The End of Summer Random Discussion for TPBM (29)

gjl711 wrote in post #8583632
Poor girl. So was it your idea or hers?

Both. I put her under the bridge and in the water a little bit.

She wanted to go in the rapids where the seated pics were.

CrazieCricket wrote in post #8581275
Gosh, everyone went to bed again. What's up with that?

No idea, I just woke up here.

Woolburr wrote in post #8581750
I suspect not everyone got to meet Wu last Friday...I forgot to post this over here...forgive the cell phone...it doesn't take great photos...

Wudles!!

Becky N wrote in post #8581991
This one caught me mid chew of my eggs and salsa, yeah, that left a mess.


But I like the stuff in the back and the flowers too. You're a sweetheart.

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gjl711 wrote in post #8582563
Hey Chet. Want a quarter pound stick of butter wrapped in bacon and deep fried for breakfast?

gjl711 wrote in post #8582577
Oh and dipped in cinnamon sugar and glazed as well.

Jon wrote in post #8582592
. . . and a Diet Coke.

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neil_r wrote in post #8582843
If you have not read Roddy Doyle's "The Van" you should.

At one point their fish and chip van was so hectic that someone brought back a deep fried and battered nappy (diaper)

Ewwwwwwww!

Belmondo wrote in post #8582895
Lois has this habit of putting something on the TV and walking out of the room to do something elsewhere in the house.

Leyla does that too. I will get up and turn it off, she comes in turns it on and strolls away, I turn it off.....

thomascanty wrote in post #8582955
It's all about motivation. Let those little piggies know what happens to the losers and watch 'em run faster!

LMAO!!

Belmondo wrote in post #8583003
It makes me think of the story about the farmer with the 3-legged pig.

Great story

Permagrin wrote in post #8583254
G'morning.

I'm feeling all pro today.
Not really...though my gear is "pro" . And I have an actual shoot later. (I'm being facetious...just in case anyone misses it) But I feel as out of my depth as possible.
Plus I woke up at 5:45. On a day where I could sleep in because Dan didn't have to work...how ironic.

You are pro

neil_r wrote in post #8583269
But with better teeth

Lol!

Permagrin wrote in post #8583334
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I feel like I'm out of my depth. I know I can do the shoots but I want each one to be so special for the person I'm shooting. I want them to not only have their photos but remember the event as something really cool (or special or whatever). Maybe I put too much of me into it but I can't help myself.

That is what sets you aside from all the shooters just thinking "I can make a buck and justify buying gear". Someone is very fortunate if they happen to hire you.

sevillafox wrote in post #8583455
Ok...because I'm bored.....

Some of my recent senior stuff if you feel like looking.

ANNA

How old is she because it may determine what I am thinking. If I have to I will set this thought aside for a year.

neil_r wrote in post #8583464
Why is it that the people who should be confident in their own abilities never are and those that have no right to be just dive in regardless of their lack of talent?

Look at your body of work, look at the feedback and interactions with clients that you have had, and develop a confidence "mantra" along the lines of "I am really good at this, he only thing I have to worry about is the fact that Dan is here" and you will be fine.

If push comes to shove we all have enough confidence in your ability so we will channel a collective transfer.

Well put and lol!

T.D. wrote in post #8583483
Wow, this new 7D thingy sounds pretty cool.

Hi Chris. I wish gear was in my budget again

Yo *waves*

gjl711 wrote in post #8583129
What-cha BBQing?

We had hot dogs, hamburgers, macaroni salad and potato chips! A veritable feast.

T.D. wrote in post #8583483
Wow, this new 7D thingy sounds pretty cool.

I already have one on pre-order.

Once I get it I'll be selling my 40D, so anyone interested let me know!!

you know, when Dan switched over to nikon, we knew we'd have to pick up a couple of lenses to make sure we both had the ranges we needed...I gave him the nikon 85 1.4 (it's considered their best portrait lens, like the canon L) and a 60mm macro and a 180mm prime but he needed some zooms. He liked the tamron so we picked that up and we picked up a used 70-300 (the nikon version is quite nice and not expensive used). But that left me without an AF prime. So, I picked up a sigma 50mm. I had a lot of reservations about this lens, mostly because it's a sigma (I'm not fond of the ones I've tried) and because it has a reputation for either front or back focusing.

Sure enough mine did front focus. I had to adjust both my cameras to get it to focus properly. I was irritated and thought...why should I pay any amount of money for a lens I knew I'd have to eventually send in (if I couldn't get it adjusted properly). Anyway, I've played with it now & I can see why people buy it. Aside from the price (which is very low for nikon stuff) it's got beautiful (and I mean beautiful) bokeh. So sharp too.

I wouldn't recommend it for a camera that doesn't have the AF micro adjust though. It was off quite a bit.

Permi, does setting the microadjust affect other lenses or is it specific to that 50?

Permagrin wrote in post #8583254
SEE!! I knew it. I told him I looked German. He said 'I was thinking British'.

I see you there as Dan did - Reviewin' the Regiment in In-jah.

I have never had to adjust a lens, I have never noticed any front back or side focusing issues. I have never had a soft lens or one that hunts. The question is am I just very lucky or am I too blind or accepting to notice?

Skrim17 wrote in post #8583803
Permi, does setting the microadjust affect other lenses or is it specific to that 50?

well I never actually used that function on my M3 so I can only tell you what the nikon version is like.

You set it to what you want and save it and for that lens only, every time you put it on, the AF shifts to the micro adjusted option. The nikons have 12 slots for you to do it with 12 lenses.

neil_r wrote in post #8583824
I have never had to adjust a lens, I have never noticed any front back or side focusing issues. I have never had a soft lens or one that hunts. The question is am I just very lucky or am I too blind or accepting to notice?

I've had so many lenses and the only three I've ever had trouble with were the 100-400 (3 versions of it) and my first 2 (one I kept for almost a year and one I didn't keep longer than over night) 24-70's & now the sigma.

I think it's mostly noticeable if you do a lot of wide open shooting.

Jon wrote in post #8583819
I see you there as Dan did - Reviewin' the Regiment in In-jah.

what ho, what ho! I say!

Skrim17 wrote in post #8583777
We had hot dogs, hamburgers, macaroni salad and potato chips! A veritable feast.

Dogs and burgers on the grill... Life is good.

sevillafox wrote in post #8583647
Both. I put her under the bridge and in the water a little bit.

She wanted to go in the rapids where the seated pics were.

Ok, I was just trying to gauge your level of cruelty.

neil_r wrote in post #8583824
I have never had to adjust a lens, I have never noticed any front back or side focusing issues. I have never had a soft lens or one that hunts. The question is am I just very lucky or am I too blind or accepting to notice?

Maybe both and I must be the opposite end of the spectrum. almost 1/2 of my lenses have made the journey back to Canon for fine tuning and on my 50D, even after Canon did it's thing, I only have one lens that needed no adjustment at all.

Before I found this forum I had an Xt with a kit lens. I sold my Xt to my sister inlaw and bought an Xti with a sigma lens, I couldn't get a sharp pic to savve my life, I assumed it was user error. I got online and found the forum, bought a nifty 50 and thought WOW, it was the lens!!

I got the tammy and gave my SIL the Sigma and never looked back.

My SIL gets fine results with her XT and the Sigma, must have been the XTi?

short5 wrote in post #8583744
How old is she because it may determine what I am thinking. If I have to I will set this thought aside for a year.

LMAO!

I'm pretty sure she's 17. She's Corey's cousin and I don't remember there being a big to-do for her 18th so she must be 17.

Skrim17 wrote in post #8583921
Before I found this forum I had an Xt with a kit lens. I sold my Xt to my sister inlaw and bought an Xti with a sigma lens, I couldn't get a sharp pic to savve my life, I assumed it was user error. I got online and found the forum, bought a nifty 50 and thought WOW, it was the lens!!

I got the tammy and gave my SIL the Sigma and never looked back.

My SIL gets fine results with her XT and the Sigma, must have been the XTi?

I read something, I don't know where it is now, on camera/lens calibrations.

Both cameras and lenses aren't exact in their calibrations. They both have "tolerance" levels. If a camera's AF falls within that tolerance level, it's considered "to factory specs". Even if it's on one end or the other of the tolerance levels. Same with lenses.

So with mass assembly, you could end up with a camera at one end of accepted tolerance and one lens at the other end of accepted tolerance. They would have AF issues. Where if someone else has a camera with nearer the same end of tolerance, the lens would work fine on that camera. That's why when a lens is sent in alone, often they will adjust it to within factory specs and send it back (and it still may be wrong for your camera) so they ask you to send in your camera with the lens. However that does put your camera at the possible risk of being out of tolerance with your other lenses.

Which is why the new af micro adjust is a good thing. Now cameras can be adjusted for individual lenses without having to have a complete adjustment. Most times. Several of the 1Dm3's (in the beginning) had to be sent back because their factory tolerances were wrong...so micro adjusting didn't help at all.

neil_r wrote in post #8583824
I have never had to adjust a lens, I have never noticed any front back or side focusing issues. I have never had a soft lens or one that hunts. The question is am I just very lucky or am I too blind or accepting to notice?

Lucky I guess. My 100-400 has been back twice and both times they adjusted it with some improvement. My 24-70 was always a bit soft until I dropped it and sent it to canon. It came back sharper. Honestly I have been frustrated as of late with the sharpness of my Canon stuff. I recently shot some hummers. I used the 5D, 1DsII, and 30D. All were on a tripod with the same settings. I found my 30D to produce the sharpest images and my 1Ds distinctly softer than the other 2 bodies with both the 70-200 and 100-400.