MnX
Track the ball
Posted by MnX (Shanghai, China) on 24 October 2006 in Miscellaneous.
Yep it's a trackball ball...I know weird, but having an idea a day without having weird idea isn't easy...
Duncan Galbraith from kyoto, Japan
that might have to be my new mission...a weird idea at least once a week or something. nice picture. and your last image made me smile!
25 Oct 2006 11:11am
@Duncan Galbraith: My recipe for having weird ideas : really take a photo a day (at least). But do it at the end of the day when you don't want to go out, at this very moment you'll find plenty of objects that could be subjects... you'll definitly come to a weird one at a moment or another.
Kelvin Chan from New York City, United States
you have a very professional camera. please use it to its potential. you should be more concerned about the picture quality than the quantity of how many pictures you take. take your camera outside and be observant of your surroundings. you will find subjects much much more interesting than trackballs or soups or cell phones. take multiple pictures a day, then put them up daily. you will improve drastically.
26 Oct 2006 3:34am
@Kelvin Chan: Thanks for the advise. It's a new camera and I don't know yet how to use it well. I don't really have time to go outside everyday (I'm training for some competition, and it drains my time and stamina a lot), but I wanted to learn to use the camera well quickly. So I decided to do at least a photo a day, whatever stupid or bad it was. If not doing like that I would take my camera only once every one or two weeks... it would be really bad. And oh, using it like this made me learn that my lens had some flaws in low light I never noticed before. But I promise I'll try to go out with the camera more often.
Damon Schreiber from Toronto, Canada
I have to take issue with Kelvin's comment. Just because you have a "professional" camera doesn't mean that you have to take wonderful pictures, any more than having a cheap camera obliges you to take bad photos. Everyone has to learn and start from somewhere; don't be jealous that he's learning on a camera that's "better" than yours.
Cyrille, keep looking at the world around you, and try to isolate the things that startle you from their surroundings. Teach yourself to see things in new ways. Try looking up or down as you walk rather than just straight ahead. Keep posting every day if you can. I think it's a good exercise because it will cause you to think train your eyes more and more. Bonne chance!
27 Oct 2006 3:22pm
@Damon Schreiber: Thanks for the advices. As I said to kelvin, those "stupid" photos are taken because I am often short on time, and I'm searching for subjects at home when tired. Although I'm always moving with my camera. I must also admit, I'm a little shy with my camera. I mean it really is a good camera. And stopping in the street to take photos isn't easy knowing I'm not a good photographer. But I'm trying to overpass this feeling. And as you said I'm looking up and down, left and right. And I'm seeing many things I found usual that in fact are great.
Petr Jaskovsky from Ostrava, Czech Republic
Hi, you must learn how to wake up the photografic eye in you head. I know its difficult if you live in big city. However me too, but I take my camere everytime when is the opportunity. Last time I took out my camera to cemetery. I have taken a lots of photos and they will be at least my next 3 reports on aminus3 but with about two or three days interspace...
30 Oct 2006 5:23pm
Canon EOS 5D
1/50 second
F/4.5
ISO 800
75 mm