Digital Photography -- Our Early Years!

i just bought a flash for my 60D. i rarely use flash, but i figured i should learn just in case the need arises one day.

i actually find drinks can sometimes make my shots a little better...lol

jay125 wrote in post #13427930
i just bought a flash for my 60D. i rarely use flash, but i figured i should learn just in case the need arises one day.

i actually find drinks can sometimes make my shots a little better...lol

Heh!

A good flash is a powerful tool! Those "snapshots" above are good illustrations of why I made sure that an external flash was an early part of my DSLR-related purchases! Whether you keep an external flash on your hotshoe or use it off-camera, there is no substitution for the ability to modify your flash in one way or another to avoid the bright/hot look, not to mention the red-eyes, that come from using a built-in flash. Of course, cameras with Flash Exposure Compensation have at least that to help, and you can also do little "tricks" to soften the light a bit, but I don't believe my early digicams had FEC, and I was too new to things to know any diffusing techniques.

the 60D has the built-in wireless flash control, which should be helpful for those off-shoe moments. i've never really used a flash, and i imagine i should find a book or 3 to read up on it, while gleaning all the info i can from here. i'm learning photography is constant learning.

I'll end my voyage or early digital with something not so early. But in 2006, I sold my S400 and bought a Canon SD700 IS. I took it on our honeymoon, a Mediterranean cruise. This trip is what prompted me to get into DSLR's. A year later I got my 40D and the rest, as they say, is history. But that little SD700 IS got some great shots! And I got stopped by so many other people on our cruise asking about the camera. The power up time on it was very impressive. If I saw something while we were on a bus or something, I could pull it out, hit power and take a shot in 1 or 2 seconds. I probably would have made a nice dent in that 40D if Canon had given me a referral fee for all the cameras I sold on that trip!

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Nice ones, Randy!

Here is another one, same Germany trip. Date on the file is Nov 10, 2002 using a Kodak DX3600. My wife always loved this shot. Here is STEVES DIGICAM'S REVIEWof that camera!

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I think I had an old canon, but back in 2004 when I got on flickr, I was shooting with my Razr flip phone, I was so ahead of my time

Heh! Brandy, that dog shot is cool! But that Razr phone shot...?

You know, this thread has helped to spur me along in my project to get all my old photos organized in my LR1 catalog and then exported/imported into LR3. I've made it up to '07 so far.

One of the things that has come up brings both a chuckle and a wince, and that was my early efforts to photograph birds in flight, using the Canon PowerShot S3 IS. It was a nice compact camera, but man, it sucked dealing with shutter lag and such!

Even after I got my 30D in late '06, I still tried to work with that S3IS! In early '07 I had it at the Oregon Coast, where there were gulls, and the S3IS had a "superzoom" that was like putting a 300mm lens on the 30D, but the struggles never ceased! A few came out "OK", although I had to do a lot of cropping:

Brandy, what kind of dog is that? Looks like one of my golden doodles.