What Image got you started, Post-it

[DarkHorse]

What image did you take ,
that got you spending money for a better camera and Lens

Heres mine, taken with a Fuji point and shoot, when i got here in texas last fall,
I decided i wanted a better camera, and changeable Lens selection,

johnp

[Shane Jennings]

Ha! ALL of the pictures I took with a point and shoot made me want a DLSR.

Here's one that really could have been nice with a better camera. This was 3 years ago on my brother-in-law's place near Shamrock, TX.

Shamrock Green.........

[DarkHorse]

Beutifull,
gawd i miss "trees"

[Concisus Cognatus]

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[Patti Edens]

I can't post it because I threw it away. The main thing that made me buy a good dSLR camera and lenses was the looooooong lag time between pushing the shutter and the camera taking the photo in my P&S.

I got tons of photos of the branch where the bird used to be and the blurry backside of the deer running off.

The lag time for P&S cameras back then (Oct 2003) was horrible - a lot worse than now.

I had an Olympus 2100UZ with 10X zoom (38 - 380mm equiv to 35mm) and Image Stabilization, so I had quite a bit of zoom for nature photography and could shoot in low light, but that lag just killed me.

'Course that's not to say I don't still get photos of that branch where the bird used to be ...just a whole lot less of 'em.

[Concisus Cognatus]

So in "hind sight" you decided to "branch out" and get a dslr.

Originally Posted by Patti Edens

... photos of the branch where the bird used to be and the blurry backside of the deer running off.

[Stephen P]

First, that is a very nice image of a praying mantis. I like the color and comp.

This is the shot that first got me started. This shot is probably four years old now. I took this with my old Olympus Point and Shoot which at the time cost me about the same as my first DSLR. It is still one of my favorite killdeer pics.

[Jim Victory]

Well I started photography in 1966 so I'm not going back that far for a shot.

So here is a couple with my first DSLR, and first digital camera. All 4MP of it.

[JPalmer]

Every now and then... the paper wants something kinda crazy. So one day a few years ago, they asked me to go look look for some birds. The editor had some whim about there being more birds out than normal or something.

I just kinda stood there like.... okay. Umm... let me get the big lens.

So, I grabbed the 300mm f2.8 and a 1.4x teleconverter and went bird hunting. It didn't take me long to start finding subjects to shoot... but this one caught my eye. A nice heron just kinda posing on the wood for me.

I tried to stay really low and creep towards him, all the while intending to frame it with the symmetry of the other wood pylon... sure enough, he decided to bail, and I got this frame before he turned away from me.



After this shot... I figured this wildlife stuff wasn't that hard as all... just haven't really had a great chance to get out.

[jfoureyes]

I started SLR photography in 1968 and got into nature in 1993. I'll just post one from last week. But I'll shoot just about anything.

[ttusa]

Well after I got obsessed ,first with wildlife photography, I participated in a workshop in Pennsylvania with Joe and Mary Ann McDonald in 1997. I'm not sure exactly what happened ,but now I'm a macro nut!

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by nikonhobbyman

So in "hind site" you decided to "branch out" and get a dslr.

Yeah, that was it!
Too funny.

[Goaliesgirl]

I have never been paid. But this was the image that convinced me I could truly learn to use my Nikon. I had only had it three months when we took the girls to Sea World. I had nightmares while we were there that my husband was mad at me because I was trying to shoot in manual and all my pictures came out blurry. When I got home, this is one of what I had. That sent me from sligthly obsessed with photography to totally addicted.
ETA: I did some slightly pp on this for white balance.

[snidow]

It's difficult to narrow it down to one and say this is the one that made me want more, but if I had to say it about any image it would be this one. Taken in 2002 (I think) with a Sony cybershot.

[JJH]

There are some great shots on here, but John, you want to know what got me started wanting more out of digital, so the pic below is not worthy of much praise at all other than the fact that I was able to see it and experience all that I have, which is one of the finer points of nature photography - even if you don't get a good shot sometimes you get to see really neat stuff.

This was taken with my Olympus P&S, and mostly due to this shot and that day at Norfolk's botanical gardens I decided that I must move on to something that would come close to my Nikon SLR - digital P&S's just weren't going to cut it. Currently I am shooting with a Nikon D70s with a 100-300mm and am saving up for a 500mm/f4.5 and eventually hope to upgrade to a D3 or better (never know what will be on the market by the time I can afford an upgrade, lol )






Well, it looks like that this shot didn't upload very well, but the original isn't much better than this so I'm not going to bother trying resize it again. It was never in focus thanks to the same reasons that Patti posted earlier.....stupid P&S shutter lag.


J