david_eppstein

Thanks, Dominic.

While we're on the subject, can someone explain to me how it is that when I set a wide

aperture, the reflected background in the subject's sunglasses is much more focussed

than the blurred real background? I know it works and used it deliberately in my shot

above, I just don't understand why it works.

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/tg03/CharlesCamera-

m.jpg"></p>

I guess if you look closely enough you can tell I'm not shooting a Leica...

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/mcbg/SunglassSP-

m.jpg"></p>

Here's a couple. This is on a Canon D60 so the crop factor makes them less fishy than

they might be...

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/mendocino5/h1/

Fresnel1-m.jpg"><br><br><i>Pt. Arena Lighthouse</i></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/boatparade03/

FerrisWheel4-m.jpg"><br><br><i>Balboa Peninsula</i></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/orcas/emp/EMP8-

m.jpg"><br><br><i>Experience Music Project, Seattle</i></p>

Ironically, there's a Gehry building much closer to home that I don't have any photos of.

Part of my department is housed in it and I walk past it every day as I go to work. The roof

leaks and all the inhabitants hope it gets torn down soon. It's never inspired me to try

photographing it.

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/bar/mj/RadioTower-

m.jpg"><br><br><i>Barcelona, 2001</i></p>

In fact if you hadn't set the category to Nikon I would likely have posted a firetruck

equipment photo. As it is, I don't understand what you were hoping to accomplish by

starting a thread that nobody else could contribute to, and was hoping either to find out a

good reason (which would let me be less annoyed by such threads) or to help you or

someone else produce better thread-starters. Instead I seem to have antagonized you,

which was not my intention. Sorry for that, and if you really don't want to explain, then

just carry on without me.

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/dv/AguereberrySink-

m.jpg"></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/mendocino5/pf/

AmanitaMuscaria-m.jpg"></p>

Theme seems a little overspecific -- how many photo.netters do you think are going to

have photos to post of crash truck equipt? And then you choose a category that restricts

only to Nikon shooters? What's the point?

I'm not sure about this one, I wasn't intending for it to be quite so off-focus, but

something about the angles and colors made me keep it anyway.

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/baywood/

GeorgeStorz-m.jpg"></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/sjws5/DrainUp-

m.jpg"></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/westyalebridge/I-

m.jpg"></p>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/getty2/

FromBelowBlur-m.jpg"></p>

I got my 50/1.4 a month ago (filling a gap between my 28 and 70-200), and took it and

my D60 on a two-week road trip through central and northern California. A very large

fraction of the keepers were with the new lens. I also used it and no other lenses for

shooting an indoor daytime party and a small-town July 4 parade with good results. I like

it a lot.

Saw this pose (seated facing away and slightly together, heads turned in to face the

camera) in a nice photo posted on an earlier thread here (maybe by Peter?) and had to try

it myself when I saw the opportunity.<div></div>

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/hotshots/fotf/

DaliaUp-m.jpg"></p>

There might have been a little snow here a few days before I shot this one...

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/mendocino3/

Gowans-m.jpg"></p>

This is as far as I've gone in shopping a shot. Tame, I know...

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/boobash03/

BrandonVampire-m.jpg"></p>

<a href="http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Optical/

Image_Stabilization_01.htm">Image stabilization</a>.

<p align=center><img src="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/mendocino4/j4p/

OldBroads-m.jpg"><br><br><i>Mendocino, CA</i></p>

iView MediaPro (at least the version I'm using) lets you view raw files, but not convert them

to something that can be viewed and edited by any other program.

Maybe a little too much noise reduction on that first photo? Still, nice expression and

light.