I am starting this thread for Bay Area photographers. This is a place to post pictures, discuss photography, schedule meets, and make friends. I promise not to discriminate against anyone with a Canon, I just like to make fun of it and they can make fun of my Nikons or otherwise. Let's discuss equipment and usage advice/recommendations.

Hugo and I are talking about scheduling a shoot near Salinas/Monterey/Big Sur. We want suggestions on other great spots as well that are beautiful nature, city, or anything else. If you do sports, portraits, or any other, please share.

Here is a link provided by VRT MBasile to help us post pictures as a hosting location. I don't know how it works, so please ask VRT MBasile

http://www.flickr.com/groups/iclubphotographers/

 

I haven't used my 10D in years. But here is some of my favorite shots from long ago

*lots of large images. give it a minute to load them
http://subyjeff.com/pics.html

 

wow, great photography. what lenses do you have and how did you shoot the moon? you probably have a telescope.

 

I only have an 28-135mm 3.5-5.6 IS

the lightning shot was taken in my front yard in dublin years ago when that lightning storm rolled through. I used my external trigger remote with a 4~ second shutter, and when the lightning struck I'd hit the button and it would start grabbing the pic

Used a friends 300mm for the lunar eclipse shots, and the moon shot


And a buddies 1000mm f10.0 telescope with my camera mounted and controlled via laptop for the mars, jupiter pics





and a 70-200mm f2.8 IS for some of the other pics

 

thats a crazy setup for the space shots.

 

Just started with my nikon d40x with the 18-55 lens that came with it.

 

is this a sunrise picture? amazing colors. any filters or special setup in the camera?

 

damn nice pics!

 

Yep sunrise. I had gotten there before it was light, I was playing with some other things, and the sun started coming through the trees, it was beautiful.

As fas as special affects just shooting in raw on the camera, iso was at hs1? I believe. I bumped up the saturation in PS a little. But nothing other than that.


Next photo same day.

 

those pics of the eagle are siiick

 

I'm not sure if he's still there, but that eagle used to be at the San Francisco Zoo.

 

yes, you have a good eye for composition. great work. i usually shoot with Aperture Priority because of the depth of field i need for landscape photogrpahy. so i close the lens as much as i can 1 or stops before losing sharpness. i read some place in an article once that if you close the lens all the way, you don't get the best quality picture. i proved that to myself with my 4x5 in a few shots.

 

Yeah I'm still very much learning about photography. I will try some AP next time I go out, hopefully this weekend if it's not all foggy again.

I'm waiting for wakeboarding season to start up again so I can justify a longer lens

 

you have to remember that when using AP, you are slowing down the shot. so depending on ISO settings which i always use a slow one like 100 or even 50, you have to use a tripod especially on long lenses. i use tripod pretty much all the time in landscape or people photography.

 

nice, I've always noticed we have some great photographers here on the site.

Good stuff Wael for making a bay area place for some of us to goof around.