Comment by dcweather posted on Another success for Pentax at 19/09/2013 - 13:54

Comment by dcweather posted on A couple more birding shots. at 12/09/2013 - 12:04

Comment by dcweather posted on A couple more birding shots. at 12/09/2013 - 12:03

I'm persevering with this using the Q with the 300mm DA*. It requires the "right" kind of bird, i.e one that remains fairly static. These are more or less uncropped and about 15 metres away, roughly. Very tricky focusing and a low success rate but not bad.

Comment by dcweather posted on A couple more birding shots. at 11/09/2013 - 20:50

I entered my first ever proper photographic competition on Saturday. It was at a large Essex Country Show, the Orsett Show. Much to my amazement I won first prize in the category "Reflections" and second in "Night shot". I suppose there were about forty entries in each category. Am I now a professional as the first prize was £3 and a blue rosette and second prize was £2 and a red rosette (preferable)!
Dave

Comment by dcweather posted on Another success for Pentax at 10/09/2013 - 00:39

Comment by dcweather posted on my photo in National Geographic at 10/09/2013 - 00:31

Comment by dcweather posted on common or (GARDEN) spider and B****Y big catapillar head at 10/09/2013 - 00:23

Comment by dcweather posted on common or (GARDEN) spider and B****Y big catapillar head at 08/09/2013 - 12:10

It does raise some interesting problems. I took this by coincidence around the same time and came to the conclusion it was a bit uninteresting. So how could you make a spider shot interesting? After all this is outside and does have a web. i suppose if it had some prey. I have seen some results with focus stacking that seem to give a certain extra impact.
Any suggestions?

Comment by dcweather posted on common or (GARDEN) spider and B****Y big catapillar head at 07/09/2013 - 21:13

Comment by dcweather posted on common or (GARDEN) spider and B****Y big catapillar head at 07/09/2013 - 20:34