Your Best D5200 Photos

mauckcg

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Me me me me me!


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I guess the first question is Exif data or no Exif data, whats your all's preferences?
 

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outlet15

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mauckcg

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I can't believe I missed this picture when I went through the Mid Ohio Grand Am pictures the first 3 or 4 times. I love this camera.

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mauckcg

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(Snip)All pictures were taken with the kit 18-55mm lens. The B/W were edited using the camera's color selection feature and the color images were lightly edited with Photoshop elements 11. I'm brand new to photography. Just looking for a creative outlet and a camera was the only outlet I could do because I can't draw.
They look fantastic. I never had the much luck with the kit lens. What aperture are you typically using?
 

outlet15

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Thanks. I use shutter priority over aperture, but I like to try and keep my aperture as open as possible so to get the depth of feel images. With the kit lens it is harder to get that feel unless you are right up on the object (from my experience).

I like your shots. To get the cars as they are going around, do you use a tripod and track the car, or do you just shoot the image by holding the camera and tracking.

Do you like the 35mm 1.8, 70-200mm, and the sigma? I was looking into getting a new lens, but I am not sure which route to go. I was looking at the 35mm, 50mm, tokina 11-16, 70-200mm 2.8, and if I was serious about photography I would really like to get the 24-70 but that is really expensive.
 

mauckcg

Senior Member
Thanks. I use shutter priority over aperture, but I like to try and keep my aperture as open as possible so to get the depth of feel images. With the kit lens it is harder to get that feel unless you are right up on the object (from my experience).

I like your shots. To get the cars as they are going around, do you use a tripod and track the car, or do you just shoot the image by holding the camera and tracking.

Do you like the 35mm 1.8, 70-200mm, and the sigma? I was looking into getting a new lens, but I am not sure which route to go. I was looking at the 35mm, 50mm, tokina 11-16, 70-200mm 2.8, and if I was serious about photography I would really like to get the 24-70 but that is really expensive.

Combination of hand holding and using my monopod. I use continuous focus and track the cars through the turn or breaking/acceleration zone I stake out. Then snap away as you follow it.

I was getting very inconsistent results with the 18-55 kit lens. The 35mm was highly recommended by virtually everyone who has used it so i bought one thinking maybe a prime would help me learn. First time out got some great results and my images were much more consistent, which from a learning point makes it that much easier to see what your doing right and wrong. I think maybe I may have gotten a soft 18-55.

The 70-200 2.8 VRII is an amazing lens. My second race with it was the Grand Am race the pictures in this thread are from. The quality this thing can produce speaks for itself. And it is just as sharp at 70mm f2.8 as it is at 200mm f2.8 which will be nice when i go to the 24 Hours of Daytona next year.

I found with the 70-200 i really don't go beyond f5.6 or 6.3 unless it's hideously bright out and i need to drop my shutterspeed. Sigma just came out with the new 17-70 2.8-4 Contemporary. Up to this point, everything I had read about the new Art, Sport, and Contemporary series of lenses has been exremely positive. The old 17-70 OS was regarded as a pretty good lens.

I bought the new model over the Nikon 16-85 for the extra light and the fact it is $100 on average cheaper. The first two images I posted in this thread are with this lens, 50 and 70mm respectively, both at f4. Fantastic lens, and one I can't recommend enough if a DX user wants something better than their kit lens without spending a small fortune to large fortune on a 2.8 lens. The only downside I have found, it will color fringe purple just a slight amount on shiny high contrast surfaces in bright sunlight. Easily correctable in Lightroom, but it's there nonetheless
 

outlet15

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Here are some additional photos. Same lens (18-55mm kit). I was shooting in RAW so I modified them a little to make them have an HDR (almost) effect. I would like to do one with the proper software eventually, but as a novice I'll start slow and build up.
 

mauckcg

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This isn't so much a best of shot, but more of a what this camera is capable of. 100% crop of a, Nascar Nationwide car at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, panning shot.

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jrush78

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I have not went through all of the photos I have taken over the past week of being a new DSLR owner but here is one I took last Monday night.
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tacoeater

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Just got my D5200 and love it! I got the 18-55/55-200VR combo. Still playing around in Auto mode but love this picture. Used the 18-55 here.
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