Camera Freaks, this is your thread!

[The Ghost of FM]

I just picked up a new camera last night; a Canon EOS Rebel XT, 8 megapixil, digital SLR.

I've never owned a film based SLR and had a few mid level, point&shoot digitals from Kodak and Canon and got tired of taking blurry pictures that were under or over exposed or destroyed by rotten lighting.

I know this new camera won't guarantee that my shooting results will be any better then they were before but hopefully, if I learn how to work the thing, I might come up with some better results?!

Question;

What do you guys think about the Canon model I got compared to other cameras that compete against it?

Question two;

Can you post some of you most creative pictures here so I can be inspired to learn how you took them?

Cheers!

[rats]

This was taken with an ID10-T wide angle hoozenflauser.



Close up

[rats]

This lens is also good for portraits!

[Dogman]

Cool man. I've heard good things from the few people I know that own that camera, or a similar one. I want something like that, but can't justify it yet. We just use a Kodak Point and Shoot. I'd like some flexability, and have looked at the Canon's. One friend has the real upper end one, but it's about $8500, just for the body. Way to spendy for me. The $1000 look to be great deals. Takes some pics, and show us.

Here is one the other morning with our Kodak.

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by rats

This was taken with an ID10-T wide angle hoozenflauser.

Close up

Yeah, right!

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by Dogman

Cool man. I've heard good things from the few people I know that own that camera, or a similar one. I want something like that, but can't justify it yet. We just use a Kodak Point and Shoot. I'd like some flexability, and have looked at the Canon's. One friend has the real upper end one, but it's about $8500, just for the body. Way to spendy for me. The $1000 look to be great deals. Takes some pics, and show us.

Here is one the other morning with our Kodak.

Nice shot, Dogman!

I guess the real camera buffs would complain that the foreground is too dark...then again it's a nice effect.

Cheers!

[whyseye]

Ghost, Ghost, Ghost........


......."my analog friend" has gone digital?!?!

Ohhhhh- the humanity!!

[Dogman]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

Nice shot, Dogman!

I guess the real camera buffs would complain that the foreground is too dark...then again it's a nice effect.

Cheers!

Thanks Ghost. I really don't know how to shoot photos, but with digital, I can snap a lot, and not feel guilty of only having one good one out of a hundred. Just to show you, here is the same scene, just a few feet further back, with more light. It turns into more of a snapshot. I also think from what I've read, and heard, this is a really good deal for ya. When you gonna snap some pics?

[The Ghost of FM]

When you gonna snap some pics?

I'm still reading the manual...

Hopefully, latter today, I'll bust a few shots off.

...nice second shot there!

Cheers!

[metalhead28]

Hey, I also own a Canon Digital Rebel SLR.

I've had far better results, almost makes me feel like a photographer sometimes.....nah, not really. but it does take some great shots.

I bought mine on the recomendation of a friend who is a professional photographer. He uses Canon equipment as well, albeit the higher end models. He borrowed mine one time to have an extra camera when shooting a wedding, the pictures he took with it were amazing. I haven't quite gotten there yet. I don't have a very good command of all the manual controls on the thing, but I'm getting there. Actually my wife uses it much more than me....she is becoming quite the photographer. Sorry I don't have any shots here to post.

[The Ghost of FM]

Well, here's a preliminary shot.

I had to compress the hell out of it to post it here.

Cheers!

[whyseye]

Ghost - It looks like you've locked focus on the left (top) side of the frame.....are you in AF mode? Letting the camera pick the focus sensors automatically?

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by whyseye

Ghost - It looks like you've locked focus on the left (top) side of the frame.....are you in AF mode? Letting the camera pick the focus sensors automatically?

I think so, yeah...I only managed to shoot it with the flash turned off to see how it would work with the natural light in the room.

[snipeguy]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

Well, here's a preliminary shot.

I had to compress the hell out of it to post it here.

Cheers!

Nice....uhm.....composition. What's the trophy for?

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by snipeguy

Nice....uhm.....composition. What's the trophy for?

The trophy?

I'm not sure in that there's no inscriptions on it? It came as part of the furnishing from a family cottage in Vermont...it must be at least 75 years old.

Cheers!

[metalhead28]

Have you gotten the hang of selecting the focus point yet?
Like whyseye said, that shot would look better if you focused on the dog (deer?) or the trophy.

[The Ghost of FM]

Have you gotten the hang of selecting the focus point yet?

Obviously not!

I didn't get to that part of the manual yet!

This is gonna take some time.

Cheers!

[timmerman]

Originally Posted by Dogman

Cool man. I've heard good things from the few people I know that own that camera, or a similar one. I want something like that, but can't justify it yet. We just use a Kodak Point and Shoot. I'd like some flexability, and have looked at the Canon's. One friend has the real upper end one, but it's about $8500, just for the body. Way to spendy for me. The $1000 look to be great deals. Takes some pics, and show us.

Here is one the other morning with our Kodak.

Ed, keep your camera out of the sun untill you have learned how to deal with too much sunlight in your camera

heh it is not all that hard, just get some handbooks on how to take pictures, experiment and.....................aaaaagh I see, you are still in the experimental stage..........well in that case you do not let your audience know your results yet.!!! Makes sense eh???!!!

[boingoman]

Originally Posted by metalhead28

He borrowed mine one time to have an extra camera when shooting a wedding, the pictures he took with it were amazing. I haven't quite gotten there yet.

Heh, I've got a guitar player friend of mine like that who hits me up for my strat for gigs. It doesn't sound like that when I play it.

[The Ghost of FM]

OK.

Here's an outside shot.

Still some lighting issues I guess?

[mshilarious]

One of my better shots, taken with a Nikon film SLR, scanned with a Nikon film scanner, and heavily processed:

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

OK.

Here's an outside shot.

Still some lighting issues I guess?

You can fix that stuff on computer. You should be able to manipulate contrast curves to lighten the foreground without changing the background. Sort of like a multiband compressor for photos, if that makes sense. That's how I did my eclipse

[whyseye]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

OK.

Here's an outside shot.

Still some lighting issues I guess?

This is one of those situations where you might want to manually turn the flash on to "fill-in" the shadow areas without overexposing the sunlit areas, thereby balancing out the exposure. The "latitude", or useable area between light and dark is only so wide - the flash helps bring it all into the same range.

[whyseye]

Originally Posted by mshilarious

You can fix that stuff on computer. You should be able to manipulate contrast curves to lighten the foreground without changing the background. Sort of like a multiband compressor for photos, if that makes sense. That's how I did my eclipse

I feel so analog......

[boingoman]

Nice pic, ms.