Recent content by andyb1126

I have an old model Sigma, and as Kipax will verify, its been dragged around football grounds for years and took an absolute beating, but its by far and away the sharpest lens Ive ever owned, beats all my L lenses hands down. I know its just my experience and other people have probably had...

Ha ha! Id love to say it had only just started to rain, hence no puddles, but yes you are right the rain was added. I didnt like it at first, but then when I removed it it looked too clean, so left it in. I tried creating some puddles but my skills dont stretch that far just yet!

Been trying to improve my Photoshop skills lately as Ive seen some amazing post processing work and felt its an area I should improve on. Was taking a look at Dave Hills work and got inspired to have a mess about. I wasnt trying to copy his style, but I think it has ended up looking a bit like...

And a couple of bigger ones...

Thanks for all your info and suggestions everyone. I did decide to go with the 15-85 in the end and Im really pleased with my choice. The 15mm is wide enough for now and its a world apart from the 2.8 Sigma. I just have so much confidence in it giving me sharp results. Everything I take is spot...

My two terrors!

I hadnt considered the HSM purely on my experience with this version. Im being offered £400 for the two Sigmas, and can afford to spend a couple of hundered more on top of that. Cheers, and thank you to everyone for all your replies. Much appreciated.

Dont think I need the 2.8 if Im honest. I think Id benefit more from the IS.

Thank you. Im glad its not just me thats struggled with it. Would you recommend the Tamrons over the 15-85? Or maybe the 15-85 with the Tokina 11-16 to fill the Ultra Wide gap?

Thank you very much for both your replies. Andyred :- I know what you mean about not having the 2.8, but in reality, I dont feel as if I have it anyway, as I just cant use it, its that bad Im afraid to say. I think the IS might also be more beneficial to me now. Ive had both the lenses a couple...

Wondering if anyone can give me their opinion please? I cant decide what to do with my lens setup. Ive currently got a Sigma 10-20, Sigma 24-70 2.8 Macro, and Sigma 70-200 2.8. (I traded an L 17-40 to get the first two which has irked me ever since but thats another story!) In terms of...

Good shots mate. I went yesterday too but wished we'd had Saturdays weather. We parked on the beach so stayed near the car and took my shots from there. Once the clouds came it was so hard to get the detail on the planes. I took some early shots of the blue skies to do some photoshop naughtiness...

Thank you very much. I know what you mean. Looking at 100%, its not soft or blurred really, but I do think I need to do something with it as when I look at it, Im scrambling around for detail in the middle section. I maybe need to look at doing some work on that I think. Thanks for all the...

Thats the one thing I wasnt happy with it. It was quite late when we got there and starting to go dark and with the haze I was struggling to bring out the detail in the distance. Maybe I need to look at trying to sharpen up that mid section. It doesnt help either that its been scaled down, I...

Hi everyone. Been around here for a while now but mainly lurking, using the forums for info and the odd post. Never had the confidence to post anything until now. Ive spent a lot of time recently trying to improve my editing skills as I feel this is the area that I let my work down. I took...