Photo-a-day

[Blastuk]

As pretty as your photos are, every one of them has looked underexposed to me.

I can see what you mean, but I think it works considering the time of day.

Who needs diamonds when you've got plants and a watering can?

Stunning

[Bobster]

ZZ TOPS

[kushtibari]

Who needs diamonds when you've got plants and a watering can?

Great pic.

Last shot of mine was about half a stop under exposed. They're not all under exposed. Sun was coming up over Blencathra (out of shot to the right) and was lighting up the sky but wasn't high enough to start hitting the tops of the mountains in front, never mind the valley floor. Even with filters its bloody hard to get an ok exposure on the sky and still get some detail down below. Stacking the Cokins gives too much of a colour cast in low light/long exposure and I'm not into tweaking of landscape pics.

[kalniel]

My usual subjects - cats and churches

[rox0r]

Carrying on the spider theme....

[kalniel]

Well if you must have your creepy crawlies...

[stavroshamster]

And another creepy crawly... (taken yesterday at Alexandra Palace in London)

[KidChameleon]

My usual subjects - cats and churches

Nice colours on the cat portrait. It looks very vivid.

Carrying on the spider theme....

Nice shot, but perhaps a piece of paper to reflect some light onto the spider would have improved it. [Edit: On second thought, the light glowing through the spider is kind of eerie as it is.]

Well if you must have your creepy crawlies...

It's a pair of legs with wings!

And another creepy crawly... (taken yesterday at Alexandra Palace in London)

I really like that one. The single colour and only one possible subject work really well. There's no fussy background to distract from the obvious subject.

[rox0r]

Nice shot, but perhaps a piece of paper to reflect some light onto the spider would have improved it. [Edit: On second thought, the light glowing through the spider is kind of eerie as it is.]

Aye it was the translucency of the critter's legs and head I was highlighting really, I thought about some fill flash but it was a really tight space and the lens only just fit in there

[kalniel]

Nice colours on the cat portrait. It looks very vivid.

Aye - I had left it in jpeg only mode by mistake, and Oly go a bit mad on the blues and greens sometimes!

[kushtibari]

And another creepy crawly... (taken yesterday at Alexandra Palace in London)

Cracker - agree with the comment about the colour.

[kushtibari]

My mate the other morning - about 4am on Falcon Crag, so well before dawn. Surprised he stayed still for 4 seconds. There was a 200 foot sheer drop a yard to my left so I didn't stay there for long.

[stavroshamster]

Cracker - agree with the comment about the colour.

Thanks - was out taking photos for a SpringWatch/Natural History Museum event my wife was working at - didn't realise that I was going to be the 'official' photographer for the NHM until I got there! Spent most of my time trying to take pictures of people, especially kids, without including anyone's faces or recognisable features (they didn't have consent forms) - pretty difficult considering there were thousands of people there and it was designed for kids. Knackering....

That cricket was sitting in some grass - hence the green background. Probably the best macro shot I have taken as I am still getting used to the lens - I have trouble achieving consistently in focus results. I haven't tried using a tripod as wouldn't have thought it would be flexible enough for insects - but maybe I will give it a go.

I think I need to start making the aperture smaller to increase the DoF as it takes load of shots for me to get a good one (especially bees). Relatively narrow (f10.0) DoF works well here though I think. Trouble with small apertures is that you need more light - I was shooting at ISO 400 (as I don't like going any higher on the 300D) and had to ramp the flash exposure compensation up 2 stops to get that anyway near exposed properly (might have used FEL as well - can't remember). Would getting a ring flash help for this sort of thing? I just have a normal one.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

And another creepy crawly... (taken yesterday at Alexandra Palace in London)

stunning. lovely sharpness, contrast and colour

[Ruggerbugger]

Duxford Spring show this year, P51 Mustang "Miss Velma" and rescue Sea King

[YorkieBen]

lovely shot that rugger, I love the composition


A couple from Bempton cliffs last weekend