Folkestone
Posted 30/04/2010 - 14:47
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I chimp all the time! More often with the Sigma 10-20 than other lenses, and often when using flash. If I'm using the Sigma and flash I chimp every shot
Is there any reason you switch the screen off? is it just to avoid the glare in your eyes?
Like Kris I also have my camera to reset everything when you turn it on. Been caught out too many times by EV being left to +2 from a previous shoot!
Is there any reason you switch the screen off? is it just to avoid the glare in your eyes?
Like Kris I also have my camera to reset everything when you turn it on. Been caught out too many times by EV being left to +2 from a previous shoot!
Tim
AF - Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20/4-5.6, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Sigma 30/1.4, Sigma 70-200/2.8, Tamron 70-300/4-5.6
MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27, Macbook Pro 17, iPad, iPhone 3G
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Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
AF - Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20/4-5.6, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Sigma 30/1.4, Sigma 70-200/2.8, Tamron 70-300/4-5.6
MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27, Macbook Pro 17, iPad, iPhone 3G
Flickr Fluidr PPG Street Portfolio site
Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
Posted 30/04/2010 - 15:03
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I liked the second and fifth shots the most, which just goes to show how subjective it is looking at photgraphs! I like the different patterns of the second shot, and the strong graphic shapes of the boardwalk in the fifth shot with the stones adding some texture.
I have never heard the expression "chimp" before? Where does it come from? I don't do it as often as I should I think. I also like the idea of the camera resetting every time I switch it off, will have to do thet methinks.
I have never heard the expression "chimp" before? Where does it come from? I don't do it as often as I should I think. I also like the idea of the camera resetting every time I switch it off, will have to do thet methinks.
Posted 30/04/2010 - 15:20
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DrOrloff wrote:
My hometown. It's been a long time since I went down to the harbour area but the last time I did it had become blighted and desperate, much worse than in my day and that was pretty bad.
I've been following the efforts of a group trying to preserve the harbour railway as the "Remembrance Line" although I'm not sure how successful they'll be. By the sounds of it the developers want the land, and that generally means that a group trying to save some of the history of the area stand no chance. My hometown. It's been a long time since I went down to the harbour area but the last time I did it had become blighted and desperate, much worse than in my day and that was pretty bad.
I went down there a few times in the mid 1990s during family summer holidays, bought my K1000 on one of those trips although I don't think it came from anywhere in Folkestone. The ferry port and railway were still active then although rather faded. If you look on Google Earth the ferry linkspan has been removed, meaning that chances of any operator wanting to re-open the link and thereby bring a few jobs and some economic life to the area are slim in the extreme.
Matt
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Posted 30/04/2010 - 15:31
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I do check after I take the shot and normally do delete but I just loved the composistion of that shot and by time I changed settings the man had gone and there was no one around thats why I tried to rescue it I will have another go at it in PP though.
Emma
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro
Posted 30/04/2010 - 15:53
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aliengrove wrote:
I have never heard the expression "chimp" before? Where does it come from? I don't do it as often as I should I think. I also like the idea of the camera resetting every time I switch it off, will have to do thet methinks.
I don't know the origins, but I first heard it used on Strobist.
I have never heard the expression "chimp" before? Where does it come from? I don't do it as often as I should I think. I also like the idea of the camera resetting every time I switch it off, will have to do thet methinks.
Tim
AF - Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20/4-5.6, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Sigma 30/1.4, Sigma 70-200/2.8, Tamron 70-300/4-5.6
MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27, Macbook Pro 17, iPad, iPhone 3G
Flickr Fluidr PPG Street Portfolio site
Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
AF - Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20/4-5.6, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Sigma 30/1.4, Sigma 70-200/2.8, Tamron 70-300/4-5.6
MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27, Macbook Pro 17, iPad, iPhone 3G
Flickr Fluidr PPG Street Portfolio site
Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
Posted 30/04/2010 - 19:52
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping
I have the screen off because I don't want it on. Saves batteries, and is just less annoying for me than when it is on. If I want to check a photo I'll look at it, but otherwise I am happy not to.
I have seen a lot of good shots missed by chimpers, including professionals.
I have the screen off because I don't want it on. Saves batteries, and is just less annoying for me than when it is on. If I want to check a photo I'll look at it, but otherwise I am happy not to.
I have seen a lot of good shots missed by chimpers, including professionals.
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I have my camera set so that when you turn it off everything resets itself (i.e., bracketing, EV compensation ISO etc.) and sometimes it is quicker to flick the camera off and on again than manually reset it all.
Best wishes, Kris.
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Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.