The Photography Thread

[Ish]

Today's effort.



I think I'm subconciously on some kind of photo a day mission...

[Alastair]

Thanks Ish, yes, posted here before, took it just before christmas.

Like the barbed wire. Was going to ask how you shot it but have just read on the flickr page, good job, looks great.

[Ish]

Thanks Alastair. I'm loving the SB-600 flash I bought. Its really opened up my options for lighting a scene. Next purchase: an off camera cable for it.

[Gareth C]

What lenses you using on the nikon ISH?

[Ish]

I've got the standard 18-55mm kit lens but I rarely use that.

My most used lens is the 105mm Nikon macro lens. Which I use (obviously!) for all my macro shots but also use for a lot of my nature shots like the lemurs and various birds I've shot. Its a really high quality lens and incredibly versatile.

Other than that I use a Nikon 70-300mm lens sometimes. It was cheap and is reasonably sharp in the 100-200mm range but tails off badly towards 300mm.

And I recently bought the Nikon 55mm-200mm AFS VR lens. Which I've used for some of the recent shots I've posted. I'm really impressed with this lens as its sharp as a pin throughout its focal range and the vibration reduction I've found to be really effective. The auto focus is also very quick and quiet.

[Gareth C]

Thanks. Like I wrote above, the d200 is tempting as is the 18-200VR to go with it...other than that I have been in the dark!

[Ish]

Yeah when I upgraded to the D80 I very nearly bought a D200 as there's not much in them pricewise. But given they share the same image sensor and I'm still really a beginner I decided to save the cash for other camera bits and bobs. The D200 or its equivelant will be there for me in a year or twos time

Based on the D80 to date I can really recommend it (and I suppose a D200 by virtue of them sharing the same sensor). I've found its image quality to be obscenely good. I've had my ladybird shot and hoverfly shots from a page or two back blown up to 18"x12" and it just looks amazing.

[Ginger Tosser]

This BW shot of foggy trees (Epic theme)

Cracking shot!

[MartyG]

Took this this morning, but so many wasps about spoiling it and stopping me from taking photos.

[Ginger Tosser]

Attempt at nature....

[Ish]

Perfect depth of field. Nice!

[Ginger Tosser]

Not bad from about 3-4 metres away!! A bit of blur on its beak though, think I need to be quicker for birds.

(300mm IS + 1.4ex @ 420mm f/5.6 1/100)

[Alastair]

Nice bird GT, shame you missed the tip of the tail but a far better shot than I've ever managed.

Marty, I like that flower too, very artistic shot.

I grabbed the tele lens and jumped on the bike for a quick blast to Goodwood on Sat, was only there an hour, here's the best of what I've processed so far:







Through the fence on this one:


Trying to make it look a little racy rather than just cars on track.




That'll do for now (bet you're all bored silly of car shots from me anyway). You'll have to go through to Flickr for the shutter speeds if you want them, too busy to list em all today, sorry.

[Ginger Tosser]

Nice bird GT, shame you missed the tip of the tail but a far better shot than I've ever managed.

Ta, I could've cheated and added a bit in PS. But at least I think I've noticed the birds feeding habits now! I should be able to do more.

Like the car shots btw. Nice and clear.

[Ginger Tosser]

A few from today's feed.


Eos 5D EF300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x 1/640 f/5.6 iso400


Eos 5D EF300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x 1/800 f/5.6 iso400


Eos 5D EF300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x 1/160 f/9 iso400


Eos 5D EF300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x 1/800 f/5.6 iso400


Proof that other birds exist in my garden!
Eos 5D EF300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x 1/1000 f/5.6 iso400