I see. Are you still using your old and very light tripod? I've started looking for one too and from what I have read those light and very portable tripods are pretty crappy and not very durable and the "legs" tend to get bent after awhile and they also tend to shake because of the wind so I guess I will have to avoid those nice looking, light weight and cheap tripods even though yours really looks nice and all. I think that shot would have looked a lil bit weird if it only had the shadow of your tripod in it. hmm You really should get a wireless remote for your camera since you seem to use your tripod quite a lot and the remote for your camera is very cheap too

http://www.donsphoto.com/spec_sheet.html?catalog[name]=Canon-RC1-Wireless-Controller&catalog[product_guids][0]=57d7b936-db3d-4d91-b1ba-f7ba9704865c

This post was edited by Futurama on Jan 9 2009 07:43am

GOSU COLOURS

Yeah, I've already looked at one the store here sold out of em - lol.

Oh yeah I'm still using my old tripod. It still shakes, tho. I think it won't really matter much if the wind is high, there is a somewhat heavy object on the top of your tripod and it makes it more "wobbly" but maybe my physics are wrong. There are things I don't like about my tripod, but it's the first so it's ok for now.

I saw a really nice tripod in Regina and it was made of fiber, I think. The same stuff hockey sticks are made of, except this was a lighter fiber. I could lift it with my pinky - lol. The price was outrageous too. Sure, it's a light tripod, but all tripods have their pros and cons. If you want a light one, sure go for it, risk the legs being bent, whatever. I think if you spend some good bucks on a tripod, you should get a quality one, and the legs, should NOT break or bend.

This post was edited by chantal7 on Jan 10 2009 08:40pm

haha welcome to my world of bad lucks lol. I guess you can only spend the gift certificate at that particular store in MJ eh?

hmm Why does your tripod shake all the time? Is it because one of the legs is bent or something? I have read that you have to buy a good tripod head as well and a combination of good tripod head and a well built and of course expensive "gosu" non-wobbly tripod would make your camera shake less AND of course if you want absolutely no shake you will need a lens with image stabilizer too. It does sound like an extremely expensive way to take good and sharp pictures with a tripod but then again as you already know you get what you paid for lol. btw is the tripod you saw in Regina this one:

http://www.donsphoto.com/spec_sheet.html?catalog[name]=Manfrotto-190CXPRO3-3-Section-Tripod-Q90-w%2FHorizontal-Center-Column&catalog[product_guids][0]=39de5d45-8cae-4ac8-bdac-f9fd95aab70d

It's very light at 1.3 kg and the leg is made of expensive carbon fiber and of course the price is like 3-4 times higher than yours lol but I am sure it will last longer too and the legs won't get bent as easily. lol I don't really know what I want to get right now since there are like a million things I need or want to buy lol, like a good all-in-one printer like yours, I actually saw a very similar one at BestBuy couple days ago and they were having it on sale for only 80 bucks but of course it was out of stock Anyway lol umm is your printer good enough for you? I mean are you satisfied with the quality of the printed photos AND the scanner course I want to get a film camera one day so a scanner will be needed to scan the photos. lol I hope I am not asking too much here and thanks for the information about tripods.

This post was edited by Futurama on Jan 11 2009 05:26am

Whoah, very beautiful sky. The first thing my eyes cought up !

I'd love to see the snow a bit more grey (or even more blue, without making it look overcolored, know what i mean?)
Anyway: Not quite nice to see your shapes :/

And: Try to remanage the real colors of the .raw, then modify the colors in PS.
The result is always a tick better

Shapes? Are you talking about my shadow? lol - I look like a fat ass ahahaha now that I look at it. But as I said, it just makes it more personal. Either ya like it or ya hate it. I haven't seen any in between about the shadow.

lol - you can ALWAYS make things look better with programs, and for some reason it bugs me...

I don't do RAW shooting, it's not really my thing :S. I just don't have the knowledge and I don't really want to learn it atm.

I'm kind of the real deal when you see my stuff,

This post was edited by chantal7 on Jan 12 2009 04:01pm

Amen to that, buddy
I have started to post process less and less now and most of the time I just crop and resize the pictures before uploading them. It just makes me feel satisfied about the way pictures turned out and also makes me more confident about my skills lol. I mean what's the point having an expensive DSLR and lenses when you can't even take a clear and sharp picture, you might as well buy a point and shoot and then spend time trying to make the pictures look pro

Mhmm - I definitely don't have the patience for it. It's something I will have to learn with a pro sitting next to me, not words on the internet.

Love the composition of the second, the power cables just pull you into the photo, a bit indifferent to the other two though.