New camera
01-06-2008, 08:34 PM
#17
Racer
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Auckland NZ
Posts: 463
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sigh....I love white Porsches!
I bought a Nikon D200 about a year ago. I vowed I would spend some time learning to use it properly, but I'm still just point-and-shooting. I need some more time.....perhaps if I spent a bit less time on Rennlist and cleaning my car....
I bought a Nikon D200 about a year ago. I vowed I would spend some time learning to use it properly, but I'm still just point-and-shooting. I need some more time.....perhaps if I spent a bit less time on Rennlist and cleaning my car....
01-06-2008, 09:41 PM
#18
Burning Brakes
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: The best corner of the USA
Posts: 956
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like
on
1 Post
These were told to me many years ago when I got my first DSLR, so they are perhaps old tips, but still very worthy tips, to the newbie DSLR users:
1. your next upgrades should be lenses, and not new camera bodies, for many years. Your DSLR is already way better than you can ever hope to be, and learning to use the various lenses will get you the biggest bang for your buck and your time.
2. learn how to use a good post-processing software, or all of your expensive DSLRs and lenses won't do you any good. Most of the stuff that comes with your camera software bundle isn't going to extract the most from your files: get a copy of Adobe Photoshop, even older versions, and learn how to use it.
3. Along with #2: shoot RAW files and not JPEGs. You will soon have many excellent shots that cannot be duplicated, and later you will kick yourself for not having those files in RAW because JPEGs are limited in terms of editing and postprocessing freedom.
Finally: get to know www.fredmiranda.com and join (free). It's the Rennlist for photographers. You will learn much, whether you shoot in Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, etc....
1. your next upgrades should be lenses, and not new camera bodies, for many years. Your DSLR is already way better than you can ever hope to be, and learning to use the various lenses will get you the biggest bang for your buck and your time.
2. learn how to use a good post-processing software, or all of your expensive DSLRs and lenses won't do you any good. Most of the stuff that comes with your camera software bundle isn't going to extract the most from your files: get a copy of Adobe Photoshop, even older versions, and learn how to use it.
3. Along with #2: shoot RAW files and not JPEGs. You will soon have many excellent shots that cannot be duplicated, and later you will kick yourself for not having those files in RAW because JPEGs are limited in terms of editing and postprocessing freedom.
Finally: get to know www.fredmiranda.com and join (free). It's the Rennlist for photographers. You will learn much, whether you shoot in Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, etc....
01-06-2008, 09:46 PM
#19
Race Car
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Miamah, La Florida
Posts: 4,694
Likes: 0
Received 67 Likes
on
26 Posts
I wish that was a barn...... The only decent place in "The Republic" that has some "flavor" is this old rusted warehouse next to an abandoned train depot in our capitol city named "Hialeah". The other pic's that I posted were on a 45 degree ramp that used to be used to unload goods off of freight trains. Maybe they were offloading banana's?????
01-07-2008, 01:21 PM
#22
Drifting
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: South Bay, Los Angeles
Posts: 2,733
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes
on
3 Posts
