Here I see some mixture between puprle/pink

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37105655@N03/

My photo's from Brands yesterday, please note this is my first time of using my Canon EOS 1000d for racing.

My favourites are the last 3 on the last page.

I think it's pretty good for a first timer . You also had a good spot for shooting

i got some ok ones from brands, ill post some up when ie sorted through, i took over 600 pics so it may take a while

Some of the first shots with my new camera!

doubble post ftw!

Quote from mrodgers :

Nice pans, Strobe. Wondering, do you crop for the composition or are you getting the shot as is? I've done limited panning attempts but I find it quite difficult to leave room in front of the vehicle/subject to be moving to. Mine end up being centered so I have to zoom back and crop for composition. It doesn't help that I don't have autofocus tracking or multiple focus points to choose my point either.

Cheers. The shots are cropped, but not dramatically or so much that it drastically alters the composition. Usually just to eliminate unsightly parts of the background, horizons, etc, or create or remove symmetry. I'm from the school of thought that cropping and PPing in general should be used to refine or enhance an image, not transform it.

I agree it is very difficult to leave space for the subject to move into the frame. The shooting was compromised by my location, where besides coming partially towards me, the bikes were also accelerating through 100~110mph, meaning you can't do a smooth steady sweep to pan it, but instead have to rapidly accelerate as you track through. (I would've moved, but I was also wearing an orange jump suit and waving the odd flag, so had to stay put ). Nonetheless I was pretty happy with some of the results, as it was only my second time trying proper panning shots of moving vehicles. The first time was the LFS karting meet last year, where the subjects weren't quite as difficult to track.

The focus points on the 40D I borrowed weren't ideally located so I just stuck with the centre point and tried to keep it over the front wheel. The 70-200 is an amazingly fast focussing lens but I often found myself wanting the extra reach of a 300, despite the 1.6 crop factor of the sensor.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I've been eyeing that Tamron 17-50, STROBE. But I hardly use my kit lens as it is (and the Pentax one is a damn good one for a kit). I just seem to be gravitating toward primes more and more.

The Tammy 17-50 is lovely. I often find myself wanting a bit more reach on the long end, but physics dictates the need to be realistic - if it was a 17-70/2.8, the physical characteristics of the lens would be somewhat different, as would the price tag. But the image quality is superb at all apertures, even the widest ones.

Quote from STROBE :

Some recent efforts of mine:

Dunstanburgh Castle

Sony A700, Tamron 17-50/2.8 @ 17mm, f/11, 1/40s

Like that alot Amazing!

Quote from Highsider9 :

What color does the Car have on your Screen? At home (where i edited it) it's a really nice deep Red, here at work it looks a lot lighter, almost pink.

Feedback highly appreciated.

I do not calibrate my monitor with any sort of equipment. I have done a soft calibration with a few websites though. My prints from Adorama.com came back perfectly matching what I see on the display.

I wouldn't call it deep red. I wouldn't call it pink either. There is a pinkness to it and I could imagine the car really being that color. What color was it to the naked eye? Deep red or red skewed towards some pink?

Quote from Kaw :

Some of the first shots with my new camera!

Kaw, nice colors in that sunset.

My latest eBay finds... $40 shipped for both.


ME Super:











Program Plus:

Great find, Ebay is amazing for cheap film cameras.

Quote from mrodgers :

I do not calibrate my monitor with any sort of equipment. I have done a soft calibration with a few websites though. My prints from Adorama.com came back perfectly matching what I see on the display.

I wouldn't call it deep red. I wouldn't call it pink either. There is a pinkness to it and I could imagine the car really being that color. What color was it to the naked eye? Deep red or red skewed towards some pink?

The Cars Color is best described as a metallic "Verkehrsrot" (Ral 3020).

Went out yesterday to a place called Monk Farm, about 20 miles away from York. They have loads of animals such as deer, cows, alpacas, wallaby's, baby goats+lambs and pigs that seemed to be as large as small horses.

Good day out, once you get past the kids play area (that was packed) you'll be pretty much on your own to look at the animals in peace - I was amazed at how many little people were in awe of the wallaby enclosure. We sat and watched this Wallaby on the ground for about 30 minutes, with its stomach moving around and then all off a sudden out of the blue a baby's head popped out from the mothers pouch - I think we got to see a pretty rare sight.

Anyway, enough of the review - here's some photo's. Although I'd like to say that it was quite late in the day and the way the place was built the sun always seemed to be behind what I was taking pictures of - bugger.


http://jackmcintyre.deviantart.com/art/Farm1-118469131#


http://jackmcintyre.deviantart.com/art/farm2-118469442


http://jackmcintyre.deviantart.com/art/Farm-3-118469629


http://jackmcintyre.deviantart.com/art/Farm-4-118469899


http://jackmcintyre.deviantart.com/art/Farm-5-118471762

Please please please click on the full view links, the quality is much better. If you are new to deviantart - just click on the picture if its small - it enlarges it to proper size.

Got a few i took the other day First one was taken last October on a stag doo to Isle Of Skye with my friends camera.

http://file046a.bebo.com/17/or ... 252316149a9993135922o.jpg

The rest of these where taken with the good old Canon and all with a friends Canon 70-300 IS which i hope to purchase from him cause the IS is awsome.

http://file048a.bebo.com/13/or ... 52316149a10555331267o.jpg

http://file048a.bebo.com/13/or ... 52316149a10555331326o.jpg

http://file048a.bebo.com/13/or ... 52316149a10555331405o.jpg

http://file048a.bebo.com/13/or ... 52316149a10555331496o.jpg

One more thing i forgot to change my ISO setting so all these where taken at ISO 1000

Quote from mrodgers :

Kaw, nice colors in that sunset.

Thanks a lot! Gonna post one of my dog again then

aww cool

First batch of homebrew.

Supposedly an IPA but it came out more like a strong brown ale. Nevertheless, way tastier than I thought it'd be and getting better by the day.

DA 35mm, natural (indoor) afternoon light:

Some shots of my friend's Austin Mini from 1964. Can't wait taking some pictures when it passes mot and can be driven somewhere with more worthy backround.






Was just testing my camera, and I'm pleased with it so far. Need to take a some sort of cloth for the dust next time though.

D00dz, now that it's spring time coming (Don's summer haxx don't count), how about if we got a monthly photo shoot extravaganza going on?

Sounds good to me.

Singapore Airlines, Boeing 777-312ER, 9V-SWA. Diverted to EFHK due medical reason.


AirEuropa, A330-202, EC-KOM




KLM, Boeing 737-406, PH-BTF

noisiness kills the pics

First one, Random flowers.
Second one, is called "end of the world"

Mercedes Benz SL 500 aka Brabus B11






Audi R8 (V8)

Where on earth do you get those cars from to photograph?


Well I got my camera back from Sony this weekend, after it had been with them to correct the backfocus issue I had. So what have they done? Yay, they've ruined it! It now front focusses to such an extreme that it's pretty much useless. Grrr.