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RE: Photography - 2/1/2008 4:50:16 PM
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NoDumbBlonde
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ezri,
How about sharing some of the pros and cons with your Canon. I'm looking at that one over the Nikon D40x. I hate any digital with AA batteries! Bad experience in battery eating cameras.
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RE: Photography - 2/1/2008 4:57:19 PM
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OLEEguacamole
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i recommend you go to a store that has both cameras and hold them in your hand. it sounds trivial but if you research, the canon nikons are both very good cameras, but they feel very different to hold. it's one of the key things that influences camera brand between good quality cameras.
nikons don't use aa batteries, tho i have had good luck with rechargable batteries in point and shoots.
once you choose, you'll probably have a strong sense of loyalty toward your brand. 
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RE: Photography - 2/4/2008 12:23:16 AM
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The battery charge lasts a very long time!
Mine does too- LOL! It lasts so long that when it finally does die I am VERY happy to have that fully charged spare waiting in the bag!
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RE: Photography - 2/4/2008 4:56:42 PM
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BeckeyZ
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WoooHooooo!!!!
I have another wedding lined up to shoot. July 5, one of the ladies at church is getting married. I offered to do their photography (that's pretty much how it always works). I need to get some more practice in with all my new flash stuff.
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RE: Photography - 2/5/2008 2:21:31 PM
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ez.....someone was wearing a tie with the price tag still on it???? LOL!
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RE: Photography - 2/5/2008 4:43:39 PM
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ez.....someone was wearing a tie with the price tag still on it???? LOL!
Yes! actually two were- both men said the ties were gifts. One was the blue one in the shot the other was a Looney tunes tie... the guy wearing the looney tunes tie puled the tag off and held it aloft like it was an award prior to getting the tie lopped off with the grass Sheers.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 6:20:48 PM
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i understand the fundamentals that can be learned from film camera photography, but this day and age it seems a bit strange to teach from the film ground up. digital is overtaking the world. the film die hards are fading away. most professionals that thought they would hold out and not go digital, are going digital.
why not learn manual digital, and digital darkroom etc, unless the goal is to learn film and stay with it?
honest question.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 6:48:06 PM
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The goal is to learn the SLR camera and all it's ins and outs intimately so I can better use the SLR to full advantage.
The classes offered at the community college are Photo 1, Photo 2, Digital 1, and Digital 2. They build on one another. If I dive into Digital 1 without the Photo 1 and 2 then I am missing out on the camera functions as they are working in Photoshop CS in Digital 1 and it is more about after the image is made in the class. That and the digital 1 & 2 classes are in their 1st year so next year the professors will have a better grasp on how and what they really need to focus on, better to skip program 1.0 and wait for program 2.0 *Wink Wink* I stood waiting my turn to ask the Professor a question this monday and overheard her telling another student that she really needed to go ahead and read a section that they had skipped as it was important they laughed and agreed that chapter would go on the DO NOT SKIP list next semester.
The professor in the Photo 1 class took a look at the wedding book I made for my Brother and his wife and she loved the images- she said that the few spots that were "blown out" (say.. my husbands glaring bald head...) could have been avoided. simple mistakes she said as I learned how the camera worked- the science of it I can apply it to the ART of it.
Does that make sense?
Oh! and it was awesome magical seeing the images come up on the film you took and developed and I haven't even done my own roll yet! I cannot wait to make the contact sheet and see my images on paper
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 7:03:24 PM
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Oh! and it was awesome magical seeing the images come up on the film you took and developed and I haven't even done my own roll yet! I cannot wait to make the contact sheet and see my images on paper
It is awesome watching the pictures appear before your eyes. I loved, loved, LOVED, developing b/w pics when I was in HS. Good thing too, since I was the only one who knew how. And you can even do artsy stuff during the developing as well (over/under expose the negative etc...) simple stuff, but fun and exciting to watch.
Have you ever made a pin-hole camera, ez?
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 7:32:40 PM
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i DO understand the fun factor in film development for some...
the advantage to learning an slr on a film camera slr over learning on a digital slr in manual everything....escapes me. it seems like the long road, perhaps out of respect to the history of photography, but still the long road.
i can see some WANTING to do that but making it the way things are done in school at this point in history, puzzles me.
oh and blown out highlights are quite the rage these days, but there is an art to doing them too.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 8:33:39 PM
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BTW, i'm just pondering outloud. clearly ezri, you are having a great time.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 10:44:02 PM
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Have you ever made a pin-hole camera, ez?
Mmmm I tried last night. I have a book out from the library that tells/shows how to make one using a body cap and a bit of aluminum and black tape. My hole was too ragged to get a good crisp image though. BUT I still have the drilled body cap- I can drink another Pepsi One and give it another try following the pin hole in the aluminum part of the directions a bit more closely.
I used my digital for that experiment. I set it up and put the shutter on for 20 seconds and then turned on the timer so the shutter would fire without camera shake and all- My subject was trill age 17 who was reading. I told her to FREEZE she did so and the results are HERE <-- I did it in Black and White.
I saw that I'd need to do the aluminum part again so I played and punched 2 more holes in it. I got 3 overlaid VERY blurry images that were a bit blown out. I did not save those images.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 10:59:35 PM
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oh and blown out highlights are quite the rage these days, but there is an art to doing them too.
LOL!!! not the type such as the glare coming off my Honey's head in this shot.
and yeah- I am enjoying the class and learning a lot. I like history and I am learning about folks like that obscure fella(Eugene Atget) and the history of photography.
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RE: Photography - 2/7/2008 11:26:46 PM
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that was tough light you were working in. was it high noon?
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RE: Photography - 2/8/2008 12:03:28 AM
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ezri
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that was tough light you were working in. was it high noon?
It was 2pm in June.
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RE: Photography - 2/8/2008 1:49:29 PM
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BeckeyZ
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I want to try to make one of these.
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RE: Photography - 2/10/2008 4:48:22 PM
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(((((Beckey))))) 
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RE: Photography - 2/11/2008 1:13:56 AM
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ezri
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(((hugs for Beckey)))
That's how I lost my 1st 35mm- a Pentax K1000. Someone stole it out of my car at work. Are you reporting the theft and claiming it on insurance or just dealing and buying another out of pocket?
~ezri
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