-55 IS just bit the dust.

can only auto focus one way. (ie. turn one direction.....).very odd
Still works on manual. apperture control still ok....looks like af motor died.

Time to move on....or not. not sure what I might replace it with. There was a used 17-85 IS for 1k in garage sale that got my interest piqued.... but I really don't have much need in the 17-50mm range. My most used lenses are my Toki 116, 50mm and 55-250....

its just that if someone else uses my camera (the spare 450D) they would be lacking a general purpose lens.

Yosemite National Park






The best part. The Driving.












This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 22 2010, 10:20 PM

If you liked that you probably would like this as well. Its a repost. But I spoilered the last post and it looks like not many people saw it.




Full res pic is something like 15mb in JPG so its too large to load.



More PIC Spam

Grey Wolf.
It was getting quite late in the evening so I had to pump up ISO to get a resonable shutter speed.

TV mode, Slow shutter speed. Match speed of moving car. Spam. Takes practice.

I just looked up my exif. I went down to 1/10...the faster the car, the faster the shutter speed can be to get the effect.

Pic Spam

Pebble Beach, Monteray





California Highway 1.

Death Valley

Nothing really wrong with the 550D except for the autofocus thing on video mode...if you don't care much about video, it works fine as a camera.
Otherwise you will need to look to the Nikon camp.

In fact it is everything as good as my 7D minus 3 points.

1) Durability,
2) shooting speed
3) servo focus accuracy

but at 1/2 the price...it isn't bad.

Tokina 116ATX F2.8 not bad mah.....

Why must use Canon.

hahahaha...

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 25 2010, 12:45 PM

Like Goldfied mentioned, this afflicts all Canon DSLRs.


In order of perference.

1) Use manual focus only
2) Buy a dedicated HD video camera (also go past the 4GB memory limit - on FullHD ~ 11mins....which means a headache if you want to record longer)
3) buy the D7000


There is one cop out though. Put a UWA like my Tokina on, and you barely need to adjust focus.

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 25 2010, 12:51 PM

Thanks.

If not for the plane's window being a little dirty killing contrast, that would have been an amazing shot.

Aiyoo.. if I pixel peep, ISO 100 also I can point out noise.
No image is absolutely Noise Free. You are dealing with an analog device, you WILL get noise.


Seriously, just do some test prints on 4R and 8R. Don't think you'd be so worried about noise after that.

Had that happen on my BG-E7. Couldn't figure why. But tried cleaning the contacts....worked ok since.

Not sure if that might solve your problem. ....failing that, maybe the shutter button is shot.

Can you shoot a wedding with just the 50mm? Yes you can. but good to have a wide standard zoom as well.

if he is new, shooting with just the 50mm will give him exceptional images and unlike all other p&s., a very unique perspective as long if he know how to use it.

i have shot an entire wedding as backup OP on a 50mm.

wah 3.5 K now can get 550D Kit plus 430EX2?


anyway..if you can, like many has pointed out, take the 550D + flash, but I would suggest perhaps getting a cheaper nissin and using the money to get a 50mm f1.8.

Don't worry. France in Autumn is very pretty. Just maybe a little crowded. You'd enjoy your time there nonetheless.

I've been to France 5 times now, and every time I go, I find something new and interesting. Spend a week in Paris if you can. You need at least that much time to do justice to your trip. I prefer to go in June to make the Le Mans 24 hours.

I'm there in late January for a week.

Gorillapods are good, but for the Bellagio you can use the concrete "railing" to put your camera. You need a UWA though. 18mm on APS-C aint going to work. I shoot mostly handheld. Tripod too heavy to lug around...

Anywhere to take pics? That certainly depends on what pics you want to take..... most interesting places you go (or do!), you probably don't want to take any pics at all least you incriminate yourself.... its Vegas afterall......hahahahahaha...or camera's arn't allowed anway.

If you have the time, take a drive to Hoover dam....


I used to think Bellagio has a nice fountain......but after seeing Disney's World of Colour fountain show, eveything is 2nd best.....

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 30 2010, 05:10 PM

what so bad about that?

Of course it isn't as good as a 5D, but slap on an affordable 85 f1.8 or 100 f2 and its an excellent reach for those spur of the moment shots.