Hey guys

I'm pretty new to photography. Got my Alpha 350 twin lense pack about 3 months ago now so i thought i post up some of my stuff.. Keep in mind that they are from when i first got the DSLR all the way up until yesterday.. They should be in roughly the right order . They are all free hand / stealing slippery when wet signs to use as a tripod >_>. I finally got a tripod today (yet to use it) so hoping the shots will improve . There has been no heavy editing (only the odd picasa colour correction or crop) apart from the 2 HDR images which i'm sure you can probably guess. CC is more than welcome as i'm always looking for ways to improve. Thanks for looking guys

looks good dude
some nice pics

Thanks... I was going to go out this weekend and test out the tripod but never got around to it

looks pretty goods ay bro.
jk your shit
ahha what you been upto lately bro..
when you 18?

Yeah not a lot ay.. Turn 18 on the first of feb can't wait. Got the camera back today after it was hijacked by the parents for their holiday.. took a total of 8 photos Should hopefully get some time to go out this weekend for some shots

only two photos i like are the bottom 2.. the rest look like u've walked around the house and gone *snap

no offence.. but come up with a little creativity.. the cat looks ok.. the colours in ur photos r good..

but also the photo of the 2 cars is really too dark.. what settings were u using??

Been really busy with work lately and haven't had much of a chance to shoot anything.. Went to Mt Cootha last night for some shots... First time that i've shot a city at night time but i think i got a few nice pics.. Here are my favorites plus a picture i took the other day.. CC is more than welcome

I like 4 & 5 personally. As for #1, try Hyperfocal distance focusing, whats that? Well what you do is, use a high aperture like f8-13 and then focus 1/3rd of the way into the frame rather than just on the distance or the foreground, this will give you sharpness throughout the frame .

Cheers.. I'll have to try that next time

lookin good mate, nice start

Been busy with work but managed to go out for a couple of hours yesterday... Was good fun.. These are unedited as i'm not at home and editing on a mac without a mouse is impossible.... Tell me what you think though

those last few pics are looking great mate

are those last few on a rig at low speed? or handheld out the window at high speed?

need to take the still pics of cars close to headlight level
but some realy nice shots there mate
good work
wish i hadn't left my camera in qld

All the rolling shots are the result of me hanging out the window. The ones in the dark are at night time at slow speed the ones in the day time are at high speed.

I received my new lense last week sigma 18-50 EX DC with constant f2.8. Loving it so far but due to work i haven't had much time to play around with it. I might be shooting a wedding this weekend so that should be a fun new experience.

Here is 3 shots i've taken with the new lense.. Let me know what you think..

Had my first experience of wildlife photography the other day when i discovered an eagle sitting on my roof.. managed to snap a couple of shots before he flew off to get some dinner right down the other end of the lake so i was unable to snap him catching the fish.. would have been a nice shot though

looks like Kitty doesn't like his/her photo being taken

Took a couple of shots yesterday.. Nothing too exciting but i like the way they came out

I like the last two, sunflowers on black.

Any chance you could resize your photo's?

It's really annoying scrolling left and right to look at the images.

Other than that, it's looking good. The last two sunflower shots are the best.

Keep it up.

Get a decent wide-screen monitor

Sorry some of them are a bit big. I'll try making them a little smaller from now on. I'm just trying to get as much feedback/criticism as possible so that i can improve. I figured no point posting up tiny pictures which hide all my flaws.

Alright, well, in the effort of some sort of CC, I'll tell you what I'd do to these photos to make them more to my taste.

I'd give a little non-destructive dodging and burning a go, to bring out the creases in the leaves and also to brighten the middle of the sunflower as it's almost as underexposed as the background BUT they may be because of the type of flower it has a black center? but it may also be the light.

Just my opinion, oh and try and make shots at LEASE max 1000x on the longest side, if my shots are of portrait orientation I use 1000x for the vertical or if they're landscape I generally (if i remember right, use 800x for the longer side) to cater for those people who are - Naughty! Naughty! and skulk at work on 800x600 res's.

Thanks for the feedback Nick. I'm currently working on a stone age computer which takes about 30seconds to crop an image, however i'm looking into building a new computer within the next couple of weeks. When i get the new one up i'll have to download purchase PS and give that dodging and burning a go. I can picture in my head what you mean but with my current set up its near impossible . I'll post some edited ones up when i get round to building the new PC.

You can buy my pc, i'm thinking of going quard core intel

Going to get a quad core setup myself. If you have knowledge in building computers hit up www.umart.com.au.
I quoted a very reasonable price for my new system. Quad core 3ghz 4gb ddr3 ram an over kill graphics card etc.

I rock an el-cheapo laptop, 1.6ghz dual core, 2.5gb of ram and onboard graphics.


I work fine with vista on aero ahaha

Can't you get eee pc's with better specs than that harley?

Probably, but my point is, it runs better then my dual core, 2gb, 8500GT Desktop hahaha

I too have a dual core 2gb 8500gt desktop which runs like shit. Not for much longer though

Umart are over-rated and over-priced. I buy from MSY.com.au, can't beat the prices and with a store in Brendale it suits where I live vs Milton which is always crowded :/

I've got a AMD 64 athlon X2 5200+ (2.7ghz)
6gb DDR2
ATI HD3850 256mb DDR3 PCI-e

and it isn't enough for me, either going to trade up to an Nvidia GTS250 1GB card or go quard core dirty Pentium, Intel is as bad as Nike though :/

Anyone wanna buy my 3850 video card? still retails for $180-$200, selling for $100!

Do you use x64?

I am to lazy to pay the shipping for the extra DVD to upgrade lol.

So much ram is generally useless. XP only picks upto 4gb of ram doesn't it, likewise with Vista?

XP/Vista 32bit only detects 3.25-3.5gig and for 64bit, depending on motherboard.. up to 128gig (depending on motherboard of course)

You could always go for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 64-bit to take advantage of 2 Terabytes of RAM.

But just to add to what Lance said, it depends on what edition of Vista you are running: Home Basic is limited to 8GB, Home Premium is limited to 16GB and the other editions (Business, Enterprise and Ultimate) let you get all the way up to 128GB, all are still dependent on the MB capabilities.

I had a second go of that bird This time it just sat there and would not fly off I think they came out better than last time however.. CC please

Well obviously a better shot being front on, however I think the bust on the left is distracting and it's a shame its back is to the sun as it's front has fallen into shadows and at 200mm I think your onboard flash would've done nothing for fill at that distance.

I would have tried to fill just the bird in the shot rather than whats on the left (all that empty space)... But thats just me..
But otherwise like nick mentioned the shadows aren't helping the pic But i guess not your fault.. Unless you moved around more..

No idea why the exif says flash was used.. weird.. i just took some more shots and it still says flash was used.. any idea as to why this might be?

As far as location it was a bit of a bummer and the only way i could have been closer to it was to stand underneath and imo photos taken level to the subject look far better than those taken from below the subject. Thanks for the feedback guys.. its probably a hard one to CC due to the main problems being location based which is not controllable.

On another note here is one you can CC.. I saw the sun hiding behind the cloud and thought it would make a good photo. And no... Flash was not used :S

Hey now that's a nice shot! I think I'd have let the Kayak Krew go. Clone 'em out, it won't be hard.

I took shots before the kayaks came but i kind of like them in the shot. I think just the cloud looks boring but with the kayaks there it gives the photo more depth. dunno.. heres the one without the kayaks.. lets have a vote!

Leave them in there. Gives a nice mood.. Almost like a early morning stroke.. I like it

+1 for without

looks a lot more peaceful.

Hey guys

Here is another one i took a while ago at DI. Just found it the other day when i was going though some old photos . CC pweaseee

Hey guys. It's been ages since my last update. I've been mega busy with work etc. It's not all bad news though i now have a new car which is a good excuse to take photos. These are a few quick ones i took the other day after a wash and are by no means great photos. I will have a couple of shoots in the upcoming weeks so keep your eyes peeled. CC is more than welcome.

A couple of things. If you are going to take pics of a car, get a good back drop. An angled driveway in suburbia is not the place.

And with the cat, get right up in it's face and don't look down at it, look straight at it....


And that remote control boat.... not the best subject in the world...