This is part of a multipart series on buying a DSLR. For the camera, see Part 1 or the Lens, see Part 2. Once you’ve bought your camera and your lens, you’d think you were done, but like anything remotely expensive and/or complex – there’s more! Of course, cameras have a thousand different accessories, bits, [...]
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“Excessive” Photography & Stats
CH-53E Sea Stallion @ the Reno Air Races, 2009CC-BY-SA-3.0 Jon Davis So for those of you that don’t know me, haven’t seen my flickr feed or haven’t seen my Commons account… I take pictures. Some have described my photography as “excessive” in certain cases. What that roughly means is that I tend to take a [...]
Reno Air Races 2009
Welcome to Reno Stead Airport. Last weekend was the Reno Air Races, which I attended. I wrote up a bit with a bunch of photos for Wikinews. I must admit, it was a lot of work getting all the pictures together and getting the story written. Last year, when I went I took a (personal) [...]
Photographers are a dangerous sort
I wandered outside ::GASP:: for a bit today to take some pictures for Wikipedia. I made it a point of writing down a bunch of articles in the area that needed pictures last year… but I didn’t get much of them done. Winter came soon after. I’ve finally gotten off my be-hind to go take [...]
Why I hate photography sometimes
First let me say that I don’t hate photography outright. Maybe even at all. Maybe I just hate people sometimes. I take pictures, I enjoy taking pictures. Sometimes I do it for myself, but more recently I’ve been doing it to improve. I’ve spent alot of time reading strobist, DIYPhotography, etc – trying to learn, [...]
New Camera Lens
Originally I had a Quantaray 100-300, but on the trip through MSP this past summer my camera bag had an unfortunate run in with the ground. I know that Quantaray aren’t the best lenses in the world, but it did the job. The main problem, as I found out, is that its just a brand [...]
Nikon Speedlight SB-800
This last week I finally broke down and got a Nikon Speedlight, specifically the SB-800. Yes, it is the “pro” level light, but there are a couple reasons why I picked this light over the 400 or 600. First off, the 800 is just more powerful, and has more flexibility. Secondarily, (and importantly for “future” [...]
Stupid Humans
Since I’ve been taking alot of pictures, and trying to avoid doing “work” in my free time, I’ve got a lot less tech stuff going on. Though a friend has convinced me to go play WoW again, so that may steal my soul. In the mean time I thought I’d share some of my pictures [...]
