■ The Photography Megathread ■

[Tetris]

No, that's sooooooooooooo wide. A general purpose lens would be like an 18-55, something in that range. 18 is wide, but it's a decent wide on a cropped sensor that doesn't look bad at all and 55 is a nice focal length too. Depends on how serious he wants to get but an 18-55 kit would serve him well for very casual stuff. 14 would just be too wide and unusable for anything more than like, five feet from the camera.

He wants wide. We do a lot of "Children of Men"-esque stuff. Know what I mean? Like long takes with minimal zooming and nothing really gets close to the camera.

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[Fredulus]

i use a 12mm extremely often
just depends on your shooting style, it's silly to tell someone that a lens is too wide/long/whatever to use

[Sirrus]

14mm is really wide though, I'm just saying. I have a 24 on a full frame (equivalent 18mm on a cropped frame) that's really difficult to use because of how wide it is. Especially for video, I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have really wide shots all the time.

[Tetris]

I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have really wide shots all the time.

psst

its called zooming in

[Sirrus]

psst

its called zooming in

pssst. It's a 14mm prime lens, so unless you want to severely lose quality with cropping the shot and diminishing resolution (also known as digital zoom), you literally cannot zoom in.

[Tetris]

psst

ok

[Katadeus]

hey it's the guy who takes pictures with his iPhone and thinks he's cool again


It really poops me off that I didn't get it centered at all, but I wanted to move on to the other exhibits (MIT Museum)

[Freek]

mmmph
i take too many pictures

[Tetris]

mmmph
i take too many pictures

i can relate

[Katadeus]

Any feedback from youse folks?

[Passta]

[Sirrus]

Any feedback from youse folks?

Should've centered it more, definitely. Also the overexposure in the center is really annoying.

I've got a set of photos from my trip to Boston last summer that I'm really happy with. Also I'm basically just posting links to my blog instead of pictures at this point. Check back to that stuff every day! I'm trying to post daily.

http://nickseitz.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/boston-in-black-and-white/

[Sentry]

Misread title as research Megathread.

[Alyx Vance]

Some nature. Sorry, my phone camera sucks and I couldn't see the screen cause glare.

[PrototypeCow]