Another Arizona POTN get together (3)?

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10467265
Don't know what subject(s) interest you but check out Cave Creek Photographic Workshops run by Alan Lowy. Alan is also the host/moderator of the Desert Light Photography Group of which I'm a member. Several DL members are regular workshop clients of Alan's.

Your palm doesn't tan so shooting your palm gives you a consistant metering subject. The trick is to learn and mentally calibrate how the luminance of your palm matches the rest of the world. Some do the same using green grass or blue sky. I tend to use the blue sky method.

blue skies, smiling at me...nothing but blue skies do I see...
yay AZ...

Isn't this just an extension of the 18 or 19% gray card idea?

Learning to see "light" with your eyes and setting your camera on spot-meter and getting several readings from different parts of a scene and figuring an average, and also knowing from experience that your dynamic range of your sensor is a little on the small side, and which ISO will give you the best results, and being able to figure which f-stop you want to use because the "sweet" spot of your lens is about f5.6, and how to read a histogram on your camera's LCD and which focus point, and lens diffraction and changing lighting conditions and white balance and . . . .


. . . . wait, what's that phone number on my hand? Is that the number of that hot chick I met at the bar last night, and didn't I tell her I was some famous photographer for some cool magazine or something, oh crap I had a lot to drink last night, and what is the exposure of my hand, is it my palm or the back of my hand, because I know exposure like the back of my hand, and I've got my hand in my pocket and do I need pocket wizards or should I just . . .

AZAlphaDog wrote in post #10467519
Isn't this just an extension of the 18 or 19% gray card idea?

Yes...

It's another way to use a consistant metering subject but chances are, most people's palms will yield the need to do a slight offset from what a proper grey card or hand-held meter will show.

Probably about a half to a stop more exposure will be needed from a palm reading as opposed to a grey card.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10467642
Yes...

It's another way to use a consistant metering subject but chances are, most people's palms will yield the need to do a slight offset from what a proper grey card or hand-held meter will show.

Probably about a half to a stop more exposure will be needed from a palm reading as opposed to a grey card.

so you're some sort of psychic now? will you tell me my future?

holy crap!!!!
the discovery channel used my pictures!!!
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Main Page: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/
Categories: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/rocket-categories/
Drag race: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​drag-race/ (10 pages)
Experimental Division: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​rocket-launch/ (12 Pages)
Low Altitude: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​weird-rockets/ (Mine start after Page 5)
Why It's Awesome: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​rocket-launch/ (12 Pages)

lilminijpc wrote in post #10469139
holy crap!!!!
the discovery channel used my pictures!!!
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Main Page: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/
Categories: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/rocket-categories/
Drag race: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​drag-race/ (10 pages)
Experimental Division: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​rocket-launch/ (12 Pages)
Low Altitude: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​weird-rockets/ (Mine start after Page 5)
Why It's Awesome: http://science.discove​ry.com/tv/ldrs/photos/​rocket-launch/ (12 Pages)

cool, are those all your shots. ok noticed late, after Page 5

make a car rocket

macroshooter1970 wrote in post #10469157
cool, are those all your shots. ok noticed late, after Page 5

make a car rocket

A big congrats... I missed this post. Cool shots!
Hatch

Hatch1921 wrote in post #10469185
A big congrats... I missed this post. Cool shots!
Hatch

hows the 200mm working for you? almost picked one up a few weeks ago.

macroshooter1970 wrote in post #10469411
hows the 200mm working for you? almost picked one up a few weeks ago.

Fantastic! It's like owning another 135L with more reach... but...1 stop slower. It focuses fast... images are super sharp wide open...bokeh is very close to the 135L... great lens!

Have a look on my Flickr page for some sample shots.

Go buy one... you will dig it. LOL

Hatch1921 wrote in post #10469419
Fantastic! It's like owning another 135L with more reach... but...1 stop slower. It focuses fast... images are super sharp wide open...bokeh is very close to the 135L... great lens!

Have a look on my Flickr page for some sample shots.

Go buy one... you will dig it. LOL

good to hear. ok i'll take a peek. i almost did, tried it out at the camera shop but sadly gave it back. i'm sure i will really want it after i look at your shots.

macroshooter1970 wrote in post #10469431
good to hear. ok i'll take a peek. i almost did, tried it out at the camera shop but sadly gave it back. i'm sure i will really want it after i look at your shots.

Shots are nothing special... were mainly to make sure the lens was hitting @f/2.8.

I like it because it is doesn't feel like a tank in my hands... no IS means you have to be pretty steady... the faster the shutter speeds the better.

Next on the list... I think... is the 35L. Going to flip a coin to see if I should sell the 24-70 I have... never use it...

Hatch1921 wrote in post #10469442
Shots are nothing special... were mainly to make sure the lens was hitting @f/2.8.

I like it because it is doesn't feel like a tank in my hands... no IS means you have to be pretty steady... the faster the shutter speeds the better.

Next on the list... I think... is the 35L. Going to flip a coin to see if I should sell the 24-70 I have... never use it...

shoot if you never use it, might as well let it go for what you will i let mine go, use nothing but primes now.

macroshooter1970 wrote in post #10469465
shoot if you never use it, might as well let it go for what you will i let mine go, use nothing but primes now.

It's my last zoom... I'm turing in to a prime junkie or something... I don't know why... but... I bet I have used the lens less than 10 times. It's sharp... zoom range isn't bad... I just reach for everything else in the lens bag.

The 35L is pretty wicked from the shots I have seen... spent a lot of time in the 35L Flickr group... tons of nice stuff in there. This would keep me covered from 35-200mm ... will give it some thought this weekend

macroshooter1970 wrote in post #10469157
cool, are those all your shots. ok noticed late, after Page 5

make a car rocket

hehe, thanks!! majority of them are mine, one of the links the 1st few are from their own photogs.

Hatch1921 wrote in post #10469185
A big congrats... I missed this post. Cool shots!
Hatch

@ hatch, thanks!! yah i'm pretty excited. didn't think they were gonna actually contact me about them!

disneydork06 wrote in post #10468780
so you're some sort of psychic now? will you tell me my future?

Keep giving me grief and I guarentee I know what your future will be...

Way to go Joyce!!!