The Nature Photography Thread

[ConcinusMan]

To be honest it does take a degree and equipment to be a professional photographer. Not taking anything away from your photos. Coolpix cameras are great for what you are using them for. I have 4 professional slr (single lens reflex) cameras that were cheaper than your coolpix though. I only really spent money on my fifth camera. And it was well worth it for my goals with my photography. It doesn't take expensive equipment or a degree to take good quality photos your right on that point. But for me I need that stuff to secure jobs in the photography field. And I am successful with that. I have thousands of photos I took for customers that hired me for what I had and what I could do. I also teach a film photography class at the college I attend because of my work. Maybe I'm ranting over nothing. But I just wanted to point out that there is a little more to your statement.

Can't really argue about that. I know very little about photography other than the fact that I see people spend tons of money on fancy $1200 cameras with $500 macro lenses attached to them, only to get the same results I got with a $200 camera.

Also, I have a childhood friend and mother of 3 who lives in San Diego. Her and her husband make a very good living filming/photographing concert events, weddings, celebrity events, etc. Neither one of them ever took much more than a few basic college level photography classes.

[Reptar!]

I agree with you there. I would say more than half of the students I go to school with buy the best camera they can find and don't know how to use it. More often than not I get better results on my film cameras than most people get with their digital cameras. I guess its all about what your intentions are with your camera. Your photos are great. Your coolpix does a great job.

A lot of the more successful photographers I know haven't taken much school either. My teachers at school have degrees in other fields. the manual you get when you buy a camera tells you almost everything a college will tell you. From my time in college we spent very little on the technical stuff. The teachers there challenge us to think more about the image itself. Whats in it, all the details. Stuff like that.

[ConcinusMan]

Shannon will likely appreciate this one. We have a lot of these around here. Any time you overturn a rock or other object, lots of these are found running around. They get up to 2 inches long and have some pretty impressive jaws. Bites aren't serious but I have felt them before and it'll put the hurt on you that's for sure. I'm fairly sure this is Scolopocryptops rubiginosa.

[RedSidedSPR]

Trust me I know

[infernalis]

[Didymus20X6]

Bunnies!

Now to clear this up, what type are those? Are they the kind that drop anvils on your head and put TNT down your pants, or the type that bite the heads off of silly English Knigghets?

[infernalis]

Nope, the kind that run rampant all over my yard......

[RedSidedSPR]

I have those all over the place. My dog caught/killed one last night TINY one too.

How are you holding them like that? Why aren't they fleeing in terror?

[ConcinusMan]

Wayne is a bunny whisperer.

Hey, I wonder if garters like bunny meat.

[Didymus20X6]

I don't know, but Scarlett is just greedy enough, she'd try to eat one. (She's the smaller one of my two females).