RichVR
3205
Now consider the past. You would shoot five or ten rolls of 36 exposures each. Then you sent them out to be developed. In about a week you can then find out how many are good.
Heck, I’m doing that now–with 8 to 10 exposures per roll.
Thanks, Tim! I probably don’t know a LOT more than you do. lol! I actually end up reading the little help text on my camera right before I change the settings every damn time to make sure I’m going the right direction!
It’s a lot of trial and error and with sprint car racing specifically. Since I don’t take pictures at night (flash isn’t good enough on the body of the camera so I’d have to buy one), I only have a window of the warm up session and time trials at best to get some good shots. Every track has a different orientation to the sun too, so some places you get really good lighting and others I can’t get to that location without paying for a pit pass and even then they sometimes won’t let an amateur photographer into those spots. At Port Royal where this is taken, I could pay to get a little closer and not have to shoot between dudes standing out there, but my brother was along and he wasn’t interested so I had a short window between other photographers and track workers to get these shots. I had a lot more bad than good.
I’m really enjoying the challenge of getting good shots with the speed evident in the picture. You see plenty of sprint car photos that are crisp but often without the speed. Modern cameras make it rather easy to read HOOSIER on the tires with default “sports” settings, but those never look as good as the ones where you’ve got it all stopped but the wheels and the background. The other thing is getting the natural lighting, which those two above captured pretty well.
IndyCars are fun to shoot too although they’re going twice as fast or even faster! I love going to Pocono on Saturday for qualifying because with a pit pass there I can get right behind the teams on pit lane. These are from a couple years ago. Check it out…
…and 2015…
Water Polo was fun, too. Here’s my son tending goal a few years ago. He’s headed into the Navy next Wednesday. Honestly, I’m a wreck right now…
This kid (son number three) will be at Juniata as a Freshman on the soccer team in a month from today… I did not take this one, though.
…or this one…
…but I like them. He was a sophomore in high school when those were taken.
Cormac
3208
Crap!
Would be cool if I could get some advice. My brand new EOS 80D took a small tumble off a shelf and landed on the selection wheel. Now the mode dial cap has come off and you can see a small dent on the wheel and the cover.
The functionality seems normal and it would appear that all is required is to glue the cover back on the small “support surfaces”? I’m a bit weary of accidentally clogging up the insides of the wheel if the glue doesn’t stay on the “surfaces” and bleeds over into the mechanics. But in theory some small amount of superglue should do the trick. (Here’s a video of someone doing a similar repair)
Any thoughts? Or should I rather bring it into a shop and let professionals tackle this? (& probably replace the whole wheel at great cost)
Similar thing happened to my wife’s 70D, we just used three dabs of superglue, fixed. You’re gripping the sides of the wheel when you turn it, so this is basically just a simple plate on the top so you can see what you’re doing.
Of course, if you want it to look pristine you’d have to take it to the store and yes, they will probably replace the whole mechanism at much greater cost, so it’s a question of how much you want to pay for aesthetics. As this stuff wouldn’t be covered by warranty anyway, you don’t really have anything to lose trying the home fix first. Just remember to use tiny dabs of glue so it doesn’t spread out too much.
Cormac
3211
Thanks for the input! Have been googling around and unfortunately it does appear to be a common problem with canon cameras.
Was considering using tiny strips of double adhesive tape so as not to risk any glue entering the mechanism, though I suspect superglue is probably a better longterm solution.
The key with superglue is using the tiniest amount, spread it out first before pressing bits together so you control where it goes. It works better than way anyway. It’s one reason I hate buying superglue - you end up using a bee’s dick’s worth*, and the rest goes to waste because it always solidifies before you need it again.
*Highly descriptive Australian phrases are the best.
The local dollar store sells a container of superglue with three tiny tubes. They are essentially single use tubes.
Testing to see whether my Canon 100-400 LII is still working ok is really just an excuse to take photos of the dogs.
Seems to be doing fine. To be honest I’m a bit concerned about fungus growth on the inner lens element, but it doesn’t seem to be affecting image quality. I’m apprehensive about sending it in for cleaning because I’m picturing lots of $ signs being required.
Those are very nice pictures.
True, although I think he’s cheating a bit: with dogs looking that great all by themselves it’s probably hard to take bad pictures…
That fungus is not yet humungous.
— Alan
Thanks @marquac.
I just point the camera in their general direction and the magic happens!
You seem to have gotten a perfectly in-focus picture of a dropbear mixed in with your dog shots. They’re so common to you, you probably don’t even notice.
Dropbears are generally further south. Crocs ate all the dropbears up here.
alright, fair enough, I’ll admit some photographic skill is involved as well :-)! Still, you clearly have got some wonderful models there, including Smaug of course, so that’s an excellent combination!
Yeah sorry, I couldn’t resist. :) You’re not wrong though. Finding their character is often harder than the technical challenge. It’s why I’m much better at taking photos of animals that I know well. For those I don’t, it’s more of a lottery.
I’d be missing another golden opportunity by pointing out that the dogs and Smaug would not make a good combination. Not for the dogs at any rate!
No worries! I am of course well aware of the skills required to make awesome pictures like that, even more so because I don’t possess any of them!
As for dogs and crocs not making a good combination: lol, fair enough (again…). I was just wondering about that: are you not worried when they are running around like that? Or aren’t there any ‘loose’ crocodiles (and snakes and spiders) around, where you live?
Smaug lives in his own enclosure, two pools and a large area to wander around in. It’s all fenced, with barbed wire at the top (to stop people from trying to climb in, not to stop him getting out). So no, dogs and crocs shall never meet, although we generally keep them away from the area anyway, just in case.
We did have a wild croc turn up on our porch one night a few years back. It was relatively small and certainly picked the wrong place (or perhaps the right place!) but our dogs now spend the night and much of the day indoors. There aren’t really many snakes around here, a few non-venomous ones like a large carpet python who occasionally slithers through the roof space (it makes quite a distinctive noise!). Despite the common memes, Australia is not out to kill you every minute of the day. ;)
