Photos Using the Late Birthday Present
For a while now, I’ve been looking at the nicer DSLR camera lenses and drooling a bit. As a late birthday present for myself, I went ahead and purchased an L-series 100-400 mm lens, which arrived on Friday. Naturally, all productivity came to a screeching halt while I ran around to try it out. If we’re friends on Facebook, you may have already seen some of the results.
The lens is both bigger and heavier than I expected. I can take pictures and get a bit of a workout at the same time. It’s got three different stabilizer modes that I need to figure out yet, and long-range handheld shots are tricky, but I’ve gotten some pictures I’m very happy with.
You can see a few more, or check out larger versions of these, at Flickr.
For those of you who do photography, do you think I should worry about watermarking any of these? I’ve never bothered before, but I’m still very much an amateur trying to figure out what I’m doing.
Sally
May 9, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
That black squirrel is SUPER pissed that you caught him.
Very nice.
chacha1
May 9, 2016 @ 5:14 pm
It’s not a bad idea to watermark anything that you’re posting online, even if you don’t intend to sell copies yourself. People will still nab photos they like, but at least they will clearly be nabbed.
And yes, that squirrel haz a mad.!!
Gorgeous shot of the blackbird, nice little aura on him. 🙂
Random Michelle
May 11, 2016 @ 4:11 pm
I put my photos on Flickr, which allows you to apply a Creative Commons license to everything you upload and pot. And I drop the resolution on what I post there to … I forget. I image processing software does it for me. But it’s lower than originals, which means that if someone steals it, I have the higher res picture as “proof” it’s my picture.
Because of the license I’ve applied, I’ve had a couple people ask me if they could use my images with attribution, which is nice. And it’s very easy to put my pictures on my webpage or on FB or Twitter or Tumblr from Flickr.
Will it keeps someone determined from acting immorally? Of course not. But it doing something, and it’s easier (IMO) than watermarking.
Oh, if you decide to go the Flickr route, use a naming convention that uses the date, because if someone asks you if they can have a high res copy of your picture, that makes it a whole lot easier than if the picture is just named for the subject. (ie, 2016-12-25_myniece_007 is very easy to find. “that picture of Niece in front of Christmas tree with the good smile” is not so easy, when I take approximately a zillion pictures of niece. 🙂 )