m_nettleship

Amazing pictures thread of the year by long long way.

Thanks red, 89ssp and all the others who have uploaded.

danneth

you should recognise most of the places in my piccys nettleship just uploading a couple from tonight

m_nettleship

yeah i see the meadowhall one. how long it take to upload these, must be very big files. on my 3.2 erickson it take 5 min.

danneth

its my net its reallyyyyyyyyy slow, the chruch ones i put up was ecclesfield, just been up to the uni now and the dam house pub should have them up in a few secs

m_nettleship

Sound mate, how mutch u lookin 4 all this kit a grand,4 a decent setup
???

danneth

danneth

mine only cost me Ł280 mate brand new

89 SSP

Geez, I am going to have to start taking night shots! You guys make is seem so easy. A lot of great shots!

Here are some from a old air base in Bitburg. My buddies Boxster.

m_nettleship

Good stuff

89 SSP

A few from work.

boothy

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Mine trackday at oulton

rsnissan

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Dicko&Vacant

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thats what ive got

looks like some people have been busy, i think ill have to go and get some night shots at some point in the future, aint been out for a while

Sarah

danneth

heres the difference between them both on the same settings

nikon d40



sony a200

Red16

Shit the bed, this thread's just got really really busy!!!

Here's a couple more HDR's ive been working on, theyre from old photos i've previously taken.

Tees Barrage by night



The Millennium Bridge



The Millennium Bridge & Baltic art gallery



Bella Italia under the bridge

pa_sjo

Interesting, but a bit over-cooked i'd say

danneth

awesome red

what do you think of the d40 vs a200 piccy?

Red16

Yeah i think youre right, but ive only just started learning, not too sure what does what with regards to the tone mapping etc, will have to do a bit reading about it.

i prefer the d40 photo to be honest, i think it has more detail and the colour saturation looks better.

pa_sjo

I think I better start shooting in RAW so I can have a go

Red16

all the ones ive just posted were made from basic jpegs

my laptop would cry if i tried to merge a few RAW files into one HDR image

pa_sjo

Shows how much I know

XRdodgybird

Sorry but if you ask me, the Nikon takes a far superior shot to the Sony..... my friend has a Sony and I have always thought that the quality of pics it takes is a little poor...

Benni

Some amazing pictures, love yours 89sp, and everyone's really. What camera would you all reccommend for around 300, no more than 400?

Benni.

Benni

P.S D40 Image is way better.

Benni.

J1mbo

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benni for that price youy can get a nikon d50 and then buy another lens to go with it

i bought my (first one ) off ebay for Ł210 and it came with the camera standard lens 4 batterys and a case (well 3 !)
then i bought a lens for more track stuff som i can zoom in more

but you could also buy a d60 for that money ! but depends if you wanna buy brand new or second hand off ebay

Red16

Nikon D60 with 18-55mm VR lens... its in jessops now for 322 quid. Thats the camera and lens i use for 99% of my photos in this thread. Great starter DSLR imo.

danneth

deffo go for the nikon range after having ago with my brothers a200 tonight its quite heavy and not as easy to find and use all the options imo, all depends how good you are with a camera really looked on a few forums people who have compared the d40 piccys to the d80 piccys and theres very little if anything in it, alot seems to do with lenses and how good you are with it

you can get the one i have now d40 for Ł225

Red16

heres one of mine you boys wont have seen before, the last of the HDR's for tonight

J1mbo

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thats brill red! when you say hdr what do you mean ?
is that a photo youve taken then modified `on photoshop ?

jim

Charlie Chalk

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

Red16

Cheers Jim Generally in photos, you cant perfectly expose every part of the photo due to the varying lighting conditions, eg dark shadows, or bright lights. And if you manage to expose these areas correctly, you over or under expose other areas of the photo.

An HDR is a combination of images taken of the same subject but at various exposures, a mixture of over/correctly/under exposed. An HDR uses the various exposures of the same image to pick all the detail out of those shadow/highlight areas, giving a much more detailed image which looks great but doesnt usually look as real as a proper photo.

The last one i posted is made up of 5 different exposures using a program called Photomatix Pro 3.0

Check the link above for a bit more info, and if you look on flickr for HDR you will find lots of amazing ones!

rsnissan

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cool, I guess I can try that with the bracketing on mine then or is there anything else that i need to use.

Also probably asked a million times but whats a decent tripod just for the longer shutter speeds at night from bridges etc and possibly a bit of macro. Not really fussed about anything else at the mo (ie panning on a track etc). Obviously there are loads but not sure what I can get away with with the weight of the camera + lens. Not 100% sure how much i would use it so dont want to fork out loads until I am sure I will use one properly

89 SSP

HDR is really cool and I need to get out and play with the camera so I can do it to

Veterans Day Memorial at Luxembourg Cemetary.

89 SSP

neal666

the a200 was never doing to compete with the nikons or canons of the photography world and above proves it..

m_nettleship

i take it this is why i never see sousage arm on cod anymore lol.

leecavturbo

the hdr's look like ultra good drawings. i like them

Captain500rs

What an amazing hdr for a beginner thats quality Ben

M4tty

Sorry but Hdr being?

Red16

Bracketing is perfect for HDR, infact i think thats the whole point in it, unless someone knows otherwise?

I'd recommend something from the Manfrotto range of tripods.

Yeah, thats so true

Yeah i think that too

cheers

explained a few posts up