Man, this is a great post I just happened to stumble upon just now regarding photographing cycling/cyclists – a twilight criterium to be exact. Seems like a good post for Amanda and I to read, reread and bookmark!

Shooting a Twilight Criterium

So I’ve decided to make a little off shoot of Keefermadness that specifically deals with Photography and the similar topics. Since the recent purchase of our SLR, I’ve been very interested in getting back into photography. Check out my little site on Wordpress.

Here’s a great collection of some of the recent best on Flickr. I love a lot of these shots, and am slightly jealous of the photographers’ collective talent.

Flickr Interestingness

Nice list of digital photographers’ pitfalls. Most are freaking obvious, but nothing wrong with a couple of reminders/reinforcers:

7 Bad Habits of Digital Photographers

With us getting our first digital SLR recently, I went ahead and added a photography category to Keefer Madness, and what a better way to make its first post than to link to this article containing ten gorgeous shots. The snake head with the super shallow depth of field is the best. I also really like the macro shot of the Bee.

Earth Shots

So Amanda and I have both been wanting to upgrade our camera for awhile. We had a nice quality point and shoot Canon camera that did a decent job, but we’ve both wanted to step it up to a digital SLR.

Well, a few days ago, we finally pulled the trigger, when we saw one of the models we were watching show up on one of the deal sites. Through Dell, of all places, we got a Canon Rebel XTi 10.1 megapixel camera (EOS 400D I believe) and it arrived today to me at work. We have barely scratched, the surface, but we’re already impressed.

Our old Canon point and shoot is great, and we won’t be getting rid of that little guy, but this new digital SLR is in a whole other league, especially when you compare pics from the two side-by-side. Just in the few shots we took tonight, the detail and clarity is awesome. While, I’m not discounting the skill of any photographer, it definitely does help to have the right tools for the job!

We took a little bit of time just to fool around with it, but it’s going to take some time to get adept as utilizing this bad boy to its fullest. We both have taken classes in photography, but it’s been many years for both of us. Hopefully, with time, some of that training will come back through using the camera, and reading up.

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