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So what other types of photography are you into?
I know we've got some macro photographers, at least one landscape photographer and a few good glamor/ portrait photographers.

My intrests beyond MINI photography are Macros, Sports, photojournalism and Candid Portraits.

Also any tips or techniques you find you use morein a sepcific genre that may apply to other areas of photography?
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So what other types of photography are you into?
I know we've got some macro photographers, at least one landscape photographer and a few good glamor/ portrait photographers.

My intrests beyond MINI photography are Macros, Sports, photojournalism and Candid Portraits.

Also any tips or techniques you find you use morein a sepcific genre that may apply to other areas of photography?
Motor, we just got the 10 - 22mm WA. Wife has been taking interior shots. Next buy next month will be the macro lens. She wants it for flowers.

Now I been thinking about the telephotos. What you think?

In the old days, I had a 100 - 300mm zoom, fine for walkaround in NPs for "some" animals like buffalo, deer and a 400mm for bears (worthless) birds (also worthless)

Been thinking of the 400mm because that makes 640mm and that is good enuff for beginning birds photography.

Have you taken animal pics and I dont mean at the zoo, I mean in the wild.
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The extent of my animal photos in the wild are of the hormonitis teenager If your looking to get into bird photography have you considered a spottong scope and adapter mount? little more cost effective for the same quality and deeper zoom.

I also do some astro photography, but have been avaoiding the forstbite recently I'll se if I can uplad some of my moon's
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I do alot of stuff from the beach, waterfalls and have really gotten into flowers. I need a good macro lens and have tried a friend of mines Tokina 105mm f/2.8 and have fallen in love with it....I am leaning towards the Sigma 105mm macro though...once I get that I should be able to greatly improve the quality of my flower photo's.
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I also do some astro photography, but have been avaoiding the forstbite recently I'll se if I can uplad some of my moon's
Well wildlife should be on the queue. Nothing better than a pic of a wild animal ... in the wild

As to spotting scopes ... they are not optically good.

I bought a 500 mm Mirror lens once and dumped it. A lesson learned. Then bought a small Celestron mirror lens ... not the 5", smaller. Very hard to work with, also a mistake. No, if going Canon, the "cheapest" way with the crop camera seems to be the 400mm with 1.4 multipler. Thats 896mm and that is HUGE. Read that over at the Canon site. Other than that it get into the REALLY big buck Lens for 500mm+ and I aint got 5K - 20K to drop on a lens

I also thought about astrophotography with the celestran and a tripod. The fact is you need a controller to stop the motion of the earth and to do it decently, a really big tripod and something like a 8" Mirror.

This is impossible for me because of light pollution and trees. WAY to bright and no way around that and I got way too many trees around the house. Great for property value but lousy for the stars No way am I hauling crap out to some remote location because they aren't any here.

The best place for astrophotography is like Bryce Canyon in Utah. NO light pollution and the Milky Way is AMAZING.

BTW, you cant do astrophotgraphy with a DSLR anyway because of the low pass filter and there is no way around that. It blocks the colors in the starlight so you dont get those brilliant colors you see in Hubbard pics.
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I checked out your gallery, MotorOn. Given what you post here, I presume the ones that are out of focus, or blurry are done so on purpose? I must admit to a preference for sharp images (I'm an old f-64 fan.)
Anyway, my many galleries:
http://gandini.unm.edu/PGpages/Photo...hotography.htm
contain so many images that I don't think I have a genre, or particular focus. I don't do certain things: astro, macro, sports, weddings (!). I love taking my camera on vacation-to see new places and capture the emotions and feelings they generate.
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The only DaVinci in the US (The Juniper Lady)

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