The new photography thread -any subject - don't be shy!

Indeed, yes it is

 

Is that Azaelia's Imandy Mann? Lovely colour, so very vibrant!!
Well katkat, I hope you do, it's a wonderful little cam, lightweight to carry round your neck, and you can shoot on auto mode or manual. And at least you've seen many samples of what it is capable of.
Daffodils everywhere here, too.... and Crocus, and Bluebells will be next....

 

Somebody likes a pre-warmed bed!! LOL

 

One from yesterday at a wildlife preserve about an hour from me. Tens of thousands of snow geese migrating pass through here at this time of year. :

 

Oh Sgt Tibbs that is *so* cute!!

Laura, I am loving your shot from the nature reserve of the Snow Geese, that is fantastic!!

 

Me too Eldon!

 

Eldon those are both beautiful photographs in their own right.... jeez! I absolutely love Hydrangea, it makes for such a lovely picture. I believe they change colour dependant upon the soil type.

The second shot is gorgeous.... that calm blue sky.... the fascinating soft clouds (wonder what type they are) and the darkness of the houses and the trees sets it all off so well. Thanks for sharing!

 

Not quite ready for the kayak yet.

 

No guts no glory, Jim.

 

Love the leading lines. Definitely not ready for boating!

 

That's a cracking shot there CP!!

 

I'll never get tired of English slang. Just happened to be there. What lens are you running Kres? Your birds are razor sharp.

 

LOL I'm full of it! I'm running with a Canon Powershot SX510 HS. It's a bridge cam so the lens is fixed. It has a 30x optical zoom. I'm quite fortunate alot of the times with birds as I am 'friends' with them and feed them most days up at the local cemetery. Even the Crows are wanting feeding now!! lol Thanks CP!

 

Impressive - I have a 5d and I dont even want to guess at the cost of a 30x lens for it. Yowza. I was looking at some fixed telephotos a while ago but they are huge and who wants to carry that around. Does it shoot raw?

 

Hi CP!

What lens do you currently use? So you got a full DSLR then...! I want a DSLR one day, but the weight of it does deter me actually. I'm with you, I don't want to be lugging stuff about, it becomes too much of a chore then! My cam does not shoot RAW. Here is a good review of it with lots of tech details I don't understand entirely

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/canon_powershot_sx510_hs_review/

 

It's been a while since I posted, here's one I took today using my little bridge cam...

An Anthophora Bee on Primrose....

The Kaya Lia watermark is still me under my facebook name.

 

A bee's butt! haha

Great capture, Em.

 

Thanks Laura!

 

Emma you really need to see if any photography jobs are going in your area as you are good!

 

Thankyou so much David, that means alot! We are currently trying to whip up a business plan as I type!

 

Well that sounds brilliant and get a logo business style for yourself, create a blog and post your images as all helps.

Wish you well and if I can help at all please let me know.

 

Thankyou David!!

Are there any web pages that I can read, so I understand how to make a website secure?

 

Think if you get a cheap deal on the likes of godaddy and either go blog/website or wordpress and you will be fine, I went wordpress and a blog and its a great way to put out to the world your works, and if you want you can get Wordpress free but it comes as a yourname.wordpress.com URL. I went with http://gobbledgeek.com/ a play one words and something I need to really update as the name is neat, well I think anyways.

Try and get a neat domain name as its worth weight in gold. Mine folks have asked to buy it many times, not for sale as I love it.

 

For now, I'd go with a website that is for Photographers. I use Smugmug. You can set it so they aren't right clickable and you can opt to upload smaller images. I'm sure there's a bunch out there. They will also set up the sales stuff for you so you can go through them to sell if you want.

 

Thankyou very much indeed for all the kind words, compliments and advices, Dave, Eldon and Laura!!

 

We visited a little farm typed place yesterday. All sorts of animals there including this gorgeous, friendly, female Turkey. She was absolutely loving all the fuss we gave to her. She actually came over to us, dropped her wings and stayed put whilst we all stroked and petted her. She felt so soft and silky, but strong, too.

Here she is in all her glory....

Taken on a Canon EOD 100d (SLR) borrowed from a friend.

 

Mallard Hybrid. Beautiful!

 

Hi Mag00

My favourite subject matter is birds, but I love nature in general. I will shoot random things too, and people. Your SLR sounds lovely.
I roll with a Bridge camera, a Canon Powershot SX510 HS. But currently a friend has kindly loaned me his SLR (Canon EOS100d) Thoroughly enjoying that I have to say.

 

Was going through my HDD/SSDs for tidying up and folder of some pics of mine and these of an iconic part of my home city Liverpool stood out for inclusion to this thread

Albert Dock - has a history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Dock many bars and restaurants now house in the old warehouses of the dock, so great for nightlife.


Some of the speckles maybe dust as I did take this on film and scan it many years back could do with digital enhancement at some point. I could have said I got some stars in focus on a clear night though!

Next is also iconic as its Port of Liverpool building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Liver_Building with its famous Liver Birds or one of them and the clock, across the road from that is the White Star Building (Albion House), which the Titanic's shipping company was based.

 

Wow David, I am absolutely loving both shots. What camera were these taken on?

 

Hi Emms

It was a Fuji GW690, I had this for 5yrs and great camera, sort of lost interest in pro photography to just use smartphone cameras and my WP10 has a 16MP camera and takes great pics, moved to digital Fuji S Pro series, then to as mentioned smartphones as they are getting better, do not beat digital SLR mind.

Both are over 20yrs old.

I did work in a private photo studio for 5yrs then Kodak for 6yrs in photo-processing before I took a drastic change to ophthalmology medicine and imaging

 

Great night shots, David!

And I love your last two shots as well, Emma.

lol...I have so many damn pics. Mine are mostly in RAW format and the rest are huge files. I'll go though and look to see what I have.

 

RAW images cannot be posted on facebook or here, is that correct, Laura? They have to be converted first?
Thankyou very much for the compliments on my captures.

 

Thats a pity on RAW images as they are the best quality, but I can see why as size would eat server space quickly, we have this issue in work with retinal images and OCT scans.

 

Correct. I shoot RAW and then process from there since you don't degrade the image that way as you edit it. But no, you can't post it anywhere in RAW format. I'm pretty sure you can't even print a RAW image.