Chloes Dad

the Holy Island is in the UK off the coast of Northumberland. South of the Scottish border but north of Newcastle. you can only get across at low tide. there are some great photo spots like an old church surrounded by ruins and wetherd gravestones, a boat graveyard, lots of little cottages and of course the most awesome little castle. would love to go back. at the time i had only had my camera all of two weeks and was still figuring it out... only took a few pics there is a flickr group with some pics here http://www.flickr.com/groups/holy_island/pool/

this is off the orig topic but it may help StaffordLove quote from DP Review . this rules out some lenses from auto focusing on the d40 range. here is a list of compatible lenses i saw on a dp review forum. as you can see there is still heaps of choice for the D40 user.Nikon AF-S lenses: 12-24/4 DX 17-55/2.8 DX 18-55/3.5-5.6 DX I 18-55/3.5-5.6 DX II 18-70 DX 18-135 DX 18-200 DX VR 55-200 DX 17-35/2.8 AF-S 24-85/3.5-4.5 AF-S 24-120 AF-S VR 28-70/2.8 70-200/2.8 VR 70-300 VR 105/2.8 VR 200/2 VR 200-400/4 VR 300/2.8 VR 300/4 AF-S 400/2.8 AF-S 500/4 AF-S 600/4 AF-S Sigma HSM lenses: 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 17-35mm F2.8-4 DG 50-500mm F4-6.3 DG 50-150mm F2.8 EX DC HSM 70-200mm F2.8 DG MACRO 80-400mm F4.5-5.6 100-300mm F4 DG 120-300mm F2.8 DG 300-800mm F5.6 DG 14mm F2.8 EX 30mm F1.4 EX DC HSM 150mm F2.8 EX DG 180mm F3.5 EX DG 300mm EX DG 500mm EX DG 800mm f5.6 EX DG

my wife got this one printed onto canvas for me for my birthday last year.

bit off topic but we were happy both times we used these guys for canvas printing. they are in melb but they shipped to Syd and Bris no probs. colour was great too.

top gear is fantastic it is so funny and beautiful to look at that my wife actually sits and watches it with me not tg aus though... that is like a car wreck.... unfortunately here is a flickr group for people who take three or more exposures of cars and create a High dynamic range image by merging the three exposures in PS or other software. 99.9% of them are way way over done. but when someone gets it right it really can make the cars look great.

NO No experience But i am a top gear freak i watch a re run nightly and am currently on my 5th time through the whole thing they do some gorgeous cinematography. they seem to use a lot of graduating filters, and they do a lot of the filming when the sun is low in the sky. Also a lot of their most impressive stuff is in the wet or overcast (this may just be a coincidence being english and all ;) ) i also like how they sometimes use really wide angles and get distorted horizons etc. It really is shot quite beautifully. good luck, sounds like a lot of fun! here is some screen grabs from the last couple of top gears that i think are super cool ;) hope they help they do a lot of this focus on forground stuff.

true but this is different, the below quote is taken from a deviant art website article. this is the bit that gets me the most. it has given people a domain to butcher peoples art and photos and then showcase it as their own. it shows a blatant disregard for copyright and intellectual property

you can search for your images on the site by sing the search function. Adding a favorite in flickr is not a copyright infringement as you are fully credited and your work is not altered/moved in any way. these people are taking your hard work and using it in their own creations without crediting the artists or requesting rights.

there is a website out there called polyvore it has the ability to take images from your flickr library and allow others to access them and create montages/collages with them, it is creating a bit of a stir on flickr and a petition has begun to get the site shut down. I have had a bit of a search on the site for photos that have been used of mine and of some of my flickr friends. none of mine have been used but below is a link to one of vickie's that has been used. http://www.polyvore.com/opet/set?id=4471471 if you want to check to see if any of your flickr images have been accessed by users of this site you can do so by going to http://www.polyvore.com and in the search on the top right change from sets to items and type in your flickr name. if you feel strongly about this and want to sighn the petition you can find it here Polyvore has commented on this situation on their blog and there is a link to a form to have your property removed from their site

I love this thread, well done everybody!

They look great. thanks!

does anyone know a good online seller of B&W filters in Aus? I want to get a good quality UV filter for my zoom and a good quality polariser for my wide lens

Luke, Just want to add my support. I enjoy your photography knowledge. and i appreciated your integrity to your beliefs in the "general" threads. This is a big forum. and there is plenty of room to stay away from certain areas. for example i go nowhere near off topic way too much period and manapause talk for me in there... scares the crap out of me

yes i do and i need help before they go stale. we are going to mac centre for a movie this arvo ill drop a couple off about 5ish ok with u?

we did passionfruit cupcakes for our corporate Xmas pressies this year. I took this shot before they all went off. this was on the dining table with the light coming through the window. for stuff like this it is a great little lens.

I have a few bird and bat shots that i can add Darter Rosella in the backyard. fruit bat Kinky fruit bats...

and this lens' Pièce de résistance Bokeh! We went to a wedding a couple of weeks ago and i got this one.

some great stuff in this thread

thanks. I just wish i polished the mantle first

its cool for action cause its fast, sharp and its AF is really fast too. be greater if it was a zoom tho

here is s couple of my fave shots with this lens. I was at a friends house and the light through the window onto her white mantle was fantastic. Oh and we had just come back from the flower markets.... Via a shoe shop... of course......

I took this about 2 hours ago I had it at about f5 ISO 200 and shutter of 1200(ish) the focal point is a bit off but i just love the timing of this one.

that is interesting. I have been sent photography for years to use in my job and have even been on some pretty cool shoots. But I don't think I ever took much notice of the gear or set up... I bought my camera about 12 months ago for happy snaps on our honeymoon and to catch the dogs in full flight. now I see everything differently I now love receiving photography and being on a shoot is now so exciting.

I was in the city a few months ago for the rocks coffee festival, I have never seen so many High end cameras in one pace ever :p I felt very insignificant with my D80 seriously every second person had a DSLR and more often than not it was a full frame pro model. Then a few weeks after that I was asked to be in a photo shoot :rolleyes: (for a mates website...) and the guy shooting it was using an old(ish) D100 with a cheap(ish) lens. we got chatting and he was saying he was reluctant to upgrade cause he knew his setup so well. He did have some serious lighting though. He had a laugh and said I probably had a better set up than him. a few weeks after that I was down Paramatta river shooting some bats that live in the trees there, trying to pan with them as they flew overhead. i saw two guys sitting up in the bank scoping things out with binoculars. They seemed interested in what i was doing so I felt pretty special. they then walked off and i diddnt take much notice. when i left i walked by them again and they wre setting up a tripod that looked like it would cost more than my car and screwing the hood onto a lens that was half as tall as me I felt less special then but this was early on a sat morning and i have no idea wether they are amateurs or not but it wouldn't surprise me.

Thanks for posting this. I think i get sucked in to all the techy stuff and I over think a lot of things and therefore miss a lot of natural creativity trying to stage the perfect shot. I set up the camera the other day for my neice and she just wondered into my back yard and took shots i would never dream of. things like creative crops of the weeds growing ove the back garden tap??? and they were great! (and no she is never touching it again!) I have made a bit of a commitment to understanding the gear I do have rather than dreaming about the stuff i want :rolleyes: I have probably spent more time looking at lenses than looking through them! I wrote off my kit lens as a cheap plastic piece of rubbish (because i read it was...) but when i look back through my pics some of my faves are with that lens. I love it at the wide end and it is fantastic on the tripod for landscapes and slow exposure night stuff. As for style well..... I dont think i have one and im cool with that at the moment. I love trying new things and seeing what works. I have done landscapes long exposures action stuff portraiture flash stuff low light soft stuff. Im still playing I guess. I love doing all the action dog stuff but this is one area where i do think my gear falls a tad short. As for finding my style I have been a graphic designer for ten years and only in the last couple could i see a style emerging. And it ebbs and flows with what i think is cool at the time and what I see my peers and people i respect doing. The thing I actually find hard now is not gong for my default style and trying something new..... Luckily i have a-hole clients with horrible briefs that challenge me.