I might rent that Sigma 50-500 lens to see how I like it. A friend of mine recommended BorrowLenses.com and they rent that lens. I can get it for 1 week for $92, then determine if it's worth $1500 to buy. My plan is to ask for it for my birthday, but I want to make sure I like it.

I will also need something good for my weekend at Richmond for the September NASCAR weekend (I have full media access courtesy of Gamestop and Joe Gibbs Racing) so I can take some good shots. I think that 50-500 would be pretty versatile at a race track... walking around the garage and trying to get track shots.

Just need to have a 18-xx with me as well so my friend can take a pic of me with Danica Patrick. I'm going to ask her to take a pic with me like she's my girlfriend. I wonder how many people will escort me away. :)

I love my Wacom. I wanted the Cintiq so bad, but $$$ :( I settled for the Intuos.


Looks like someone caught the fotog bug :icon17:

I've had it. For a long time. But I'm just now getting more serious about it.

I was just trying to show the perspective I've gotten using my monopod since some people seemed interested in purchasing one. I don't think bracketing would work too well while trying to hold the monopod still with the camera 15+ feet in the air, I do however bracket exposures often when using my tripod. The original shot showed way more detail through the dynamic range, I was just kind of trying to play with extremes when editing it knowing I wasn't going to use it for anything, just to see what kind of texture I could get out of the sky and what color I could get, because in the original shot, the exposure was made for the foreground (cars and what not) and the sky was pretty blown out.

http://architekphotography.smugmug.c...C0003-2-XL.jpg





http://architekphotography.smugmug.c.../DSC0399-L.jpg

http://architekphotography.smugmug.c.../DSC0423-L.jpg

I thought this was an interesting batch of photos that you guys might also be interested in checking out.

40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

Nice shot CMike, I think.

That's awesome stuff!
It's hard to match the moments and emotions of photo-journalistic photos when we're pointing our cameras at cars and buildings.

thanks...I think. lol

Please excuse my poor sentence structure. I meant to write "I think that's a nice shot".

:tiphat:

No prob Yoda :tiphat: :p

:icon18: Nicely done.

Sandpipers on the beach at Surf City, NC

http://www.modachroma.com/images/NCApril-3632.JPG

Was bored after washing my car and took these.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8145/7...cedfafb0_h.jpg



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7094/7...021f81a0_h.jpg

I seen this bitch on the colfax bus stop! http://img.tapatalk.com/aee8d182-48dc-11f0.jpg


ThePhotographer