The Photography Thread

[Alastair]

If your subject is close enough and the flash is decent (as I'm sure it must be on a G9) then I should think that on-board flash is fine for filling in. The only time I've ever really used it has been on-board to be honest.

The main advantages for me of speedlights over on-board are that you can use them off camera (with some sort of transmitter/receiver setup) and you can also angle them to bounce off the ceiling etc. Just much more versatile. Also they are obviously a lot more powerful too.

[Magnakai]

Saw Animal Collective last night. They were ace.




BTW, the colours in this look wonky in anything other than Safari or Firefox 3 with the colour management plugin. Grr boo hiss.

Also, Atlas Sound was supporting:

[funkydan]

Mag, those are creamy mate (I'm viewing using Safari!) Lovely crisp shots and good use of the lighting too

[funkydan]

Sorry for the double post but I've been going through the holiday shots from the U.S. last month and found this one - can't believe I never posted it here as it was one my fave pics from the whole trip. It's a place called Mirror Lake in Yosemite N.P. and it was just stunning. The snow was melting in the park when we were there, so there was quite a lot of movement in the lake hence the muddied waters (when the water's still, it reflects like a mofo ), but I still think it's beautiful nonetheless:



Best viewed LARGE!

[spagmasterswift]

Quicky on the way home from me - gonna try and get the focus righ tomorrow when the event starts proper...

[PeteJ]

Awesome!! This thread has exploded in content recently, crackin' job all!


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[MartyG]

I like the idea Spags - I'm not completely convinced by the framing though with this one.

Definitely try some tighter framing and some slightly longer exposures so you get some motion, and try to move with the subject so you get sharp focus point main subjects and motion backgrounds - basically, try loads of different stuff and post the best ones

[MartyG]

Awesome!! This thread has exploded in content recently, crackin' job all!

Definitely Pete - it's great to see a lot of new people posting inspired by the rest of us - long may it continue.

[spagmasterswift]

Will do, that was basically taken as I walked past with the 'sport' setting on and the kit lense >_< I'm lazy innit...

Do I see a little tear in that pic PeteJ

[PeteJ]

Yeah, poor thing isn't allowed to eat. No Access

[spagmasterswift]

You should call that one 'NIL BY MOUTH'

[prinnysquad]

Awesome!! This thread has exploded in content recently, crackin' job all!


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Half Life 2... nice.

[Magnakai]

Really nice ones Pete and Dan. Oh, and everyone's been awesome lately. So go buy yourself a cream cake or something.

I went down to Kenwood/Hampstead Heath today with a friend who let me borrow a couple of his lenses.

As always, click for bigness.

The Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS:










and the Canon 70-200mm F/4 IS:










Of course, I still like my 28mm f/1.8:




and my 50mm f/1.8




Oh oh oh and I saw the amazing Mount Eerie:







(sorry, the lighting was awful and I was stuck in one spot)

and supported by No Kids (who were too dark to shoot) and the very fun The Oh Cees:

[spagmasterswift]

Beautiful stuff mag

[Herbalizer]

Went to the Botanical gardens in Swansea today.