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Old 12-31-2015, 12:10 PM   #91
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Old 12-31-2015, 12:21 PM   #92
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Old 12-31-2015, 12:25 PM   #93
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Old 12-31-2015, 12:37 PM   #94
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Old 12-31-2015, 12:52 PM   #95
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OK, I thought I'd missed some juicy stuff.
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Old 02-19-2016, 04:38 PM   #96
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Thought the steam capture looked pretty cool. I think I got some good shots
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Old 02-19-2016, 07:44 PM   #97
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A 70mm lens is the preferred "portrait lens", which seem counter intuitive. But if you think about it, a portrait is usually head and shoulders, think school pictures, without the camera being right in the subjects face. Try it with your friend, seeing how close you have to be to get the same school picture with the 50mm and 70mm.
maybe weighing in late, but another reason for a longer focal length lens for portraits is less distortion. A 135 is also a nice portrait lens.

The ideal (in my opinion) beginner's phalanx of lenses would be a 35mm, roughly equivalent to our field of vision when scanning a scene, a 70 to 135 zoom which somewhat replicates what we see when we focus on things that are distant. This has to do more with what we edit out in our brains and not what our eyes actually see:
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Old 02-24-2016, 05:48 PM   #98
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maybe weighing in late, but another reason for a longer focal length lens for portraits is less distortion. A 135 is also a nice portrait lens.

The ideal (in my opinion) beginner's phalanx of lenses would be a 35mm, roughly equivalent to our field of vision when scanning a scene, a 70 to 135 zoom which somewhat replicates what we see when we focus on things that are distant. This has to do more with what we edit out in our brains and not what our eyes actually see:
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I have a 15-55mm lens as my "regular" lens. I don't do many portraits. I've been doing mostly nature photos and food
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Old 02-24-2016, 05:50 PM   #99
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Here are some photos I took of the storm and clouds that came through NC today. I had a total of 16, but managed to narrow it down to 3 of my favorites.
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Old 02-24-2016, 05:52 PM   #100
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...maybe I should do a thread of all my photos over in Images....
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Old 02-25-2016, 12:40 AM   #101
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They look like after clouds, after the storm when it's moving on.
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Old 02-25-2016, 07:37 AM   #102
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They look like after clouds, after the storm when it's moving on.
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Yep, they were after clouds. I couldn't get any during because I don't have a protector for my camera.
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Old 02-25-2016, 08:36 AM   #103
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Usually not before either, as that kind of storm usually builds up instead of a defined front. Like seeing a skunk, it gets bigger and bigger then all hell breaks loose and you can't see shit until the tail is moving on.
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Old 02-25-2016, 09:52 AM   #104
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It was a tornado, hail, and high wind laced storm that cut across multiple states. It was ugly, but I didn't get too bad. It was more sudden, so I think I would have been able to get some pics. I think I have some of the sky dark on one side, but clouds like these on the other
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Old 02-25-2016, 01:16 PM   #105
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Nice pics. Keep posting them. Wherever.
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