Hey folks, well ive always held an interest in photo work but never got round to investing in anything, well worth while. So about 3-4 months ago while in Hong Kong i bought myself a nice new Canon and began experimenting.

Earlier, i held the impression that its basically point and shoot, oh dear how wrong i was. All about balance and now hold alot of respect for people who can use these things to their full potential.

Here's some of what ive been going with so far. Would really like some insight from all the other experienced users on here

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The Front on Subi Shot rocks ! awesome photo

Cheers Mike, basically im only using the one lens at the moment which is an 18-200mm.

I see that UAE treefiddyzed all the time in the city when I'm working. I wonder whether the volks are colour coded to the car or the car to the volks..

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the 6th photo is really well done... you have blurred the background perfectly... well IMO anyway... Im still learning too

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And a few more. Regarding the two individual tree shots, i think they'd work alot better with nothing around the base area, kinda distracting from the main idea, realised that while editing. And with the sunset, i decided to use more sky as ive found that most sunsets where its in the middle seems a tad boring sometimes.

Ok, your car shots are not too bad but this last lot need a little help, my main piece of cc would be a lack of focal point. The two tree are well trees, would you frame then for the wall? maybe ad a person walking or a dog or some birds...they also look a bit overexposed but I actually think it is the time of day they were taken, no definition in the sky etc Another thing to remember is white balance, a couple of your dog shots look a bit blue/green, if it is clowdy choose that white balance in your camera that will give warmth to your shots. Hope this helps.

Thanks mate, the WB was set to auto in those shots, finished early from work and just whipped it out while letting the dogs go for a run. But thanks for the tips Very helpful.

Well i haven't had the camera out much lately, so i put my days off to use and took a few photo's for some friends, nothing to spectacular, ive started to enjoy night photography alot more these days.



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As you will be able to tell, i played around with the saturation on two of the photo's, on some of the others it brought out the blue very nicely, just had to try and keep it away from the yellow markers on the poles.

The last two CRX shots are great. Plus its a hot car

They're all hot little rides in fact. You hang with some Honda/vtec club or something?

Yeah most of the Honda guys all cruise together, like not many venture out onto other organised cruises etc. Im a Honda owner aswell, it's just mine has been off the road for about 6 months so the camera just comes along with me as a passenger most days. The CRX though since its come up from Melbourne id be assuming one of the quickest gen 2's in QLD. It ran an 11.7 down in Melbourne with a full-time drag driver, the best it's owner managed was a 12.2 he told me.

agreed that shot is incredibly clear man

Thanks man, still learning!

#1 looks great well done mate

Long time between drinks in here, thought id throw up a few from Jambo, and show the new addition to my range. While i was trying to pan down the quarter, the Sigma i was using was just to slow, so thought ah fuck it and went and bought what you see below

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i like the last pick the best very nice choice

mmmm 2.8 is yum

You made me bite the bullet on that one fucker

So where do you live?

123 Fake Street

How's the 40D coming along?

He made me do the same!! Was worth it to keep him away

Be better if i had one of those. I posted some pics i took with a f4 i rented, should take a look fucker.

Haha he has that affect doesn't he!




Just looked, the first one is great, not just because it has cheerleaders

Set really nicely against the background.

hey man good shots, what did the 70-200 set you back? im about to by one myself

Awesome shots mate, i love the one of the blue civic!

It's a CRX

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Couple of updates, some shots from Street Torque, and also managed to get a new addition to the camera family. It's a 1D MK1, although its a 5 year old camera it still takes a great photo, got it for a steal.

awesome stuff mate, i think your shots are good

you could use a lower shutter speed for the drifting pics though!

is that petes 1d?

Totally agree

What's the next bit of kit on order? lol

Thanks man, i browse your thread quite a bit

Yeah i bumped the shutter up to 320 since i wasn't getting as much sharpness as i was hoping for, started off around 200.

I got the 1D off a guy i met through work, name was Jason.




Haha i think i might be taking it easy for the time being, i think ive done enough splurging on myself so far

Ahk no worrys like 8fps?

Sunscreen?

I was actually using the 400D with the 2.8, the 1D only arrived today, was hoping to have it for Saturday and Sunday but it was a few days to late



Touche Sir, touche

Im feeling it now Neal, the inside of my legs are killing me.

Nice shots mate. No polarizer for those mx shots but?

Nah Nick no polarizer on the FMX, haven't actually invested in any yet.

Wooooouuuuuuulda made them even beeeeeeetterrrrrrrr. Nice shots regardless mate. Very crisp drifting shots, but 1/100th would've been even better.

or 1/30th

love the angles!!!

or taking things one step at a time douchbag.

So much love in here

Hopefully taking one of the cars out this weekend for some lovin

Also, was out today with the 1D, havent had the time to use it much, but i had the 2.8 on the end of it, and one thing ive read is that the AF speed combined with 45 point focus was pretty dam good.

But i found that i'd focus on one object, then pan the camera maybe 30 degrees to my right/left, and it would take at least 1 second (might not seem that long but looking through the viewfinder it seems like forever) to pick up on the new object. Tried the same thing with the 400 and it seemed faster then the 1D. Now i havent had the chance to use it at events like Street Torque so i can't really make a fair comparison, but are there any other users that use/have used the classic 1D?



The colours don't seem very warm, at the time wasn't watching the white balance, had it set on auto.

Seems to be fairly faithful to me, on an uncalibrated monitor.. Well at least the dog isn't yellow etc..

1D may be a bit slower than the 400 as it is older so the AF wouldn't be as good. It makes you realise just how close the baby cameras are to the big guns.

Yeah i know what you mean. Basically i wanted something with a quicker frame rate then the 400, and i knew the the mk1 was pretty much a 5 year old camera, but im still impressed with other features and how it can still hold its own amongst some of the newer models. Obviously its no MK2 or 3, but it still has a quick focus, and from the reviews which have only been made in the last year about how it stacked up against other models for AF, it was rated very highly, just seemed a bit odd. The camera itself is mint, no scuff marks, nothing. And under 10,000 actuations. And as i told Dave, i grabbed it for $300 plus a carton, so why wouldn't you.

But the 45 point focus is something im dying to try out at some drifting or other automotive event. But after street torque, i was really impressed with how the 400 held up. I thought of getting rid of it, but it kinda made me reconsider into keeping it.

I'd have got it too, $300, that's nuts. The 400 could be a spare body!

Well it was clean out "the old mans shed" time of the year, which meant figuring out what stays and what goes, and this was one of the things to go. So took some quick snaps for the forsales websites etc.

I prefer the last one, a bit better view point IMO. Wish i just had cars to sell off.

Hey i dont see any of the profits

Get him drunk and con a signed cheque out of him.