DFW'ers photographic challenge - use those £££ cameras!

Lemon_Tree

i shall have fun with this. Feel tempted to take a shot of some horrific architechture aka my porch which upstairs refuse to allow us to replace but i won't inflict that on anyone.

diable

A bit of advice for people, when taking photos try different angles instead of looking down, look up etc etc etc

patman99

Hmmmmm, looks like I might be giving the A700 it's first proper outing this week. Now have the adapter ring so can use the (formely redundant) magnifier lenses on the A700 as well.

Pippilongstocking

Contemplates wrote: »

What line of work are you in anyway?
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I work with flowers - varies enormously from ecological monitoring to growing the little blighters to boring people senseless about them (teaching) -

On a mission to cover the world in flowers one day at a time.

louisebt

I had a Fuji finepix 5600 and loved it, then 16 months ago i bought myself a Sony A350 (I have the a200 too), my biggest lens is a tamron 70-300mm which is what i usually use

Some of my experiment pics

EssexHebridean

LOVE your bouncy doggies Louise! The horse shot is also great - there is a real sense of the pent up energy in the horse from the way the rider has him collected together. That Tamron lens is meant to be nice - when I bought my first long zoom I hesitated for ages between that, and the Sigma equivalent - went for the Sigma in the end but mainly because I couldn't make my mind up and had other Sigma lenses already so decided to stick with the make I knew. I have a Tamron 19-35mm lens which is stonkingly good - OH uses it most of the time these days but I fairly regularly nick it back as it's a really nice wide angle length.

Good advice there from Diable re the looking up / down thing. Try looking above the height you usually do when walking along a road you know well - unless you live in a very newly built town you might be surprised at some of the fantastic architecture. I have to walk into town tomorrow so will take the camera and see what I can find for this weeks challenge. Actually I might increase the challenge on myself even more and take the camera and just the 50mm lens - now there's a good trick for making yourself think differently about your photography! Eek - I've said it now so I have to do it, don't I!! :eek: If I get anything decent I'll post it on my blog as an ongoing part of the 50mm project then. *gulp*

Pippilongstocking

Well done EH nice to see you challenging yourself too!

I've been out today taking pics of a local building - quite unlike me!

I need to get to grips with more of it - I'm hugely outwith my comfort zone - thank you EH!

Nice to see the pics Lou - alot of energy!

Goodluck everyone!

Frozenace

I saw this Mosaic in the Chapel of St John in the Tower of London (White Tower) and it felt quite inspirational for my debt free journey.

Taken with Leica MP and 50 Summilux Asph @ f 2.0 (Kodak Ektar 100 film) and scanned on Nikon Coolscan V. I got the gear before I faced my debts and luckily I can still play with them after clearing them.

I'm a programmer as my day job, so film gives a nice contrast (apart from the light meter, the camera is entirely manual).

Lemon_Tree

that's a wonderful photo! I can understand how you find it inspirational. I can't believe you've used a 'real' camera, years since i used one of them.

Frozenace

Thanks. I help my wife take pictures for her online business using my half broken dslr (the screen is broken and I'm using a manual focus Zeiss lens...) I guess that it gives me something to look forward to when developing the pictures and also the opportunity to re-scan them once my hard drive crashes