Photography

[thetime]

yeah, well have been asked to do the odd wedding, and have my pics on a few website and magazines

[crosswillcastyourshadow]

Some of these are amazing!

I've allways been interested in photography, but never really had the time to get into it.

I might buy myself a digital camera over the summer & then try & take a good sunrise/sunset shot from the ferris wheel at Leeds.

I'm recording a new EP with my band soon, IF anyone would be interested in helping me out with artwork that would be awesome.

[philipsteak]

Bit "postcardy", but gotta love those mirror lakes. All the hard work done for you, and so effective.

Lake Matheson, west coast of NZ. Mts Cook and Tasman in the background

Miford sound, first thing in the morning.

Mitre Peak, on the front of all the brochures for Milford Sound

Lake Hayes, just down the road from me.

Goose Island, St Mary Lake?, Glacier National Park, Montana

St Louis

Jefferson Memorial, DC

[bagpuss]

Hello everyone,

Thought I would share with you that this Saturday, 23rd Aug 08, is Scott Kelby's World wide photowalk.

Over 5,500 users are currently registered from all over the world.

Do join in, as it’s looking to be an exciting day

The winner of each City will win a copy of his new book and be put forward to in with a chance of winning over £3000 of prizes.

Goto photshopuser for more info and registration.

If you come to Cardiff, then you will meet me as I am the leader for the Cardiff Photo walk.

Cardiff

Have fun

Doug

Edited August 20, 2008 by bagpuss

[Al the CAT]

The winner of each City will win a copy of his new book and be put forward to in with a chance of winning over £3000 of prizes.

Goto photshopuser for more info and registration.

[bagpuss]

Doug,

Bad link there fella, should be photoshopuser

Al.

[hallamboy]

Hello lovely camera peeps,

Having read through a lot but not all of this thread I was hoping to pick your brains about something. Mrs Hallamboy is in my opinion a good photographer for someone shooting on a regular digital camera. I would like to get her a DSLR for her birthday, but am unsure what would be a good one for a DSLR novice. I'm thinking of something that can be grown into as experience grows, but not so basic that the urge to move up the ranks is almost immidate.

Please bless me with your knowledge good people!

[kerplunk]

Hello lovely camera peeps,

Having read through a lot but not all of this thread I was hoping to pick your brains about something. Mrs Hallamboy is in my opinion a good photographer for someone shooting on a regular digital camera. I would like to get her a DSLR for her birthday, but am unsure what would be a good one for a DSLR novice. I'm thinking of something that can be grown into as experience grows, but not so basic that the urge to move up the ranks is almost immidate.

Please bless me with your knowledge good people!

Price range?

[wullie 72]

I was also looking for some ideas for a new camera, am not in the market for an SLR as cant afford one but one of the ones that bridges the gap betwix compact & semi-pro. Hoping to get something 7 MP or above with long zoom & it needs to have sequential shooting for £180-£230, any ideas folks?

[Glitter+Vodka]

ooh theres some really awesome pics on this thread!

I really want to take a photography class, I do scrapbooking/digi scrapping and I want to learn to take better pictures for my work. I planned on buying a DSLR but at the moment I have no camera at all as I broke my digi cam at TITP so need to replace that first as I like to take a camera everywhere with me.

nothing special but heres a few pics I rather like...

First few from DC...

This next one is the ceiling inside the Atlantis Casino in the Bahamas... bit dark but I really love the pattern. Would have been better if i'd got the whole circle in but I had a broken ankle at the time so I couldnt get any lower down to give wider view.

This one is Bahamas again and I like the way the trees kinda frame the view of the ship. Will be cropped before its used though to get rid of that silly woman who got in my way!

[wullie 72]

I found this site which seems to have pretty damn good prices, but they do not seem to give much information on the cameras themselves but thats where google comes in handy

[hallamboy]

Price range?

[bunique]

At Mizen Head, crossing the bridge (photo below, just to show how rickety it is!) to the lighthouse, through a gap in the rocks

And another, just because I love the wildness of the West Coast

[amaidment]

A good question. Without wanting to be a pain in the backside, what can I be expecting here? I look on a broad website like Jessops and see the bottom of the range is coming in at £290 for a Nikon D40 or slightly higher for a Sony Alpha A200. I don't mind paying that price or something a bit more like £350, or do you think that it is better to try for a higher spec camera, but try and get it second hand (and still be around that price). Basically I would rather get it right or not do it at all. If my budget doesn't stretch to 'something that can be grown into as experience grows, but not so basic that the urge to move up the ranks is almost immidate' then I'd rather not buy it, and save further until I can.

It all seems a bit of a minefield. Many thanks!

[kerplunk]

A good question. Without wanting to be a pain in the backside, what can I be expecting here? I look on a broad website like Jessops and see the bottom of the range is coming in at £290 for a Nikon D40 or slightly higher for a Sony Alpha A200. I don't mind paying that price or something a bit more like £350, or do you think that it is better to try for a higher spec camera, but try and get it second hand (and still be around that price). Basically I would rather get it right or not do it at all. If my budget doesn't stretch to 'something that can be grown into as experience grows, but not so basic that the urge to move up the ranks is almost immidate' then I'd rather not buy it, and save further until I can.

It all seems a bit of a minefield. Many thanks!

Purely because I'm not familiar with Sony's lens range I'd go for the Nikon out of those two (I've got a D40 myself and it's a great little camera). There's bags of room for learning with any SLR really so I wouldn't worry about that part. What you get with more expensive cameras is added functionality, more buttons and tweaks, better viewfinders etc. Some would also say it's more about the lens than the body and with the cheaper D40 you might have enough left over to throw in a 50mm/1.8 lens (about £85) which is a good little lens for learning technique. The D60 looks good too and you get a kit lens with anti-shake which is a very good plus.

Alternatively, the new Nikon D90 gets announced tomorrow (the first SLR with movie mode - yay!) so that should mean lots of cheap D80's around which is well-rated camera, bigger than the compact D40, better viewfinder etc.

Then there's canon, pentax, olympus....

[hallamboy]

Purely because I'm not familiar with Sony's lens range I'd go for the Nikon out of those two (I've got a D40 myself and it's a great little camera). There's bags of room for learning with any SLR really so I wouldn't worry about that part. What you get with more expensive cameras is added functionality, more buttons and tweaks, better viewfinders etc. Some would also say it's more about the lens than the body and with the cheaper D40 you might have enough left over to throw in a 50mm/1.8 lens (about £85) which is a good little lens for learning technique. The D60 looks good too and you get a kit lens with anti-shake which is a very good plus.

Alternatively, the new Nikon D90 gets announced tomorrow (the first SLR with movie mode - yay!) so that should mean lots of cheap D80's around which is well-rated camera, bigger than the compact D40, better viewfinder etc.

Then there's canon, pentax, olympus....

[wullie 72]

This site seems to give some pretty even handed & in depth reviews of cameras

http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-came...mix-DMC-FZ18/p1

[chappiepunk]

so with summer someone must have some great pics from the festivals!

[What??? No beer???????]

so with summer someone must have some great pics from the festivals!

[amaidment]

Just wanted to *bump* this thread as photography is a passion of mine and no-one has posted for a while. I went out tonight and took a few photos around Rochester and others must've taken some nice photos since the last post.

There are more on my Flick here but here are a few faves:

[Katster]

Love the thread, grew up with dad as a photographer and my very own darkroom...

[kerplunk]

Amaidment> liking the night shots

I haven't done much very recently but I've just onlined some pics from our visit to glastonbury on the autumn equinox weekend a few weeks ago:

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Edited November 10, 2008 by kerplunk

[Katster]

Due to inspiration from this thread, I have just requested a digital camera from my parentals for Christmas

[amaidment]

Due to inspiration from this thread, I have just requested a digital camera from my parentals for Christmas

[Katster]

Any particular kind? If its a compact digital I can strongly recommend a Sony. The one Nikki has is far better than my (much newer) Panasonic.