A&P First picture with my new SLR

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.

 

I know where that is.

 

for a first pic.
Check the white balance on it

 

nice pic.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

great shot for your first one.

 

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

 

20 second exposure.

Balanced it on my dick.

 

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

 

Cool first, and welcome to OTAP.