**Random photos of anything... (that YOU have taken)**

Took these about 45 minutes ago.

A house caught on fire less than a mile from my house. It really went up quick. It was this big before the fire deparment even got there. Unfortunetly for the owners, the whole house is gone from what I heard on the news and there may have been a fatality.

Picture quality isn't that great. Was using a point and shoot. Tried some night settings and long exposure but they didnt come out that great. Im in my backyard on top of our play structure. That little stack is for our stove. Im about 15ft up Id guess.

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slickooz said:
I can get a refurbished 7D for about 1163 shipped. Might pick 7D and upgrade to FF when I have enough funds. I like 24-70mm but like you said it might not be wide enough since its a crop camera.
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I'll try to post some shots with the 24-70 so you can evaluate the wide angle end of the lens on the 7D.
 
Jacob - that was a big fire. Reminded me that I had some pictures of my neighbors house burning a few years ago:

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It was very big indeed. The actual fire wasnt as intense as the pictures make it look, I couldnt figure out how to capture the flames. It wasnt a huge fireball. Just a very big fire. The flames I would guess peaked at 10ft above the house.

Here is another picture I took 4-5 years ago when we had wild fires going on in socal.
The fire was about 3-5 miles away. On a mountain side. The time was 3-4am. All the neighbors were woken up one way or another and packing to evacuate. What was the most frightening is we have no idea where the fire actually was. We thought it was on the other side of the hill. Turned out it was a few miles away. It was really scary, it was a very ominous orange glow. I packed up my valuables in my car and we waited for several hours till we deemed it safe to go back to sleep.

I took this with a point and shoot panasonic lumix on a tripod with the "starry sky" option. I think I did either the 30 or 60 second exposure to really capture the light. It came out a bit exagerated. But there really was an orange glow.

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LegacyGT said:
I'll try to post some shots with the 24-70 so you can evaluate the wide angle end of the lens on the 7D.
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:iagree:

BTW slickooz Gary do you have a zoom lens such as the kit lens?
Try to limit yourself and start using it from the 24mm point and see how it works in your daily shooting.
If you found that you need to step backward or always trying to zoom out beyond 24mm (to a smaller focal number like 18, 20 etc), then most likely you will find a 24-xxx mm lens not that appealing to you.
 
Right now I'm using 15-85mm with my crop camera. So 15mm on crop is really a 24mm on a FF. I think if I was going pair 24-70mm on a FF it wide enough for me. But if I was going pair it with a crop camera 24mm is really 38.4 which isn't great for a walk around lens.

Canon right now is having 15% off on their website. If 5dmarkii and 24-70mm comes back in stock I'm getting it. Want to see whats all these FF talk is about. :)
 
timaishu said:
It was very big indeed. The actual fire wasnt as intense as the pictures make it look, I couldnt figure out how to capture the flames. It wasnt a huge fireball. Just a very big fire. The flames I would guess peaked at 10ft above the house.

Here is another picture I took 4-5 years ago when we had wild fires going on in socal.
The fire was about 3-5 miles away. On a mountain side. The time was 3-4am. All the neighbors were woken up one way or another and packing to evacuate. What was the most frightening is we have no idea where the fire actually was. We thought it was on the other side of the hill. Turned out it was a few miles away. It was really scary, it was a very ominous orange glow. I packed up my valuables in my car and we waited for several hours till we deemed it safe to go back to sleep.

I took this with a point and shoot panasonic lumix on a tripod with the "starry sky" option. I think I did either the 30 or 60 second exposure to really capture the light. It came out a bit exagerated. But there really was an orange glow.

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Thats scary.... Bless the firemen who stopped the forest fire.

That pic would be even better if your cropped out the car in the first pic. :xyxthumbs:
 
slickooz said:
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I never understood why they make those window visors to cover up the trim. i personally like the ones that tuck up where the window rolls up into when closed. i guess im just too picky like that. thanks for sharing :props:
 
When I was looking for window visors, there wasn't much to choose from. There was two that came in mind, OEM and Weathertech. I went with OEM because I liked how it covered up some of the chrome and gave it an aggressive look. I'm not a huge fan of the chrome, thats why I plasti dipped my grill.

The OEM took a lot longer to install also, took about 2 hours because clips. I heard Weathertech ones just goes into the channels and takes only few minutes to install all 4.
 
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