ART First picture with my new SLR

[Striff]

I got my first SLR today. So I am new to the OT camera crew

I got a XSi and a Canon EF 17-40mm lens. I plan on taking landscapes mostly so that's the reason I got the 17-40. I got the cheap body and the expensive lens so I could kinda grow into it and eventually upgrade to a nicer body.

Anyways, I took a couple pictures with it tonight down by the freeway and this was my favorite.

 

[isaac86hatch]

I know where that is.

 

[oliver]

for a first pic.
Check the white balance on it

 

[Girth]

nice pic.

 

[Striff]

I know where that is.

Where do you think its at? Lets see if your right.

 

[isaac86hatch]

Where do you think its at? Lets see if your right.

At first thought it was I5 from the 52 overpass. But looking again, I know it's not. I dunno anymore. Looks like I5 pointed north to me or perhaps 8 West.

 

[Striff]

At first thought it was I5 from the 52 overpass. But looking again, I know it's not. I dunno anymore. Looks like I5 pointed north to me or perhaps 8 West.

I5 looking south over Birmingham in Encinitas

 

[isaac86hatch]

I5 looking south over Birmingham in Encinitas

yup, dammit. I was close. It's funny though, I've moved 900 miles and still live a mile away from the same freeway. I miss SD.

 

[JDizzy92]

nice picture. night shots of overpass freeway are always cool. Too bad over here they like to put high fences on the overpasses so no one jumps off...

 

[Striff]

nice picture. night shots of overpass freeway are always cool. Too bad over here they like to put high fences on the overpasses so no one jumps off...

I thought I was going to fall off. The railing is only like 3 feet high. Some dude went over it on his motorcycle last year and fell to his death

 

[widds2v]

did you use a tripod for that or is that something you can do freehand? now that im back in SD i want to expand my skills.

 

[Striff]

did you use a tripod for that or is that something you can do freehand? now that im back in SD i want to expand my skills.

That was with a tripod.

 

[tetsuo]

great shot for your first one.

 

[asdfbunk]

did you use a tripod for that or is that something you can do freehand? now that im back in SD i want to expand my skills.

pretty long exposure to be free hand unless he had hands of steel or something

 

[Striff]

pretty long exposure to be free hand unless he had hands of steel or something

20 second exposure.

Balanced it on my dick.

 

[widds2v]

maybe he's a neursurgeon and can hold a camera steady for 20sec

 

[asdfbunk]

 

[f/2.8L]

Cool first, and welcome to OTAP.