Post your photography skills! (self-gloss)

My pup last St. Patrick's Day.

my flickr= http://www.flickr.com/photos/27375598@N06/

I'm just getting in to photography; had some nice seats for the Phils-Dodgers game the other day and brought the camera along.

These were taken with a Canon 20D w/ 17-85mm f4-5.6. I took a ton of pics, and the vast majority were nowhere near as sharp as I'd like. Actually, none of them were really as sharp as I'd have liked.







I started out shooting with the shutter set at 1/640 to try to freeze the action, but it was somewhat cloudy and many of the early pictures came out dark (this effectively locked the camera into max aperture.) Later on I switched to max aperture and left the timing alone. I took a bunch of pics of the batters and none really came out well - I think I was having trouble focusing on the player with so much going on in the stands in the background.

I assume the blurriness was due to several factors - the lens being at max aperture, not getting enough light early on, and the subjects being out of focus.

I've got the same seats for a game in September and would like to do better next time. I'd like much better sharpness and less depth of field. I think the answer is to get something like a 200mm 2.8 lens, but I'm wondering what I could have done better from a technique perspective. Tripod is out; maybe a monopod but I'm not sure how much that'd help with very fast shutter speeds.

I can post more of the shots if necessary.

rent/buy some faster glass, i'd recommend the 70-200 f/2.8 as it is a very versatile lens. don't need IS for sports. you don't need a monopod either until you are shooting either very slow shutter speeds (can assist with panning for motorsports or the like) or are using an extremely heavy lens.

Just having some more fun with color infrared photography.

Originally Posted by Crane's

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Just having some more fun with color infrared photography.

Nice, I really like this one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dysong/3629615472/

That's the link to the pic. You can view and download the larger image if you want.

Bringing this thread back from the dead.










^ This one makes me lol

Originally Posted by Crane's

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Just having some more fun with color infrared photography.

Nice pics, but a bit to heavily photoshopped probably.

isn't photoshopped if hes doing real IR

Originally Posted by JacobJacob

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Nice pics, but a bit to heavily photoshopped probably.
Do you know what IR photography is?