Apr
03
2008
This is one of my favorite canon lens. I like it when i used to shoot surf action on the beach. You can make great shoots with this lens, especially if you are like sport actions and wild life. It will become a good photography gear with a good price. Some of my photos in my gallery where taken by this lens. It’s sharp, easy to handheld and quick focus in all range.
Some of other people’s review to this lens are:
- ”Crisp, sharp,contrasty images extreamly easy to hand hold even at 400mm quick auto focus”
- ”Portability for such a long range zoom. I found it was extremely useful, even handheld in bird photo…”
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Apr
02
2008
Slip an accessory flash into your SLR’s hot-shoe, crank all your settings to auto, and you’ll immediately get better pictures than you would with your camera’s built-in flash alone. But exert just a bit more control, and you’ll take your pictures to a whole new level — no lightmeters, flash triggers, or stands required.
Without taking that extra control, you end up with those typical flash snapshots: Sure, your subjects in the foreground are properly exposed, but more than likely the background fades to black. That’s never good. Whether you lose a dramatic sky or the interior of a room totally disappears, your subjects look like they’re hanging out in a cave.
The trick to overcoming this problem is to set your camera so you know the background will look the way you want it, then let your flash fill in the foreground — without overexposing your subject.
Sound hard? It isn’t, because of a little miracle setting on your flash called TTL. TTL stands for “through-the-lens,” and it means that the flash fires a pre-flash and uses that, along with information from the camera’s meter, to figure out how much light to put out. In other words, once you set the flash to TTL, you’re free to set your camera to manual and mess around with the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture until you get the background you love — the flash will take care of the subject in the foreground with no extra work from you. (One note for old-schoolers still hanging on to the flashes from your film days: It’s time to upgrade. Get yourself a dedicated flash that works with your camera model, and make sure it’s got TTL in its name.)
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