Thanks for the clarification. Definitely a technical jargon that I was unaware of . Got the idea now.

Many thanks.

Shim,

thanks for the advice and suggestion. I will flag that one in and next time I am around reds while taking some shots I will bear that in mind and be more conscious of it

Amin

Hefty,

That detail about artificial light did in fact bug me, and I picked that one up instantly, you are absolutely right. Even I with the lack of experience can feel that the flash is somewhat ruining a little but I thought being indoors and not having enough light I was limited to the situation. Now that you tell me to open up the shutter I am so keen in doing that I cant wait for tomorrow to try it. I get reasonaly enough light from my patio doors, not enough for small shutter values but I am sure going to those numbers you suggest it should be more than enough.

I had learnt to appreciate the natural light captured images when I started using my 50mm prime and instantly I could see the difference.

John, thanks for the advice. This is definitely something that I am battling with and very conscious about it, but still a bit confused. Perhaps if you could exemplify what exactly it means in practical terms please I would really appreciate. I understand the terminology like DOF, but when you say "stop the lens down further" how does it translate in practice please?

With the 100mm Macro I suppose I physically have to move forward or backward, just like with the 50mm prime, but I suppose if I am using my 16-45 one would you clarify it better? Then I can apply to the macro and prime one too. I guess I am following partially what you are advising, I hope , but then I get lost along the line.

Thank you so much for all your help.

Amin

The bunch is with the 50 mm 1.4 lens, wanted to test the sharpness on it too.

Back to the drawing board and thought that it was probably aperture settings in the flower shots rather than shake, so gave it another shot.

Water play definitely has to be with the remote triggers, time to order one.

Any views on this one? Tried to improve sharpness on these ones, not sure if I have managed to improve, I still lack that photographer's sharp analytical eye, so any suggestions would be really welcome.

thanks

Amin

The water images were a pain to take. Although I used tripod but focusing with one hand and pouring water droplets with the other was a task by itself. Struggled to try to keep aiming the spot I wanted to have the water dropping. Tried various options, manual focusing and fixing it, AF.C and AF.S also, still that was the best I could come up with. Must try some other way so can concentrate solely on the focusing and camera.

The flowers were on tripod but I had to use 2sec delay and aparently still lack sharpness. My wooden floor boards could well be the culprit here as I could feel it still oscillating as I pressed the shutter.

Would be interesting to see if I just put at 30 sec and moved away. I do have a dodgy wooden floor board.

Thanks

Amin

Had the house all for myself so could play around with my 100 mm Macro without kids running around and messing up with my kit.

Starting to enjoy it now but obviously still lacking in technique and improvements.


Any of the images below worth putting on my flickr site :roll

So all suggestions comments and advice on how to improve from the images below are deeply appreciated.




















many thanks

Amin

Matt,

I will remember to try those lenses when I am tired of playing chess and jump start my grey matter with those tricks of the eye.

Now, for some reason Freelander is not back yet. By this time usually its already parked on the driveway. So lady in red with her Freelander hasnt made an appearence yet, but decided to go out and take a shot or two of the location even without the Freelander. I am sure you more experienced ones will know where exactly to pinpointedly place the spare whell of the Toylander ha .

Gosh its so much clearer now after looking at the view without the grey and mist of all the snow and trying to keep the bleeming fingers warm

Right! Its official now, this rear spare wheel of the Freelander has got to me and I have had enough of it . I even resuscitated James from his grave. I will consider this issue closed, once and for all.

But thinking again, one part of me is still keen on taking the shot from the same angle soon the Freelander parks in the drive way, and then we will put this matter as closed for good. ha.

Prieni,

*sigh* gosh am I glad you are still around, for a moment I thought I might have killed you, unknowingly. This is what happens when one is in a hurry to throw in a comment and misses the details ha

Thanks
Amin

James,

I take back what I wrote on the previous comment. You did notice it and when I reviewed your comment you clearly said "I would say it is some fence post or similar covered with snow and a different shrub growing just behind it"

So you were the first one to notice, , Ray, sorry but James gets the prize, we were still fumbling when he had already got it first time ha

Amin

James,

hmm, jury is still out on that one, whether you had one too many yesterday or not, because you failed to notice there was somethin strange on that pic, well, something looking strange I mean ha .

Let's see what Don says this morning after what you thought he has had a glass too many of drink yesterday night

Amin