Our Photography

[TrimTheKing]

I am not a big photographer by any means, but like to think I don't do too bad. All pics taken with a pointy shooty Canon Ixus 60.

Llama (or Alpaca, not sure) who used to live in the field at the bottom of my garden.

Vernal Falls @ Yosemite

Sign posts at Bodie ghost town

My wedding venue

Hermit crab, Maldives

 

[wizer]

I do love a hermit crab

 

[stevebuk]

Tom, like the photo of the rhino with the mohican down its back.. :lol: :lol:

 

[woody67]

Beverley Races April 09' Canon 1000D with telephoto

Willie Horne (stop the sniggering at the back of the class) a famous Rugby player from Barrow (apparantly)

I STILL can't get any bigger pics via Photobucket. Tried everything.

Mark

 

[TrimTheKing]

I STILL can't get any bigger pics via Photobucket. Tried everything.

Mark

What do you mean? Mine above are hosted on photobucket...

 

[woody67]

Trim - I used to be able to, but now my only resize options (on preset sizes) are tiny (100 x 75) or small (160 x 120) there used to be others, but alas no more! . I've tried allsorts, but no joy. Any suggestions.

Thanks

Mark

 

[rileytoolworks]

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Taken at VolksFest 9or BugJAm - can't remember which) this year.

 

[llangatwgnedd]

I'll bore you all with mine, other than the aqueduct all taken locally

Cannon Ixus 50


Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Just some berries I happen to see

Cilffriw Colliery Adit

Sarn Helen, March Hywel

and finally, a arty farty self portrait on a ugly wind farm

 

[rileytoolworks]

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[Steve Jones]

Another one from me, taken with a borrowed fuji finpix S5000 before I bought my Nikon.

Halesowen church.

 

[OPJ]

You can get great pics with point and shoot these days.

Very true. One thing I learnt recently is that, on Flickr, you can browse through photos that other people have taken using an identical model to your own. All I learned is that I have an awful lot to learn about using my 'cheap' camera! :shock:

 

[big soft moose]

another few from me ( i'll try not to monopolise honest)



Roman reenactor at bancroft villa milton keynes



a cute fluffy duckling (mallard)



"please dont comb my ears mummy" this was a shot from the big doggy do in milton keynes and wound up in the local press



common seal pup at blakeney point norfolk - sold as a print




eagle owl - taken at the shuttleworth school of falconry



a honey bee - tamron 90mm macro and 2x converter



and finally one of my most sucesful shots - sold as a print, used on a calendar and sold to stock library - grey seal on skokholm in july 07

 

[MikeG.]

All taken in Zambia or Botswana in August......

Male kudu

Busanga Plain: sunrise from the tent

Sunset on the Kafue River

Sunset at McBride's Camp, Kafue NP

Three brothers

Lion with pride near Lufupa

Tree near the Chobe River, Botswana

Old Bull Buffalo, Chobe (note the weepy eye)



I must get around to cropping some of these.......

Mike

 

[John. B]

Here's tenpence worth of some of mine:

Dolphin, San Diego zoo.

Old man of the Forest. San Diego Zoo

Snapping Turtle Okefenoke swamp Georgia.

Star Trek Experience, Las Vegas.

 

[wizer]

Yet more from me.

These 2 taken with the Sigma 50mm Macro lens

(The focus was just off here. Am I right in saying it's the DOF that's the problem? What setting on the camera would I have to play with to get that right? Just the focus?)

 

[wizer]

Some lovely photos being posted here. The vast majority worthy of being published or framed.

Looks like Woodworking and Photography are linked in the psyche some how?

 

[Racers]

Spider

Alfa with some lightrooming

cat dancing

My house

Green shoots of recovery

Evil Weevil

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Pete

 

[Racers]

Hi, wizer

Close ups are difficult to do you need a small aperture to get good DoF but then you have a long exposure which can lead to camera shake, try using the flash to freeze things, and take lots of shots.


Pete

 

[wizer]

Cheers Pete. That was taken about 6yrs ago and I can't remember if I was using the tripod. Probably not. Must get that lens out and have a play.

I love the Green Shoots shot.

 

[big soft moose]

Hi, wizer

Close ups are difficult to do you need a small aperture to get good DoF but then you have a long exposure which can lead to camera shake, try using the flash to freeze things, and take lots of shots.


Pete

I agree with pete in principal but my opinion is that its not a DoF problem so much as that the focus has locked on to the wrong thing - there is plenty of foreground in focus and the shoulder of the cricket is in focus but the heads a bit soft

so you needed to put the active focus point over the head/eye which would have resulted in less in focus fore ground but the cricket itself being on the plane of focus.

the other thing that maximises the DoF is to keep the sensor/film plane parallel with the subject - if it is at an angle you will get a smaller band of focus and thus focusing will need to be that much more accurate