Recent content by Cav

:D The Mantis is winning this one...:shock:

:confused: I knew they were tough, but I had no idea they were capable of this! Purely to share the photo, hardly a piece of technical wizardry. Taken with the 18-55 kit lens with an exited daughter leaning on my shoulder providing shake :)

Thanks very much to all of you for your replies. I love the cloning touch especially! A lot of advice to digest...:confused: :thumb:

Marcel, With imageshack, you can copy the direct link (at bottom) once you've uploaded the photo and paste it into the post using the image button in the forum posting page...if this is an ostrich egg, then of course, I accept all that is forthcoming, lol!

Hello peeps, I've taken, rather surprisingly to self, to portraits and one of the things I've tried playing with is wider angle portraits which capture the background also, as I'm trying to show the environment/mood in the face and tie the two together...or something like that. Only one model...

Now that looks cold...so cold the snow's frozen solid...urgggh

Hello mate, from sunny Palmy!

Thanks very much peeps! Today I went in firm in mind to walk out with a D70s and left with a 350D twin lens kit and a thrown in tripod. I'll post more tomorrow as it's so late but for now, chuffed to bits to be finally on the road... asd, I know what you mean...Van Dyke, her legs go on forever...

Hello all, Here in New Zealand it’s nearly half eleven on Saturday night and I’m still flicking between here and DP Review in the eternal dilemma, which camera for my first DSLR….? Only now it’s worse, now I have permission from her-on-high to actually go and get one (only took five months...

Ah, mistery solved...I'm on there, but only after you hit "Show rest of markers". Oo-er, the only Southern Hempispherian (?) too!

Thanks very much Rob, particularly that last post. I had a chance to play with a D70 recently and as you allude to I found it very easy to use initially and was quickly using the functions intuitively in near zero light. It says a lot that a DSLR newbie can achieve "good" results in near pitch...

Andy Rouse would be chuffed with the penguin shot, brilliant. The animal in the last photo is from Chernobyl Municipal Zoo...a kangaroo.

Good info DJW, the true costs of living truly are daunting when we look at them. Take me, for example, reasonably comfy in a nice house and no money worries...other than being over $200 000 in the red stuff! And no D-SLR... Getting back to the point, for those of us who wish to get to the...

Have a great holiday in China mate, hope the weather holds out for you here...too damn hot for me at the mo!

Sorry about the huge time lapse guys, been a tad busy of late. As an update, her indoors is putting up some lethal cross-arc repressive fire on the camera issue. I can't even look sideways let alone up. All your points are taken on board and I'm grateful, thank-you. Arkady, how long have you...