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Lily I love a California Christmas...I've had one every year since I was born...but this year mom and dad moved to Texas. I was actually hoping to have a white Christmas, well that didn't happen...but it has been butt cold!!! My sister is jealous that I get to return to weather in the low seventies!!!
I love all those white Christmas pictures.
That is one impressive macro feature! Imagine all the little tiny things you can take beautiful pictures of with that ability. I'm positively jealous. :p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
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Originally Posted by Idril
holy misprounounced tolkien! these are absolutely incredible, Idril.
Aw, I'm sorry! :( But you are coming back, so...:DQuote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Me, too. Those ones Idril took are really wacky!
Further trials with the new camera:
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Close-up of a popcorn.
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Some tiny mushrooms I found in the forest today (On New Years Eve, no less! :eek2: )
In case you're wondering, we had snow but it disappeared...
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The sad remains of a nice tree.
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And another one.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0038.jpg
My car on the other side of a small tunnel.
(Note how the zoom contracts the view).
/Claes
You mean on Mars? :PQuote:
Originally Posted by BulletproofDork
But they don't have nearly the personality of the tree pictures, do they? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
And Claes, that camera is amazing. I especially like the picture of the mushrooms, the colors are so rich and the detail is so precise. I love the shadows on the popcorn too. :D
Very nice pictures Claes. I meant to ask you. You chose Canon over Nikon. Was there any criteria you went by? I'm looking to buy a digital SLR in the near future. I traditionally have gone with Nikon in the past. Was it a conscious thing on your part to go with Canon?
In a way, yes. There was in fact a Nikon in my sights for a while, but I soon realized that the Canon (N.B: In this particular case, using my particular criteria) provided a much bigger bang for the €. It actually outshone the other cameras I tried in performance as well as price.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I have a feeling that Canon produced a winner with this one.
Criteria? I obviously wanted good optics and this one has a great 10x zoom lens with good macro ability to boot. I also wanted to be able to abandon auto, and fiddle with the settings myself (I do that a lot). It uses std AA batteries which is a great advantage over all those custom made things. Once I decided, it became a matter of trying it out and getting used to it which I'm working on at the moment.
I'm pretty satisfied thus far, but it will take a while yet until I'm really familiar with it. By that I mean being able to set it up fast and correct without much thought, and basically without looking. That takes time.
P.s. I almost forgot: Happy New Year, all. It's 2008 here by now, and all of a sudden we have snow again.
/Claes
Claes,Amazing pictures; I love closeups and I love woodland photos, such as your mushrooms and that neat tree trunk. Your new camera seems to be delivering and doing a wonderful job. The photos are so clear and crisp!That last shot, with the can as the tunnel, looking towards your car, is incredibly creative. Keep up the good work!
I love Idril's too - where exactly is that - is it a beach?...Those formations in the ice are amazing! Good job, Idril! It looks mighty cold there, but awesomely beautiful. The snow is so white.
Yes, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
LET US HOPE AND PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL 2008!
The last picture is on a beach but the rest are on the middle of a frozen lake. Every year it's a great adventure to get out on the ice for the first time and see what odd things the lake has done. And it was cold there, very cold... and windy, which just adds to the fun. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Thank you Claes. I have seen that Canon in certain evaluations has edged Nikon in the digital SLR. I will personally evaluate both. But I do have a certain loyalty to Nikon, so if it's close I will probably stay with Nikon.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
That camera is amazing Claes! I really like the picture of the mushrooms.
Claes, your pictures are awesome. My favorite was the popcorn, but they were all well done. Hope you will continue to give us samples of your work! And a Happy New Year to you, too (and to everyone else, YAY!)
I was reorganizing my 2007 pictures before I burned them onto disc and I found this one I wanted to share. Every summer we go to the local Pow Wow (local to my parents and local to where I grew up, not to where I live now) and I get tons of pictures but my camera isn't really up for that job. It doesn't have a quick enough shutter to pick up the the action of the dancing and it doesn't have a strong enough zoom to capture all the wonderful detail of the costumes but I snap away nonetheless. This picture may not be a great action shot but I love it and I think it captures the experience well. I wish those shadows at the bottom weren't there but to take those away is to wash out everything else so I have learned to live with them.
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