Hi all,

I am going to do some swatting up this evening but I have rented the 60-250 DA* lens for the weekend to make use of for the Olympics. I'm planning to go down tomorrow and catch some of the road bike race as well as on sunday I am watching the beach volleyball.

Does anybody have any shooting advice for me?
I will be using a k-r and tend to shoot in aperture priority mode. I'm guessing I will want to have continuous burst shooting enabled?

Thanks in advance,

Adam

Thanks John - is the hood removeable - i.e. can it be turned back to front like the one on the 55-300?

Do you seriously think you won't be allowed in with the 60-250? How big is it? I have the 55-300 but I have just hired the 60-250 from SRS as I thought it would be good to try it?

Surely it isn't bigger than the 55-300?

when I said 'community' I really meant as a private group - I don't think the users want them publically available.

Hi all,

Does anybody know of any sites whereby you can upload photos to a community or group page?

As part of our photo365 project at work one of the partners wants everyone to submit their best photo for April so that everybody can thn vote and comment on which they think is the best.

I thought I would be able to do this on my Photobucket page by setting the album to private, but my colleagues have said that they can't upload to the album.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Adam

P.s. I've buggered up the quotes there something royal, never mind ...

Thanks for the comments guys - haven't had chance to look back at this post this last week although your comments and suggestions will be really helpful.

I think your sharpness concern could be partly down to camera shake. I presume you have the shake option turned on if you were hand holding? Telephoto shots are prone to suffer from this. Ways to overcome it are either to use a tripod and/or up the ISO. You were only using ISO 200 so could have gained a stop or two going up to 400 or even 800. Using f8 would have been better than using f5.6 and halving the shutter speed would have overcome some of the camera shake. If you needed more depth of field then stop down even further - you have to decide as the camera hasn't really got a clue what you are doing, despite all the electronics in it.

Thanks for the pointers on this John. I think you can get found out a lot more easily when shooting with a telephoto lens than with a wide angle lens which is what I am used to shooting with!!!

It can be quite tricky to get sharp pictures with normal lenses but it often doesn't show up so much. Put on a long telephoto and it is much harder to get sharp photos. If you have the auto pattern focussing turned on consider trying the centre spot setting instead. You can control the point of focus better. So focus first, and then recompose and take the pictures

I've only recently discovered this feature - this evening in fact. I was aware that it could be done but previously I have let the camera do the focusing, and as you pointed out, there have been numerous examples in that first set where it picked the wrong focus point.

When you say centre focus and then recompose, what exactly to you mean by that?

Anyway, if Adam is using a filter, I'd suggest taking it off to see if it makes a difference, as well as the other suggestions already made.

I am using a Hoya UV filter which I have put over the lens since I received it in order to protect it. I will take it off for a shoot and see if I can see any discernable difference.

The example bird shots are simply stunning darkskies - I would say you have got the hang of your lens pretty comprehensibly

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Morning all,

I've entered a photography competition at work and it involves taking a photo everyday for the next 12 months based on various different themes that we are all choosing. Yesterday's theme was 'P' and I picked the 'post' as my subject.

Would like feedback from people on their favourite image (1-6) out of the set of photos below as I'm struggling to pick a winner!

With the first 5 images I wanted to convey the idea of the post as it lands once it comes through the letter box. In the last one I was going for the idea of post that was waiting to be sorted through, and I also included a pen and pencil

Comments would be appreciated

Thanks,

Adam

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