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A shot of Ant and his son George. Because the family venue was in a village hall with a high ceiling I nicked my wife’s frying pan splatter guard and mocked it up on my flash head to give a diffused bounce beam! I think it worked quite well.

My wife shouted “There’s a Hawk in the garden and he has one of the doves” So I grabbed my camera (like you do) and started clicking away through the window ‘Much to my wife’s disgust’, I opened the patio door to get a clearer shot but the Hawk flew off in one direction and the Dove in the...

Not posted for a while, hope you like these! C&C eagerly awaited!

This is my setup, it consists of a 40D with an broken 18-55 lens mounted in reverse with a plastic milk carton over my 580 EX 11 as a diffuser! It seems to work but with a minute DOF. Click the photos for a larger rendition and much better detail!

For that ultra low level capture fit your monopod, set the camera on self timer press shutter button for focus and exposure, turn camera upside down onto the toe of your shoe, you might have to experiment for level and angle but it does work. I always say that there is nothing in nature that...

HDR = High Dynamic Range! Try this link:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging Here's one Click photo to see larger rendition!

Actually thats especially clever seeing as that is a canal viaduct! Lol

My opinion is, ‘there is nothing in nature that cannot be improved by Photoshop’! And I have been taking photos since the early 50’s.

Actually it took a bit of walking to get the capture showing the balance between rural and industrial here in Kent; it’s not all the ‘Garden of England’!

Just click the photo for a larger rendition and better detail. As always C&C eagerly sought as that is the only way we can improve our art with advice from our fellow enthusiasts!

Thanks for your kind remarks, the captures were taken at Boxley Village near Maidstone Kent, ‘The Garden of England’.

Poppies are great for photographers but the farmers hate them! Click on the photo for a bigger rendition and greater detail. C&C more than welcome.

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I have been having trouble with my 40D, the shutter has been playing up and nor working properly in any of the creative mode settings, I have to press the shutter button twice to get it to work! On investigating it turn’s out the custom function, C.Fn 111 -7 Mirror lockup had been enabled, now...