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First few with the SIgma 10-20
I really like the last shot, Pentaxophile. It's a fantastic lens, mine has hardly been off my camera since I got it! The three on my "Gotham" thread were taken with it. I've found that using it in manual focus can often get round the problem of softness at the edges (when I manage to guess the right...
Posted by aliengrove on 04/08/2010 - 18:42
Couple of pics with my car boot sale bargin
Excellent work. The first shot isn't to my taste - but only because it so accurately represents what it is - a slimy wet fish with its gob open. Every globule of goo is there, working its hardest. A fishmonger's calendar shot, for sure - but the crispness of that mouth is enough to turn my stomach.....
Posted by BigJacko on 04/08/2010 - 21:17
Couple of pics with my car boot sale bargin
Thanks for the coments guys, I had taken a few macro shots of the hover fly's then stood back a bit to get some of the flower but the macro's didnt really turn out how I wanted, Infact out of about 3 hours shooting I really only liked the one flower shot I posted, Good thing about digital is I didnt...
Posted by Paul_C on 04/08/2010 - 22:33
Leafcutter Ant's
Stephen this looks like it's been reproduced from the pages of a natural science magazine. Well worth your effort and patience. Focus (or the lack of it) is crucial here!
Posted by bwlchmawr on 05/08/2010 - 21:24
Leafcutter Ant's
So back to the original post, good shot snappy, there is a colony in Chester zoo that i have been trying to photo for at least 8 months. Your shot beats all of my efforts :(. Davex.
Posted by davex on 05/08/2010 - 22:15
Leafcutter Ant's
Cheers for the comments Paul, very useful. The image was evenly lit across the hole frame, a vignette added and dodging around the ants, to focus attention to that area. Should have sorted out that bottom right hand corner, your right. Cheers.
Posted by snappychappy on 06/08/2010 - 19:21
Graveyard for old engines
Amazing colours David!...I must try and get back over there, it's such an interesting photo oppertunity......magic shots!......Ken
Posted by beginner on 05/08/2010 - 20:18
A tree and a moon
Had a bunch more PPG acceptances recently, but I think all of them have been on PUF in the last month so I thought I'd just post this one: One tree moon (yes, my title mojo has deserted me :D) This was actually a daylight shot which I had been messing around with for Stefan's duo-tone comp ...
Posted by thoughton on 06/08/2010 - 00:29
honeyeater
We've got mudlarks doing the same around here Don. Aggro blighters (to themselves!) It looks like you've used flash for this - was it a focus trap arrangement, or else how did you get so close for the shot?
Posted by i-Berg on 06/08/2010 - 11:35
old man fishing
Agree with Gareth unfortauntely. Some kind of focus problem here. His optical-illusion-style shirt doesnt help :), the blue lines all over it look in focus, but none of the man appears to be except maybe his left forearm. It also looks kind of like it's been heavily sharpened - has it? On his ri...
Posted by thoughton on 08/08/2010 - 23:58
old man fishing
did you shoot a series on this subject? I see the subject and the setting have much potential, but this shot is lacking... from the composition (cut off hand, you are either to wide or too close, this sort of in between composition just doesn't work well, crop a horizontal 8x10 aspect ratio of jus...
Posted by Don on 09/08/2010 - 00:23
old man fishing
i use M 135 open wide. i stil havent get the used of it, use open wide all the time..i know i should have step it down 1 or 2 stop. yes, i have done a bit of sharpening, because as you can see the focus problem i have some more from the shot, but this is the one that i like the most the rest o...
Posted by ReklawyksEkul on 09/08/2010 - 06:24
old man fishing
Ah the lovely M135, a fab lens. I have one as well - my first lens after the kit lens :) - I think it is pretty sharp wide open already, you just need to nail the focus.
Posted by thoughton on 09/08/2010 - 08:44
Portrait of a girl, aged three and three quarters
Perhaps the strap could have been straightened and the background thrown out of focus by having a bit of distance seperating it from the girl. Otherwise, pretty good. Well done. At the end of the day if the 'client' is happy, that's all you need to achieve.
Posted by Mannesty on 09/08/2010 - 14:04
Horse jump
And adding to Mannesty's comment you would have had the 'bend' of the horse too - that can be very interesting ;) Do you do much 'event' photography ? It would be worth checking the course direction so you can be on the correct side to see the movement of horse and rider Thanks Guys for the feed ...
Posted by philstaff on 09/08/2010 - 15:33
Underground Manchester
Just had a quick Google, apparently the towers may have housed the pumps which "back pumped water up the locks"?
Posted by thoughton on 09/08/2010 - 09:39
Underground Manchester
Nobody really knows for sure, but one thing is certain. The canal used water from two other canals as well as getting it from rivers, so the other canal owners would be protecting their water supplies. Therfore pumping water back up the canal seems very logical, but very costly. As soon as this s...
Posted by johnriley on 09/08/2010 - 11:21
Underground Manchester
I have to confess that I left everything in green mode, because I couldn't see a thing without the torch, so the situation was, shall we say, challenging? Camera and flash sorted themselves out and I worried about the composition and making sure there was at least a spot of light for the AF to fo...
Posted by johnriley on 09/08/2010 - 13:17
Croc
A nasty beast if I ever saw one. Well captured - a little dark, but focus is spot on the eye.
Posted by terje-l on 09/08/2010 - 14:31
