Recent content by Superape

I like guybrush & Quantum Sprite's answers better than the first one :D What sort of price should I be paying for a replacement battery? I do have a friendly camera shop (Bradford Camera Exchange). I may take it down there & ask them, but I'd ike to have the funds handy to be able to back up...

I'll try & give as much info as possible here as I want to get to the bottom of it! I have a Canon 450D. It's now about 2.5 years old. It gets used irregularly, but when it does get used it gets hammered (ie holidays, trips, that kind of thing). I have a 70-300mm Tamron DI lens that came...

I didn't even see that until I'd downloaded the image. Cheeky thing spoils the composition!

See what I did there? :D Out in the garden yesterday afternoon spotted this little chap perfectly positioned on a poppy head. Would have liked more of the poppyhead in focus, but I was in a hurry, and I also didn't want to draw too much attention to my car in the background!

It's do-able, but you need to do some fiddling around in order to minimise the amount of cloning out you need to do: As the lady on the phone involves the least work, I copied her on to the other photo. I then rotated and stretched a bit to get the best possible fit with the other...

Nope. Completely ridiculous. It was a bear.

Well if we're going to have fun... Pasted the original onto a Lord of the rings one. Use the magic wand to select and delete the sky, then mess with colour balance & so on until pleased with it.

Get the one you like. When I bought mine it was a toss up between the Canon 450D and the equivalent Nikon. I went to the shop and had a good old play around. The specifications were broadly similar (although the Canon had better MP), but in terms of bang per buck, the Nikon was clearly better...

Loving the waterfalls - much as I like the smoothed over long exposure effect on waterfalls, the 'frozen moment' approach can be just as fabulous.

I was also disappointed, and shouting out what pictures I would have taken. If I wanted a 'funny' photo of the guy with metal legs, for example, I'd have taken a shot of him from behind actually buying the ice-cream. Anyone else rather sceptical about the apparently amateurish nature of...

Good enough at first glance if you didn't know. As for the OP, it indicates that even with the subject's actual eyes shot from pretty much the same angle, it doesn't take much for it to be noticeable that it's been faked.

I had a similar problem from my daughter's graduation day. James May from Top Gear was receiving an honorary doctorate, and we were lucky enough to grab a photo with him, which totally made her day. My daughter looks lovely in the first one, but stupid Captain Slow blinked: In the next...

I kind of go with this one without the lighting comment - it looks really interesting with lots of texture & shape but the largest amount of texture & shape in the subject is out of focus.

I take your point, and I've zoomed & cropped insect photos for my own amusement for exactly that reason. Here's an illustration of what I mean: I printed out a photo I was very pleased with. I showed it to a photography nut at work, and he suggested he would have cropped to remove a small...

The Canadian Rockies are beautiful - went there 11 years ago & would love to go back. Where's the obligatory shot of Lake Louise? :D