Taken with canon 350d 17-55 70-300 and sigma 50-500 lenses. have just upgraded to a 40d body no good photos to post from it as yet. Any coments/ tips you have will be greatly apreicated thanks.

Updated 13/04/08

surfing ones look pretty cool.

cheers, they were taken at snapper rocks, anybody got any tips for me
im sure there is something that needs improvement

im no expert but i think your pics look awesome

1) Try to use a little more zoom and try implementing more of a blurring background so you get a sense of motion from the picture, but not bad over all.

2) Love it, really good composure. I think this has something to do with the sizing your trying to size it to. Try using Photoshop to resize your images instead of doing it yourself in another program. Also try different sizes so it does squash/flatten your pictures.

3) Great picture, good angle, and as i said from the first picture, try to use the AV function for these types of events. It will give the viewer of the picture a better sense of motion

4) I'm not really an expert of taking pictures of boats, but it doesn't look to bad... Maybe a little more zoom would make a better picture.

5) Love the moon, looks great! Well done.

6) Again, I'm not an expert in this area for surfing... But more zoom and maybe clarity of the face would make a better picture.

7) Same as above, although thats almost perfect zoom.

8) Love the picture of Q1, try and put the contrast down so you can see the tops of the building a little better, also as a suggestion, maybe try it at night time

9) Plane picture rocks love it.

10) Nice and smokey the way its ment to look.

Well done with all the pictures mate one little thing that I think could help make them look a little better, and as I said before, try and use photoshop to resize. Also, try making a better stamp, it looks kind of tacky and out of place.

All the best,
Dan
Zeeute Photography

Surfing photography, in light like you have shot, you pretty much can use these settings.

ISO: 100
AV: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/1000th
White Balance: Sun

If you do wana shoot in AV mode thou, I suggest f/8 @ +0.33 EV

You get results like this!

Thanks for the tips, the photos are strait off the camera with no editing as i dont have photoshop, that is next on the list.

Yeah, all you really need to do in PS with surfing shots is add contrast and saturation

What he said

PM Me and ill advise you on where to find photoshop

Took these with the 40d on the weekend, the balloon was something i had wanted to try 4 a while,
still working on the watermark.

how did you get the timing right on the balloon?

It took 2 trys to get that shot, it helps when my camera shoots 6 frames a second and just had a fast shutter speed with the camera on a tripod

fuck yeh that balloon looks sick put some up of ISSUES oh yeah

A few pics from a recent trip to dariwn, let me know what you think.

I like #2 great shot

Thanks, didnt come out to bad i guess

Some pics of a shoot i did a couple of weeks ago

love the second shot, improving immensely

ahhh dude! Jaggies are everywhere!

What are you resizing these in? MS Word or MS Paint? Get yourself a copy of photoshop asap!

think i fixed the resize issue ? they didnt look that bad till i posted them, they have now been done in photoshop

Ahh, that's better!


No AWD burn-outs?

Yes they look a lot better head wasnt on to strait that day, no bunouts from him car was still running in at that time. How about a speeding wrx then ?

Hmmmmm, its no awd burnout though..

Not the best pics that i have taken but they looked cool so i thought that i would share them, was playing with the bigma at nite, that probly wasnt the best idea from the start and had the iso cranked right up, wasnt sure what else to do so they are very grainy. oh well better to have taken them then missed them.

Got my 1st media pass on the weekend for the bris powerplay, was stoked about that hopfully the 1st of many.

Dang, 313mm focal distance.. That is a bit grainy too, you could try something like noise ninja which i've never bothered with...

Sell up the sigma and get a 70-300 L f/2.8

nice pics dude, surfing ones look good

They got dinosaurs in Darwin??

Just plastic ones,
hmm 70-300 L f2.8 feels like a second home loan coming on

Dw its worth every cent.

Huge improvement of your photos mate, even from just looking at all the photos on the first page, good stuff

Thanks for the positive feed back

Been awhile since an update so here is one that i took at the local skate park
would have been a better photo if the guy knew how to pull up his pants !

would be a great photo if you snapped him same time but in front of him ! loving your shots! good work on the media pass!

very nice shot your getting mate!

how'd you get a media pass? if you dont mind me asking

Cheers, media pass was a matter of speaking to powercruise and going through the motions
Would have liked to take the pic from the other angle but the background is not that good, has buildings and a road behind it.

Don't know if you've managed to secure a copy of Photoshop yet but if you haven't tried it... Gimp might do everything you need and it's free to download.

Being free, if you don't like it, you can always get rid of it and buy PS later. That said, it's a good starting point and has most of the tools PS has.

Photos look great - good luck with it all.

Great pics mate.. keep it up..

Yep have cs3 now so it is making things a lot easier, thanks 4 the info
took these last night let me know what you think
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Sorry mate, Does nothing for me.

A couple from powercruise

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Pics from the Amberley Airshow, is proberly the last time the F111 will be on public display as it is being retired at the end of 2010. Riverfire just wont be the same without it.
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great shots
heard there was tons of traffic from amberly airshow

thanks, traffic was a mess 2 hours eash way from the bayside

Nice shots mate.

Playing around with the lighttent 2night, trying to take pics of my helmet is a bitch with the mirror visor, keep getting the reflection of the front of the tent on the visor didnt come out 2 bad otherwise i guess.
any ideas on getting around this.
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Latest toy and the 1st pic from it sticking the rig on the car and driving hoping it didnt fall off was a bit of a worry but all is good. Will post some more after i play with it a bit more.
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Sick, how much did it cost?

$189 from photo continental, should be some fun seeing what other angles i can get out of it, came with the suport pole as well, and holds up to 3kg

Took the rig out 2night to have a bit more of a play, let me know what you think

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Nice purchase. I think the key is to go slow and use a wide aperture to keep things sharp and the background blurry but i foresee issues with your set up being not very stable, if you look at matty's set up for eg he's got two caps and a giant pole to keep it planted like a tree, I can see shakes in your shots which may just be speed but probably vibrations too.

I know what you mean about the visor, I tried taking a shot of my helmet when I first got my strobe kit and it was the same quandary, getting the right angle - I think the trick is distance, keep low and well distanced.

WB looks a little baked for me in the visor shot though, what did you light it with? tungsten? (lamps etc) plus you can see the tent in that shot - which i guess isn't important since you're just messing around but I thought I'd be a dick and point it out anyway. What are you planning to shoot with the tent? My sister has started out making her own jewelry (and being incredibly arty it makes for wicked designs etc) and I've been thinking of a small/medium sized tent to take some pics of her gear when she decides to sell it.

What sized tent do you have? Brand etc.. recommend it?