While you are shooting...

[mpphoto12]

while you are shooting what isnpires you ? what kinds of music do you listen to while shooting? what do you like to shoot and why? this is open talk and inspiring to others as well.

[TSEvanson]

My kids inspire me to take pictures. All I have to do to get good pictures is take my kids outside and have my 70-200 f/4 on my Digital Rebel. They usually take care of the rest.


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[mpphoto12]

wow thats nice i like the photo i suggest that in black and white though ..

[Ehcalum]

Hmm what inspires me.....when on a gig its getting atleast 2 shots of every racer in each event lest my boss chew me out. Music is generally whatever the announcer/DJ is playing.





When shooting for myself, the music is nature and I'm like a 5 year old, anything that catches my eye will get a shot.

[Oren]

That is a really great shot TSEvanson!


Two questions for you:


1. How is it to shoot with the 70-200 without IS? (especially at 200mm of course)


2. Which lens is mounted on your camera most of the time? Is it the 70-200 f/4 L?

[TSEvanson]

Oren,


When it gets dark outside, I wish I had IS. Other than that, I can usually keep the shutter speed up high enough. My kids are constantly on the go, so I need a high shutter speed to freeze the action anyway.


When I'm outside, the 70-200 f/4 is my lens 90% of the time. I only switch to the kit lens if I want to shoot a wide-angle landscape scene. When I'm indoors, I use my 50 f/1.8 if I don't want a flash, and my kit lens (18-55) if I need wide angle.

[mpphoto12]

to answer the question for him its really not hard at all.... just a faster shutterspeed than like 60/sec

[Stephen Probert]

For some reason I never really listen to music unless I am playing it or learning to play it. Maybe that is why I am only a mediocre musician. I guess I never really wanted to pay for it? As far as inspiring my photography. I just love it. I seem to experience the world in photographs as though I have my eye to the viewfinder all the time and I am just waiting for the right moment and composition to *click*


I guess I love the moment that you envision a shot and then you get it, just as you want it. I am also inspired by God; since I believe He created the Earth and the universe for His and our pleasure, I enjoy that much more the process of documenting it.

[Colin]

I don't know if it's inspiration so much as an obsessive need to try to capture things that catch my attention. I take a lot of pictures that many other people probably find very boring, like pictures of soap, or a rubber duck, or a rubber duck on soap. I was working at a client's house, getting a plasma screen mounted and updating the automation system, and I remarked to the client, "Hey, that's really nice light hitting those low voltage trim rings." He laughed, and I think he thought I was joking.


I don't listen to music when taking pictures. I'm horrible with cords. I once took pictures while driving and on the phone. It was kind of a serious, relationship kind of conversation, so I got a little bit of crap for that. Weren't even good shots.

[alexniedra]

Steven got it. []