So I convinced my boss at work to invest in a nice camera setup for me. Got the Canon Rebel XTi 10mp digital SLR camera with a standard 18-55mm wide angle lens and a 60mm macro lens with a bunch of accessories. Came out to about 1500-1600 so far.

Got the camera last friday and I've already taken over 600 pictures. Its that fun! Here's a few examples.







The best picture I think is of the blue R6. Its my new desktop picture now. If anyone else wants it as their desktop. Here's a link (1920x1200):
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/2862/r6eb8.jpg

I'm going to add a lot more pictures so if you want to view some more you can hit my album here:
http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...z/photoshoots/

 

nice skills. even with the same camera i dont think i could take pics like that.

 

yeah... its hard to take good steady pics in low light with no flash and your drunk... Let me tell you, I had to take about 30 pictures to get that beer bottle picture correct! low light settings are tricky to play with. And I still forgot to set it to the right white balance setting so it came out a bit yellower then expected, but it still came out fairly good. Nothing print worthy though, cept the r6.

 

kool, wanna come take pics of my bike, i love the sv pic that focuses on the sticker and blurs the rear

 

the blue R6 is cool, but it would be better if they left mirror wasn't cut off at the top...

The other pictures are clean, did you take a photo class, you seem to have aperature and speed down pretty nicely.

 

The left mirror is up too high and add's way too much negative background space so the focus on the bike would be less intimate. I really wanted the viewer's eye's to be drawn toward the front of the bike (more on the headlights/forks/rotors) since the degree of focus are on those parts more than anything else. Also the top part that I left off the scenery was a black background, not brick anymore so it would have given the picture too much dark contrast. It was also shot in a cloudy scenery so light is a bit limited where black areas could result in grainy areas if not exposed exactly right.

No prior photography class, I've take art classes before. I have a photography guide book that I bought with the camera called "digital rebel field guide" that explains in full detail of everything about the rebel camera's. Worth the $15 investment. I've only read the 1st few basic chapters and have read a lot on wikipedia when I was researching about camera's.

But honestly, I just played around with the manual setting and only changing one parameter to see the generated affects to get a good feel for them in different places. I usually take between 3-10 pictures of the same item with different settings. That means I have a lot of wasted pictures, but improves my chances of hitting the perfect picture. I have a 2gb card so I can hold about 300 pics before I run out of space.

 

I LOVE Canon camera's. Lookin at getting the D30 or Rebel xti.......can't decide. D30 offers a much larger lens and capture area, but the Rebel has 10.2 mp whereas the D30 has 8.2.

 

i need to get a new GOOD camera. was looking at those digital SLRs, but god diggity damn they are expensive.

 

I just bought a cannon powershot A550. I love the lens clarity on it. I wish I could afford a rebel digital, but bike toys come first and house payment.

 

those are some nice pics, keep the pics comin!