So tell us about your recent photo adventure. be it a new toy or technique or some interesting new Post Process or camera setting you have just discovered... Maybe a new location you discovered near by? or maybe a new style of photography you are trying? Macro? Fashion? Sports? Anything qualifies in this thread I think! Go for it! Post a few pictures of the results too?
Recent Photography Adventure
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Fun thread idea, though the timing is slightly early for me. I just started getting into medium format photography with a Mamiya 645. I have just started shooting and am still lacking a medium format scanner for digitizing.
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Not really an adventure, but I had wanted to share it with you guys, but I didn't think it deserved a thread.
I had seen a guy with a DSLR with gaffers tape stuck over where the logo was supposed to be. I complimented him on the camera, and then I confronted him, asking if it was a prototype of some sort. He flat out denied that. It had looked like a Canon- Nikon does not have command dial in front of the shutter pointing upwards toward the sky. That's because I have looked at my cousin's Canon XSi. It was way to big to be a XSi, plus it had the extra info display on the top of the camera. Might have been a Canon 60D prototype. In addition, it had a perspective correction lens on it- there were too many dials sticking out of the barrel of the lens to be a regular lens. It was cool, I guess, but I couldn't get more info out of him. I got the idea of a prototype because I saw the video Chase Jarvis had when he tested the D90 in advance- with gaffers tape on the model designation and the make of the camera.
I mean, who the hell walks out onto the street with your camera and gaffers tape covering the place where your logo was supposed to be?
I'm still bothered like crazy because I really want to find out what it was. But I guess I won't ever know, right?
By the way, while we're on Canons, they have two crop factors, no? a 1.6 and a 1.3 right? Which models are they on?
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You never know. After all, if one wants some attention, it's not to difficult to stick some tape on your camera. I'm sure that you are not the only person who noticed him...
I think that the 1Ds Mk III & 5D Mk II are full frame, the 1D Mk III has a 1.3 crop factor, and everything else has a 1.6 crop. Don't trust your life on that though! ;-)
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That's a really odd way of attracting attention.
I should put tape on my D40 and say it's a D3000 and has an 18-135 VRII. :D
Any reason for Canon doing that? I mean, Nikon only made DX and FX. It seems odd to make 2 different crop factors.
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as for using a tape over the logo and model number, I do it for a long time, sometimes I also put a tape around the lens. as for the first I do it not to get the attention from thieves, as for the tape on the lens, it's just a way to protect it from scratches and also make it less desirable, as it looks kind a broken that way.
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I cover up my Nikon logos with canon stickers on all my equipment. Nothing gets stolen that way :)
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I did some work for a company that made some knob or switch or something for Canon, they asked that the photos be made with a Canon. I simply taped up the Nikon logo and they never were the wiser. Perhaps this fellow was doing a similar assignment.
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Oh, this thread is about photo adventures...OK, I was in far east Texas on Caddo Lake. I was waiting for the full moon to come up over the swamp. From far off to my right there was the sound if frogs croaking (frog noises - not dying). The sound grew and grew and I realized that the distant frogs were setting off the other frogs next to them. The sound was growing and getting closer (would have been really frightening if it had been lions...but frogs). Soon the sound was all around me then moving to my left. As the frog sounds grew louder on my left is slowly diminished on my right. I was standing on a small point of land and the frog noise continued around the bend and down the river. The frogs were doing the wave!
Made my shots, finished my beer and went back to the cabin. Was a good evening.
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@snaketail : Wow that must have been amazing! post the shot?
Posted 3 years ago # -
Took a walk in the park last weekend with my 35-70 and S5pro. Wanted to see if the 35-70 worked as a walk around lens even though I had the 18-200. It was not too bad.. More photos to follow on photo a day.
Saw these friends greeting each other.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Ah, Adamz and NikonDoby, that makes perfect sense. How come I didn't think of that? Now it makes my adventure a little less interesting... :D
And Snaketail, as long as you get paid in the end, that's all that matters!
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I wish my friends greeted me like that heartyfisher. That's some big air!
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Heartyfisher:
You want pix of the frogs or the moon? The frogs were pretty much "in the water" but the moon...advise me how to post a photo here.Snaketail
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@snaketail : You post pictures just the same way as in the photo a day thread. The instruction on how to do it are in the "How to change your profile picture / password and other help topics" thread at the top of the forum list.
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snaketail - if You have a problem with posting a picture, just copy and paste link to it, and I'll do the rest for You
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This is my first posted photo...its a bad one then I posted someone else's by mistake. If you like it - thank you.
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Snaketail's link from above .. converted to an embedded image.
had a quick look at the other images in your photo stream. Wow! real nice !
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nikodoby "I wish my friends greeted me like that heartyfisher. That's some big air! "
Didnt you know that how we greet each other in oz land ? !! its the lack of gravity down under !
:-)
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8^) heartyfisher, but that is a fun shot!
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heartyfisher - thanks for converting my pix, and the nice comments.
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Posted 3 years ago # -
OK, lets see if this one posts correctly.
please forgive my floundering around...just wanna get as good as heartyfisher
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snaketail - was this the photo You wanted to show us? under the link You wrote in Your comment, there was no image; generally as for using flickr photos on this page is a really easy task - once on the photo You want to show, click all sizes, check medium, and copy/paste the code that's under the picture (more info in the help topic - second from top on main page); anyway great shot with this log
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Wow, snaketail, that looks awesome.
Reminds me of a photo of a Navy SEALS recruitment in a magazine.
They listed the names of the soldiers from left to right while they were in camo, of course. I tried looking for them, I thought I spotted 2. Not sure though.
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Thanks adamz - let's try this one dallasdarkroom@att.net, on Flickr">
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