Aaron Otto
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Interesting, Zach not trying to be sarcastic, but can you tell me what about the article is it that you like so much? The writing, subject, flow etc etc.
Thanks gusy for all the feedback, I have printed it and will summarize in my photo journal and hopefully I can take the key points and apply them.
Well, again, Aaron, you should not cut something just because someone else would. Judge everything on its total merit count to you. If it was the loch ness monster, I could stand the photo being slightly out of focus ;).
I really liked the first gallery in your second post, BTW. You have a good eye.
No worries here man – I know I can’t get better unless I’ve had a place to start from. Your thoughts are good. I got death theats on the first fishing article I ever had published, so a little critical thoughts at this point can only help me. I actually had a guy post on his personal blog about how bad I was (writing) and put a link to it on a few of the really big sites out there. Want to talk about being humbled. No hard feelings here – I took your advice for better or for worse and will kill the photo. I take so many pictures that I’m sure I can find a few others to fit their bill.
My sincerest thanks for your feedback and time,
Aaron
Aaron,
I have the 70-200, once had the 80-400 and also have the 18-200. The AFS focusing is great. If you’ve used that, and then switch to a non-AFS lens, it’ll drive you nuts. Ditto on a lens that’s f/2.8 or faster vs a variable aperture lens that might be as slow as f/5.6. Two stops might not seem like much, until you’re shooting at a (barely) manageable 1/60 sec at 2.8, which on the f/5.6 lens would be 1/15 second – – – not something you’d want to hand hold, even with VR, at 200mm or longer.
But the trade off is weight. That big, fast expensive piece of glass is heavy. If you’re trying to carry a body, wide angle, flash, tripod, and that long lens, along with fishing gear, you’ll definitely end up with a sore back.
Unless the fast lens is a necessity, and sometimes it is, I’ve been very happy with the 18-200 for a lot of uses. It’s relatively slow (f/3.5-5.6), but very light, and actually it’s very sharp. And it is AFS. With that lens, a wide zoom (12-24 or similar) and a flash, you can cover a lot with a relatively light package (as long as the body is a D200/300 vs D2/3).
Tele-extenders: I have one, and use it if I have to, but that’s what I consider their place. Another tool, for when you don’t have something better. But they are generally better than those of a couple of decades ago. As are zooms. It wasn’t that long ago that the best zooms were just marginal, and used by press shooters where print resolution was fairly low. Now the good ones are great, and are pretty much indispensible.
Buzz
Thanks Buzz for the insight – I’m okay with the weight not trying to be a tough guy or anything, but had to pay for my college via Green and gold scholarship, wasn’t smart enough to get into something other than grunt work.
Thanks guys for your feedback. I just sold a Print today to a guy in MT, apparetnly he saw one of my shots of Elk on a fishing website and knew a guy who knew me. Strage world, anyways – I thinkg I’m going to the local photo shop here that rents all the lenses and use my proceeds form the sale. I’m going to try and take a bit of everyones advice here and rent a bunch of lenses take them all up to Lee’s Ferry for a day or two( 4 hours from my house) and shoot the crap out of them. I wish I could afford to buy them all, but in all honesty I’m just not selling enough of my writing or my photos to justify dropping 10k in lenses at the moment. Hopefully if I keep woking at it I’ll get there someday, it’s just I’m not there yet. I bought my first SLR ten months ago, before it was purely point and shoot non compact digitals and I’m sure you can tell from my photos I have a long ways to go. I’ve gotten some great advice here and I’m going to try and take it all in and incorporate it into what I do. Thank you all for your time and your thoughts,
Aaron
I heard the fishing has been great over there……how did you do?
you know I couldn’t wrap it up. my buddy did well, but I seem to have one knot failure or bad spool of tippet after another.
Here you go some photos from this weekend’s trip.
I’ll put some writing up in a bit. We have an install of a new ATM system at my work, and means I’ll be up for a couple days.A
http://picasaweb.google.com/FazeeshPimp/SFBOPosters/photo#s5168703141924243074
thanks again,
Aaron
