| Nice layering effect with #3 otto, plus using the foreground tree as a frame. A slightly tighter crop would enhance that picture a lot, I think. |
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI love the third one, otto. Tres dramatic. And after seeing all this lot, I think I want to live in Vancouver now 
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agootto wrote:
I've just popped in here because, well, because I'm nosey and wanted to see what all the fuss is about, and...
I've just started playing with long exposure shots of water. I love the flattening effect. This was another shot from a different angle - it completely flattens the sea and irons out the waves, makes it almost smoky at the edges.
O_O
Otto - that shot is *amazing*. Is there any chance you could send me the original as I'd love to get it printed. (We've just decorated a room, and we've just bought two posters of "docks and lakes at sunset", but that shot is much better than either of them, and the colours would fit much better too)
Sorry, to sound like a cheeky kiss-ass, but I am genuinely impressed.
[MH]
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smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agootto wrote:
Cheers!
smoothpete, I like them, they're definitely not just snapshots. I like the biplane and the graffiti in particular. The nail in the tree is also great but slightly overexposed, I wonder if spot metering the brightest part of the nail would have helped. Incidentally, I was expecting the other half of your tat, not your "other half".
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I was pleased with the biplane one. The guy whos grave it was set 2 world records in the 20's for sidecar racing. Once I get off the "fully auto" setting I should be able to improve on them... Incidently I'm going to egypt in the summer, how essential is a polarising filter? -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agootto wrote:
Yeah, I spotted that in the shot of the fish packing plant at dusk you posted the other day. I wondered if that was a long-exposure effect at the time (and didn't notice you'd written that it was an eight second exposure). Ta for confirming.
patlike wrote:
I've just started playing with long exposure shots of water. I love the flattening effect. This was another shot from a different angle - it completely flattens the sea and irons out the waves, makes it almost smoky at the edges.
It looks beautiful. I really need to buy a new lens. The kit lens with the D20 is pretty restrictive. Love those wide shots of the sea.
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MrCarrot 3,524 posts
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Registered 17 years agomal wrote:
I definitely need to get a tripod then.
Me too, but have you seen the prices on the things! I want to get one that I can use at low level for macro shots, and it looks like it'll cost me almost as much as the macro lens did for a decent one...
And speaking of macro; some pictures from over the weekend, taken with my beautiful new Sigma 150mm:
Up close with a fly
Petals
"Eeexcellent..."
Dandelion?
Eyes on stalks
Weathered brick
And the obligatory sunset shot:
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoBloody hell, Carrot. They're "quite good".
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agosmoothpete wrote:
Here are some pictures I've taken with my Canon 350D, They're just snapshots really, I'm still finding my way round the camera, but I'm quite pleased with them anyway. The kit lens is ok, but I need to put some money by to upgrade.
I like the bi-plane one too, smoothpete. Nice shot of your lady friend as well. I'm trying to work out exactly how to properly work my camera as well. At the moment it's pretty much hit and miss
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agootto wrote:
patlike, Vancouver's very nice but most of those shots are taken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, so five or six hours' drive from Vancouver. In other words, same kind of distance as Pembrokeshire or Cornwall from London, and the coast there is just as dramatic, albeit in a different way. I personally think the UK's one of the most photogenic places you could possibly live - so much variety, beautiful scenery, varied weather conditions, and compact.
You're right, of course. Britain is genuinely beautiful. I'm going to get out and take some pictures of north London this weekend. I'm considering going up to G8 in Edinburgh in July, so should get some nice road trip shots on the way (and hopefully some cool stuff of the march itself). -
MrCarrot 3,524 posts
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Registered 17 years agopatlike wrote:
Bloody hell, Carrot. They're "quite good".
*goes back to drawing board*
*blushes*
Thanks, it's mostly luck with the flies as to whether they land where you're looking and you can focus in time. The snail was a nightmare, too; I was lying on the ground, crawling backwards trying to get the whole thing in shot and get its eyes in focus. Must have looked a bit funny to the neighbours -
patlike 920 posts
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MrCarrot 3,524 posts
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoVery nice. That lens certainly seems to work. -
MrCarrot 3,524 posts
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Registered 17 years agootto wrote:
Heheh. What did you use to get the photo of the D70?
Magic. Or maybe my Minolta A1.
I *heart* my D70. That and my powerbook are officially the two best things I've ever bought.
I *heart* mine more!
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNice. I'm a big fan of compact (digital) cameras. An SLR is a lot of effort to take with you, but I just have my A95 in my bag with my almost all the time for the past couple of months. In that time I've picked up a few semi grab-shots that had I not had a camera with me, I just wouldn't have got. Plus, provided you scale the images down to about 3MP or less, and avoid high contrast boundaries (leaves against bright sky being the killer), and bear in mind that with a diddy lens, you can't get those glorious selective DoF shots, apart from all that, you get perfectly good shots, and you have all the speed/ISO/aperture/white balance options of a SLR.
Am seriously wondering about getting a filter adaptor for it after this thread though.
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTom's been too busy to put my E3 pics up yet, so here's one of them in the meantime. Prizes to those who can identify the two men*
*This is a complete lie.
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unwashed! 272 posts
Registered 17 years agootto wrote:
smoothpete wrote:
With sunny clear blue skies, less so, though it makes them a deeper blue and saturates other colours. You won't go far wrong if you get one because it will also slow down your exposures by a couple of stops, always good when you're in very bright light. Also it'll cut down on reflections say on sunglasses or on the Nile or on sweaty skin...
otto wrote:
Cheers!
smoothpete, I like them, they're definitely not just snapshots. I like the biplane and the graffiti in particular. The nail in the tree is also great but slightly overexposed, I wonder if spot metering the brightest part of the nail would have helped. Incidentally, I was expecting the other half of your tat, not your "other half". I was pleased with the biplane one. The guy whos grave it was set 2 world records in the 20's for sidecar racing. Once I get off the "fully auto" setting I should be able to improve on them... Incidently I'm going to egypt in the summer, how essential is a polarising filter?
I can help you smooth, I've got a UV and a Polarising filter you can have if you like, just bung us an e-mail to steve . hocking at the g mail place...
(And before anyone naysay's, they're for a 58mm thread, which is what the 350d kit lens is!
O, and these...
otto wrote:
Shuttered house in the snow
[link=http://photos.stevenhocking.co.uk/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=2">And -
unwashed! 272 posts
Registered 17 years agopatlike wrote:
smoothpete wrote:
Here are some pictures I've taken with my Canon 350D, They're just snapshots really, I'm still finding my way round the camera, but I'm quite pleased with them anyway. The kit lens is ok, but I need to put some money by to upgrade.
I like the bi-plane one too, smoothpete. Nice shot of your lady friend as well. I'm trying to work out exactly how to properly work my camera as well. At the moment it's pretty much hit and miss
Pictures, lots of pictures! But seriously aperture and time priority modes are good, go out and experiment, just don't expect them all to be 'keepers'. (I'm currently finding about 20-25% are usable...) -
unwashed! 272 posts
Registered 17 years agomal wrote:
Nice. I'm a big fan of compact (digital) cameras. An SLR is a lot of effort to take with you, but I just have my A95 in my bag with my almost all the time for the past couple of months. In that time I've picked up a few semi grab-shots that had I not had a camera with me, I just wouldn't have got. Plus, provided you scale the images down to about 3MP or less, and avoid high contrast boundaries (leaves against bright sky being the killer), and bear in mind that with a diddy lens, you can't get those glorious selective DoF shots, apart from all that, you get perfectly good shots, and you have all the speed/ISO/aperture/white balance options of a SLR.
Am seriously wondering about getting a filter adaptor for it after this thread though.
Edited by mal at 20:55:18 02-06-2005
I think photography with a compact is completely different to photography with an (D)SLR. But if you've got a good subject it shouldn't matter. Having said that, I'm not really succeeding at the moment. I think I need to develop a style... -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agootto, I'm in a rather similar boat. I got into the film SLR market by picking up an old camera as the owner was moving to a digital semi-pro (it's WOPR's old camera actually). The plan was that firstly it would get me used to an SLR, and secondly I could later get a compact digital to grab shots of here, there and everywhere, and go and revisit the good sites with the SLR. Of course, the reality is I've only shot three films in about a year. And since getting the compact, I've shot quite a few. And, largely due to the changing weather, going back somewhere soley to take some shots with my fancy camera, plus due to the fact that I'm quite happy with the quality of the compact, means I haven't followed my plan there either. -
patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agootto wrote:
I've just been reading a great article...
I completely agree. I've only just upgraded to a 20D, but before that I had an IXUS500. I took some pictures with the compact that I absolutely love. I was going to sell it when I got the DSLR, but I've been looking back through the shots I took in the last year and remebered that even at A4 printed, the IXUS provides brilliant quality under the right conditions. I'm going to keep it.
And you're right about the film thing. I've always had a film camera, and it hardly ever got used because of the cost and hassle of actually processing film. Buying the IXUS was a revelation. I probably shot about 4,000 frames on it last year, and some of them I'm very proud of. If it wasn't for digital, I simply wouldn't take photos.
So I guess the kit only matters insomuch as it encourages you to take shots. Which at the end of the day, is all that really matters.
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patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agounwashed! wrote:
Pictures, lots of pictures! But seriously aperture and time priority modes are good, go out and experiment, just don't expect them all to be 'keepers'. (I'm currently finding about 20-25% are usable...)
Oh, I take squillions of pictures. I'm a bit obssessed with it
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unwashed! 272 posts
Registered 17 years agootto wrote:
unwashed! wrote:
Blimey, I'd be chuffed if I had 10% genuine keepers!
Pictures, lots of pictures! But seriously aperture and time priority modes are good, go out and experiment, just don't expect them all to be 'keepers'. (I'm currently finding about 20-25% are usable...)
Ah there's a difference between a keeper, and something I'm willing to show the rest of the world. But as you say above digital has really freed me to experiment. -
patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI suppose jetlag's good for something. These were taken in Alexandra Park in north London at about 5am this morning. They're a little cheap, but what can you do .gif)
Alexandra Palace's glass dome
Broadcast mast and sky
Sky. Lots of it
Close up of bark
Edited by patlike at 07:10:15 03-06-2005
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unwashed 1,857 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOooh, I do like the two sky pictures, they're very good! -
Clive_Dunn 4,862 posts
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Registered 18 years agopatlike wrote:
Tom's been too busy to put my E3 pics up yet, so here's one of them in the meantime. Prizes to those who can identify the two men*
*This is a complete lie.
Lara, Lara laughs
Well one of them is Ian Livingstone, looking very red indeed. Obviously he's been in the sun, and not on the booze. -
patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTa! I like the one with the mast better. Wish I could work out how to expose the foreground more, though, while still being able to pick out the features of the sky. -
patlike 920 posts
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Registered 18 years agoClive Dunn wrote:
Well one of them is Ian Livingstone, looking very red indeed. Obviously he's been in the sun, and not on the booze.
I think I may have saturated him a little too much
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Clive_Dunn 4,862 posts
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Registered 18 years agopatlike wrote:
I think I may have saturated him a little too much
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unwashed you're a star, email sent. I love taking photos of sunsets and sun rises, but living in the thames valley is a bit of a bitch as the landscape is very flat round here.
Here's one, I know you can't see the foreground, it wasn't intentional but I think it works ok
Mandatory flower
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I was pleased with the biplane one. The guy whos grave it was set 2 world records in the 20's for sidecar racing. Once I get off the "fully auto" setting I should be able to improve on them... Incidently I'm going to egypt in the summer, how essential is a polarising filter? 
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