[Neelly]

August 10, 2012 at 12:23 pm

Just seen the post and for anyones info there is a camera club, South Kildare, based in Newbridge. They meet every Thursday in the Parish Centre although I think they are out and about for the summer. More info at their website http://www.southkildarephoto.org/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;

[Neelly]

June 24, 2011 at 9:06 am

Thanks for the comments, I was using a Canon 7D so it was a case of guess the framing, but at 15mm not too difficult. The other advantage is that you can shoot without actually looking at the subject and the normal street noise hides the shutter speed.
I have occasional twinges of guilt about being sneaky but they usually pass quickly!

[Neelly]

November 26, 2010 at 5:31 pm

Prints OK from DPP so I am not sure what is going on. Must be in the settings with Photoshop. Have tried using the generic Epson 1290 profile and it is much better though still not perfect. I have no idea why the specific profile should be so bad.

Neil

[Neelly]

July 3, 2010 at 7:43 pm

Yes New York at Halloween, absolutely great place and time to be there.

[Neelly]

May 22, 2010 at 8:21 am

No never spoke to them at all. I did see them again later on they were still wandering around.

[Neelly]

June 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Another option is Sigma 80 400 APO with image stabilization. A good lens and you can handhold, with good technique, at fairly low shutter speeds.
See this handheld at 1/100 at around 350mm

[Neelly]

June 17, 2008 at 9:00 pm

If 3 people really like an image and 97 don’t, is the image good or bad?
Should the photographer continue to appeal to those 3 people, or change his way of shooting to appeal to the other 97?

If its my image and I like it then the image has to be good because in the end its really me I am trying to please with most of my pictures.
OK for competition stuff then I can occasionally take something that I might not really like but that I know will appeal to the judges. But I don’t see that as any different to a pro on an assignment. (only not as good!!)
In the end I think its really about pleasing yourself and if you can take on board stuff people say and it improves your work, in your eyes, then that’s what good criticism should be about

[Neelly]

June 17, 2008 at 11:26 am

So, does this feedback make me, or you a “better photographer”

Only if its constructive, on too many sites all the feedback you ever get is how “Great” or “Really Nice” your pictures are. Cant see how that kind of feedback helps anybody.
What is good is people telling you WHY they like/dislike your pictures and I have to say you do get more of that on this forum than most others.
The other, most obvious, thing is you have to take this on board and actually make the changes and if I could only do that I’d be a great photographer!!!!

[Neelly]

May 21, 2008 at 4:21 pm

English: Ruddy Turnstone
Latin: Arenaria Interpres
Irish: Piardalai tra

[Neelly]

May 21, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Female Pied Wagtail

Male Pied Wagtail

[Neelly]

May 4, 2008 at 10:17 pm

The Sigma 10-20, along with all short focus lenses has fairly noticeable barrel distortion at the wide end. However the raw converter DXo fixes this so what you get with the combination of hardware and software is an optically perfect lens!!

[Neelly]

May 4, 2008 at 10:04 pm

you pay for what you get- i’ve never bought a sigma anything that i didn’t have to returned( sometimes twice) to get one without focus issues

I must be really lucky as I have a three Sigmas with no focus issues 10-20 105 macro and a 70-400

If Sigmas were as bad as that then I doubt if they would still be in business

[Neelly]

May 1, 2008 at 9:21 pm

One thing to note is that WD 40 is not a lubricant. The WD stands for “Water Dispersant” which is what it is.
It would probably be better to use a silicone spray lubricant

[Neelly]

May 1, 2008 at 8:56 pm

PhotoBucket.com is another really good site. It gives you the links for Email & IM HTML IMG & Direct Link automatically for each uploaded picture.
Makes it dead easy to embed images just copy and paste the image tag

[Neelly]

May 1, 2008 at 8:34 pm

joe_elway wrote:

Pfft: Real men use Internet Explorer 8: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx

:P

I always thought real men used CLI,s not this gooey rubbish