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Stills are too much fun...

Postal Boy
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Sep 25, 2006, 2:51 PM

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Not OFFICIAL photos, but part of the learning experience. I have found that shooting stills is really fun in the end, but I REALLY need to practice posing and adjusting the people before the shot. Here are some candids from the weekend soccer games, though, just for fun. I REALLY like the clarity and look of stills, and the ease of using a still camera over a video camera (video cameras are a lot more clunky than still cameras). You don't get the movement, sounds, and so forth that a video can give you, but you get a level of detail and a look that video can't give you..

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-Postal

Brackish
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Sep 25, 2006, 5:54 PM

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Postal Boy
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Sep 25, 2006, 8:41 PM

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Canon 30d with a tamron 28-75 lense. Kind of fun stuff to play with

szerangue
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Sep 25, 2006, 8:48 PM

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Nice shots... I love the clarity of still photos also, much better than video. There seems to be so much more art to it, in my humble opinion.
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Shadow
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Sep 25, 2006, 11:24 PM

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Hey those are great.
Isn't it amazing the difference in an slr camera to a point and shoot?

Here's one I took the other day of my friend's flower pot.

Shadow
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Sep 25, 2006, 11:25 PM

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Here's another

Shadow
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Sep 25, 2006, 11:26 PM

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Postal
I love picture 3. You can almost see her thought "ok, enough with the camera already".

:)

videochicke
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Sep 26, 2006, 7:49 AM

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Nice shots... I love the clarity of still photos also, much better than video. There seems to be so much more art to it, in my humble opinion.

I think there is more art to it too. So many more ways to be creative in any given moment.
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Jenn M
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Sep 26, 2006, 1:42 PM

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I agree about the better detail in a photo, which is why I constantly have to remind myself to shoot wide once in a while. With video, I tend to stay tight to keep the detail. But with photo, it's still visible while capturing more of the image at large. Know what I mean?

I keep saying to myself, "Tight, medium, wide..." Trying to mix it up a bit. I may have mentioned in a previous post how one bride recently told me one of her complaints with her wedding photographer was that he didn't do enough full length shots. I found this interesting. She said he didn't take any during the first dance, which she regreted not having. So for me, that verified my thoughts - remember to shoot some wide.

CUTE pics, by the way. Smile

WLR
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Sep 26, 2006, 10:27 PM

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Give them both all the time, wide & close.

For the formal shots I do full length, 3/4 and finally head & shoulders and maybe back to half.
And then there's always a few minutes to let the creative juices flow like this bouquet & rings image.

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