Photo-a-day

[brammers]

I'm in the Jing - Beijing. Hong Kong is spectacular - protected from the 'events' of the past 100 years that reduced so much of China to a souless mass of concrete towerblocks - you'll find it much more 'Chinese' than China itself.

Chengdu is one of my favourite Chinese cities though - make sure you get up to Jiuzhaigou in the north! What are you doing up there? 你中文说得怎么样？

[Whiternoise]

I realise this is a question with many answers but supposing I wanted to buy a quality camera that's going to produce something like the results in this thread for under £1k what would you recommend please? Thanks

Well, first thing is that the majority of the cameras here - i'm being presumptious - will be under £1k. You can take shots like these with a camera under £500 - the D40 is one of the most well known ones and a few of us have it, there's also a Sony variant (forgotten exactly which model). A lens will push that up quite a bit for a decent one, but all easily doable for under a grand!

Have a look through some of the other topics in the photo forum to get a rough idea

[YorkieBen]

I don't think anyone here (with the exception of maybe Bobster?) takes photos with pro-grade cameras or lenses. I take alot of my photos with a 24mm prime lens that I got 2nd hand of the internet with a Sony A200.

Anyways a couple of photos from yesterday. I was in Leeds and saw a hint of the sunset behind the train station, ran round and caught the last bit of it. Bloody freezing as well!



and first attempt at a bit of HDR using photomatix - didn't read any of the manual/notes (typically) just dived in and had a go, the sky looks too overpowered to me

[IBM]

Ben....I used to live just there. My apartment building is the building behind the one at the front of the shot....used to get some lovely sunrise/sunsets.

[Virtual Monkey]

Speaking of sunsets - I've been playing with my tripod quite a lot recently.

[kalniel]

Same tree as before?

[Virtual Monkey]

Same tree as before?

Aye, t's just a little walk from my back garden Similar to the last shot, but i wanted to get a longer slice of the sky.

[YorkieBen]

Virtual Monkey? Is that several shots stiched together?

IBM - there always seems to be nice views of the sunset from there - I only usually seem them on the train!!

[r_j_k_p]

Just got a £10 set of macro close up lenses for my 18-55mm canon lens.
Don't really know much about macro photography, so any criticism/advice would be much appreciated.

[kalniel]

That's a really bendy ruler!

Like the smarties shots.

[HSK]

Just got a £10 set of macro close up lenses for my 18-55mm canon lens.
Don't really know much about macro photography, so any criticism/advice would be much appreciated.

I like the close ups, which lenses did you get? the ones off ebay? I seen a few.

[merdat]

r j k p , I got a set of these in the summer and had great fun. Try 'stacking' them as well , you'll get some interesting results.

[r_j_k_p]

I like the close ups, which lenses did you get? the ones off ebay? I seen a few.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MACRO-Close-Up...3A1|240%3A1318

Suprisingly good quality, comes with a nice case but the tripod struggles to hold my camera.

[Virtual Monkey]

Virtual Monkey? Is that several shots stiched together?

Indeedy - is it technically a panorama if it ain't 360°?

YorkieBen those macro shots of luuuuuuurvily - the adapters were a good buy mate

Went to Crosby Beach in Liverpool today, froze my knickers off but was quite pleased with this shot -

[Whiternoise]

Whoa those are smarties?

Haha i thought they were pebbles or decorative eggs or something!

Got to get me some of those lenses!

VirtualMonkey, nice shot! Puts me in mind of post apocalypse..

[Bobster]

lovely shot VM

thought id post something different