I hear you. I was shooting the two girls at the same bar last night, so I took a f/1.8 50 and D200
and a D90 with a 3.5-5.6 18-55mm and 'locked down' my ISO at 1250, too keep noise down,
and then out-thought myself one step FURTHER, telling myself I did not have to shoot them wide open,
no, I wanted the pictures to be SHARP, so I stop it down some, too, and I get home and I have a mountain
of blurred photos, and weak focus from shake. And weak focus from zone errors, stuff like perfectly focused
MICROPHONES and 5hit like that. SUCH an amateur. I sat there and shot on ridiculously low shutter speeds,
CAUSE I AM SMART, I KNOW MORE THAN A CAMERA. Stuck that sucker in A-priority to keep my photos 'sharp', lol.


Stupid a55.

I mean, I DID get some great shots. I always find a way. But the ratio is laughable.
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:-) that sux bro. Won't be a problem with the D700
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I have some good lenses in stock now, this other stuff was bought for the D100 and D70.
They are not the showpiece items that allow me to shoot tele in a bar or football games or anything,
but a good mix of ranges in AF-D lenses and some nice AIS pieces in primes. Got a 2.8 24mm AI, a 3.5 135mm AI,
a 1.8 50mm AF-D, a 35mm 1.8 AF-S, a 35-135mm AF-D, a sharp 70-210mm AF-D, my Sigma 10-20mm, so I have
things I can use. What lacks in me at the moment is smarts and technique. I do dumb things and use lazy
technique. Its the viewfinder curse....you SEE a great picture, never knowing that what you are actually
recording is digital SHI+. And I am blind as a frickin bat. That never helps in a 'focus' hobby.
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How many THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS do you think I could have saved had I just listened to you up front?
I should have sent that mistake D700 back to BH and said, "Hey how about an honesty discount on another one
off your shelf? Maybe picked up a polished one for 1300.... NO D90, No 2 D200s, no $75 D50. No $99 D-70 with 69k snaps.
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:-) yeh but hey, u live and learn.
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I am thinking about plunking down my $15 bucks in the morning for the Memphis Zoo.
Pull nice save out of my butt for the weekend. TODAY waas so nice, I think lot of
folks hit the zoo, I think I can beat the after church crowd if I open the place up at 9am.
Makes sense to me. Maybe I will get lucky.
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Not me, buddy...............not me.
never have been able to, ain't gonna start at 50.
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Lol. Do it! Go to da zoo! Get there at open is always best.
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Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, now General Motors headquarters

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The old Wayne County building, opened in 1902, but now closed:

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Wayne County Building:

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Had a short work trip to New Jersey. Went to see the ocean.
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Chilling out on the Memphis Savannah

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Must be the brine shrimp in the diet.....

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Yes Brad more cat shots with the 6D... This time at ISO 200

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This was a 60D shot. Messed around with it using imagenomic portraiture


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She will get tired of that one day......cats, too.......I'm tellin ya, you need to start
shooting plants, signs, rocks, stuff like that. You never see it coming, one day you are
happily married, and the next moment, there's a cast iron skillet full of Hamburger Helper
gettin winged at your head.
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:-)
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