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It's called the "ZigView" and it is very cool.  There are two versions - one just acts as an angle finder, the other one has a motion sensor and interfaces with the camera via the remote port.  There's a lot of buzz about the motion sensor version as a great tool for wildlife photogs.

I'm thinking about the plain jane version.  I do a lot of portrait work so I am constantly bending down to look either through the viewfinder or my optical angle finder.  I used to shoot with medium format and loved the waist level finder of my old Mamiya RB67.  I do most of my studio work now with a Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c - so the ZigView may emulate the waist level finder.

That 100-400 is quite a handful...  My longest is a 300 2.8 with the 2x teleconverter - but let's not sink to lens envy!

OK, so much for this distraction - back to some real work.

http://usera.imagecave.com/Davidrium/IMG_8002aacp450lumsml.jpg

At night in an arena.

http://usera.imagecave.com/Davidrium/IMG_8312a.JPG

A/b the Zigview, yeah, I ordered one yesterday. I'm gonna get the upgrade, b/c I can put my 'mera on a pole, and shoot w/a remote.

I shoot snowboarding pictures from high down.

Yeah, it is. Lousy in low light, but incredible in day light.

Check these out.

http://usera.imagecave.com/Davidrium/Misc/IMG_9004aa.jpg

Both my computer and physical desktops are usually cluttered.  However, I have a zen-like need for simplicity.  To resolve the two I take a "batch" approach to the problem.  Periodically, I go through the stuff on my desk, put away the critical stuff and throw the other stuff away(Same for the computer, just deleting icons I don't use).  Ditto for dealing with the piles around my house.  That's how I get to where I am.

Iz that Zennie enough for you?

Thank God for drawers, cabinets, and storage boxes.

As for me and my harddrive, I store everything I ever created on DVDs  via a terabyte HD.
Hmmmm, let me see if I can find my tripod photo.

I do it for stability, and to get up close and personal with the subject.
Hmmmmm, Image Cave is down.

Can't log onto the server.

I'll try that later.
As for the hyperfocus/creativity issues:

NO DOUBT

That's why I do it.

There's a satisfaction in my heart/brain/life when I can create something of how I see the world.

It gets the thought out of my mind, onto a media that others can see, perchance to understand, and may silence their doubts about my abilities.

I should make a movie called

Silence of the Doubts

You've got the same lens as me.  It's amazing the detail that it will pick up.  I'm using a Canon Rebel XT digital.  Fantastic camera.  I haven't used a tripod with my lens yet.  Too lazy to get it out.  I've got a shorty travel tripod that is about 8-10" long and a regular big one.  The macro shots that I've done have all been hand held.  PM me your email and I'll send you some shots.  

So do you think that the macro photog allows us to indulge our hyperfocus/creative side?

 

David, with all sincerity... you're funny!Hey, addman!

Well, come to the threads!

And thanks a/b the angled view finder.

I just now bought a 100mm-400mm f4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens for my cannon. heheh.

The clerk told me a/b an angled view finder that's an LCD camera that slips onto the rubber receiver slots. Btw, they wanted 9 for the angled canon vf there.

He told me the manufacturer name, but I forgot.

I think I'll go back...
Hey people!  New member, and newly diagnosed (finally).  re the desktop - old computer is full of icons, new computer is intentionally near empty.  Real desktop (and entire office) is a complete disaster to anyone but me.  Oldest stuff on the bottom - what's the problem with that???

I'm a photographer, so the meandering course of this thread caught my eye, too.

Two things, the 100mm macro is great, but if you really want to get close, get yourself a set of bellows and a decent lens.  You can pick up both on eBay pretty cheap.  Another thing to add to your arsenal is a right angle finder.  The Canon brand is over 0, but there are chinese knockoffs that are great for about .00.


[QUOTE=Davidornado] Hmmmm, let me see if I can find my tripod photo.

I do it for stability, and to get up close and personal with the subject.

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Here, I got in.

http://usera.imagecave.com/Davidrium/Flowers/DSC03494.JPG

[QUOTE=ADD&Proud]David, with all sincerity... you're funny![/QUOTE]

&Proud, with all sincerity...you're ADD!

And btw, thanks for the complete ment.

I thought I had some value, somewhere...

Forever, people have been telling me, "How can you think with all of that stuff on the screen?" "How can you see when it's that small? [on single monitor, I use 1600X1200 to get everything on the screen that I need]?" "Do you really need all of that stuff open?"   On my desktop, everything has it's place and shouldn't be moved without careful thought. But the desk that the monitor[s] are on is usually in disarray. Papers, post-its, notes, books, print outs,... To me, the stuff on the desk was secondary, I am working on the computer.   While working on a project. Everything is some what related with exception of the music playing in the background.
www.turbofish.com/desktop.htm   So, what does your desktop look like? I'm beginning to think this is just another trait of AD/HD - I always just thought I was a bit weird.turbofish38828.9485648148In a word, covered. I can actually see wood grain here and there though. I guess it's not that bad. My desktop is full of icons for everything imaginable.  Underneath all that is a pretty spring screen saver but it would be much prettier if I'd only clean up those icons.  Ha!

My desktop is pitch black.

I kinna have nuthin' distracting me from my brain.

Here, I caved the image so you can see:

I manage all my frequent programs from the Quick Launch taskbars.

Here's an image caved from my popups:

Occasionally I'll bg a photo I'm particularly proud of, for awhile.

Then I get bored with it, or need the ramspace.

That's a killer photog, ain't it?

I sold 5 pieces this weekend, just walking and talking.

Guess I'm a semi-pro now.

ADD&Proud,
Yes, I do macro, too. That lupine is a macro of mine, that I messed with on PhotoShop. One of my recent acquisitions is the Canon Macro Lens EF 100mm 1:2.8 USM. Amazing device. I needed a tripod, so got one with it, too.

In order to post on this particular website, you have to have a distinctly unique web address for each photo. There are several websites out there that offer free, and for a fee, photo web hosting that will fit the parameters required by ADHDnews.com. Auntie turned me on (to Image Cave), and I've used them since. I suppose you could google "photo web hosting" and get a list of others, as well.

What camera body do you have? I use the 20D. Great little tool, but I'm drooling for some of the 1D Mark 2 series. Maybe for Christmas! Hey, Santa! Listening???

Have fun shooting,

Davidornado
Davidornado, you do macro photog too?  My husband gave me a Canon macro lens for my birfday to go with the Canon digital camera he got me for Christmas.  I love the up close and personal stuff.  I'd post some pics but do you have to have them on a website to do it?