Recent content by bellebouche

Thanks footman - do you brew at all... or just a consumer?! ;)

A rare opportunity for me talk about photography and beer at the same time! ocb3 by adrianfoden, on Flickr After a dayjob I spend much of my spare time out and about shooting... and after that I make a bit of beer in my downtime. It's another hobby that I'm reasonably serious about and...

As an invitee of an artiste you should have no issue but check if any accreditation is required. At a festival in France a few weeks ago all DSLRs were confiscated at the entrance by site security (left on consignment in a shed!) I made do with a G9

The 'tune' option allows you to use a dropper on a colour wheel to pick a WB point if one doesn't exist in your source image. I've saved a number of 'recipes' that only have WB adjust settings in them... sometimes useful in a creative sense but mostly just finetune using that control above.

Thankyou, everyone, for your feedback and input. I've pondered doing nothing and sticking with manual focus for a week or two now... I still have 50mm capability but know it's limitations. So, I decided that the plastic-fantastic f1.8 was probably the thing to go for again. I had 5 years...

In a minor butter-fingered rush to shoot a hen-harrier having a go at some chicks in my garden my old faithful nifty-fifty f1.8 hit the deck, sprang apart. I put it back together again and the AF now seeks wildly (on an EOS40D) before its locks on so it's effectively consigned to manual focus...

Mine took a little time to arrive, performance has been fine in a Canon G9 I'm pleased at the 32Gb for £20 deal - excellent

I have to say, I'm rather fond of them. I bought a lowepro rucksack last year from my memory (actually via Amazon with them as a marketplace seller as it was cheaper than on their own product pages) Key things - you can pay in pounds (and the pound is very depressed against the Euro) and...

Yeah, time of day, angle of the sun - not much choice other than to shoot for a silhouette really. Here's one of a fuller formation - about a kilometre away at this point I think. You can hear them coming long before you see them then all of a sudden a giant flock of them appears.

We're on the migration route for these magnificent birds and had about 400 fly over yesterday. My fave shot... Click for full size where the variability in each bird stands out. It's quite a sight to see them in formation - each one will have a 2M+ wingspan

In your case Stewart I'd say Stacking, not tracking! Shooting at the wide end of a 10-22 for the big splash of the milky way you'll be better off with a lot of darks, a lot of medium 15/20 second exposures and letting registax or some such do all the maths and the clever stuff. Star...

Thanks. Off to the UK this weekend so will have a sniff around some camera shops if I can for anything with a PC-cord. Just for a bit of fun!

Excellent photos - I really like them a lot. Will have a go at the turbulent bubbles technique - has lots of promise.

The specs on that page quote the maximum resolution as 1680 x 1050 (WSXGA+) Not a big deal for anyone that's just using it for photography but that's not quite full HD resolution is it?

I'd fessed up to not having an external flash recently yet still managed to get some ok water drop pics. Looking around here I found a tutorial for smoke pics and there seemed nothing for it - had to have an outboard flash for the dark ground effect and side illumination of the smoke partilces...