i would get the Pentax 55-300mm - why? because i bought one in replacement of my 55-300mm lens and the quality is brilliant plus i got it for 199 from Warehouse express which was a bargain - I also like people watching and its been sheer brilliant for that

what on earth is Bokeh?

pentax 100mm sounds good - will check that out thanks, as for trying things out in a shop... well i am nowhere near anyone who stocks Pentax lenses so its internet or nothing for me sorry i didnt do a search *bad Fi*

Hello everyone! I am thinking about buying a brand new wonderful Macro lens for my camera - can anyone reccomend me a goodun

Few more, with a better placed flash and a concerted effort not to make funny faces!













The last one is definantly my favourite!!

We went to Laycock abbey not long ago with the college, its quite creepy there... good for pictures but a very odd vibe, coming down the hill and seeing it in the valley always makes my skin crawl a bit! I hope you enjoy it, Imber village is just next to there too and thats a well creepy place to get photos - infact, that part of the world, is just a bit strange, Market Lavington etc has always struck me as odd, i hope you guys enjoy the shoot, try not to get abducted by aliens or anything

Oh Oh, funky pop up background sounds great, i might just have a winge to Ian and see if he will get us one - your right about the last image, its been distorted by the resizing for web thingy magigy that i do, might have a look tomorrow about making it a bit less weird but i actually quite like it when combined with the Siren prints watermark being sort of pushed up by Stacy - it makes me laugh it does - but yes not technically good, i will fix it if i have time but am currently up to my arms in printers and developer trying to get everything ready for my end of year folio... so it may take me a while

Thanks again for the advice Paul x

mmmmmmm COLOURS!!! look at the COLOURS mmmmmmm

Feeb Likes it! the clarity is great and the vibrancy of it all is just fansatic

Loverly Jubbly! (Now wishes she had a k7...)

Hiya Paul and thank you for your positive and constructive critisim, I totally agree i have an awful lot to learn, i did a whole shoot with good and bad results, i agree with all the comments you made barr the ones about composition, in my line of work i deal with jugglers, faerys, pixies and the like, the idea it to form a style where i can capture that sort of playful silliness, which i think dispite some lighting faults, has come across very well

We didnt have the easiest ride (as i suppose is the case when you are new at something) and i did over expose alot of the shots, problem with that, is i had to then fix them in RAW (only a bit over you see) and that created problems with the background and a few dark bits as you mentioned.

We have big reels at college that we put on the wall - black, white and a few other colours and because its the end of the year, the reels get shorter and shorter from students and their models trampling on them and ripping them (how annoying!) So yeah we only had limited space to work with unfortunatly and i found it hard to work in such a small space Above all i have learned LOADS from doing it and just like this studio shoot is better than previous ones, the next one will be better again

Thanks again for your feedback its great to recieve, I am going to take everything on board and next time put it into action.

Was bloody good fun though - Hugs - Fi x

i likes the second one better, the vibrant green behind is just lovely - really well focused in the front and overall a pleasing photo - well done mate Keep up the good work xx