5 Of My Photos Which Need To Be Seen

Not all of my photos get the same amount of attention. So I decided that I'll show the ones that I believe need to be given more love that I personally like. I figure the others will be found by the people looking for them.

&MoreCandles
Mom
12th Street
Becki OverExposed
2 Street Lights

What's In My Bag Now??? A Way Point.

One of my first blogs here was a repost of my fantasy photo equipment. I said I never really made it but I keep trying again. Well I simply love my current kit and I figure that since the my thinking has changed and there has been some changes I'll key you in.

DSLR

• D30 DSLR yea I got it.. cheap with all the extra's


• 30D DSLR I wanted spotmetering and the higher speed

Lenses

• Canon 50mm F/1.8 I haven't upgraded yet I decided to keep it when I do


• Tamron 17-50 F/2.8 better reviews then the sigma and cheaper I love it.


• Quantaray 70-300 F4-F5.6 bought on a whim to see what I needed and F4 is the way to go

Looks like I made a good dent and I don't have far to go. The telling thing is the things not in my bag. I'm still debating the 24 - 70 lens as I wonder if I really need to over lap my lenses for my shooting. The film body and the point and shot are just extras and I need to upgrade the film body to maybe an elan 7e or a 7ne. I won't be happy with a classic canon and mostly because ebay is shitty in the idea of camera sales.

So that's where I am.

My Other Camera is a Pentax

I have a really cool Flirkr friend. Her name is Steph. We talk from time to time and we're really geeky into photography and taking pictures. I'm truly a big fan of hers. I love her self portraits and her cat pictures.

One night we're talking about lenses and fantasy stuff that we want to buy. She tells me about this classic Pentax glass. Asahi Pentax Takumar Super multi coat Lenses. she wants like the 50 F/1.2 and some others. Steph knows her glass and she's talented. So it's not that I don't take her word or nothing but I really do have to look at this stuff. I mean to try and buy something from 1972 in the Y2K+8 it's gotta be special right.

I cruise over to flickr and do a quick search. The photos taken with this glass is amazing. They're clear and the colors are brilliant. They're fast and manual focus. There is a group devoted to them and ppl are mounting them to all kinda digital SLR's. She tells me about her Camera the K10D and the feature set. and I'm thinking I paid what for my 30D.

So I start thinking in about a year or so I can buy a used k20d or so used. Pentax always go cheap mostly because ppl not in the know want nikons or canon's because they are "Better". I can then shark them and get a cool camera and some of this rare glass. I think that the collecting and the hunting will be the most fun of this project. I mean it is possible to have 2 camera kits and figure out what one you like the best. Let's call this learning.



After taking pictures for 4 years I've come to the conclusion that it's not the name or the camera or the serial number it's the person be hind it that makes the photos memorable.

Where I'm Going

Well kind of....

This is a repost of an article I wrote first on my Live Journal. I wrote it to publish the idea of the perfect SLR camera kit for me. Talking about how I shoot and the results that I like. I'm republishing it as a way point on the road that I want to travel.

It's firmly my belief that you can't reach a goal unless you have a firm knowledge of where you're going and where you been. You also need a time limit. I sat the time limit for a year. That was back in Febuary of 2006. I failed but I keep shooting and learned alot and things have changed a little bit. Also there is no rule that says you can't try again so here is Fantasy Camera Equipment List

I have a new list of fantasy camera gear that I want. I know it sounds stupid to want strange camera gear but it's kinda like computer gear. The more you learn and the more you have the more you want. I mean no one really wants a PII-350mhz machine as there main piece but it really will do everything you want it to do. You can go online with it you can play games but not the newer ones. It's just slow with windows XP, Linux or FreeBSD or any UNIX it's not to bad with. But... Even my FreeBSD machine is has atleast one 1ghz in this day and age.

Point and shot cameras and SLR bodies.

1 Canon G series Powershot. - The G Series are average zoom optical zoom of 3x but take the canon BP-511 battery and allow for RAW digital photos.

1 Canon 20D Body - This would be my new main camera body cool in camera editing features and built in Filters.

1 Canon A2E Film Body - This would be to learn to shoot with a film SLR.

1 Canon D30 Body - This 3.11 megapixal body would be the standard back up camera and replace my digital rebel in my bag. Since I'll have 2 DSLR's if I don't sell my rebel.

Lenses

1 17-50 F2.8 sigma DG lens - Standard lens for 1.6x crop Digital SLR cameras. Also standard EF mount so it will fit the film body as well and give me some wide angle ability for the film body.

1 sigma 28-70 sigma DG F2.8 Zoom - Standard walk about lens.

1 canon 70-200 F4L - long tom zoom

1 Canon 50 F1.4 - portrait lens

And that's the stuff I want in my camera bags.

Introduction

This is the first post in my photoblog. I simply wanted a place to write my thoughts on photography and show off my pictures. I wanted to move this stuff some place else. It's existed with my LJ blog for some time. I would write a random thought or idea and it would get lost in the middle of youtube videos and the random events of my life. This spot is just a spot for me to wax geeky about my photos.

Welcome to everyone that reads and I hope you enjoy it.