Daily random pictures you have taken...

Very cool. A buddy of mine in the coast guard used to take loads of night shots when he was out in the Aleutian Islands. Not much else to do but perfect your night photography skills.

 

I've never used a non IS, but always have seen results from them that are incredibly sharp compared to the IS model. Definitely a nice lens!

 

great shot. Good choice for B&W.
Love seeing the details and textures of the horse, with the musculature and strength in the neck and upper leg. Very nice!

GT

 

Cool shot.

Beautiful dog!

Nice.
Please post more of your horse racing shots.

 

Nice. Here's the Sigma for comparison. 200mm, ISO100, f/2.8, 1/2000, OS on.

And yes, Fchat is eating the sharpness and over saturating the reds. Here it is on my smugmug: http://www.hypercontrast.com/Other/Misc/12848302_THGhr9#!i=1845237053&k=3tvx8Qq&lb=1&s=O

It's probably not as sharp as the your non-IS glass, but pretty handy.
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Very nice, looks like someone needs their eyes wiped.

I bet the OS is nice to have, but 90% of the time I just wouldn't need it and for a savings of $300 I can get by with the nonIS. Mainly it'll be used for motorsports, studio or outdoor automotive shots, none of which need IS.

 

haha, yah. It was pretty windy out (which also softens photos ). He got a bath this afternoon.

I do love that non-IS sharpness. At about f/4, this lens is as sharp as my 24-105L. Wider it's kinda soft (as seen above, though in better conditions it does... better ).

But it works great for my purposes. I'm just spoiled by prime sharpness. My (non-L) 50mm 1.4 is great.

 

I took this by holding my iPhone up to the eyepiece of a 12 inch telescope.

 

Awesome

 

My sister thought it was fake! It wasn't. On my phone you can zoom in and see craters etc.... I work in the space biz so it was special to capture. We actually have an Apollo 17 flag (my wife's Godfather was the Command Module Pilot).

 

Very cool. What do you do?

I spent about 7 years working on the James Webb Space Telescope. Hope it flies.

 

I did some research related to the Green Bank Telescope on the Radio side of astronomy some years back, and also did some work with searching for novae in the Andromeda Galaxy at Kitt Peak... heavy elements in metal poor stars... not bad for a HS student back then.

Takes me back...

 

I had all kinds of grand plans for some panoramic night shots of the city until it started to piss it down last night!

Instead I wandered around the city centre and grabbed a few shots of the backstreets in the rain.

What do you think?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/v15ben/7200956264/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/v15ben/7200952752/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/v15ben/7200952406/in/photostream/

 

Here's a few from Sunday.
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Those are some massive tires on the first bike!

 

I work at the Universities Space Research Association and I'm a reservist in AF Space Command. I just received these to test on a considerably bigger telescope.

 

Nice!

Have any phantoms?

 

I really want one of these bad but can't justify the cost.

http://surlybikes.com/bikes/pugsley

 

My son.
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That's a great shot of your son, the lighting is really cool! Where was that taken?

 

Thank you! I took that photo by my house.
http://g.co/maps/3jdyg
There is an actual air force base and they have this F16 and a F4 outside... they are decommissioned and put there as monuments.

I have another shot with the F4... kinda similar but I am going a bit more dramatic on it. lol

 

Revvin' up your engine / Listen to her howlin' roar
Metal under tension / Beggin' you to touch and go
Highway to the Danger Zone / Ride into the Danger Zone...

Awesome shot. Very cool...

GT

 

Quick question....................my Brother's friend told me that I should use a HIGH quality SD card in my Nikon D5100.

The pics will be much nicer using a high quality SD card he told me. This guy loves Canon and is an avid photographer.

Is there any truth in this??

I bought a cheap SD card and the pics are great. Will the pics be any better with a GOOD SD card?? I thought the difference in the good ones was how fast the data transferred.

If anyone can clear this up for me that will be great thanks.

 

Nope, speed and reliability will be the only difference with a better SD card, the camera will output what you tell it to no matter the card. Just make sure you have the correct image quality set; usually RAW, JPEG Fine, JPEG Normal, JPEG Small or some variation of them. If you are doing a lot of editing RAW is best, otherwise JPEG Fine is best.

 

Yah that's seriously odd. You sure you understood him right?

This is digital data, not analog. Its quality isn't based on the medium. It's either there or it isn't.

The experience of taking pictures may be nicer with a quality (i.e. fast) card, but the pictures themselves won't be any different.