AustinG

Always treasure that hobby, Austin, and never let it idle. Photography is a thoroughly enriching pastime, and I personally enjoy (very much!) seeing what can be produced from another's perspective of real life composition. I have always loved black & white photography more than any other sort. Something about taking the color out seems to draw me deeper into the captured emotion of a snapshot.
Thank you for sharing a photo of yourself! You've a beauty of a truck and a great smile... careful how you use 'em.

Thanks, my baby has been working lately, she needs a bath. I like photography, more of a hobby for me though.

Pretty pics there. Let me guess, 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 DX ED II Nikon lens? the one that come with with D40 as a package? Dont go for Macro lens if you plan to use D40 for sometime. Yes partly its expensive and due to the small body chassis, it cant hold any zoom lens / fixed telephoto that is < f/3.5 in aperture. The bulkiness of the lens will block some of the accessible features in front of D40. Alternatively, you can scout around for a second hand macro lens if you are into macro shooting. Try getting the one i am using, Sigma 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens. It shouldnt cost a bomb for a 98% mint condition. Maybe you can do some price shopping
The macro filter really did a good job for a cheaper macro fix. Question, does the lens comes with a lens hood? Pic of my choice, the dandelion. Keep up the good work

That would be right, I have wanted a DSLR for a while now, and the D40 was in my price range, the macro filter is nice, although it has a very small range of where it can focus. Lens hood I assume you mean barn doors? No it didn't but I plan on getting one, and a external flash. (Probably a speedlight)

I haven't seen a radio with dials like that in a long time (except for the one in my mother's antique Chrysler 300)! Goes to show what I know about radios, though :XD: You'd think I'd be better informed with all the interesting, old engines, cars, and other stuff collected at my grandfather's museum of Oregon history (which I help my mother maintain when the opportunity is available).
The banner crop is... amazing. I feel like I can reach out and touch that water droplet, and come away with my fingertip wet! Incredible attention to detail, Austin, and very impressive.

All the CB's I have seen still have dials, except hand held ones. That "radio" is a brand new Uniden PC78XL

Since no one else wanted to do any critique...
The bee and the dandelion photo were okay macro shots... what makes them not so great in my eyes would have to be the contrast of color. I know that nature is very uncooperative with fore and backgrounds, staying still, etc., but I figured I would point those out... because I'm a jerk like that.

I think that your sampling here is pretty darn good and I like it. (Personally, my picks would have been the sun/tree/dusk light, the B&W tractor, the leaf, and the radio pics.) Keep up the perspective!

Thanks.

Nice photographs !

Have you collections of photographs on web ?

If you have please I like to see.

I just have a flickr account right now with tons of random stuff I have done. I am working on something to put all my good photos in.

 

 

I enjoyed them all, are they free to download and use for some design project?

Um, PM and ask. But yes you can use them. https://www.flickr.com/browser/upgrade/?continue=%2Fphotos%2Fcat320operator%2F

 

 

Amazing perspectives, Austin! You really have a wealth of talent, and I hope to see more from you in the near future! My favorites from these are the leaf closeup and the old radio... simplicity that speaks volumes more; I love the depth of perspective.

 

Very curious manipulation with the final photograph... I like the idea and effect of blending black & white into color along with the soft-to-sharp focus.

That radio is a brand new Uniden pc78xl...

 

Here is a better version of the leaf photo..

 

 

cool thing is because I shoot in high res. I can easily make banners and such like this:

 

Here is a little selection of my photography. I use a Nikon D40, with the Nikkor 18-55mm Lens. UV Filter, Polarizing Filter, Foggilizer, and macro filter, since a macro lens is so expensive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed it!

Welcome dude. I saw that you are nice guy. Maybe you will be my next friend here... We'll see. So Please read some guides we have here, and try to post long and quality posts here. With that, you'll earn points, called myCENTS. One myCENT represents one U.S. Cent. When you will earn 100 myCENTS it will be converted to U.S. Dollar and will be deposited at the Xisto - Support. So register there, with the same E-mail address as here.I did not know you, but I am glad to meet you, too.

Thanks, I don't need hosting though, so no need to sign up. I liked the old points system better to be honest.

Well, I plan on becoming a heavy equipment operator. Local 302 FTW... I do some photography as a hobby, a big hobby...

 

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Well hello everyone,Some of you may know me as \"Tractor\" but I have totally forgot my password on that account, and my ISP email is blocking all email from Xisto it seems, so I just registered again with my yahoo email. So anyway...I was active here about a year and a half ago with a site hosted. I got bored so I am back, probably just to post around, I don\'t have the need to have a 3rd site.Questions?Edit: Ok more like two and a half years ago! 27-September 06