DC Protesters

[Hinson]

Hi, I've been around for a while but haven't posted many images. So I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm trying to decide if I want to sell my 70-200 .28L IS so I took it and my 5D downtown to see if I really want to part with it. Here are some of the results. These are straight out of the camera with only a quick batch pass with the sharpen filter. Nothing else. All were shot around the White House or within a block or so of 15th and G. (bad heart so I can't get more than a few blocks from my motorcycle.) It was a very cloudy/overcast day so not harsh shadows to worry about. (only whether or not it would rain before I got back home ...hehehe)

This is my first try at "street photography" or "urban photography" so let me know what you think.

Hinson

24/7 Protest ISO 100, 105mm, F2.8, 1/500sec


A close-up of the lady ISO 100, 200mm, F2.8, 1/1000sec


Street Musician: ISO 100, 85mm, F4.0, 1/180sec
This fellow had a mixer, amp, large speaker and some great flute music. I heard the music from a block away and went looking for it. Beautiful.


And a close-up. ISO 100, 110mm, F4.0, 1/180sec


You can see the rest here

[Village_Idiot]

I live close to DC. If you don't want it, let me know. I'd kill for one of those.

[Hinson]

Not sure I want to turn the Villiage Idiot loose with one of these...hehehe.

I'll let you know if I decide to sell. Where are you located? I'm in Germantown.

Hinson

[Village_Idiot]

Martinsburg WV. I'm about 45 minutes to Rockville.

[TwistedGray]

I lived at the end of Boyd Avenue for a while as well as Rankin Circle (off of 11 heading North getting outside of MBurg).

[Hinson]

Waal, looks like we got us a hillbilly reunion going on...hehehe {running and ducking}

[BottomBracket]

Germantown? Man I was there for nearly two months this summer, I have relatives there. Good captures by the way, thanks for sharing.

[jdizzle]

I don't see why you wanna get rid of this lens. Great shots!

[Mark_Mason]

Those shots are great. It seems your 70-200 is "sharp like razor blade".

Mark.

[lennyp06]

Those people outside of the whitehouse are crazy, they have been out there non stop since the 80s. Literally 24-7 one of the security guys told us all about them. i was there a month ago.

Nice shots

Hey mark, my fellow oregonian what kind of photography do you do?

[khall]

Nice sharp pictures. Why would you sell the "Lens"

[Hinson]

Thanks for all the replies folks. As to why I want to sell the lens: A heart attack sidelined me from my bread & butter work (school photographer) last year and now without any retirement benefits, I must exist on SS. Now I need to come up with some money to replace my broken TV and those big DLP and Plasma sets don't come cheap. But then again, I look at the images and think, "MMmmm, maybe I could sell off one of the grandkids...hehehe.

Back to the images though. I liked this lens on my 10D but am amazed by the quality of images from the 5D-70mm-200mm combination. I have found that I can crop an image shot at 200mm to get the same FOV as a 300 or longer lens with very little loss of quality.

Example:

Here is a crop


from this image: (see full size image here)



That has to be the equivelent of a 300mm or 400mm lens shot. Blows my mind.

Hinson

[symbolphoto]

That woman protesting is always there. She was also in Farienheit 911 movie.

[qtaran111]

Nice shots.

We have a similar protester here in London who has been camped 24-7 in Parliament Square since 2001: http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/

I don't necessarily agree or disagree with what he is saying, but I hate the way they have tried to shut him up. As Voltaire said: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

[Lord_Malone]

That protester is always out there with the exact same set-up.

Nice job.