{"id":1239,"date":"2010-12-04T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-12-04T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T14:22:41","slug":"i-need-a-dslr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/i-need-a-dslr\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 I Need a DSLR"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t tweeted much lately but did take the time yesterday to note that one of my “bestest” friends, @Fittorrent is visiting me from LA for a few days. I’ve had friends visiting me quite a bit lately and I love it! The city-folk get to escape to a cabin in the woods and do it for cheap. Why not? Hopefully some family members will be up once skiing season begins.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Liana brought along her new Canon 7D. It’s a heavy, beast of a camera compared to my Canon S95 or previously, Canon G11. The lenses she brought along are a Lensbaby, fixed 50mm (f\/1.8) and a 24-70 (f\/2.8). Since we didn’t have a flash with\u00a0diffuser, I was stuck in a bit of a pickle. Most of the photographers were taken indoors with pretty low lighting so I had to boost most photos to ISO 6400 with the largest aperture to get shots that were crisp and, even then, I wasn’t happy with them.<\/p>\n

I have to get a DSLR. The power of this thing really eclipses any thing I’ve ever used before. It’s a phenomenal camera, my wrist is killing me from 2 hours of shooting and my S95 just feels terrible in comparison. I took 700 in total and sent off about 50 to my coworkers and friends. Here are a few of my favorites.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Domenic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dashing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Let<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Time<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Liana<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sharing<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Drink<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Daniel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"I<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Celebration\"<\/a><\/p>\n

…and, before anyone following me rushes out to get a Canon 7D, I have to add this photo. It was taken by my friend Shawna who doesn’t now the ins and outs of manual photography (not many people do) and when she insisted on taking a picture of me, I switched the camera to full-auto. Here is the result. Same lighting, same lens but full auto. Here’s the thing, over the past 12 months, I know a dozen people who have written me saying “hey I just bought the Canon G9\/G10\/G11\/G12\/S95 based on your photostream! Then, they’re disappointed when the photos aren’t great. It takes practice. You have to live in manual, find that angle, frame your subject and shoot THOUSANDS of photos. I’m still very very far off from being a good photographer but I keep getting better and that’s what matters.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyone that follows my photography will tell you I rarely take portraits. The best point & shoot portrait was this one taken of Laura Wiggins<\/a> on the night before I left San Francisco. The reason I avoid portraits is that they are very difficult on a point & shoot. Controls are harder, the sensor is smaller, the grip and holding the camera is a challenge and the flash is usually underpowered to the point where you’re \u00a0just not going to use it.<\/p>\n

My confession is that this is the first time I’ve used an SLR. I’ve touched them and taking a couple of pix in the past but mostly on auto when I had no clue what I’m doing. This camera has blown me away. Consider this, these are photos I took with no SLR experience within the first hour of using it. Imagine what I can do after months of practice…. Yeah, I need one of these.<\/p>\n

I hope enjoyed this set. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I haven’t tweeted much lately but did take the time yesterday to note that one of my “bestest”…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-photography","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-jZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3217,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/canons-s100-will-be-your-next-camera\/","url_meta":{"origin":1239,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Canon’s S100 Will Be Your Next Camera","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Canon PowerShot S Series is a line of digital cameras that have always been of a higher caliber than other digi-cams. 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