Eric & Tricia Online: Photography

In my family, amateur photography seems to be a genetic trait, everybody is always snapping away. We have loving referred to ourselves as the Kodak Family (If only we had bought and sold stock when film was king.) For years, other than event/memory and travel photography, I wasn't really bitten by this photography bug.

Then digital became a reality for consumers and my interest began to increase. Once DSLRs for consumers became affordable...that was it...I was hooked.

Now photography has come one of my main hobbies and the one that I can do any day at any time. Currently I am not focusing on any particular type of photography, trying them all in order to improve my technique. However, I really enjoy travel photography (but that might be because of the travel part) and landscape photography. Not to mention beagle photography. Each week one of my pictures is featured on our Picture of the Week page.

In 2005 I did a pictures of the year project to help improve my photography. I took at least one picture everyday. Some days I got stuff I liked and others I didn't, but it did seem to help with composition.

Please visit our gallery to see currently posted images. All galleries hosted by Image Event.

Cameras

Canon 20D: My primary camera is a Canon 20 Digital SLR. This is my first
interchangeable lens camera. It offers much better speed, low
light performance and flexibility then my point and shoots.

• Detailed review at DP Review
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Canon PowerShot G1: This was my first digital camera and is now my
back up camera. I got it in December 2000 and it has been a very
good camera.It is a 3.1 Megapixel with a 34 - 104mm zoom lens.

• Detailed review at DP Review

Lenses

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II: I got this as my first low light fast prime lens. This lens is the cheapest and lightest in the canon line up.

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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM: This is the kit lens that came with my 20D. It is a good light weight consumer lens but a little short as a walk around lens.

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Sigma 18-125mm F3.5-5.6 DC: This is my general purpose walk around lens. It is a good consumer lens when you have enough light and has great range for when you want to carry only one lens.

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Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO: This is my first tele-zoom. It is a good inexpensive tele-zoom. There are better lens, but this is a good lens to learn tele-zoom technique.

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