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Monkichi 3.0

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Dork Knight

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Can you (or somebody else :) ) please explain what is meant with that the "flash light controls the aperture"?

I don't see how it changes the aperture-value :)

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@Afterbirth, btw, that must be the slowest Q6600 in existance you've got there ;)

Shutter Speed will control ambient light, where aperture will be used to control the amount of light the sensor will see from the flash.

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rev-happy performance

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Shutter Speed will control ambient light, where aperture will be used to control the amount of light the sensor will see from the flash.

Thanks, I guess I'll need to play with this - normally I just let the flash set on ETTL, and set the aperture to whatever dof I want :unsure:

Indeed. Moreso when you consider the fact i don't have that processor, which is in my kids compy. I have the Q9450.

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I bought the June issue of Digital Camera for something to read on the train over the weekend and it's got an absolutely brilliant beginners guide to ISO, white balance, RAW vs JPEG, different exposure modes and all the rest. For £3.99 you could do a lot worse.

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I bought the June issue of Digital Camera for something to read on the train over the weekend and it's got an absolutely brilliant beginners guide to ISO, white balance, RAW vs JPEG, different exposure modes and all the rest. For £3.99 you could do a lot worse.

Awesome, I think I need this.

I've been taking more pictures, over 300 in fact. All RUBBISH ;) I mean, they were of a picnic/rounders lunch out and a weekend picnic and day next to the river. The people in them liked them a lot etc but they're SO boring. Like the ones I posted at the beginning. I'm getting frustrated that I seem to be totally bereft of any artistic flair at all, all I can do is take a pretty picture of something.

Talking about long exposure, i've been playing around with them on my camera over the past couple of evenings, doing light painting:

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Good stuff. Why can't I think of stuff like this? :D

Well, this and the other photos in this folder make me more determined to get a good photo of something other than pretty locations. That magazine should help a bit I guess.

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I subscribe to Practical Photography which is pretty good, always good guides in there, for most levels. I think im going to cancel soon though, I just find myself flicking through it every month thinking that I know most of the stuff already. (I dont mean that to sound big headed, but theres only so much technique you can learn before it starts to repeat itself.)

But for learning new stuff when your starting out its good. They're currently running a kind of camera course thing, with homework and themes set out each month to try, so that could be useful for getting practice in!

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I've been taking more pictures, over 300 in fact. All RUBBISH guess.

I tend to do this. When i went to Alton Towers, i took ner on 900 photos (about 300 of them were from burst mode shots) and out of all them, i kept 75.

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I've been taking more pictures, over 300 in fact. All RUBBISH <_< I mean, they were of a picnic/rounders lunch out and a weekend picnic and day next to the river. The people in them liked them a lot etc but they're SO boring. Like the ones I posted at the beginning. I'm getting frustrated that I seem to be totally bereft of any artistic flair at all, all I can do is take a pretty picture of something.

Post them in the random photo thread for critique?

At least you're taking lots of pics.

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Awesome, I think I need this.

I've been taking more pictures, over 300 in fact. All RUBBISH :) I mean, they were of a picnic/rounders lunch out and a weekend picnic and day next to the river. The people in them liked them a lot etc but they're SO boring. Like the ones I posted at the beginning. I'm getting frustrated that I seem to be totally bereft of any artistic flair at all, all I can do is take a pretty picture of something.

Good stuff. Why can't I think of stuff like this? :(

Well, this and the other photos in this folder make me more determined to get a good photo of something other than pretty locations. That magazine should help a bit I guess.

This is a really good book for helping you to understand the 'language' of photographic composition, though it won't provide you with any inspiration. For inspiration, just look around you. You don't need to do anything out of the ordinary to take a great shot, nor does it need to be technically brilliant or perfectly composed. You'll see thousands upon thousands of 'expert' hobbyist photos taken with 5 grand SLR's, which are perfectly exposed and perfectly composed, but they'll have nothing in them bar some carefully placed rocks being lapped by milky looking waves, with a slightly digitally tuned sunset in the background. Don't turn into one of those people. Get out there and make things important by putting them in a frame. This is the key to photography, you're framing the everyday (or the unusual) in a way that lends it some importance. Framing a moment, a scene, a person, an object, an abstraction or a situation implies that you hold it to be important, or you wish it to be.

There's always plenty of room for exciting and interesting new shots using new techniques, but it's not the be-all and end-all, in my opinion.

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I have to say that you're giving some really mixed info there Morrius.

Sorry, I was trying to leave the office on time and type something helpful at the same time.

Here's the short version... Take photos of things you deem important, or want to bestow importance on, even if no-one gets to see the photos but yourself. Let your passion for the subjects drive your passion for the art of photographing them. Don't get too caught up in trying to learn "perfect" technique, it comes with time and practice. Don't waste your time trying to recreate shots you've seen a thousand times before (ie my example of a rocky beach sunset with the sea in motion).

I know a guy who spends thousands upon thousands of pounds on lenses and photographic equipment, and countless hours fussing over photoshop and flickr, and I've never seen him take an interesting photograph.

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Ill ask here since people know what they are on about.

Basically i know a guy who has a Fujifilm Finepix S9600, and is after a netbook.

I've got myself a Advent 4213 netbook. (Dont use it much) and it is worth around £200.

Is a straight swap worth it??

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Ill ask here since people know what they are on about.

Basically i know a guy who has a Fujifilm Finepix S9600, and is after a netbook.

I've got myself a Advent 4213 netbook. (Dont use it much) and it is worth around £200.

Is a straight swap worth it??

It's an old camera, announced August 2006, compact-camera (it's not a DSLR).

Looking around on (Dutch) second hand sites, they still sell it for 200 pounds, but I've got the feeling you could buy a better camera nowadays for the money.

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Sorry, I was trying to leave the office on time and type something helpful at the same time.

Here's the short version... Take photos of things you deem important, or want to bestow importance on, even if no-one gets to see the photos but yourself. Let your passion for the subjects drive your passion for the art of photographing them. Don't get too caught up in trying to learn "perfect" technique, it comes with time and practice. Don't waste your time trying to recreate shots you've seen a thousand times before (ie my example of a rocky beach sunset with the sea in motion).

I know a guy who spends thousands upon thousands of pounds on lenses and photographic equipment, and countless hours fussing over photoshop and flickr, and I've never seen him take an interesting photograph.

I'm a bit of a noob too, but: This. I don't know how to explain how I see it... I take pictures because I want to capture what I'm seeing with my eyes, so half my time is spent wandering around sizing things up and looking about to find a good angle, then moving the viewfinder about more or less willie-nillie until I've got what looks like a nicely-framed shot. The camera is just a tool; find something you want to photograph, walk around it, look at it from all angles, think about how you'd cut down your view of it and what you'd leave in, then try to capture that. All my pictures on my photostream are like that; I just wander about taking photos of interesting things.

Also, I think it's nigh-on impossible to take good photos in a social setting, unless you're willing to get folk to try and ignore you and let you wander around, kneeling here and there, looking like some Smart Price David Bailey.

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Just bought £75 of cokin grad filter kit and holder. Have I wasted my money? I really enjoy landscape photography but the sky always is over exposed or the land under exposed, I was hoping this would help.

That'll do the job nicely to be honest! I've always made do with a Cokin holder and just got cheap grads off of ebay, they may not be the best quality, but I've never noticed them affect the image, and they're so cheap I dont care about throwing them about. But a decent set would probably be good, at £75 they must be ok! What did that include?

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Question, what is a good set of (preferably rechargable) AA batteries. This thing eats through 4 in about 50 photos

Get re-chargeable ones, I've got a set of Ni-MH 2700mAh AA's and they seem to last forever in my SB600 flashgun. About £15 should get you a charger with a set of batteries!

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I was trying to take a very close up picture of a legoman. I got the required blur effect on the background, but couldnt get the subject sharp enough. My d60 also point blank refused to take the picture on AF, so i had to switch to manual. Which may have been part of the problem.

Is there any way to override the d60 to make it shoot? This may be an RFTFM moment but thought i would ask.

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Try a tripod and did you pass the minimum focus distance for your lens?

I had the camera on the table (don't have a tripod yet) and as for minimun focal distance - that may have been the problem. How do i find out what it is?

It's a nikor 18-135mm

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Is it this lens?

If so the specs report; Minimum Focus Distance 1.5ft

You can get away with hand-held depending on how steady you are and the shutter speed you can get to, but vibrations or knocks through the table as well as pressing the button may cause unwanted movement.

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