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Posted July 09, 2014
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cw8: How about going to mainland Spain?
Nah... It's 8 hours with the ferry (if I want to take my car with me), or one hour by plane (and I would have to rent a car). Since I don't feel like sitting on a ferry that long, I would fly. And if I'm going to fly, I can go wherever I want anyway. It's less than two hours and I'm in France, Austria or Switzerland, where you have lots of small waterfalls and a really beautiful landscape.

If I'll ever leave this Island for fotos, I'll visit the Alps. Preferably in April, when it's already warm in the valleys, but still has some snow on the tops of the mountains.

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cw8: We have it worse, we have nothing but buildings and roads here, buildings and roads, buildings and roads. :)
Great place if you're into urban & city photography. But for landscapes... :/
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Posted July 09, 2014
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cw8: We have it worse, we have nothing but buildings and roads here, buildings and roads, buildings and roads. :)
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real.geizterfahr: Great place if you're into urban & city photography. But for landscapes... :/
Yes, I'm ok with city and skyline photography. But I really want to take natural landscapes which we don't have. We do have beaches though, I won't deny that but most of them are marred or polluted by industry.
Posted July 09, 2014
We can still get some landscapes even in cities. But the fact that they're just too plain are a barrier. I think a photo series would be better. You can take a photo every six months from the same place and turn it into a small series in around 2 years.

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Traffic at night with long exposure

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Public transport with long exposure

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Marketscapes
Posted July 25, 2014
I just ordered a Tiffen 67mm Variable ND Filter. yay. I hope it is as good as people say.
Posted August 08, 2014
I just ordered the Canon CA2XEF3 Extender EF 2X III, I'm looking forward to the extra flexibility, I think it's about time I just bought it since it's the reason why I went the the 70-200mm F2.8L IS rather than the cheaper options at the time.

Hopefully, it lives up to my expectations.
Posted August 08, 2014
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hedwards: I just ordered the Canon CA2XEF3 Extender EF 2X III, I'm looking forward to the extra flexibility, I think it's about time I just bought it since it's the reason why I went the the 70-200mm F2.8L IS rather than the cheaper options at the time.

Hopefully, it lives up to my expectations.
I'm jelly of you all, "L" Lens wielders!
/ROAR
Posted August 08, 2014
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hedwards: I just ordered the Canon CA2XEF3 Extender EF 2X III, I'm looking forward to the extra flexibility, I think it's about time I just bought it since it's the reason why I went the the 70-200mm F2.8L IS rather than the cheaper options at the time.

Hopefully, it lives up to my expectations.
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cw8: I'm jelly of you all, "L" Lens wielders!
/ROAR
Yeah well, you buy one once and have it for decades afterwards. Plus, I bought the lens at a pretty decent discount.
Posted August 08, 2014
Even rubbish cameras today can have pretty cool macro photography, but I always wanted to get some nice shots of the moon. Unfortunately, whenever I asked for help, even in photography forums and such, the response I got was usually "Get an SLR camera", and that REALLY annoyed me. I mean, the answer to everything is "Throw money at it and get a better one"... you don't need a professional to tell you that. What I wanted was to get the best possible moon picture with the camera I HAD.

You can see the evolution of my cameraness in the picture I attached. First was with some old P&S Fujifilm A550 (I think).
The second was with an Olympus μ1010, which actually had the highest zoom of all my cameras, and was pretty great for a P&S
The last two were with my latest camera, a semi-professional Canon Powershot G12. I'm pretty sure if I had better knowledge of photography, I could improve on these. I mean, the last pic was taken without any tripod even, I was just walking when I saw the moon and decided to try my luck.
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Posted August 08, 2014
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babark: Even rubbish cameras today can have pretty cool macro photography, but I always wanted to get some nice shots of the moon. Unfortunately, whenever I asked for help, even in photography forums and such, the response I got was usually "Get an SLR camera", and that REALLY annoyed me. I mean, the answer to everything is "Throw money at it and get a better one"... you don't need a professional to tell you that. What I wanted was to get the best possible moon picture with the camera I HAD.

You can see the evolution of my cameraness in the picture I attached. First was with some old P&S Fujifilm A550 (I think).
The second was with an Olympus μ1010, which actually had the highest zoom of all my cameras, and was pretty great for a P&S
The last two were with my latest camera, a semi-professional Canon Powershot G12. I'm pretty sure if I had better knowledge of photography, I could improve on these. I mean, the last pic was taken without any tripod even, I was just walking when I saw the moon and decided to try my luck.
You can take good looking photos without an SLR. It really depends on how you compose the photo.
Careful with the max zoom of the Powershot though, if the G12 is anything like the G11, the last few stops of the zoom on the Powershot is all digital-processed zoom not optical zoom, so images at that zoom level tend to look like crap with much noise.
For night photography, and if I'm serious about taking photos on that day, the tripod is an absolute must regardless of what camera I use as long as the shutter speed can be controlled.
Posted August 08, 2014
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cw8: You can take good looking photos without an SLR. It really depends on how you compose the photo.
Careful with the max zoom of the Powershot though, if the G12 is anything like the G11, the last few stops of the zoom on the Powershot is all digital-processed zoom not optical zoom, so images at that zoom level tend to look like crap with much noise.
For night photography, and if I'm serious about taking photos on that day, the tripod is an absolute must regardless of what camera I use as long as the shutter speed can be controlled.
I've totally disabled digital zoom on my G12, and I always use a tripod and timer (that last image was just a fluke). I tried with long shutter speeds, the problem is then that because of the brightness of the moon, all the details of its surface get washed away. The good shots require some really counter-intuitive (at least for me) settings, certainly not helped by the fact that I have no attachable telephoto/zoom lens.

Do you have a G11? I think the feature-set is almost the same. I would very much appreciate it if you could aim it up one of these days (it is an almost full waxing moon for now), use your expertise and show me the image with the settings you use!
Posted August 08, 2014
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babark: Do you have a G11? I think the feature-set is almost the same. I would very much appreciate it if you could aim it up one of these days (it is an almost full waxing moon for now), use your expertise and show me the image with the settings you use!
I don't use the G11 anymore, it's mostly just for backup. I now use the Canon EOS 550D with some lenses (wide and prime) I've bought. I'm no expert, just a casual hobbyist. :)
You can try going full manual, setting a small aperture like f8 or smaller, f11 or so then set the shutter speed for longer, set ISO to 100 and mount the camera on a tripod.
Posted August 08, 2014
Still no luck. I guess I'm missing some perfect combination of settings.
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Posted August 08, 2014
I'm not much of a photographer. I generally take the "shotgun" approach - if I take a dozen or so pictures, surely one of them will turn out OK :)

I've got two cameras at my disposal: The bottom of the pile Canon DSL: The Rebel XS / EOS 1000XD, and my phone, a Google Nexus 5.

Here's a few of my faves:

I don't generally take a lot of people shots, but here's one of a friend at the local fair:

Sunrise

I might as well follow the sunrise up with a moonrise over the lake

A shot of some construction equipment at dusk

And lastly, a panorama shot I took with my Nexus 5 of the lake in winter
Posted August 08, 2014
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hummer010: The bottom of the pile Canon DSL: The Rebel XS / EOS 1000XD, and my phone
Nothing wrong with the 1000D. If you learn a bit about your camera you'll make better photos than the "I got a 60D and use Full Auto mode all the time" crowd ;)
Posted August 08, 2014
I have gone far too long without picking up my camera, but plan to try and get back into it. I did wedding photography for a couple years, but I realized it about was as far from what I wanted out of photography as I could get. If it's a style of photography you enjoy, the money is surprisingly good, but for me it wasn't worth the stress. I enjoy portraits, but more so nature and landscape photography.

I've never opened this thread before, as I've been grumpy with myself for not being active with photography, but I'm starting to read through it today with some excitement. My biggest fear is that all of the technical stuff I knew has likely just gone out the window, but maybe I'll find I remember more than I'm expecting to. In any case, it will be a great adventure that I've missed.

I'm most excited to see the photos everyone has posted... I'm not a very big fan of my own photos, but here are a couple that I'm a bit fond of:
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