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Hmm, that’s good news for me, I just sent in my 100-400 lens to get it repaired, I’m hoping I won’t be without it for too long.

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Naked Gun ftw o/

Going green at 12:01 😀

Yeah, they didn’t waste any time greening it tonight. Woo!

Apparently they’ve rigged it so contests automagically go green for midnight.

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Sweet, I’ve got a whole bunch of shots from the first day I got the camera and was shooting anything and everything I could find. =D

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Actually, you do have a light meter–your Rebel XTi 😉

And I have a camera bag with a Pontiac logo on it. =D

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Sure you can use it to, for example, selectively enhance the sky by saying “add 10% lightness and 20% saturation to anything that’s blue.” You’re not masking anything, but you’re applying an enhancement only to the blues in the image. Of course it will also pick up anything else in your picture that happens to be blue, so it might not be as selective as you might want it to be.

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My own votes make up a good 10% of the votes I receive. =D

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It looks like it basically tries to shift the colors in the image toward a different color you specify. It’s a little bit selective in that different colors get shifted different ways that you specify, but it’s not completely selective in that you’re not manually masking, and all instances of a particular color get shifted the same way. I wouldn’t think it would be too objectionable.

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Focus is a lot more sensitive at f/2.8, but there’s no reason you can’t get away with using it even outdoors (as long as you can get a fast enough shutter speed! Sunny 16 rule puts your shutter at 1/4000 at f/2.8!) Since your indoor shots came out good I see no reason your outdoor shots shouldn’t be able to be the same.

Honestly the first thing I’d look at would be operator error, especially if you only just got the camera. It’s possible that either the subject moved between the time you focused and the time the shutter opened, or the camera picked the wrong focus points and didn’t focus on your subject. Using AI Servo mode when shooting moving subjects will help with the first problem, and manually selecting focus points will help with your second.

Honestly, unless you want the small depth of field f/2.8 gives you, I’d recommend shooting at a smaller aperture. Along with giving yourself more wiggle room for focus, lenses tend to look their best when they’re stopped down a bit. Stuff like color fringes and vignetting show up less, and the image gets a little sharper (even aside from the increased depth of field).

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Hmm, works now.

It was an internet thing, page literally wouldn’t load. Ahh well I got mah photos posted.

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OMGWTFBBQ FARK ISN’T LOADING FOR ME WHAT WILL I DO.

Main page loads but threads are broken. Weird.

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Well it looks like my three highest-rated shots are the three shots I entered in… Last week’s contest. Now what? :O

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When I covered district wrestling championships a year ago, the guy at the door was very firm, everyone pays, no exceptions.

Ugh, I ran into that at a wrestling meet once too, except in my case they stopped me and started going through the league regulations regarding media coverage to see if I was allowed to shoot. Of course I’m freaking allowed to shoot, I’ve shot every single other meet this team has had this season. Eventually I had to call my boss and get him to talk me through the gate.

Once I’ve actually gotten access to the event I’ve very rarely been told to shoot somewhere else. I take into account spectator sightlines, escape lanes for players exiting the field of play, and of course what will end up looking good on TV.

The one problem I do have is with high school refs who generally aren’t used to media coverage so they don’t realize that I know what I’m doing. The fact is I have far more experience at making an event and its media coverage get along nicely than any ref possibly can, but as much as I’d like to tell them this they have the power to kick me out of the venue so I just have to deal with it.

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At high school games, a big tele *is* your press pass. Srsly. I shoot high school sports for a local cable TV station and my big professional ENG camcorder gets me anywhere, I don’t even have to tell them who I’m with most of the time. I can’t imagine photo gear is that much different, a lens with a white barrel (which you can get for as little as $700 for the 70-200 f/4, maybe even less used) on a monopod should let you do anything.

I shot all of the photos I entered in this weeks contest while working on assignments for the TV station, so I was hauling a big professional ENG camcorder plus its tripod with my still gear. Does twice as much gear give you twice as much access? Well it doesn’t keep other photogs from setting themselves up in your shot. No really, I was at the track meet standing there with my video camera set up on a tripod, no way you can’t see it, and this still photog set himself up RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME when the race started. That guy was rude too, I walked up to him afterward and said “uh, sir, you were in my shot during that race” and he didn’t even acknowledge me. Asshole. He was way too close to the finish line too, racers had to dodge around him during their runoff. And then later when I set up for the shot of the hurdler a guy stood right in front of me right as the runners reached that set of hurdles, not noticing my camera clicking away in full 5fps drive. Okay, rant over.

Anyway, I’m not all that good at getting people to perform for the camera. All the time when I’m doing truck shows with the TV station I’ll ask some people in the crowd “You wanna give me a big cheer when we come back from commercial?” and hardly anyone will even notice me. All those shots you see on TV of people cheering for the camera? Those came from other people. For the D&D players out there, my CHA stat is low. =(

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Claff, if you can shoot a white wall at the same aperture setting, you can probably use that as a mask to photoshop the dust away. Worth a shot.

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True. And in reality, all you’d get is just the zit on the end of one of their noses, with that tight a zoom. Better swap out lenses (:

Well my first thought at getting a cheerleading shot would be to try and catch one of them in the air during a stunt. So it’s either aim a big tele at them, or throw a wide angle on theire and shoot up their skirts. =D Actually a wide angle would make a great look if it wouldn’t get me arrested.

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