Welcome to Photo Castle.
This site has albums on a variety of topics from insects, sceneries, portraits to technique issues like using flash; light & colour etc..
I used to photograph with the analogue Canon AE1 Programm in combination with a 135mm 2.8 lens.
Switching to digital, back in 2007, I started off with the Canon 400D in combination with a Tamron 90mm 2.8 Macro 1:1 lens resulting in albums like Sierra Leone, Paris, Austria and a Selection out of all photograph's made with this camera.
I realized that Digital Photography was not ready yet for ordinary people like me.
In 2009 I acquired the Canon 50D camera; a Canon 28mm 1.8 lens and a Canon 85mm 1.8 lens. It was an improvement indeed, but really not what I expected to get for such a price. The album a Selection 50D's shows.
Finally I took the jump and bought the Full Frame Canon 5D Mark II. Finally I was there. This camera gives what you should get from a digital camera. The camera is used for weddings and also does filming remarkable better then the camcorders. So now it comes to lenses and my own skills.
Two albums as example are Light & Color and Beautiful Scotland.
Most albums contains EXIF information and please feel free to give critical comments for me to improve.
The photographs above are taken with a Canon 180mm 3.5L Macro USM attached to the Canon 5D Mark II.
Other lenses used are the Tamron 90mm 2.8 Macro, the Canon 85mm 1.8 USM and the Canon 28mm 1.8. As you see I use mainly Prime lenses. You simply get better glas then using your money on zoomlenses.
Recently, I exchanged the fantastic Canon 180mm for a Zeiss Wide angle lens, 18mm/3.5 T* and have to say that sharpness, color, light, gets addictive. Once you tasted a Zeiss, you don't want to get to use the regular lenses anymore.
Aim
Besides hardware you will meet 1. just albums with photo's in there respective setting and 2. examples of techniques used, like flash and so on.
Please feel free to leave a comment in the guestbook and to be critical, so others and I may learn from you.
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Updated June 5 2010
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