Playing with my new toy.

tomhooper · Jul 19, 2008

I received my new Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro yesterday afternoon and this is the first chance I've gotten to play with it. Still on the learning curve, but I can tell I'm gonna like this new lens. Please C&C and give any advise you might have.

LaFoto · Jul 19, 2008

Oops. You seem to have forgotten to attach the photo............................

tomhooper · Jul 19, 2008

Well what do you expect from an Aggie? I'll try again.

LaFoto · Jul 20, 2008

What's an "Aggie"?
And what birds are supposed to eat these seeds?
For it is bird seeds we see here, isn't it?
You happen to have any photos of the birds at dinner time (not taken with your new toy, of course, but with another lens you have)?

Bifurcator · Jul 20, 2008

Aggie

The term pertains to students or teams at some historic land grant, mechanical & agricultural schools.

Nice image!

Coldow91 · Jul 20, 2008

I thought Aggie was someone who attended Texas A&M

tomhooper · Jul 20, 2008

Texas A&M Aggies. I have 3 degrees from that fine institution and my son is a senior there now. It is located in College Station, Texas.

Most of those are sunflower seeds and oh yeah, the birds really go for them, especially Cardinals. I'll check and see if I have any shots of them.

I know the image is a little soft, but I was hand holding and hadn't changed my f-stop. Shot the darn thing at 1/13 of a second. I think its pretty sharp for hand held at that speed. Really got lucky it wasn't blurred. When you have luck, you can don't have to have brains. I'm going out again this morning with a tripod and a little more brainpower. Hope I have some better images to put up.

Do'Urden's Eyes · Jul 21, 2008

We call the agricultural student at my school (University of Guelph) aggies. guess its universal.

toofpaste · Jul 21, 2008

Noise anyone?

Do'Urden's Eyes · Jul 22, 2008

I think the 'noise' might be the dirty seeds?

toofpaste · Jul 22, 2008

Hmm....You might be right.

jaharris1001 · Jul 22, 2008

Take that lens outside and lets see what you got :mrgreen: Ive seen many a fine image with that lens,, now,, got out there and use it

Do'Urden's Eyes · Jul 22, 2008

its a sharp mofo. have fun. give us something interesting

rufus5150 · Jul 22, 2008

Texas A&M Aggies. I have 3 degrees from that fine institution and my son is a senior there now.

3 degrees? So you mean you can walk, talk AND feed yourself?

(And before the ban hammer comes out, KIDDING! -- It's law in Austin we must make jokes at an aggie's expense.)

tomhooper · Jul 22, 2008

The jokes are ok. We maroon blooded ags just consider the source and let it go. Just received my season tickets in the mail the other day. I have officially become an "old ag". I have armchair seats now. When did I get old?
Plan to take a bunch of shots. As my moniker says, "I love to shoot macro".
The seeds do have a fine dust on them and that may be part of the noise.
Oh and yeah, I can walk, talk, chew gum, and take pictures at the same time.
My son gets his ring in September, and if you know anything about Aggies, that is special. Its really special for my family, myself and my brother will be there for his ring dunk.
Here is another shot taken the next morning. Still not happy with it, but getting closer. Let me know what you think about my stinkbug.