we have macthing DSLR camera model aposhark....i have told not to invest too much on the body but lenses...besides i believe its not the camera thats important to come up with beautiful images but rather how you compose an image..
we have macthing DSLR camera model aposhark....i have told not to invest too much on the body but lenses...besides i believe its not the camera thats important to come up with beautiful images but rather how you compose an image..
Yep absolutely correct gparry!
In particular your point about composition
Bodies are cheap and all of them are very very good now, lenses or as we say the glass is what counts, the good glass (certainly nowadays) never gets old.
Sadly the good glass is expensive but you can always pick a few cheap primes and then you will have wonderful glass for the price of a similar zoom covering the same range. Primes always beat zooms (at least until the 70-200L mk II zoom came along)
I haven't got the equipment to take photo's like yours jimOttley or others here, They look great! I only own a point and shoot camera Cannon Ixus.
The pics here were taken outside my wife's cousin store in CDO. Next door was a tyre repair shop which always fascinated me, how they did repairs. Also scared me as most of the tyres were bald!The kids were not afraid to come and say hello to the white man and trying their english!
mainly asking for money but I told mahal for them to choose from the sweets, peanuts and crisps. gave them a big grin
After a couple of bottles of San Migel,there was a dance off between me, my wife and her friends Vs the kids!
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sorry i don't know how to link photos or put them here.
You want to do it like this Steve, in your post you had picked some code from Photobucket the bit that matters is the link afterOriginally Posted by steve monty
sorry i don't know how to link photos or put them here.
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you need to grab the http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...1/IMG_3482.jpg bit and wrap it with [IMG] tags as in the examples below
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Nice pics by the way
Nice one! cheers for showing us that!Nice pics by the way
The pictures are no way as good as yours, but they bring great memories for me. The clarity of the photo's you posted are amazing. The picture of the kid vendors looks like it was taken in the dark, was that using extra lighting also?
You mean the one with the three young lassies selling the Roses?
Yes that was night time down at the bay at an outdoor restaurant, I used a good flash with a bounce device to soften the shadows.
you tend to look a bit of a dork with this huge camera flashgun and big white bounce surface stuck on top
If you look closely at the shot you will see that the shadows are soft and the light source is clearly high up, look at at the shadows under the girls chins.
The Lumiquest Pocket bounce is pretty cheap and very compact you just stick it to the flash by attaching to a Velcro strap that ties round the flash head. It's fantastic value for money but obviously you need a standalone flash unit to use it.
Pan de sal and peanut butter for breakfast.
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Nowt wrong with film your pictures have a lot of charm Graham, good family memories and they were very cute kids, I guess young adults now? (the step kids I know your boy is still quite young)
just want to share my photos i've took using my canon 450
i use photoshop to enhance my photos...and a member of myshutterspace.com
nice pics gparry
Thanks Jim (you're very kind lol!).
The above pic...well all the early ones, are actually from old negatives that I've uploaded to my pc and digitalised, so possibly a little quality lost there anyway...plus a few years dust.
My stepson will be 24 in June, my stepdaughter 22 in May, and my son will be 18 in September, so a few years have come and gone, but all the children have been a delight.
Know what you mean.
I was just saying to my boy what a shame it was that I didn't even buy ANY sort of camera until I was into my 30s,and that he should save his pictures because he may get all nostalgic in a few years time.
Now I just have a few old passport photos and half a dozen shots that other people took to cover my entire life between 18 and 35.
Cute stepdaughter...then, and now:
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Wow very beautiful girl!
As always Graham you have my respect.
Great kids. Lucky ******
It's good to see all the photos...It brings another dimension to the forum & makes it all a bit more real.
She has a pretty mum. ...(both pics below).Wow very beautiful girl!
Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
Sometimes I miss them all being at home, and all the fun and noise. It really doesn't seem long since I was helping them with their homework.
Could I do it all again though ?...that is the question.
My assorted flock again, only a couple of hundred yards from our house in Hong Kong. Far from the skyscrapers, and a nice safe paddling area
You can tell the older two hadn't been 'anglicised' yet, cos of the obligatory Filipino peace sign.
Said I wouldn't post unless some others did and they have, so here's one more.
My youngest daughter
And a recent shot of my son :-
You reach an age where you just would not think of going through it all again I think Graham, I have had two families 20 years apart, it's not easy.She has a pretty mum. ...(both pics below).
Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
Sometimes I miss them all being at home, and all the fun and noise. It really doesn't seem long since I was helping them with their homework.
Could I do it all again though ?...that is the question.
Your Step daughter is almost a clone of her mum, quite amazing!
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