there's a craigslist category for cameras and equipment. i've gotten a decent deal there on some manual focus lenses.

The series of butterfly photos are great. What a treat to go shoot them.

I hadn't heard about that before. How would you know if you had a lens with mold? (seems like a silly question - would it just inhibit the view or mess with the AF feature)

Your food photography is amazing. Every photo I've seen has made my mouth water! Lol the detail and lighting is spot on.

I am a picture taker... with a passion for shooting any and everything. Because of that I'm trying to figure just exactly what I shoot best. . .

I have two flickr accounts.... professional stuff here and personal stuff here. I also created and designed my own website and you can find that here.

I'm new to the thread so I just thought I would introduce myself. I haven't read all the way through yet, but I will when I have some time. It's lovely to be in such creative company.

I currently shoot with a Nikon D90 : two lenses (though I'm salivating over a third right now)

I recently just had my first piece accepted to the Commonwealths Equality Dinner -- it was bid on and auctioned... It was just such a validating feeling! You can see it here.

Sorry for the excessive linkage... just thought I'd get it all out there!

ps... did I see something about strawberries and chocolate? I'll be craving that all day now!!

have a lovely weekend!

I am photographing my mama in her garden for Mother's Day on Sunday. I'm looking forward to it.

fD

:farmcow:

i do enjoy photographing food/catered events, and will have to dig some images out soon.

here are some of the raptors- a few crows too, although, i have many still to add of the latter.

http://s895.photobucket.com/home/rap...west/allalbums



best,belle

- bump - bump - bump -

A couple weeks ago I shot the local Lilac Festival, and I'm still wading through about 500 images!!

:)

Off to shoot a recent HS grad. . . so excited, haven't posted my mums pictures to flickr yet, but I did post some photos I took at a Pet Expo last weekend.

Okay.. .so edit question... what is your edit style? Do you group photographs and then go through them? How do you stay focused when "wading through 500 images"? What programs do you use/like?

Posted a couple of shots of my mama on flickr as well as a few from my recent session. If you're interested, of course :)

I'm a Photoshop nerd and will pull out the images I like and ensure that color balance is optimal and that an image is cropped the way I like. I do tend to over-crop because I like a tight frame (that just sounds wrong). I'm not a purist when it comes to my images, and if an image has potential I will tweak it (burn, dodge, soften/sharpen focus, etc) until it matches my vision. I would do the same when I was working on photos in the darkroom, so why not digital.

When a batch of photos is huge (like the 500), I won't work through the entire set. I will pull out groupings for specific purposes. For example, I shot many of local marching bands because several of my friends have kids in the band and I was shooting for them to have keepsakes.

Also, I'm incredibly picky. Out of that large set, I may keep or publish a dozen.

How about you?

I have a copy of Elements8 which came with my printer, but I'm still learning all of it's functions. A copy of Lightroom is on my (sadly ever growing) wish list. I currently edit my photos with GIMP and Picnik.

I absolutely love playing and editing a photographs; adding texture, layer masks, words, playing with curves (oooh la la), sharpening and softening. It all gets me downright giddy.

In order for me to process pictures for clients in a reasonable time frame I tend to do a quick run through and delete all those I am immediately unsatisfied with and then group the remaining images into locations or scenes. From there I'll time through each group and pick my favourites. I am also very picky but for me this means I will work and re-work a photo for hours upon hours. I am still learning when it's time to walk away from a photograph that can't be 'fixed'.

:)

Well, now... I never knew. ;) You are excellent!!

:curtain:

Ah, um...I didn't post any yet.

I think I shall have many, many kitten shots for you; as we're fostering a teeny tiny 3 week old kitty. She's awfully sick right now and weighs only 9.2 oz . . . but still cute as a bugs ear.

I'm also partial to taking my camera with me to the farmers markets on the weekend. Always such cool shots. . . and this weekend I'm picking up rhubarb, for my first ever Strawberry Rhubarb pie. I'll most certainly take photos of that process.

Hope everyone has a great weekend... It's so nice having a place to share, collaborate, be inspired and get critique!

fondly, Amanda

still haven't really been shooting. but, i did run across a new (to you) shot that i like. i actually have a half dozen with this look to them. i like it quite a bit. no editing done beyond resizing and sticking my name on it. quite the surprise coming out of the camera. i like pleasant surprises.

These are just lovely, and you-know-who adored them. She is in rapture. :)

i can see a time in the forseeable future where miss you-know-who might find some mail with her name on it. sshhhh....don't tell...you know i can be kinda slow.

Mums the word.

By the way, here are a few of my favorites I captured this weekend.

We lost our little foster on Sunday. . . and while I did get a photo of her, I am really not ready to share yet.

Also, the market had no rhubarb, so I have yet to bake.

I did play around with an idea I've had for forever last night. .. you can see it here. It wasn't my original vision but I still like it. Grief brings about creativity like nothing else... well, that and a desire to bake.

Great work Fancy, thanks so much for sharing.

Love those shoes, the coloring of the image and the textures!

Sorry to hear about the loss. Please take care ~

time to show your stuff!

sony image competition

we had some rockin' storms roll through this area last night. of course, once the light show started, i had to go out chasing lightning.

have a look-see.

Wow!

So, which one are you submitting for the contest? :)

actually, i have a fair number of images i really like...which is always the sticking point for me to submit anything. you wanna swing by and sort through the 30K images or so that i have and pick a few?

What's a Busker festival? Do I need to come across the border to see this? :)

Don't make me pester you about a passport, either... My weekend is booked with festivals and an aids walk (I may be in the band). I'll carry my camera the entire time!

:seeingstars:

Photo junkie
 

I'm an avid scrapbooker, so I am a photography junkie. :) I have boxes and boxes of pictures just waiting to go into albums...

Right now I have a Canon not sure what model it is but it has a zoom, auto focus and lots of settings I can change on it (it has a screen on the back but it's not digital). Unlike many of my fellow digital scrapbookers I prefer film photography because I enjoy working with the camera to get just the right shot and, well, I'm a shutterbug when I'm on vacation! Plus to me the quality of printed glossy or matte photos is just so much better than digital...
I just love the feel of them in my hands!

I learned photography from my grandfather in high school using an old Pentax K-1000 and took several courses in landscape photography when I was on vacation in England back in the '80's. I was also the corporate photographer at my old job that I held for 9 years so learned a lot about event photography and portraits plus digital editing while on the job.

Now I get to enjoy photography for the sheer enjoyment of it!

Nice thread....

Dressy

Freckle,
Busk is the verb;
Brit. to perform for money as a singer or strolling entertainer in public places
Busker is the noun, the person who is busking,

There are jugglers, and clowns, balloon twisters, and fire eaters, and unicyclists and magicians, and.....

All the little street corners filled with groups of people watching the acts
A truly family event.

Rain threatens to drown out the weekend, and i passed on the 80% POP tonight. Will try and sneak in some dry time for me and my Rebel tomorrow.

Have a great weekend Freckle.

Have a great weekend all the rest of the shutterbugs :D

Yesterday was beautiful and the rain held off for me to get my favorite shot of the weekend. :)