Today was the first day of Autumn, but it looked like a mid-summer day!
What a nice day to go out with a camera and try to make a nice summer photograph
And so I went out, I tried, I waited and tried again. I even got myself a little stool and waited for the perfect moment.
There were some bees in my garden and I focussed on shooting them, suddenly there was a nice moment and I went for it!
I knelt down even more so I was on an equal level to the bee! Click, zap! Got it!
Wanna see the result?
Here it is:

What I am trying to tell you, is that patience is a very important element of photography. I'm not always patient, but most of the time it is definitely worth waiting for! So next time you go out and shoot some shots, wait, look at your photo and decide for yourself whether this is what you wanted. Would you put it on your wall?
If not, try it again. Maybe from a different POV(point of view) might work.
Wait for the moment, the moment when your photo is not just a photo but got something special!
Of course this is all free to your own interpretation.

The photo above was shot with my 70 - 300 lens @ 300mm, with a shutterspeed of 1/400 and an iso of just 200 as it was a very bright day. The aperture was a very regular f/5.6.
Here are some more photos of today, I hope you enjoy them.
Please comment and share ideas, if you have your own blog, post it. Share for joy!
Thank you for your time!
Tom

P.S. If you wanna learn more on photography, feel free to ask and hopefully I can help you!

I'm not a professional so I might not know everything. If not, you can always visit this site http://craftandvision.com/ , where you can buy ebooks for a very little price created by very passionate professional photographers!

French Cuisine?

Hey you all,

How are you? Been up to much? Feel free to comment on my photos and blog, I'd love to hear what you think! Any comment is a useful comment. What do you like to 'shoot'?
I'm not a photographer interested in a particular field, I usually like to photograph wildlife and lifestyle, cars, people, architecture and basically everything around us!

Do you guys have a blog or twitter or anything like that? I'm on there as TomRuben or just Tom Ruben.
Just to update my blog here are some photos I personally like, I took them on my holiday in France. I hope you enjoy! Thank you!

Tom

P.S. As French Cuisine is very good, I obviously had to take photos of the food there! Bon Appetit!

To give an impression of the stuff I shoot, here are some examples:

The photo above was shot at my uncle, @ sun set. it was shot with my 18-55 lens at ISO 800, 55 mm F/5.6 and 1/4000.

This photo was shot on a bridge above the highway on a tripod. My settings were: ISO 200, 18 mm, F/5.6 and a very long shutter speed to get the lights as long as possible, 30 seconds.

This last photo, is one I shot during winter when I went out with a friend of mine just to shoot whatever we bumped into. It is shot out of hand @ ISO 200, 40 mm, F/5.6 and shutter speed of 1/80.

Thank you for your time and see you @ the next post!

X

Tom

My First Post!

Hi people,


my name is Tom Ruben and I am a student at Maastricht University. 
I'm starting this blog as I wanted to share my big passion with you all, namely photography! I have been into photography for a couple of years now and I first started with mobile phone cameras and analog cameras, which was really cool but then I wanted more.. 


..luckily the first digital cameras came out, I say luckily as those memorycards are so useful, and my parents bought a, at the time, very good one. The digital era was born!
So I played with that for a little while, till I saved some cash to buy my own which was a Sony Cybershot. After lots of photos, this one broke down due to some sand from the beach and I had to buy a new one.
As the Cybershot felt quite good in my hands and was at a very reasonable price, I bought a new but better Cybershot, the W120. This one, still working today, gave me lots of fun and a bit more experience.


One day, a very close friend of mine and fellow photographer said he wanted to get rid of his DSLR Nikon D40 and I, by the time when I outgrew my W120, was very willing to buy it from him! 
Oh my god a real Digital Single-Lens Reflex Camera I thought, and bought it!
The buy included two lenses, a standard 50 mm lens and a 18-55 lens. After a week I spoke to my friend and said that I was thinking of buying a lens with which I could reach for a longer distance, but he told me to first check out the 18 - 55 lens and get to know the camera! So I did that and it helped a lot! After nearly a year I then finally thught it was time to buy another objective and got myself the Nikkor 70-300 AF-S VR. This one is perfect for me for now and I take it everywhere! 
Ofcourse there are lots of other lenses I would like to buy, but take this from me, don't rush it!
There is plenty of time!


In this blog, I want to show you photos I take with my Nikon D40 at home, at sports occassions, in the neighbourhood and on trips. With my photos I would like to share the techniques I used and ofcourse you can add your info as I'm far from an expert!
I hope you enjoy it very much and that I'm able to upload lots of cool stuff!


Thank you for your time,


Tom


P.S. The first lesson I want to give you is that you have to enjoy photography and let your idea flow, creativity is the key word! Also check out www.chasejarvis.com as he is my idol when it comes to photography! X