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Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski at B&H this Monday, May 5th. Why oh why did it have to be on a Monday!!

p.s. Whyyyyy!!!

That title just offered itself up. Elementary Telephotography by Ernest Marriage (1901) may be the first book on the subject [10 mins. later - not quite true - Dallmeyer wrote a book although mostly about the physics of telephotography], although articles have been written some time before the publication. Chapter 3, after the first two were devoted to the construction of telephoto lenses, gets into the fun stuff. Notice the words “snap shots” in there? I wonder what snap shots meant to photogs back then.

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As expected, telephoto lenses were used for similar reasons as today. What about this shot? The early Paparazzo?

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Using a hat to screen incoming light? Been there, done that.

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Wildlife photographers, as they do today, cherished the telephoto lenses.

Hey, this cow dude is wildlife to me.

Lastly, check out this ad. The metal construction looks hot! Looks like it could fit right on my Rebel XTi.

Of course, I thank you a million times, deary, for giving me this gift. And you know it brought a tear or two to mine eyeses. But I have to - which I should have the first time - thank folks at B&H who’ve shown me, once again, why this place rocks! The two hours or so I’ve spent asking question and question, they’ve answered them all and more. Usually when you go buy electronics at other stores the sales guy will play the ‘expensive is better’ card and dump stuff on you that makes you feel like the morning after a one-night stand - a whore!

I wasn’t sure what lens to get, what card reader to get, or pretty much, what any accessories to choose from; I only knew I wanted an XTi. The guy - wish I asked him to spell his name; I’ll ballpark it as ‘Nooy’ (somebody know him, please let me know the right sp) - demoed various lenses on an XTi, explained why one has a better advantage over the other and, get this, looked up deals that would save me money on this purchase. In short, I left happy. He’d also given several tips on the camera, batteries, etc and which carrying case would fit the camera right for the dollar. The guy who helped me at the carrying case section asked what I was looking for in a case and he pointed me to an even better case that fit my needs and for a cheaper price.

Let a store help you buy what you need when you yourself don’t know what it is? I would B, and H…both…anyday

An article from 1897 by G. Davison. The idea that composition is beyond arrangement of lines and borders is still lost among photogs 111 years later. G. Davison, if I’m not mistaken, is George Davison.

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March 9, 2008. Today I picked up my first DSLR camera - a b’day gift from my baby - and this also marks the first time I’ve owned any camera in my life. I mean I’ve never even owned a point and shoot. I have been taking all these pics with borrowed equipment - my cellphone camera doesn’t count. Although I love my cellphone camera as it has given me a lot of gems.

Behold, ladies and gents.

I got the following accessories:

An EF 28-90 mm f/4-5.6 III lens.

4 1GB ScanDisk CF Cards (could’ve gotten two 2GBs or 1 4GB, but these came in a whole lot cheaper)

1 Impact Li-Ion battery.

1  Kingston Tech 15-in-1 Card Reader (meaning I don’t have to go through the painful process of uploading my cellphone pics via bluetooth)

1 Tiffen UV Filter

A Tamrac carrying case.

Just fucking dandy, as George Carlin would say. Very exciting! Couldn’t wait to take pics. Beautiful day, I thought, should be made to freeze in my camera. I did rush home. I did set up cam. I did jump on the bus to go to Fort Tryon Park. The sun would be down in another twenty minutes or so. No problem, I got enough time. I snapped and snapped. Got some pretty cool shots. The sun was spreading the right kinda color.

Got home.

Made some coffee.

Coffee brewing. Why not check out what I got.

Doodling around with camera settings.

Shots looking nice.

Will import them once I have coffee.

Oh, what’s that? Format card? Sure, why not!

(after format)

Card reads - 32KB used.

WHAAAAT!!!!

A string of words along the lines of motherfucker, fuck, shit, fucking shit, cocksucker, fuuuckkkk….etc etc.

All pics gone.

You know the funniest part about this whole thing? I have close to 800 photos on Flickr and a few hundred more on my iPhoto. And I wait till my first camera to cause my first major FUBAR.

What an orientation! This will be a great year.