Photography - (max 640px X 480px allowed!)

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 14 Mar 2005, 14:57

Wow, there are some really good pics being taken.

Scarlet - give me your D70

what lens did you use for that shot with the light rays and the couple on the bench. Really nice. Bet that would make a lovely print.

Post by **Scarlet_Spider** » 15 Mar 2005, 09:20

hehe screeper i would not part with that camera for anything - just bought a nice Nikon SB800 flash to go with it and a 1 gig memory card...

i did not take the one of the light rays and the couple one the bench... all my photos were taken with my Nikkor 18-70 lens, which owns... I recently bought a Nikkor 70 - 300 which i haven't taken many shots with yet - my brother has though on his Nikon F75 (film camera)

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 15 Mar 2005, 09:47

The E3.0 members have loads of talent with a camera. We could make a scrap book of pictures by us!

Jane · Post by **Jane** » 15 Mar 2005, 11:52

Took these photos recently:

My husband took this one:

All these images was resized for obvious reasons.

Post by **Scarlet_Spider** » 15 Mar 2005, 12:21

nice pics Jane...

here is one i took of Clifton 4 in October last year

Jane · Post by **Jane** » 15 Mar 2005, 14:17

Sunset at Clifton, cool!

Post by **maxxis** » 15 Mar 2005, 14:35

Screeper wrote:Wow, there are some really good pics being taken.

Scarlet - give me your D70 what lens did you use for that shot with the light rays and the couple on the bench. Really nice. Bet that would make a lovely print.

PS. I took those.

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 15 Mar 2005, 16:28

Maxxis,
sorry dude.
Was getting mixed up between you and Scarlets pics.
Anyway its a way cool pic

did you get the 20D yet?

Post by **maxxis** » 15 Mar 2005, 23:38

Nope not yet. Maybe going to go for the 350D when it hits SA. Also 8mp.

someidiotsa · Post by **someidiotsa** » 15 Mar 2005, 23:41

You guys practically roll around in the dosh dont you

How on Earth do you aford such things....

I miss my Digicam, only if it wasnt for my bro who messed it up, Somehow while the camera was recharging it was shorted and now it wont switch on

That was about 2 years ago.... I miss it so much

Post by **maxxis** » 15 Mar 2005, 23:47

I work in advertising. That and the fact that I get the stuff for cost without VAT helps.

Sucks to hear about your camera.

Rid1 · Post by **Rid1** » 16 Mar 2005, 00:46

This pic of my car was taken with my canon Powershot a85 , Quality reduced drastically to download faster on my website!

This Pic of Table Mountain was taken with my Motorola e398, from a balcony at Constantiaberg Hospital!

Post by **Scarlet_Spider** » 16 Mar 2005, 09:08

nice pics... keep em coming.

Nitroflea · Post by **Nitroflea** » 16 Mar 2005, 13:42

My first attempts at photography

Taken with my Sony Cybershot DSC-P93 at 5.1MP but have been resized to 640x480.

Penguins

at Boulders Beach (i think) at Simon's Town

Toktokkie i found on a hiking trail near Lundudno

Kirstenbosch

Eqyptian swan silouette at Kirstenbosch

Some interesting stuff with Long Exposures

3 sec exposure of a "fire spinner" on Hout Bay beach (original)

3 sec exposure of a "fire spinner" on Hout Bay beach (enhanced)

15 sec exposure of the same thing (original)

An experimental 30sec. exposure in the car

Here are two shots I managed to take during a storm on 30sec exposure.
This was such a mission! I sat there for hours, and only get two good shots.

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 16 Mar 2005, 13:47

veeeeeeeery nice!

Post by **Scarlet_Spider** » 16 Mar 2005, 14:28

ye... i really like the second to last one of the storm

Jane · Post by **Jane** » 16 Mar 2005, 17:05

Very nice pictures Nitroflea! What is the longest exposure you can do with your camera? Like the storm pics.

Nitroflea · Post by **Nitroflea** » 16 Mar 2005, 17:33

Thanks Capanno, Scarlet and Jane!

Jane, the longest exposure is 30sec (which I used for the storm pics).

The really good cameras apparently have a kind of infinite exposure, so for lightning pics you just leave the shutter open and wait for a good bolt. hehe, a lot easier than setting a 30sec exposure and hoping you get lucky.
I missed so many good shots during the time it takes to process the image (usually a couple seconds) after it has been captured. In the end I was trying to find a pattern in when lightning will strike, hahahaha
And then there is the problem with the mem card filling up. When I took those pics I still had a tiny 32MB card, so it was like 12 or 13 shots and the card is full.

But I was lucky that night and got rewarded for my effort

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 16 Mar 2005, 21:37

Nice pics Nitro!

That long exposure setting is called "bulb" opens the shutter for as long as your memory card can handle.
Even some of the cheaper models can do it. I know the FujiFilm S5000 (+-R3500) has bulb function.

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 16 Mar 2005, 22:02

ok here some of my attempts - all on my Panasonic DMC-FZ20
resized so not to annoy

Thick-billed Weaver making his nest

Young vervet [img]http://mysite.mweb ... pg[/img]

Post by **maxxis** » 16 Mar 2005, 22:49

I love the detail in these photos. Especially the last one

Nitroflea · Post by **Nitroflea** » 17 Mar 2005, 22:48

Nice shots Screeper! like the bird

I see you put that optical zoom to good use. I wish my camera had more zoooom

Jane · Post by **Jane** » 18 Mar 2005, 09:19

Nice pics Screeper. What are the specs of your camera?

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 18 Mar 2005, 16:09

Tis a Panasonic DMC-FZ20
5 megapixel
Lense = Leica, image stablised, 12x Optical Zoom (36-432mm)
Macro down to 5cm from lense
Burst mode is 3 frames per sec for 7 shots

However the biggest drawback is that the longest shutter speed you can get is 8sec (so no nice 30 sec or bulb mode

)

Post by **neon_chameleon** » 18 Mar 2005, 16:19

Nitroflea wrote:Nice shots Screeper! like the bird

I see you put that optical zoom to good use. I wish my camera had more zoooom

Yeah I liked the bird too, the pelican was great too!