Recent content by Alistair

Hi Beth, They are good efforts, even more so given your Fuji compact, and practice will indeed improve your technique! :) A few things to think about. If you didn't already, set your zoom lens to the focal length you need to get the whole car in the frame when it is right in front of you...

Glamour and Portrait? 70-200/2.8 IS is always my first choice for studio work. 85/1.2 L is my first choice for outdoor work but the 70-200 is still with me. It is a great lens!

I would just go with the Canon ST-E2 trigger, it has always worked fine for me but it isn't cheap....

Normally skin tone problems are fixed by White Balance, shooting with a correct exposure, ensuring your workflow colour is accurate. To me the skin tone in your picture looks fine, ie the neck (correctly exposed) area is fine and natural, her left arm isn't a skin tone problem, it is a burn...

Great pics Steve and good to meet you too! :thumbs:

These were all taken from pitchside with a media vest. Will be at Northampton today for Saints v Titans so will post the results early next week. :)

Why not see if you can pick up a good condition used 100-400? For a single (longer zoom) lens solution it is really good value for the price.

Unless it was an emergency I wouldn't use any 2x converter on any zoom lens. As mentioned, you will loose 2 stops of lights, if you have a pro series body you will still get AF but it will be at the pace of a snail and you can forget it if you want to track anything that is moving. Image quality...

Not a fan of this image at all, sorry. Composition wise, the hair over the face to me looks wrong though I do like the lighting. Would much prefer to see the whole of her face. Technically, it looks like you sharpened the heck out of the eye, and softened/noise reduced any detail from the...

The 1.4x II TC will work fine on the 70-200/2.8 IS but in my opinion, forget the 2x on any zoom. AF speed and accuracy will suffer hugely as will the image quality. The 2x only really works properly on the big Canon primes, 300/2.8 IS, 400/2.8 IS etc., etc.,

Very funny! :lol:

www.names.co.uk. May not be the cheapest in the UK but in my opinion they certainly offer the best service.

To be honest, for motorsport, especially where you are side on to the cars, Tv or shutter priority is much better so you can control the amount of motion blur. Hope you don't mind me posting this in your thread. :)

As mentioned, the 2 main brands are Canon and Nikon. For that price (buying new) you are either looking at a Nikon D80 with a kit lens or a Canon 450D with a kit lens. I would recommend going down to your local camera shop and holding both, see which feels most comfortable in your hands...

Elaborate on what?