LA Area DPC - Ongoing Chat (Not a Meet-Up Thread)

06/13/2005 02:07:44 AM · #151

Hi chenmorning! How's the Rebel XT working for you? Seems like a pretty nice camera!

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

06/13/2005 10:13:24 PM · #152

Woops, I did it again...
The Digma at the zoo and the Long Beach Aquarium files are up, as well as photos of fellow photogs. To all those that took my Digma Shot at the zoo, please send it to me so I can post it online. Thanks.

BTW, checking out the Long Beach Shoreline/pier area seems very interesting, it maybe worth an outing.

chenmorning

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

06/15/2005 12:07:19 AM · #153

So far my camera works great. Got a deal from dell for the Sandisk 2G ultra II CF card @$129.99 before tax. But they just delayed the shipment to July..!@#$%^ Anyway, I still have a 32M card to play with.

06/15/2005 12:19:35 AM · #154

Originally posted by chenmorning:

Hey Chen, congrats on the CF card. Got your messege about possible lens purchase. Can you tell us what you want to do with it, what your budget is, and if you considering any specific lens in particular. Is it the Tamron 28-75mm XR Di f2.8?

06/15/2005 11:22:56 AM · #155

Yeah, chenmorning... Yido is the Lens Master!!!! He truly knows all!

Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon

06/15/2005 01:26:18 PM · #156

Originally posted by chenmorning:

How'd you get that 2gig for that cheap? is that deal still going on? I wouldn't mind have anothe 2gig :)

06/15/2005 08:44:35 PM · #157

Hey,
I think I actually got a paying gig. My collegue has been sharing a room with me since we are remodeling and he asked me to take a portrait of his family. Perhaps it was the shots on smugmug that he saw that convinced him.
Anyway, I said sure, I'll do it for free of course, and he says, "Oh no, we would pay for your services."
So I've my first paying gig for a $100 (if you don't count the Queen Mary Tickets). I don't plan on doing this for a living, but I'm excited about it.
I plan on carrying everything including my laptop in my bag, using a flash with goldtone Sto Fen diffuser (for a warm fill in light), and the 70-200 f2.8L lens. Then I'll have them pick out the pic's that they like and process them on my laptop and hand them a CD right there to print at Costco or something.
I've asked them to think about the type of shot that they want, as it's important to provide shots that they want, not the shots that you feel are artistic or best for them.

06/15/2005 08:59:37 PM · #158

Wow, congrats!!!

Very cool :)

Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon

06/16/2005 11:07:06 AM · #159

I dunno Tom.. 4-7 years and sleepless hours in college to get your doctorate or the so many years of photography skills :).. thats a tuffy..

Congrats on your first paying gig!! what will you be using to Post-process? For me i think that seems a little rushed to be giving photos right after the shoot, but then again you don't take many photos :). All you need is one of those straight out of the camera printers and you'll have "Tom's 1hr photo". GL on your shoot!!

06/16/2005 09:31:47 PM · #160

Oh, I'll have my laptop and I'll use RSE and convert to TIFF and make any processing then save in JPEG and burn to CD. I'll only work on RAW images that they like from previewing it and deleating the rest that they don't like, hopefully about 6 so it should take about one hour to shoot and one hour to process.

I've broken down and will be joining some by wearing the dorky photo vest with the proceeds from the shoot. it's too handy to ignore. Any suggestions on brand and model? So far I like Tenba vests, here is a link.
//www.tenbagear.com/2000_06.htm
I'll need to try these out so I guess I'll buy it this weekend at Samy's during their Fathers day sale.

Message edited by author 2005-06-16 21:37:38.

Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon

06/17/2005 02:19:38 AM · #161

muhahhahaha we've turned you to the vest side... To be honest mine is a fishermans vest i think.. not sure. Got it at a sport chalet in irvine for 15 bux and holds everything i need it to :).

I like that vest though. Mine has 18 pockets also, not to sure about the waterprof part myself.. don't think i'm going to go diving with my vest anytime soon :).

I was looking into purchasing this grip Tom //www.harbortronics.com/detail.php?id=2 next week. I don't know if its the same one, but i'm going to post this again as a "plea for help" just to get some feedback before purchasing.

06/17/2005 11:26:47 AM · #162

Raul,
I think that is the battery grip. You can also look through dpreview.com and steves-digicams.com to look for the articles about them. But they seem to be back ordered.
As for the vest, I'm just thinking about it. But I'll probably not give in.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

06/22/2005 11:32:06 PM · #163

Well,
The photo shoot for my collegue's family went well.
I think he really liked them.
I didn't think they were that exceptional or anything, but they were technically good I think it was b/c it was just portraits of people that I didn't think were interesting to me in a photographic sense. So I didn't post them.

He seems to have liked them. He kept watching it on his computer as a slideshow all day and said his family argued over which x-mas card version to send out this year for several hours. (I had made some shots into a x-mas card by cropping and writing "merry x-mas...") He told me his son who recently has been diagnosed with brain cancer considers me his hero now and is interested in photography now and wants his own version of the Rawshooter Essential, although he only has a P&S that I don't think shoots in RAW ;). But I recommended the Konica Z20 as a good/cheap starting digicam to learn photography on. So maybe they'll get that.

So I guess my first paying gig was a hit. As they say, gotta give them what they want, not what you think is artistically interesting to you. I can see why doing this professionally might take the artisitic joy out of photography. I thought I'd wanted to do this more, but I think if I did this more than rarely boardering on occassionally, it would take all the fun out of this hobby for me.

I guess I'm just learning to go past the "I wanna be a famous photographer phase of this passion."

fulgent

Canon EOS-20D

06/23/2005 01:18:25 AM · #164

I found a maybe outing for the L.A. group for August. What do you think.

Tall Ships in San Pedro/L.A. Port:

//www.portofla.org/community_calendar.htm

Should start a new thread if any are serious about going.

Rod

Message edited by author 2005-06-23 01:20:11.

06/23/2005 01:40:03 AM · #165

Tall ships in August. Sounds good to me.

Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon

06/23/2005 01:57:32 AM · #166

I gotta get me a Digma before then for the canon fire :).. Might be a possibility.. but who knows.. Sounds good to me also..

06/23/2005 10:30:57 AM · #167

We have a camping night photo trip planned for August, but we could try both :)

07/05/2005 03:28:46 AM · #168

//share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAuXLNi2cs2JC
My fireworks from Huntington Beach, CA
7/4/05

:) Enjoy!

07/05/2005 03:39:32 AM · #169

Some nice shots Arie - looks like they had a variety of fireworks (colors, styles) there. I felt like the ones I was watching were the same over and over!

Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

07/06/2005 11:15:22 AM · #170

Where did you see fireworks, Brian?

Ram21

Canon EOS-10D

07/06/2005 11:31:42 AM · #171

Arie, I was at huntington beach as well. I was with my friend we were at his house on 6th street not too far from the pier, we were on the roof watching the fireworks, It was awesome. I'll have to upload some later.

07/06/2005 03:20:10 PM · #172

Originally posted by mirdonamy:

Where did you see fireworks, Brian?

I watched them in a town called "La Verne" with my girlfriend - nothing big.. didn't even have my camera (still broken.. :(..)

07/08/2005 05:04:36 PM · #173

Finally - my camera came in yesterday. So this meant the first chance to use my camera in a long time, and the first chance (at all) to test my Sigma 105 (or 'error 99', as Tom likes to call it :P).

Two of my shots so far can be seen here and here. Both are floral shots from my backyard. I think I prefer the one in the first link, but I mostly just had fun playing with my camera again. Too bad I missing the Macro challenge! I would've actually participated in a challenge for once (in a long while).

07/08/2005 05:38:33 PM · #174

Hey Brian, congrats.
The pics look good. I guess the Sigma has been rechipped.
There is a classic carshow in Glendale Sat from 5:30-8:30PM and Lotus Festival at Echo park. I'll be at Glendale sat. and Lotus festival Sunday.
Let me know if you can make it.