Gareth you could try a Teleplus 1.5x pz converter , have one that works very well with my Sigma 50-150. they do seem to be like hens teeth to find though. very lucky to pick mine up for £50,

thanks for looking and commnts. it was great under the shade of the canopy with a gentle breeze blowing through. you are right Nigel as usually i find woods very hard to work with but watching various youtube videos has given me more of an idea how to get someting out of them. Bill, the shadow patterns created on the tree trunk just caught my eye but after processing in Silver Efex i see a face smiliing at top right and a more sinister one top left in the shadow of course it could all be my imagination but that's the fun seeing something that is not actually there.

was intending to find some butterflies on our local common but it was too hot so had a walk through the wood in the shade.

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grass and hedges , bought the wife a lawnmower and a hedge cutter. i love gardening some nice flowers there , could get some nice abstracts going in close

this has been asked berore and i believe the consensus was why would you put a cheap uv filter on the end of an expensive lens as all it can do is damge the image quality. if you were to fall or drop your camera/lens the chances are you could smash the filter into the front optic of the lens . personally i stopped using them years ago and it does not take much to give a wipe with a lens cloth or use a lens pen to clean the front glass also the chances of hitting the front glass that is recessed as far back as the macro are pretty remote

we must have been typing at the same time John

definitely liking this set John but for me the right hand side of 1. i would straighten or give the left hand the opposite angle of lean and 6. i would just lift the shadows a tad. certainly well observed and love your ghostly passage plus how did you ever find an empty market place, well done

thanks for looking and all the comments. saw a youtube video on flowers coming out of the dark which was in a studio situation so i thought i would see if something similar could be done outside. made use of the preview facility ( which i usually forget we have) trying out various exposure settings to get what i wanted . lenses used were the HD Pentax DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 and Sigma DC EX 50-150mm f2.8 MKii APO HSM

first actual day out with camera in a long time and to a place i would not normally go to but was invited by a friend and actually quite enjoyed it. someting to do with having a like minded companion and not the wife who unfortunately does not understand the intricaces of photography a bit image heavy and have no idea what the flowers are, only the Water Lily and Rose.
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thanks Chris, she has had Starlings or Sparrows nesting there for years but i always seem to miss the youngsters

nesting in the neighbours roofspace , hope i can catch the youngsters when they emerge. Sigma 50-150 f2.8 . can't do anything about the background unfortunately,