Canon 50D

Finally, I was able to get my own camera. I got a Canon 50D, it is so different than the xsi I was sharing with my friend. It is bigger, has faster fps, and much more. It just has so many more options and settings than the xsi did. I got it about a week or so ago and am still getting used to it. I have just been messing around with it and trying out the many settings that it has.

I got the camera in a package with 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 lens. The lens is just a standard zoom lens but works pretty well. It is a better lens than the other two that I had with the xsi. It is also a lot bigger and I haven't really gotten used to the size of it. Everything that I had with the xsi was smaller scale stuff but still worked just as well. I haven't really gotten over how much bigger this camera is. I know that it sounds a little weird but I haven't really had the opportunity to use more advanced equipment. Its a ton different but I'm liking it a lot so far!

I haven't taken too many photos with it so far because I'm trying to get a bag to keep it in so it won't get all busted up. But I have gotten some good stuff! These are a combination of around Piedmont and Tahoe Photos.......

I got the camera on the drive up to Tahoe, perfect timing. So I was able to use it a ton up there. The weather was ok, there were only a couple clear days, otherwise it was cloudy, foggy, or hazy.

This is a view of Mt. Tallac with a crescent moon around 5:45pm or so, 1/3sec, f/9.0 at 320 iso.

This was around 5:00pm, another view of Mt. Tallac, 1/640sec, f/18 at 100 iso. I thought the clouds looked really cool with the Sun reflecting off them.

These ones are just around Piedmont. I am really interested in flowers and up close kind of things with flowers.....

This is a plum tree in bloom in my backyard. Al the trees in Piedmont are starting to bloom showing spring is just around the corner. 1/100sec, f/5.6 at 100 iso.

It was a dark, cloudy day when I took this picture so I completely blacked out the background. This one is my favorite, it just turned out really smooth. 1/200sec, f/6.3 100 iso.

Well those have been my favorite so far. There will be plenty more to come in the very near future. If you have any advice or feedback on the shots that would be great. I just got the camera and any help is greatly appreciated and much needed!

-Kellan

Longboarding

Today was an amazing day! I was able to go out and shoot some good friends of mine longboarding. They have truly amazing skills. They are out everyday boarding and sliding and just everything you could think of, when you think of skateboarding.

Today their skating spot was the top of Piedmont. A lot of of the newly paved roads are at the top of Piedmont which make it the best place to skate, everything is a lot smoother and cleaner. Peidmont isn't the ideal spot to skate though because people complain a lot and the police come up and kick us out, which causes us to keep moving to different streets. The cool thing about being at the top of Piedmont is you can see the whole bay in the background, unfortunately today was hazy and cloudy so it wasn't the best view. But I got some really good shots, like the one below, processed it hella much, but it looks really good.

This is Syd and Evan sliding at the same time with the bay in the background but it was really hazy so I cut the bay out of the shot.

A few months ago when I first got the camera I was able to shoot my friend Syd in the same location. I was first learning how to use the camera and had a lot of trouble getting clear pictures. This time I had two other friends with me today, Tomio and Evan. I was able to get 4 times as many pictures as I had gotten before. I took roughly 600 pictures this time and they all turned out rather nicely. The camera that I have right now, the Canon xsi, has only a 3.5 or so, but it worked out really well considering how slow it is. Here are some of the shots I got......

Syd coming around a corner.


Evan doin a slide hanging way out behind it.




Syd coming around a corner, he was trying to do some slide where you would do a 360 and recover going down the hill, crazy shit.

Tomio coming around a corner at like 30 mph, he was goin hella fast!

These are some of my favorites. I processed almost all of these pictures because it was really sunny and hazy making some of the pictures rather bright and washed out.

This is Tomio doin a slide down the second hill after the cops came. It was a good hill and had some good angles. I processed this shot a little and it ended up looking really good.

Evan doin a huge slide. I processed this shot a lot but it looks really good.

Any advice would be great, I am starting to go with them more and more to shoot them skating so there will be more photos in the near future of them.

-Kellan