[PaddyF]

August 19, 2013 at 9:47 am

brownie wrote:

Buy in Ireland

Can you elaborate?

[PaddyF]

August 17, 2013 at 6:34 pm

I’m also looking for a 7D at the moment and came across the following

http://www.digiwowo.com/canon-eos-7d-body.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;

Has anybody any experience of them? I’ve seen some good reports and a few bad, but it seems very cheap. It’s currently £980 on Amazon so about €1,150 and Berminghams in Dublin have them for €1,250 including €100 cash back at the moment. Any recommendations would be great!

[PaddyF]

December 2, 2011 at 11:36 pm

The answer to all your questions will first depend upon what kind of sport, I presume you mean field sports?

[PaddyF]

November 29, 2011 at 12:33 am

Ballyman wrote:

Try and undercut the market with your prices while trying to get the shots people want. I cant offer much more advice, except best of luck with it and let us know how you get on if you decide to pursue it.

Whatever you do, do NOT do this. Because the next fella that comes along will undercut you and the next fella after him will undercut him etc until everyone is doing it for free and nobody gets paid.

There is a market rate so you should stick to it. Maybe add more value, better pics, different pics, maybe a little video? If you want it bad enough you will get it but undercutting is the absolute wrong way to go about it

Sorry lads, looking at this now it was probably the wrong advice. I come from a business background and thats what to do in a case where everything else in the market is the same, you have to differentiate yourself. But yes being different will also do this, wide range of services on offer, quality prints and shots at the right locations, as well as brilliant customer service which will keep them coming back to you as well as spreading word of mouth.

[PaddyF]

November 28, 2011 at 8:13 pm

I’m also a student, 21 like yourself. I have a huge interest in motorsport also and photography. However, I keep it to a hobby as I don’t see it as an easy industry to gain a foothold in. It is very competitive with a huge amount of photographers already there. I plan on upgrading equipment for my own pleasure, but I don’t see going professional as a possibility. However, if you really are keen to do so, I’d recommend you buy the equipment and try to gain experience and as much training as possible. Depending on funds, I would recommend a 7D and a 100-400 lens and then add to the lens collection as time goes on. Your looking at around €3k though for those two alone. Start attending events, publicising yourself and your photos and launch a website. Try and undercut the market with your prices while trying to get the shots people want. I cant offer much more advice, except best of luck with it and let us know how you get on if you decide to pursue it.

[PaddyF]

November 25, 2011 at 12:37 pm

Mark wrote:

I’m afraid that MacSweeney’s closed down in the past couple of weeks.

Really? I was planning on buying a lens there soon as I have bought there before. Any other places in Cork?

[PaddyF]

November 25, 2011 at 9:59 am

I would recommend this lot, very nice to deal with, as far as I know they should be able to do it

http://www.denismacsweeny.com” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;

[PaddyF]

October 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm

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[PaddyF]

September 30, 2011 at 8:00 am

Ballyman wrote:

Howya Patrick

Let me just say first off that I don’t know anything about motorsport.

However what I would say is I would lose the polariser. This is going to reduce your expsoure by a stop and a half and if you want to freeze action at night then this has to go. To be honest, I seriously doubt you will be able to get anywhere near 1/1250 regardless of what lens/camera you have unless there are spotlights on the cars.

I think the best you can hope for with the setup you have is to either pan with the cars or try and base yourself at a sharp bend or other placed where the cars won’t be travelling at high speed and you might be able to freeze them there but unless there is lots of light shining on the car then this is impossible I would say.

Like i said, i know nothing about motorsport so I could be wrong on all this!!

Thanks that still some helpful advice. I was using the polariser to reduce the glare from windscreens so if I actually thought about it I’d know I didn’t need it anyway. I will lose the polariser for the night and maybe try it with a hood to reduce stray light if that would be any advantage. Thanks for the advice, I was thinking it would be hard enough to position myself alright! I will just have to experiment with shutter speeds. Thanks for your advice

[PaddyF]

September 30, 2011 at 7:32 am

It very much depends on the quality of your work and past experience

[PaddyF]

September 17, 2011 at 3:50 pm

Brilliant shots, well done

[PaddyF]

September 15, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Make sure it is being allowed as much RAM as possible in performance preferences. Other than that all you can do is use smaller images

[PaddyF]

September 15, 2011 at 4:02 pm

I have a 500D with a 55-250 and 18-55. It is a pain walking round with the 55-250 as sometimes its too long for some shots and the 18-55 is too short for general use. I need at least the 250 length as I take alot of motorsport photographs. I plan to replace the 18-55 with something like an 18-200 when funds allow, that is what I would recommend you go with unless you have any particular reason for needing a longer lens.

[PaddyF]

September 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm

There isn’t much I can add to help you improve your shots, but I think its a brilliant set. Some lovely images there, sorry I missed it now

[PaddyF]

September 12, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Go onto dropbox.com if you set this up it puts a folder on your computer, drop stuff here and its uploaded to the internet and both are synced together. You can grab a public link from the site and email this, thats how I do it. Has 2gigs of free space and no file size restrictions. It also stores all changes for the past 30 days so you can retrieve old files if needed. I’m going to be cheeky and include this link to sign up, if you use it we both get an extra 250MB space :D

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