general photo thread

[ronnie]

Been freezing my balls off taking some night shots recently









http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnie101/

[top cat]

 

[Evs]

Been freezing my balls off taking some night shots recently









http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnie101/

Those are superb chap! 

Noticed Argos have D40s for under £300 ATM 

[obcore]

can you list your machines please peeps. ronnie are those night shots tripod or held?

my Nikon D60 arrived this morn and i am gonna give it the beating it deserves around brizzle this w/e..

[ronnie]

D40 with the 50mm f/1.8 lens for the shots above. They were all taken with a tripod.

Also got a 55-200mm zoom for shots like these:






Evs - you can get a D40 with kit lens for under £200 now. Shop around squire.

[Evs]

Evs - you can get a D40 with kit lens for under £200 now. Shop around squire.

Ah cool, it's just something I noticed in passing, not currently in the market for one...

[De-Fi]

I r jeaulous.... I've got a little bit of photographic experience, but lack to tools at the moment - may have to invest with my next student loan 

[gusset]

can you list your machines please peeps. ronnie are those night shots tripod or held?

my Nikon D60 arrived this morn and i am gonna give it the beating it deserves around brizzle this w/e..

These were taken with a Henimex 35DL that I found in a charity shop for a fiver.

[gusset]

These are from my phone:





Edit: Obviously these are not landscapes, I'm just trying to make a point about cameras.

[thedave]

D40 with the 50mm f/1.8 lens for the shots above. They were all taken with a tripod.
Also got a 55-200mm zoom for shots like these:

Evs - you can get a D40 with kit lens for under £200 now. Shop around squire.

fuck the camera, that blokes flying 

[Evs]

^ I'd like to know more about that shot Ronnie

[thedave]

oh and also where are the sub £200 d40s at pls 

[Evs]

I do have a few hundred quid lying about so I am tempted by it...

[foo-fon fire]

Been freezing my balls off taking some night shots recently









http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnie101/

But it was well worth it! 

[foo-fon fire]

can you list your machines please peeps. ronnie are those night shots tripod or held?

They have GOT to be tripod surely?? No way you could get that sharp effect held!

[x]

can you list your machines please peeps. ronnie are those night shots tripod or held?

They have GOT to be tripod surely?? No way you could get that sharp effect held!

Hmmm. I wonder what type of activity, if practiced in excess, could give a man's wrist the level of strength and steadiness required for such a shot.... 

[The Lady Nonny Wrongford]

can you list your machines please peeps. ronnie are those night shots tripod or held?

They have GOT to be tripod surely?? No way you could get that sharp effect held!

Hmmm. I wonder what type of activity, if practiced in excess, could give a man's wrist the level of strength and steadiness required for such a shot.... 

The kind of activity that would involve his hands being strapped to a tripod?

[ronnie]

£199.99 D40 here: http://www.buyacamera.co.uk/xsearch.asp?RecId=NIKCA722&pt=f

I've no idea how reputable/good they are, nor what the postage costs would be. You can get one for £215 from Amazon, if you'd prefer a household name http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikon-D40-Digital-SLR-Camera/dp/B000KIX65S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1229087578&sr=8-1

The D40 is a good camera, but it does have its limitations. 18 months after getting mine, I'm replacing it with a D300.

Regarding:


The guys on the boat behind ours had an 80ft twin mast yacht.

They secured the halyard (a rope that goes from the deck of the boat to the top of the mast & back again) to the top of the mast, attached a handle to the end of it & then tied another rope to the halyard/handle & tied the other end to the tender (the small boat for going to & from shore). You started in the water next to the yacht, hanging on to the handle in the middle of this now extended rope. The tender than sped away & catapulted you into the air. In the shot above, the guy is falling downward, although looks like he's jumping over the tug in the background.

[able]

The D40 is a good camera, but it does have its limitations. 18 months after getting mine, I'm replacing it with a D300.

What would you say are the limitations you've come across? My D40 is my first decent camera and I'm still learning.

[top cat]

[ronnie]

The D40 is a good camera, but it does have its limitations. 18 months after getting mine, I'm replacing it with a D300.

What would you say are the limitations you've come across? My D40 is my first decent camera and I'm still learning.

The lack of an internal motor means you can't autofocus with primes, only 6MP (pain in the arse if you're cropping or want to print BIG), only 3 autofocus points, only 3fps, no LCD status on the top and poor auto white balance under bulb light. You also have to navigate the menu to change white balance, metering & iso, as opposed to having hard buttons on the outside.

Don't get me wrong, its a fantastic entry-level camera, it takes really good quality photos & the kit lens that it comes with is on a par with the £800 17-55mm f/2.8 (although only to f/3.5). BUT, the little things start to niggle eventually, hence I'm upgrading.

[able]

The D40 is a good camera, but it does have its limitations. 18 months after getting mine, I'm replacing it with a D300.

What would you say are the limitations you've come across? My D40 is my first decent camera and I'm still learning.

The lack of an internal motor means you can't autofocus with primes, only 6MP (pain in the arse if you're cropping or want to print BIG), only 3 autofocus points, only 3fps, no LCD status on the top and poor auto white balance under bulb light. You also have to navigate the menu to change white balance, metering & iso, as opposed to having hard buttons on the outside.

Don't get me wrong, its a fantastic entry-level camera, it takes really good quality photos & the kit lens that it comes with is on a par with the £800 17-55mm f/2.8 (although only to f/3.5). BUT, the little things start to niggle eventually, hence I'm upgrading.

Cheers. I can see they're things that, like you say, will become issues the more I use it. What does a D300 go for nowadays?

[ronnie]

Cheers. I can see they're things that, like you say, will become issues the more I use it. What does a D300 go for nowadays?

It's a recent replacement for the D200 & a top-end amateur/semi-pro camera, so quite expensive. They're around £900 at the moment. Hopefully I won't need to upgrade again though!

[ronnie]

tilt shift cornwall

[*Weasel*]

they look like toy boats^

edit* that's not an accusation.....more of an observation
 

[De-Fi]

tilt shift cornwall

That's an amazing photo!

It looks as though you've managed to get the focus on an angle as opposed to just depth (if you can see what I mean?!). How is that? Or is it just that the bridge projects forwards into focus?

[Kraymon]

all from Malawi this year:

[Hooty]

they look like toy boats^

edit* that's not an accusation.....more of an observation
 

S'alright Weas - that's the point of tilt shift!

[obcore]

i got these three without tripod on sat eve... (sorry, bad res / compression - transported from facefuck)

[ronnie]

i got these three without tripod on sat eve... (sorry, bad res / compression - transported from facefuck)

Good quality for handheld low-light shots. Which lens are you using?

[obcore]

just the standard 18-55mm lens kit (AF-S 18-55 DX II VR Lens Kit). i think it's time for a hijack photo club meetup 

[ronnie]

just the standard 18-55mm lens kit (AF-S 18-55 DX II VR Lens Kit). i think it's time for a hijack photo club meetup 

ah! VR makes a big difference! up for a meet-up whenever, diary allowing.

*edit* - And Kraymon, those malawi pics are wicked! Is that a Croc at the bottom in this one?:

[Kraymon]

just the standard 18-55mm lens kit (AF-S 18-55 DX II VR Lens Kit). i think it's time for a hijack photo club meetup 

ah! VR makes a big difference! up for a meet-up whenever, diary allowing.

*edit* - And Kraymon, those malawi pics are wicked! Is that a Croc at the bottom in this one?:

yeah i do love that one - it is a croc, a croc that we didnt know was there!

[Kraymon]

Love this thread so I thought I would bump it with a few more. (im using an Olympus E510, two lens kit, for the camera geeks out there)

Malawi:



Cornwall:



Westonbirt Arboretum


Not a landscape but I love it:

[Si^]

Boxing day photos....

And cabot circus car park

[Hezza]

tilt shift cornwall

Quality photo Ronnie!

How does the whole tilt shift thing work in practice? Someone showed me a clip the other day of a monster truck derby filmed tilt shift in time lapse, fecking crazy, looked like a micro machine race. Never heard of the technique before seeing that...

EDIT:
Forgot to also say some wicked photo's all round, beautiful places and moments captured, cheers 

[foo-fon fire]

they look like toy boats^

edit* that's not an accusation.....more of an observation
 

S'alright Weas - that's the point of tilt shift!

Looks wickard! But also like somewhere Postman Pat might go on holiday 

[able]

Some shots from Christmas in Olivella in Spain...

[ronnie]

For the people asking about the tilt shift photo, I'm afraid its photoshop trickery (you can buy tilt-shift lenses, but they are mega-bucks). By narrowing the depth of field on a landscape shot, it tricks the eye into thinking you're looking at a minature as a narrow DoF can only be acheived in close-up with a normal lens.

For much better examples see http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/pool/

Severn Beach shot from t'other day

[*Weasel*]

i love this thread! the standard of photography is amazing! i think the majority of them would sell as prints......bucks to be earned with your skills people.
can't keep up with the  talk though......for example:

just the standard 18-55mm lens kit (AF-S 18-55 DX II VR Lens Kit). i think it's time for a hijack photo club meetup 

'oh really? the standard 18-55mm AF-X 18-55 DXII VR kit? that's interesting. currently i'm using the 16-58 HFH-DXVII-VSR kit....you should try it sometime'

 

[ronnie]

i love this thread! the standard of photography is amazing! i think the majority of them would sell as prints......bucks to be earned with your skills people.
can't keep up with the  talk though......for example:

just the standard 18-55mm lens kit (AF-S 18-55 DX II VR Lens Kit). i think it's time for a hijack photo club meetup 

'oh really? the standard 18-55mm AF-X 18-55 DXII VR kit? that's interesting. currently i'm using the 16-58 HFH-DXVII-VSR kit....you should try it sometime'

 

AF-S refers to the type of autofocus
18-55 is the focal range
DX II implies its a digital format lens build specifically for a digital sensor and wouldn't work on a film camera
VR is Vibration Reduction & helps reduce blurring from camera shake

 

[Evs]

Spent a week in La Plagne, France last week...here's a few shots for your eyes.

[ronnie]

Made the most of the weather this weekend with a trip into the Beacons.

[top cat]

[tko]

This thread is wicked - some amazing photos.

Will post some from Scotland when I get home, lochtastic.

[duchess]

all from Malawi this year:

Liwonde National Park?

[*Weasel*]

took this in the egyptian desert the other day, unsure whether to crop it (chop the bottom off) 

[Whagwan]

One from the mendips the other weekend...

[able]

really liked this shot from yesterday...

[duchess]

Joined this Behance Network thing and started putting up some documentary stuff. Cool website for browsing some amazing artists' work (Behance I mean, not my portfolio...    )

http://www.behance.net/EllenDoherty