Now there’s a couple of happy motorcycle dudes. Here’s a photo from a 3 day Las Vegas ride I did with my dad. We rode a total of 800 miles, covering 3 states, including a long stretch on the Mother Road, Route 66.
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Canon EOS 450D
It figures. Shortly after purchasing my 400D, the 450D comes out. It’s got some neat features, but probably not worth getting too excited over yet. There’s one significant missing feature that would hold me back from upgrading — no “custom” settings. I find that this is the most annoying missing feature of the prosumer DSLRs. But it looks pretty cool nonetheless.
Published Rodeo Photo
The Seattle Times published one of my photos in their “Pix From My Weekend” site. This is the first time I’ve had one of my photos published in the print media. You can see the photo in its full glory at http://www.newentity.com/. Below is a screen cap of the web page where the photo is shown. I thought it was particularly cool that the editors actually comment on the photo itself:
Expert says: “Shooting from a high angle helps clean up the background of the photo. Cropping the photo into a vertical would help eliminate some of the excessive dead space around the horse and the rider. Dead space can be tricky; sometimes it helps you, other times it doesn’t. Nevertheless, this is still a great peak action moment.” — Carrie Niland, Seattle Times photo editor
FWIW, cropping to vertical wouldn’t leave much of an image left, although cropping to an 8×10 improves the image a bit. I submitted it in its original format.
