The Photography thread

[overit]

Mataranka Thermal Pools, Northern Territory. Lovely spot in the middle of nowhere. The water is luke warm and very clear.

 

[nunthewiser]

Mataranka Thermal Pools, Northern Territory. Lovely spot in the middle of nowhere. The water is luke warm and very clear.

excellent bar at mataranka cvan park ... good spot

 

[overit]

One of my favourites. Not the usual landscape I like to take but the sand tracks tell a story! The red sand is from nears Ayres rock.

 

[Julia]

Julia..said..."Kincella, my dog would have yours for morning tea."

unfortunately a German Shepherd already tried that....in the middle of Toorak Village shops....two dogs deliberatly left unleashed on the back of a truck, dog and I were walking past..then noticed the other dogs....tried to run into the shops, the owner was coming out....started telling me his dogs would stay on the truck and nothing to worry about....as he said that ,one of the dogs jumped off the truck and came straight at me...I turned and squashed myself up against the glass window with my dog between me and the window...the german shepherd jumped at me and was on my back, with its face at the back of my head....the owner finally dragged the dog off me....

With apologies to everyone for the off topic post: and thanks for some awesome photographs.

Kincella, I'm sure you know I was being facetious with my earlier comment.
My dog would regard yours as a fascinating toy but wouldn't hurt it.

Re the dogs on truck incident, I guess you have to consider what sort of owner would leave dogs untethered on back of a truck? Not the sort of person who is going to be responsible about ensuring his dogs behave properly.
That was a horrible experience for you and your dog. Don't you have city rangers to deal with people like this?

 

[Uncle Festivus]

I was only referring to the JB HiFi link you supplied. Good job on the 30% deal.

I'm thinking about the Canon 50D or a Nikon D90.

Some Nikon D90 pics, with 18-200 Nikon DX VR lens, and Tiffen warming filter for sunsets. (170k file limit not as good as full res?) King Parrot & Lace Monitor.

 

[ThingyMajiggy]

Ahhh just my kinda thread Here are my shots, bit of everything, kids to cars etc.

Hope you like them!

www.samcollinsphotography.com

Let me know if you want to see more

 

[overit]

Some Nikon D90 pics, with 18-200 Nikon DX VR lens, and Tiffen warming filter for sunsets.

Are you happy with 18-200vr? I have never used one but think it would make a good all round lens. It certainly seems to take very nice pics. Never got one because of some slightly skewed comments about it when I was looking at it. I think I may get it one day as changing lenses is over-rated!.

I have the nikon 12-24, 80-400vr, 35 f2, 50 f1.8, 85 f1.8, tamron 17-50 f2.8 and sigma 150macro f2.8.

The sigma is one of the cheapest but also the sharpest and my most used lens. Great lens. The 35prime is also a very sharp lens. The 80-400vr is probably the biggest let down. Cost the most and the picture quality is fine but not exceptional unlike the price tag. The 12-24 takes a decent pic but has some reasonable distortion when wide out. The tamron is a good cheap alternative to the more expensive nikon version but the build quality is not there and seems to put a warmish tinge through the pic. Still takes a decent pic. You pay alot more for slight increases in quality.

I take pics of landscape and animals so I only need the wide lens and long lens. If you want to photograph people a more mid-range is the go.

A good photography forum is dpreview forums. All your questions answered and more. Thats where I learnt most of my stuff.

 

[DB008]

Here is one that has been resized using Microsoft Picture Manager. It's atleast 60% smaller than the original. I don't think that too much of the quality has been lost. Obviously, the original is alot better, but for a digital, good enough for me.
NZ, Tongariro Crossing. Pitty about the overcast conditions that day.

Used a Panasonic Lumix, l think it's a 8mp. Great shot for a middle-of-the-range digital digital.

 

[Uncle Festivus]

Ahhh just my kinda thread Here are my shots, bit of everything, kids to cars etc.

Hope you like them!

www.samcollinsphotography.com

Let me know if you want to see more

Yes, very nice. What camera(s) & len(s) do you use? Are these straight from the camera or Photoshoped?

Edit:just looked at your flickr site to see it's a EOS 50D? This was the camera I would have bought if I didn't get the D90.

Are you happy with 18-200vr? I have never used one but think it would make a good all round lens. It certainly seems to take very nice pics. Never got one because of some slightly skewed comments about it when I was looking at it. I think I may get it one day as changing lenses is over-rated!.

Generally I'm pretty happy with it - it's very good in good light, but recently I took some landscape photos at 200 zoom that had dark fringing around the outside, but otherwise a good all round choice if limited to one lens for starters.

 

[Julia]

Keep them coming, people. You're all really talented.
Sam, are they your own kids? Really cute.

 

[MACCA350]

Here's one the Misses Great Grandmother took:

And one of the Moon during the recent Victorian Bushfires
Nikon D300 with 18-200mm VR lens

Some great shots popping up

cheers

 

[nunthewiser]

very cool thread guys..........thanks

how do i shrink a photo of 2.6 or so mb down to fit on asf?

thanks

 

[Ashsaege]

very cool thread guys..........thanks

how do i shrink a photo of 2.6 or so mb down to fit on asf?

thanks

Get Photoshop CS3. The possibilities are endless.

 

[Uncle Festivus]

very cool thread guys..........thanks

how do i shrink a photo of 2.6 or so mb down to fit on asf?

thanks

I use paint.net as a quick & free editor, but the process is the same for other graphic progs I assume.
Image - resize - I change the horizontal length to 460
save as jpg - lower quality so file size is less than 170k

???

 

[MACCA350]

This little sucker was quick

 

[nunthewiser]

thanks will have a go later

 

[overit]

Fitzroy Island off Cairns!

 

[overit]

Emma Gorge, El Questro station, Western Australia. Well worth the trek! Nice swimming hole.

 

[doctorj]

What cameras / lenses do you folks use? Some of these photos are stunning.

 

[Ashsaege]

Here are a few photos i took last weekend on my drive from Perth to Adelaide.
The camera i used was a Canon 350D which i borrowed from a friend.