What camera do you use?
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You'll love the speed lights, I have two and use them a lot off camera in the commander mode. I haven't used a D3100 but have heard lots of good things about them. Here's a tip for you, if you buy more lenses, buy regular lenses not the DX lenses. That way if you ever go with a full frame sensor your lenses will still be golden.
So far for the price it's great since I can put our good lenses on it and take some really nice shots. The other perk is that I won't be afraid to travel with it when I'm flying like I am with the expensive one, so I'll definitely take this one to the nationals this year.
I have the speed light and love it too.
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That D800 is one sweet camera. If I didn't have the D700 I would want the D800. When I upgrade my D2X I will likely go with the D3S. If I ever won the lottery I'd get the D4.
I have a Canon 40D with several L Series Telephoto Lenses -I enjoy taking action shots of dogs....especially at IPO training and trialing, as well as PSD training and other dogs sports. I was thinking of upgrading my camera but I'd rather buy some more L Series lenses I have a speed light, yet I still suck at taking indoor/low light photo's inside with little action by the subject. I use my Canon Vixia HFS10 to take videos....prefer taking pictures over videos though.
I have a speed light, yet I still suck at taking indoor/low light photo's inside with little action by the subject. I use my Canon Vixia HFS10 to take videos....prefer taking pictures over videos though.
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I have a Canon 40D with several L Series Telephoto Lenses -I enjoy taking action shots of dogs....especially at IPO training and trialing, as well as PSD training and other dogs sports. I was thinking of upgrading my camera but I'd rather buy some more L Series lenses
If your talking about shooting at an indoor event with moving subjects you'll have a tough time due to usually lower light levels and distance from the subjects. You'll need fast lenses and the best strobes you can get.
nope, not action shots indoors...just pictures of my dogs kicking back inside. I think my lack of skills with non-action shots has to do with my lack of desire to focus and learn. Most of my lenses are f 1.8/2.4's and all are L Series, so I don't think it is an equipment problem - more of a user problem = lack of skill in manual mode as I don't like auto for anything
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nope, not action shots indoors...just pictures of my dogs kicking back inside. I think my lack of skills with non-action shots has to do with my lack of desire to focus and learn. Most of my lenses are f 1.8/2.4's and all are L Series, so I don't think it is an equipment problem - more of a user problem = lack of skill in manual mode as I don't like auto for anything
You might try increasing your ISO and closing down your lense to a smaller F-stop. With a 1.8 or 2.4 wide open your depth of field is going to be very shallow and can cause some of the detail in your picture to be out of focus. The detail in the depth of field zone will be sharp but outside of that zone, you'll loose focus.
I was VERY curious to see your response! You have GREAT photos of your Dobies and I was thinking to myself, "They definitely have some high-tech cameras to capture those action photos!!!"
What a great capture Michele. LOL
Redpod, most of our lenses are the L-series too and it sure makes a difference.
I so agree. So many people rely on looking at them on the camera and never bother to stick them on the computer - what a waste. We bought a nice digital for the inlaws and the only thing they do is take them in to have prints made. :shakinghead:
Redpod, most of our lenses are the L-series too and it sure makes a difference.
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Deleting photos should only happen after they are down loaded to the computer. There have been issues at times, when photos have been deleted from the memory card during shoot that the memory card becomes corrupt. Better safe than sorry. You can always delete them after you have them downloaded.
I have Terabytes of hard drive storage dedicated to photo storage. There is never enough..........
I so agree with that! How anyone can delete them before looking at them on computer is beyond me. It works the opposite way too...sometimes I'll look and think, wow great shot! And then later see if 'for real' on my puter !
ARGH...............I'm so impressed when I read stuff this, but oh man, it's Greek to me!!! LOL!!! I'm still learning all that an it can be very frustrating! I've always been a 'point and shoot' type a girl! Just like my 'wash and wear hair'! LOL (naturally curly) I want things easy but then I also understand that some of the things I want out of a camera has to be learned by the human behind it! There's just so much technology out here to learn and everything keeps getting better and better........by the time I learn something, another thing comes out thats better! lol
