51NAH

Thank you both for the kind words.

Thanks for the feedback. The "Macro" shots were actually taken with a 18-55mm kit lens at 55mm.

I now have a 100mm Macro lens which I love.

Been a while since I've posted anything on here.

Heres a few of my more recent shots, I think I am improving but Constructive criticism is welcomed.

As above.

5mm f3.3 1/50 ISO 100

Underwater shot with TZ3.

Underwater mode - 5mm f3.3 1/125 ISO 100

Well these will be my last entries until my next holiday. This was taken end of April so within 3 months.

Taken with Lumix TZ3 compact 31mm f4.8 1/30 ISO 200.

Thanks for the comments!!

As I haven't been on for a while I thought I'd share a few of my recent shots with you all.

With the River pic with the houses I know I have "pushed" it a bit far resulting in haloing.

Anyway constructive criticism is welcome.

Anybody got anything interesting on their local calendar of events?

"Have camera - will travel"

Seeing as you will travel, we have Winter Solstice street party on the Gold Coast this Saturday night

Agreed the black and white works better for this shot.

Haven't tried using black and white (not since I was 8 years old anyway ). Might have to give it a crack and see what I come up with.

Nice photos '51NAH',

Thank you.

My photos are on Pbase dot Com and found this member

Water drops

now that is an eye opener for all of us.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

Thanks for the link, Irenes work is absolutely amazing!!

Has given me lots of things to try

Glad you like it!

True "strobist" photos are taken with off camera flash/flashes (as I understand it. For this particular type of shot google "strobist water"). I couldn't do that due to lack of gear but setup a similar shot.

Its simply an extreme closeup of water dripping into a black bowl, the colour on the water is a reflection of the backdrop behind the bowl - in this case my gf's sunlounger!! LOL I used a syringe to drip the water into the bowl, the camera set to take a series of shots.

It took me a while to get the angles right but very happy with the results.

Dan

BTW these shots have only had a light crop and minor PP such as shadows/ mild saturation. The star on the water drop is part of the shot.

Couldn't work out how to edit my post, so heres the resized pics

After seeing this technique on another f*rum I thought I'd give it a shot.

Feedback would be appreciated

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for the feedback and comments.

Vulcan I like what you did with the black background, I doubt I'd be able to get it any better though (even if I did know how ).

I bounced the built in flash off the wall behind the lizard and was a bit too close resulting in too much "flare"?

Having fun playing around with this old camera now, will be getting a Macro lens for the 450D in the near future.

Cheers

Dan

Found this little guy when I came home tonight, he was just begging to be photographed!!

Taken during April holiday

Again with the Lumix TZ3, sorry Vulcan

Can't recall exact aperture but no doubt it was lower than it should have been.

That is the point I was trying to make.

The aperture setting needs to be appropriate to the focal length and subject matter.

Using (say) a 24mm lens with the subject 2 feet in front of you will give a DOF of 6" to infinity at f8.

The same settings with a 200mm lens will ONLY give a DOF of some 2-3" !

These aren't the EXACT maths but I hope you see the point.

Use the stop down preview to see what is in focus and adjust the aperture accordingly.

Hope this helps

Yes that does help, understand better now thanks.

When you say "stop down preview", is that the depth of view preview button? If so I haven't used that yet (haven't read that part of the user manual either )

As you can see it may take me a while to pick this all up, thanks again for the explanations, its a big help!

Nice - not too much wrong there.

Good framing and nice composition.

Being "picky" I'd address the blown highlights and try to remove that light coloured stick from the rear grass to give a more even background.

Another point is focus - the nose is sharp but the eyes are soft. Maybe a bump in aperture to cure this.

The colours are good - the warmth of the setting sun comes over very well.

I think a little bit of P+P work could sort out the highlights and open up the dark shadows a tadge.

I suspect you may have set a rather low ISO which will enhance the image contrast and cause the above issues.

Try something around 200-400 iso to even this out. This may also sort out your low light problem.

Thanks for the feedback and CC.

Yes I was using 100 ISO, didn't think to up it, will try that next time.

Can't recall exact aperture but no doubt it was lower than it should have been.

Well I'm learning a lot, thanks

Was playing around with the new 450D late yesterday arvo, this is one of the better shots i took. Still struggling with getting the settings right for low light conditions. What do you think?

what would have been interesting is to explore the translucent nature of these little guys with a bit of backlighting.

Thats a good idea, I'll give it a shot next time oportunity presents itself

I wish you'd stop posting these TZ3 shots - making my G10 look very sad

Good shot friend

Evil looking blighter eh?

Heres a friendlier little fella, a Kookaburra sitting on my back gate, taken with my Canon Powershot S2 IS.

Big Snake I obeyed the sign and did not feed the birds - not much anyway....

Snapped this quick pic with my Panasonic Lumix TZ3 last weekend.

The bird was eyeing off my lunch

Great photo. No tripod with 300mm is impressive.

Thanks, I'm 90% happy with the result. Certainly could have been sharper if I did use tripod, next time

WOW, great photo.

Thank you very much for sharing that moment with us.

Keep on posting your photos '51NAH' in whatever mode you choose.

Yours truly

Kan Win

Thanks Kan Win, will do.....