DEFCON 16 [Part 1]

[foxgrrl]

DEFCON16 A few photos from this weekend. The ones of the clouds are part of a panorama I shot on top of a mountain, at sunset, with a large thunderstorm on the side opposite the sun. It should be awesome looking -- it certainly was in person. D700, photo, August 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, DEFCON, Hacker, Convention Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 5_DSC6973_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6929_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6927_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6786_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6739_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6687_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6670_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6635_681x1024.jpg5_DSC6593_681x1024.jpg5_DSC5387_681x1024.jpg5_DSC5258_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4786_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4777_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4745_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4737_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4688_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4683_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4679_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4676_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4566_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4560_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4227_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4199_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4019_681x1024.jpg5_DSC4659_1024x681.jpg5_DSC4033_1024x681.jpg
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A few photos from this weekend. The ones of the clouds are part of a panorama I shot on top of a mountain, at sunset, with a large thunderstorm on the side opposite the sun. It should be awesome looking — it certainly was in person.

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Comments

[foxgrrl]

It is possible to get good photos from any camera… if you're a skilled photographer. Something that's been grating on me a little bit lately, is I'll be out photographing somewhere, and people will say: Wow, that's an amazing camera. Wow, your camera is so good. OMG! [camera praise goes here]… and it's kinda like going up to a painter and saying: OMG, your paintbrushes are so good! The implication being that the quality of the art is entirely dependent upon the tools used, and not the artist.

I see lots of people, with far more expensive and higher-spec'ed cameras than mine, taking absolutely dreadful looking photos. I've taken amazing looking photos borrowing someone's small pocket point-and-shoot.

You can buy enough camera gear to take photos like I do, brand new for under US$1000. For US$1350 you can almost the same setup I used for two years (and did most of the photos on my journal with). (For used, cut that price in half.)

(I started off with a Nikon D50 and a 50mm f/1.8 lens (and the D50 kit lens (24-55mm))) (And I don't think I was as good then as now, but you can see here: http://foxgrrl.livejournal.com/tag/D50 )

[foxgrrl]

Don't worry, it's ok.