-= T2i / 550D users UNITE! (4) =-

I see it's been another great week on the thread -- I was out of town on vacation and can't quite catch up, but lots of amazing stuff (DT, Justin, Peter, Shaigs...)

DT: Regarding land formations and water, I noticed a lot of old river rock (smooth, rounced rocks) on top of a mountain in Denver. They were aged and pitted, but clearly not made directly from broken crust. Things really do change!

Whoa. You really gotta stay on top of this thread. Two days go by and it takes me an hour to go through the photos. Great job guys.
I tried to comment on everyone's photo... some of y'all are in here twice. I'm sincerely sorry if I missed anyone...

Mitch.A wrote in post #14749212
...i've been trying to... force myself to try new stuff

Why? The old stuff works really well

J.Wolfe wrote in post #14749574
trying a new style out myself. a little more vintage/film/gritty to these. It is still cinematic a lot of the time.

I like it. I think it works better for the indoor shots. The kitty diptych is neat-o... any reason for choosing 2 frames instead of 1,3,4,5, etc?

DigitalTuned wrote in post #14750647
Some more from back home

I like #1 and #2(!) but I never get to see horses rolling around so that has the most "WOW!" factor for me. It would be interesting to see that same scene with different (longer) shutter speeds and get some motion blur in there.

grumpy366 wrote in post #14751345
From yesterday

I have been really impressed with your photographic eye recently. I'm partial to "threes" and I agree that the white streak should stay in "geometry." In fact, you should figure out what caused it and hone that skill

jamganz wrote in post #14751557
blue , green, red, brown and yellow

I smell a whole Crayola series of birds

Mitch.A wrote in post #14752641
been trying different things lately :

"Splash of heaven" seems to be really well balanced. I really dig the People of Montreal series you've been into. The one in this post (man on train) is really cool because you get a quick glimpse into his life... so the included window in the photo is very symbolic.

BasAndrews wrote in post #14752804
"550D4310"

Wow, that's a crazy little pattern he's carrying around on his back. That's a sexy/soft background he's walking on... that could be tough to pull off in a macro shot.

Brain Mechanic wrote in post #14752837
Canon 500mm Mirror lens again

I've been eyeballing those lenses... do you have problems getting it focused?

Trugga wrote in post #14752923
A few imprompty shots from a summer barbeque:

The little boy with the cowboy hat is adorable I remember back when a simple soda would make me that happy!

kenshap wrote in post #14753150
Stitched together a bunch of photos using the "Brenizer" method

I've been meaning to try this. Did you use Manual mode?

kukulkan wrote in post #14754318
Random from yesterday and some older ones
Aliens!!!

B&W nature shots rock! And I like the emotion little kids show... is the little girl screaming or yawning?

DigitalTuned wrote in post #14754841
shot with wide lens 11-16mm

Extra creamy smooth. The one with the airplane is especially cool. Are those colors SOOC?

n4ck wrote in post #14755154
Just took a weekend trip to Lake Arrowhead. So relaxing!

Brilliant! hope you had a relaxing trip

Peter2516 wrote in post #14755387
From our recent camping trip.

Very, very good series. #2 works especially well IMO

Monkey Mash Button wrote in post #14756268
My triplets:

soooooo jealous... do you follow Syl Arena's work? Ever since I saw his stuff with multiple 580s I have wanted to get a bunch more flashes...
have you played with the HSS + 3 flashes? Now THAT sounds like fun!!!

Shaisgs wrote in post #14756570
Here is one I think I forgot to post here

Uhhhh... that looks scary close!

J.Wolfe wrote in post #14756750
one diptych

The tints work really well for this type of shot. Nice contrast between the detail shot and the "big picture" shot.

DigitalTuned wrote in post #14756814
here it is

perfectly matched colors. It looks like it could be one of those paint sample color-theme photos.

brandrum wrote in post #14757327
My daughters birthday flowers.

Nice soft, feminine color pallete with great lighting.

Retrolock wrote in post #14757396
Sunset Jump

Ha! that's cool!

In the same vein as Kukulkan's little girl photo, here is a photo of a very animated little boy I know:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/71540785@N02/7​625888504/

LOL, thought it was you after going through the older posts.

It very tricky to get focus right. As you know the f stop is fixed at 8. Lately I have been upping the ISO to 1600 to further improve my results. Im doing this because I was noticing that a lot of the softness in my pics were related to camera shake. I hate using a tripod! LOL! So with increased ISO I can use faster shutter times. Im noticing much sharper images that way, and believe me a mirror lens can be quite sharp. I followed these for a long time and found that the vintage canon ones are one of the best in terms of IQ. Downside is that they are FD mount and the adapters tend to degrade IQ...honestly maybe I got lucky with mine but I tested the lens with and without the adapter glass and did not noticed a significant difference.

What FD adapter are you using?
I already have the cheap Bower one... the lens element is adjustable but I never took the time to fine tune it for all 7 of my FD lenses

Marm O. Set wrote in post #14758810
What FD adapter are you using?
I already have the cheap Bower one... the lens element is adjustable but I never took the time to fine tune it for all 7 of my FD lenses

I dont remember but its a cheap one with focus confirmation though.

Thx Marm
I personally never seen such thing either with a horse. It was amazing how much love this animal
has for my father. He bought him of a guy as a baby almost diying. He took good care of him and look at him now. He sees my pops and he runs all over the place like a puppy when his buddy comes home. My dad went inside the ranch and started dancing and just doing silly things and the horse was just jumping and kicking, running and oviously, throwing himself on the ground. Hahaha it was fast so I shoot like I maniac with to time to correct my cam but I captured some good enough stuff.. I'll see if I can put together a small sequence of all the pics. My dad was laughing but at the same time he said "Look how happy he is but If he gets me with one of those kicks, he'll kill me"

The plane pic all I did was add more vibrance and a bit more contrast. That's was about it if I remember correctly..

Thx for your comment waterrockets.. Things do change my friend..

Much improved shots Brain. You are really putting that thing through its paces. Well done.

BTW, according to a guy who both uses and collects old lens the sharpest mirror is one that was made in Russia.

Great story there DT about the horse and your dad.

bobobird wrote in post #14759672
Much improved shots Brain. You are really putting that thing through its paces. Well done.

BTW, according to a guy who both uses and collects old lens the sharpest mirror is one that was made in Russia.

Great story there DT about the horse and your dad.

Thanks bobobird! Yeah I read about the Russian one, but the models he mentioned were difficult to find.

DOF

Takumar?

Marm O. Set wrote in post #14759792
Takumar?

Yep.. .Asahi Pentax SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4. Got it mainly for video, but its so good Its becoming one of my preferred lenses.

bobobird wrote in post #14759672
Much improved shots Brain. You are really putting that thing through its paces. Well done.

BTW, according to a guy who both uses and collects old lens the sharpest mirror is one that was made in Russia.

Great story there DT about the horse and your dad.

Thx bobo I'll put that sequence of shots when I get home the you guys can be the judges of that moment..