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i’m afraid we committed arachnicide after i was done shooting it. can’t really be having black widows that close to the house.

I’d be more afraid that you can.

*goes off looking for wellingtons*

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You can see cat boogers in the nose shot.
People are into some crazy things.

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What else did you spend ?5 on that day?

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Uh, I don’t understand all the hate on natto, I thought it was pretty good.

Oh come on!
The smell is so strong and so bad they regularly use it in wake up pranks.

I wish youtube had one of the videos where it startles the person awake and they reflexively recoil in disgust and terror.

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A stapler is a device for binding things with staples.
I meant it as a joke. A long time ago, I entered pictures with staplers in them regardless of the theme. I’ve been meaning to start again, but, you know…

The rub with my Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro is that it isn’t very sharp, contrasty or good at autofocusing. The color’s pretty muddy too, and there’s a fringing problem in bright sunlight. And really, when it came down to it, I didn’t really want a telephoto lens. I just felt compelled to because everyone knows that all the macho guys have big telephoto lenses.

The lens also gave me chlamydia.

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Those are my uses. Pick away at it.

First of all, no staplers in the list. Totally unacceptable. You need to work on that.

Second, you’re probably not used to looking at lenses like someone who just broke up looks at women. Try to think of it that way.

You’re not some Ferrari-driving movie star. You’re going to have to compromise. You’re passionate, you’re getting an idea of what you like and don’t like, but you should resist the urge to rush into things and getting unpleasantly surprised when you get to know them better.

That friendly 6′ tall blond with silky smooth legs? She is a tranny.
Of course, if you’re into that, awesome, but a lot of people will regret it.
*casts hateful glance at his 70-300mm “macro”*
Personal decision, matter of taste, blah blah blah.

Find out what you want and don’t discount complaints people have with a lens just because you don’t think it’ll be a problem.
For example, I used to say “OH MY GOD THESE PANSIES ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT A LENS’S WEIGHT! WHO CAN’T CARRY 2LBS!?”
I later found out that a two pound lens on a camera with a hand grip the size of trout bait is discouragingly uncomfortable.

I would hold off on trying to go wider than 18mm until you can afford something significantly better than the lens you already have. Maybe try using a tripod or something to get closer to the wall than your body allows.

For the sports, 300mm isn’t too much for baseball, certainly, and if you get a zoom you should be set for football.

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I don’t get it. I thought you were supposed to put moccasins on your feet.

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Here is a great video with a variety of exercises to make you a better photographer.
It might be in Japanese, it might not have subtitles, it might be hundreds of megabytes and sub-VCD quality, it might involve only Japanese pop stars using Polaroid cameras, it might be interrupted several times with variety skits, it might (and so on)
BUT!
It definitely involves photographing Russian Roulette and people going around in circles with their foreheads on bats.
If you have friends you get drunk with, some of them are handy for getting your sense of timing and sense of everything that isn’t in your viewfinder that maybe should be.

We really should do the bat thing and Russian Roulette thing on here sometime. Maybe if we ever have a farktography party.

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Twigs, antlers; let’s not split hairs.

Do you know how to make venison jerky?

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DPreview.com’s lens tests do a great job of showing some of the subtle stuff about how cheap zoom lens looks like crap at 80mm f/4.0 but looks great at 50mm f/8.

It’s nice, clear and easily understandable. It also explains why some people pay used car level prices for L lenses.

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Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining focal length, f-stops, etc concisely. They even have pictures.

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I went looking for a dam three times, and all I got out of it was a stern talking to, two boring anecdotes and some rain on my camera. I even tried to build a tiny dam out of strips of staples to no avail.
The only hope I’m left with is that it might sprout into a stapletree grove this summer.

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Jail? Man, Californian are really serious about eating healthy.

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I had the same problem with the dams here.
Then I went home and ate a brownie.

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C’mon, you’ve gotta get another 3k.

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