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Anyone else into photography? I recently bought a Canon 350D DSLR, trying to find myself a hobby other than computers. It's working out quite well so far. I think I've had it about 4 weeks and I'm the last photo I took was number 1093....

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Posted: 12th Sep 2006 23:21 Edited at: 12th Sep 2006 23:27
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Yup, got a Nikon D50 a few months back and have been using it constantly. not long back from shooting hundreds of pics at Marwell Zoo.

Edit: What lenses did you get with it?

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You get an 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 lens with it. It's ok, but I find I'm always around the 55mm limit. About 1 week after buying the camera, I was after some alternatives, so I spent about £35 on second hand lenses; I bought two ~30 year old lenses - 1 55mm f2 prime, a f2.8 135mm prime and an M42 screw mount adapter. Although I won't use those lenses now, it was a useful experience to see what artifacts appear on old lenses and what a large aperture like f2 can do.

I've just bought a canon 28-135 with Image Stabilisation from a friend.

I really need to not spend any more until well into next year now.

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I know how you feel, mine came with an 18-55 and I picked up a reasonably cheap 70-300mm sigma lens shortly after ,and then clapped eyes on a 110mm macro. Its great fun but a serious drain on the wallet.

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I have a wedding, honeymoon, car and new boiler to pay off ... and I've just bought a camera. When will I learn?

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Posted: 13th Sep 2006 00:39 Edited at: 13th Sep 2006 00:43
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I've been into photography for 18 years, with various SLRs. My current budget, taken into account kids, cars and mortgage, stretches to a Minolta Dynax A200, which is about as close as you get to an SLR without actually being an SLR I do have an SLR too (Dynax 505 Si), but I'm spoilt by the instant results of a digital camera now.

Here's some of my efforts, ranging from attempts at real photography, to candid shots taken on the spur of the moment.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=batvink



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Did photography for a bit back in college but haven't since. Just don't seem to have the time at the moment
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Some nice pictures Batvink.

Think I posted this a little while ago but heres some of mine,
http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Gallery&author=MrDibbler&page=1

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Posted: 13th Sep 2006 01:51
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lol @ Roaming Couch.

Some nice shots there guys.

@Batvink I like the thunder storm shot. I don't have any night time shots because I don't have the balls to take out my brand new camera at night time yet. Although, your shot seems to be using a high ISO speed though - quite grainy.

ISO speed is my main nemesis... I keep leaving it high and forgetting to turn it back down.

@Oraculaca Sorrento Sunset is pretty much what I've been trying to do (like in here).

Nice stuff.

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I am going to start photography very soon. Right now, I have a crappy mini Digigr8, TFT Camrecorder which also has single frame capture.

I want to buy a decent camera to take photos, but I think I need to buy a weapon also. This is because in my area, there are these "Chav" people who like to take things, bloody magpies.

So, any way, if this thread is still going around november, ill post again with my camera make and probably some of my nooby shots.

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hmmm I misread the title...don't ask what I misread it for...

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I wont ask, I can guess.



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Posted: 13th Sep 2006 23:53 Edited at: 13th Sep 2006 23:54
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Got a D50 a month or so back (there's a post about it on this board somewhere) and I'm studying photography at college which is almost all black and white film SLR's (Pentax K1000's and the like). Cracking fun.

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Quote: "ISO speed is my main nemesis... I keep leaving it high and forgetting to turn it back down"


ISO rating is a tool in it's own right. I once bought an ISO 400 black and white film, set it to ISO 1600 and overexposed everything. The effect is very grainy and arty.



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What do you actually learn in college, when you go in for photography? I would have thought it to be a simple art to learn. So what is there to photography which needs a class to get good at?

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I have the same cannon. cool

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Quote: "So what is there to photography which needs a class to get good at?"


I've not been to a single class ever, but I'm sure anyone can see the difference between pointing a camera at something and pressing a button, and "composing an image".

Composition is all about making what might be totally uninteresting, interesting. Change any of the following and it changes the subject; light, angle, lens choice, focal length, aperture size and shutter speed. For example, this is actually very difficult to acheive. Because it requires a slow shutter speed and for the photographer to follow the object in focus perfectly. If anyone here tried this now, you'd probably end up with a big blurry mess. Something like this is just plain interesting because he's using a 10-22. I took this shot intentionnally trying to make the background blurry and the subject sharp, which automatically makes the subject stand out. I'm more interested in the technical things at the moment, but as you can imagine that could be an "artistic tool"

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Quote: "I would have thought it to be a simple art to learn. So what is there to photography which needs a class to get good at?"


Wow!!! I've been doing photography for so many years, and every time I go out, I get a little bit better. It's such a complex art, you wouldn't believe. For example, how would you do the following...

Take a portrait against the backdrop of a window?
Take a landscape, with high contrast in the clouds
Take a butterfly, and make sure the flower it is on is in focus, but the next flower back is blurred?
Take something in focus when it's not actually the centre-point?
Expose for the foreground and the background.
Capture emotions?
Pan and shoot?
Focus on a car travelling at 150 miles an hour?
Photograph water in motion?
Photograph water in an action shot?
Photograph blue water?
Take photos into the sun?
Create a silhouette against a high-colour backdrop?

The list is endless!!! These are just the subjects. Within each one, you need to find a full range of tones, compose the shot, and on and on...



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Ill probably look for a book on photography then.

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The only reason I take pictures is for textures or of people.

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I too have a Canon 350D DSLR
I started photography with a Canon AE1 Program why back when but now digital is so much easier and cheaper (in terms of developing).

Some of my pics are here:http://www.photo-pic.co.uk/e107_plugins/coppermine_menu/index.php?cat=10165

This is probably my favourite:



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Scraggle, I like this one, kind of emphasises my point above about what's involved in taking a photo in an artistic way...





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Thanks BatVink

That was Kaladonia Falls in Cyprus. It is actually two photos joined together in Photoshop. I couldn't get out far enough to take the whole waterfall in a single shot but I think the merge works quite well.


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I just came back from melbourne and took a shot within this building of all these canaries in an installation.



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I was in Melbourne earlier in the year.

Some weird buildings:



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I also have a Canon Rebel XT (US equivalent of the 350D). I went with the 17-85 lens with Image Stabilization. I like it MUCH better than the 18-55.

I'm just now getting to grips with full Manual use, it's a lot different than using a consumer point and shoot, but I've gotten off some amazing shots with it. Maybe I'll post some.

Photography is fun.

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I've recently splurged on lenses. I bought a Canon 50mm f1.8 prime, which is beautiful for portraits, but absolutely horrid for anything else. And then, in a moment of weakness, I bought a 28-135 IS from a friend.

I'm never gonna pay all this off...

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Quote: "I've recently splurged on lenses. I bought a Canon 50mm f1.8 prime, which is beautiful for portraits, but absolutely horrid for anything else"



Really? I've heard that you can get some beautiful landscapes with the f1.8, the "plastic fantastic". It ain't wideangle, but it's a heck of a sharp lens. And 50mm is pretty darn close to normal human vision, that's why the pictures taken with it look so natural.

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I've just got a little Finepix camera - just a point and click, but I think I got rather a good one of a dragonfly

My bf, on the other hand, has a bit of a swish camera in comparison, and gets some great photographs. I'm just glad I got him the camera I get to bask in some glory by association

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About 3-4 weeks ago, I got a Fuji S5600 Digital Camera, 5.1 MP and 10X Optical zoom. I still dont know how to take pictures without the flash going off, or how to focus in on an object without it going blurred.

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Higgins, I had a Fuji S5200 for a while, and I regret to say that I hated the picture quality.

The image stabilization on those Fuji ultrazoom cameras involves simply raising the ISO, which results in ridiculous amounts of noise. The same for its "natural light" mode, which disables the flash but raises the ISO to compensate.

That's the beauty of a true SLR, I can get low light, high ISO pics that look beautiful and noise free with my Rebel XT.

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I was commissioned to do the pictures for a christening last weekend ... here is a picture of proud mum and daughter:



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Posted: 11th Oct 2006 23:50 Edited at: 11th Oct 2006 23:51
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@Higgins - I've got 4 letters for you: RTFM.

@scraggle - good job you got that shot there and then, cos after lunch break mum's got double english and maths.


Unless of course, she's related to you in which case, congratulations.

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@adr - I wasn't thinking that at all. Not at all. Honest.

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I really liked melbourne, might have to move down later in life

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Melbourne is very much like London. Lot's of nationalities all mixed in to form a single(ish) community.
Bisbane I hate but just outside Brisbane you have the Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise which is without doubt my favourite place in the world (so far).

But here's a ponderance for those that know (very few I'm sure). Why does the amount of smokers decrease as you travel further north along Australia's east coast?

In Melbourne almost everyone smokes ... undoubtadly due to the vast amount of Greeks there. As you travel north there becomes fewer and fewer smokers, until in Cairns you find that a smoker really is a social outcast ... heavenly!


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it gets more relaxed the further north you go, less stress = less stress relievers

I cant believe you like the gold coast, its a really dodgy place, having lived there 17 years.

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My intention was to spend 3 days in Brisbane and 3 days in Surfers. But I ended up staying about 18 hours in Brisbaen before deciding it was hideous and moved on to surfers where my 3 days became 3 weeks.

You've gotta love Surfers! I was a single man when I visited and everywhere you look there is a beautiful young woman and all of them there for fun. It is heavenly!

I can't believe you don't like it ... too much of a good thing I suppose



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I guess its just that I lived there and served lots of drinks to tourists.
sure the babes are good and the beach is amazing, but yeah i guess I got tired of it.

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btw tinkergirl.

the colours in that shot are amazing!

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To name a few.
All at http://www.delvarworld.com/photo/
Maybe I'll even do photo talk in the forum if people sign up for it (/advert). It's been a hobby of mine for a long time.

edit: fixed

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the piano shot is really great mate.

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Ta indi I was very lucky.

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Nope, I do cinimatogrophy and videography, but my mom and little bro are way into photography.
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