I tried taking some action photos yesterday after have been given some advice by some of the members in this forum ^^ and I think they turned out pretty good even though they were a lil bit underexposed.

1. Sigh! I guess 85mm is far from enough for action photography lol and I guess I will have to get one of those 70-200 L lenses in the future


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5. haha this squirrel was playing fetch too


6. a random landscape shot


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8. mmm cakes


This post was edited by Futurama on May 6 2009 01:06pm

haha 1 & 2 are really cool, very dynamique, and I absolutely love the squirrel... there are a lot of them in my hometown, but you never get to see one

/e: the b&w is also beautiful

This post was edited by elfilien on May 6 2009 01:48pm

real nice mate!

i still think you need to use a little higher shutterspeed on your actions shots! you dont need one of them 70-200's!! 85mm is plenty for medium range action - if you're doing shots at a game or something then aye, but for general action 85 is fine! remember you can always crop your shots

i like the landscape shot

I love number 7. I really like most of your B&w work!

Hahaha, that first one, the dog "in the air" looks funny.

But yeah, you definitely need to get closer haha

landscape but im partial to them so yeah. And the third one is really nice.

hmm I guess we both like b&w photos but the only difference is that I don't think I have seen many b&w pics taken by you STOP BEING SO LAZY lol jk



Thanks! Well I have also seen a few squirrels when I was living in Sweden but they are usually very shy and very rare in residential areas.



Thanks mate
Yeah I guess you can still see some motion blur in those pictures so I guess higher shutterspeeds and ISO speeds will be used the next time. The thing is that dog was a lil bit distracted by me even when I was standing quite a bit from it if it's owner didn't keep yelling at it it would probably approached me hahaha. That's why I said I kinda want those fancy telephoto L lenses even though God knows when I will be able to afford it lol.



yeah I laughed when I first saw that picture as well. All I did was following that dog with my camera and pressed the shutterbutton and got a series of pictures and one of them turned out to be when that dog caught the ball in the air ^^
It's too bad that those dogs are so curious otherwise I would get closer lol

This post was edited by Futurama on May 6 2009 09:27pm

I have not been photographing for like 2 weeks now.
But I will come back. I am thinking of getting a job and move to my own apartment it is taking all my time, because I need to get furnitures and stuff. :/

hahaha I know exactly how you feel because it wasn't long ago I moved myself
I wish you good luck with the moving and job hunting