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About Me Member General Digital Photographer homestar455Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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  • Interests: Many things
  • Favourite movie: Dark Knight
  • Favourite band or musician: Skillet
  • Favourite genre of music: contemporary christian, christian rock
  • Favourite photographer: Myself! ;)
  • Operating System: Windows xp media center edition, Ubuntu 8.4
  • Favourite game: Gears of War 2
  • Favourite gaming platform: Xbox 360
  • Favourite cartoon character: Strong Bad
  • Personal Quote: Don't worry, I hate me as much as you do.
  • Tools of the Trade: anything and everything

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:iconjoshmolina2:
Hey tim whered you get the coupler to make your ghetto macro lens. it wont do any harm to the lens will it?
:iconhomestar455:
I got my reverse/macro coupler on ebay... Just search the words "reverse coupler" or "macro coupler" and the filter thread size(s) you need.
It won't do any harm to your lenses, it's just a ring with male filter threads on both sides so that you can connect two lenses together by their existing filter threads.
Meaning you'll have the main lens attached to the camera normally, then the ring attached to that main lens just like a filter, then the second lens attached to the ring (so that it's facing backwards)

If you don't mind my asking, what camera body and lenses do you have?

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:iconjoshmolina2:
I have a cannon digital rebel XTI and a telephoto zoom lens. Thats my moms
but thats what i use alot. The one i own is a cannon 35 mm rebel XTI

oh and of course plus the standard lenses they came with.

Ok ill search it. thanks tim
:iconhomestar455:
Nice, that should work out pretty good if you reverse one of the standard (18-50mm or something like that?) lenses in front of the telephoto (somewhere around/over 100mm I assume?) I have a friend on here who uses the same setup to get some great macros.

No problem, I look forward to seeing your macros.

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:iconjoshmolina2:
Great landscape work on your page tim.
:iconhomestar455:
Thank you, glad you like it.

You've got some interesting journalistic photos yourself. Do you plan on going into journalism, or maybe being a news photographer? (I can't think of the right term for that, lol)

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:iconjoshmolina2:
nah not really. i guess im not to sure what specific area of photography id like to do. but i like weird things. The reason i have mostly photojournalistic stuff is because i dont get to many chances to go out and photograph. But i like abstract stuff, and colorful things. But i also like sorta urban shots. i saw some photo's taken in detroit, (it looks so run down) but it made for some great shots. I also like people. theyr so strange and interesting. Im thinking of starting an irving pen project soon. So im kinda all over the place.
:iconhomestar455:
Yeah, I know what you mean, a lot of the times when I get out to shoot, it's with the family so I can do portraits for them, but ironically I'm not actually a huge fan of portraiture.

Urban stuff can be pretty cool, somehow even more so when it's cities that are run down.

What do you mean by an Irving Penn project? I can't say I'm familiar with that term?

I know how that is, I've kinda been all over the place myself. First I didn't even like photography and was only interested in programming, then I kinda sorta got into photography mainly doing random snapshots here and there, then my family convinced me to start trying to do portraits, then I started to do a lot of landscapes, and finally I've started to venture into the macro world... Really, I haven't stuck with any one thing too long before trying something new to add to my repertoire.

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:iconjoshmolina2:
Yeah that pretty much sounds like me. I was mostly interested in music and painting at first. My mom always encouraged me painting since i was little. (in fact we still have a painting i did of a rooster from when i was like 8 hanging in the kitchen) but now i was starting to take it a little more seriously. So i started getting into painting and working on that. and honestly i really dont know what happened. I sorta sporadically did photography here and there but not taking it seriously and not doing much to save my work. I lost most of it. I mostly just did it because i was in my moms photo class. mayby it was going to the protest that helped it click, hmm i'll have to think about that now. But anyways now im taking it a bit more seriously and i plan on taking classes for music art and photography and i'll even have some stuff in a gallery in LA this month. oh and Plus i need just make sure to work on them regularly. i had a bad habbit of working on stuff and getting really frustrated then giving up and not painting or drawing for a while. I dunno why, but with painting and drawing i have a lot of insecurity. i just dont like what i produce because its never what i see in my head. but i need to keep working on it. Painting has always attracted me more. i guess because im into like really weird sounding psychedelic jazzy noise experimental trip hop, butchered 20's movie score redone with chaotic trumpet over it music (experimental), and with paint it seems sorta easier to get those same effects in a picture. but now im realizing how much emotion and feel can be captured in a photo too. SO here i am now a mess! but thats how i like art anyways.

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