Photo-a-day

[Virtual Monkey]

^ Midtz, they're some really great photos, I particularly like 1 and 3. Maybe work on more interesting composition? Although, having said that, I really like the composition of 3

What're you shooting on?

[midzt]

Thanks!
Yeah i need to work on composition, i did have some ideas, but it was waiting for things to move into the frame i wanted, and i just wasnt patient enough, plus it was freezing cold that day!
I'm using an A200, and the photos were with a Sony 75-300 f4.5-5.6 lens

[kopite]

Hey Midzt whats that mlens like?

I have been told that its a bit soft and I should save for the g ssm verion

[midzt]

Hey Midzt whats that mlens like?

I have been told that its a bit soft and I should save for the g ssm verion

I can't say I've really used it enough/know enough to really give a decent opinion, I've literally just started looking into getting into photography, and i guess i don't really have enough experience to make any comparisons, sorry.

[kopite]

Im in the same boat

although my first pics where a bit crap

[YorkieBen]

Some more from last weekend at Fountain's Abbey:





These deer run bloody fast!

[YorkieBen]

Hey Midzt whats that mlens like?

I have been told that its a bit soft and I should save for the g ssm verion

Kopite, although I had the Tamron 70-300mm lens, I think the Sony 75-300 is reasonably similar afaik quality wise. The Tamron is a little soft after 200mm but it is still a good lens, as is the 75-300 from what I have heard.

The 70-300G SSM is a beautiful lens, possibly the best 70-300 lens on any system. But it is an investment, for a new photographer it might be a big purchase. Saying that I just bought one lol after 3 months of photography It is on sale at Jessops for £450 at present which is cheap for the lens. It will probably hold its resale value quite well I think.

I would go for either the 75-300 or the Tamron 70-300 initially. They are cheap but if you find you are not using a telephoto alot then you are not chucking away vast amounts of cash.

[merdat]

Nice pictures there YorkieBen

[YorkieBen]

A heavily cropped pic of four Goldfinches in the tree across the road from my house


Trying to 'age' a photo in photoshop (forgot to clone out the satellite dish the first time i did this!)



Prince's Exchange in Leeds

[Whiternoise]

The ageing looks good, but i think the noise looks far too artificial. Whilst the house looks great, the clouds just look like you've put gaussian noise on top and the fence looks like you shot at a high ISO. The white dots on the hill look pretty authentic, but i suspect that's part of the picture! Are you using monochromatic noise? If not then try that, it may eliminate the digital camera type RGB noise you can see in the shadows.

What i reckon would be better is do the colour transforms you've already done and then get some brushes of typical film "effects" and then set the transparency to something like 20-30%.

You could also try some sort of edge effects, like some subtle vignetting - since old photos are often not that great in the corners!

Whatever you've done to the colours looks spot on though.

[KidChameleon]

Some from today.











Same as above but with the levels tweaked:





I didn't notice until I got home that all the photos I took of these reindeer had an out of focus background, despite changing the aperture. They're between being in focus and being artistically blurred.

[kalniel]

I think my composition needs some work, as does the barrel distortion!



I have a virtually identical picture in landscape that doesn't suffer from either of those as badly, but it looks a bit boring, might post later.

[Sair33]

Our little spud this Christmas

[brammers]

Not seeing any lens distortion in that kalnial - trees and buildings all look very straight. Do you mean the perspective distortion that's making the verticals coverge?

I like number one Sair - very simple but nicely done. Exactly the same layout as my living room!!!

[kalniel]

Not seeing any lens distortion in that kalnial - trees and buildings all look very straight. Do you mean the perspective distortion that's making the verticals coverge?

The stone wall at the front the picture looks curved to me.. but maybe that's your perspective distortion thingy instead.

[Whiternoise]

One from Norway

I'll post a few up..

(in the other thread too)

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'Uskie! Just realised the nose is out of focus - dammit!



The Sound in Tromso, taken from the bridge!



Moonlight over the mountains - this was when it was the "biggest" of '08, sadly i don't have a tele though

The stone wall at the front the picture looks curved to me.. but maybe that's your perspective distortion thingy instead.

It is a bit, but i had to hold a pencil up to the screen to notice! Nice shot, but i'd clone out the sign in the field