First shot with quantaray 70-300mm lens

[Justin.]

This is the wrong lens for my camera, so I'm forced to manual focus it.

It was way to bright outside, but I was eager to test it.

No editing at all, except a border and my name.

Here it is, comments or criticism welcome.

Just be easy, I still have a lot to learn with this camera/lens.

[speedminded]

Looks good, composition would be perfect if the bike was lower or even higher in the frame though

[Justin.]

Looks good, composition would be perfect if the bike was lower or even higher in the frame though

You are right about that, I was just ready to shoot some with it, next few shoots I take I will take that advice.

[uproot]

very nice , is that from the $20 lens

[Justin.]

very nice , is that from the $20 lens

Yes it is.

[uproot]

Yes it is.

thats cool... cant beat that for $20.. sucks that you have to manually focus, but looks like you didnt do too shabby of it.... might not work so well with moving subjects though, but definitely nice for $20 lol

[87 Turbo II]

That image looks great and well worth more than $20 (equipment wise, I'm not saying I'll pay you $20+ for that image)

Side note: very good manual focusing through a teeny weeny D40 viewfinder. It's like looking at a postage stamp at the end of a paper towel roll.

[Nemesis]

It's like looking at a postage stamp at the end of a paper towel roll.

Ansel Adams right hurrr folks.

[changaroo]

picture is sharpened right?

[Justin.]

picture is sharpened right?

nope.

[speedminded]

picture is sharpened right?

Think whatever program that was used to resize it compressed it so it looks jagged like it was sharpened.

[Justin.]

used photoshop cs2 to resize it.

[ryanh300]

used photoshop cs2 to resize it.

Nice pic man, not too shabby at all! But it does look like PS didn't do a good job of resizing it. Might want to take it back up to orig. a/r and take it down a little bit at a time.

[speedminded]

Nice pic man, not too shabby at all! But it does look like PS didn't do a good job of resizing it. Might want to take it back up to orig. a/r and take it down a little bit at a time.

i'd make sure the settings are on 300dpi or larger.

[87 Turbo II]

i'd make sure the settings are on 300dpi or larger.

why? That's for printing, it would make the picture too large on a computer monitor. HTML is read to display text and images in 72 dpi format.

[speedminded]

why? That's for printing, it would make the picture too large on a computer monitor. HTML is read to display text and images in 72 dpi format.

oops, you're right...i hadn't slept in 2 days when i wrote that

[SE-Rious1]

NICE!!!

[k20siboii]

nice pics man

[magneto198]

detailed