My Favorite Photos

All photos are Copyrighted by Robert Barnes

I bought a Canon Digital Rebel SLR (300D) at the end of 2003. Since then I have been having alot of fun with it. Most of the following pictures where taken with it, however, some where taken with my previous camera, a Canon S40 (the Grand Canon pictures where taken with the S40, it's a pretty dang good camera!). The following is a sample of my favorite pictures. I think that they have some artistic quality or I just plain like them, I hope that you like them also.

I really like landscape, animal, insect, and architectural photography. I just bought a Canon 100mm macro lens so I should have lots of pictures of bugs pretty soon. I hope to add the EXIF photo data to the pictures in the future.

The following is the equipment that I have;

• Cannon Digital Rebel
• Canon 18-55mm EF-S lens
• Canon 28-135mm IS EF-S lens (IS = Image Stabilized, sort of expensive but really neat)
• Canon 10-22mm EF-S lens <-- This lens is probably my favorite
• Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime <-- it was really cheap!
• Canon 100mm f/2.8 USM macro prime <-- New, haven't used it yet. Are there any zoom/macro lenses? (i.e. not a prime?)
• Cannon 550ex flash
• Apple Powermac running Photoshop, Photo Elements, and iPhoto

So far, this hobby has probably cost around $4000 (minus the computer because it is used for work). If anyone would like to purchase or license any of my photos I would love to hear from you. I can be reached at webmaster@unixhub.com (most of the originals are in HIGH JPG format (around 3Megabits each and highly detailed. The pictures on this web site have been reduced and compressed alot.) I'm also happy to answer any questions that you may have, however, a better resource is probably Goggle or the forms at DPreview.

Note: I am the registered movie star agent for my cats, if you would like to use them in a movie or commercial you can contact me at the above email address :)

Update: I just played around with my new 100mm macro lens. Wow, it is truely 1 to 1 (1:1 = macro). In a weird way, 1:1 macro means no plus or minus magnification, the same as your eyeballs sees everything. (The official definition is that the subject will be life size on the film/sensor, which can be pretty dang big considering that a Rebel 300D's sensor is only 22.7mm wide.) On my Rebel (300D, which effectively makes the lens a 160mm) if you look at a subject with one eye thru the camera's viewfinder and the other eye naked, you will not see any difference! You can image what happens when you hold something 4 inches from your eye (It's really big, and the Canon 100mm macro *can* focus on it at 4 inches!). I used 4 inches because it seems that the minimum focal point for the 100mm lens on a Digital Rebel (1.6 crop).