Thanks!

By the way, the missing exif is 50mm (a Nikon 1.4) and f/4.
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well, i doubt you'll be printing these, so just be brutal about it and crop as far as you can whilst still keeping the image above 600 or 800 pixels for your web use.

here's some advice the next time this happens: good photojournalists are total assholes. push your way to the front, stand tall in front of every one, take time to frame and set your exposure and dof and wait for a good capture. Jesse Jackson won't care; celebrities and the like NEED good photographers to put good images of them out there. yes, everyone else is going to pissed at you and will be thinking of rude things to say to you that they won't actually utter. but fuck em, they're just jealous.

tl;dr - you won't be very successful or consistent with your photography if you're being shy and timid.

>>1401441
Good point. Any further forward, though, and I'd have been standing in front of a bank of pro video cameras. A 50mm did not cut it.

>>1401449
Now you know some of the limits of a 50mm.

And yeah, sometimes, you have to be "that guy." "That guy" is getting his shots in.

>>1401454
I saw an expensive mix of primes and zooms there today. Tell me, is an 85mm worthwhile, and would it have any uses outside portraiture?

Here is what '"that guy" produced.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Jesse-Jackson-urges-a-new-federal-war-on-poverty-2189332.php#photo
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>>1401458
I hate rediculous questions like this. you can use 85mm for landscape, abstract, photojournalism, nature/wildlife, sports, aerial, ....even kite photography, it doesn't matter. my favorite lens is a 100mm macro that has IS. people are always asking me, "can you take portraits with that?" (while I am doing just that)

well, why the hell not? since this was outdoors, I think a 70-200 or something like that would have been ideal.

>>1401458
>is an 85mm worthwhile, and would it have any uses outside portraiture?
every lens has a use outside that which people generally use it for. Haters might hate, but you might get some unique shots too. If i were there I'd probably be using an uber-telephoto to take tight headshot portraits of everyone... just for the lolz.

>>1401466
decent stuff from "that guy," cut off his arm in that one frame, but the expressions of jackson and the man behind him are good. the shots of the crowd are kind of snapshottish, tho I like the one with jackson oof at the edge of the frame. did you take any other shots of the scene, or just portraits of jackson?

Well I have half a dozen photos of Jackson lookin grump and President McDavis clenching his buttocks. Let me see....

>>1401469

>every lens has a use outside that which people generally use it for

Not the canon 65mm MP-E. It's really only possible to use it for macro.

Here:
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>>1401441
Took your advice:
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That'll do.

Thanks for the advice. A longer lens would be nice. At the moment, though, I am not sure which is more limiting, my D40x body or my lens, so I'm being cautious.
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>>1401496
alright. you got me there. that macro lens, fisheye lenses, and imo (mr. eglington) mirror lenses have definite areas of usage that necessarily exclude doing other types of photography with them... doing architecture with a fisheye, or close-ups with a mirror lens, for example, might make a novel photograph, but by and large, those are not the best lenses for those applications.

>>1401512
fixed the head room

that brick wall section above their heads does nothing for the photograph.
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>>1401528
Thanks. I seem to keep putting the faces right in the middle of the frame and it does me no good.

Ok, I've got to ask.

WHY did you photoshop the same face on every person in these shots?

>>1401566
>OP posts different cropped versions of an original
>"WHY did you photoshop the same face on every person in these shots?"

ahahaha at the retards posting tonight. you the one arguing about dof in the other thread?

>>1401458
A friend just got one, and was using it mostly for landscape this morning (I brought a 50 and 180mm). I think they're decent (but not great) with a macro tube.

In general, good crops. The biggest thing I've had to learn after the basics is, "be patient." Wait for the image that you want before releasing the shutter (film is a good way to practice this).

Not very related, but I finally got a photo of the new MLK memorial where he didn't look so angry.
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