A few randoms C+C please
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The Tea Boy

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4,129 posts

265 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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A few from the field at the back of the house smile









Playing with my neice in the garden and teaching her the ways of PH for kids wink had to use a bubble machine to keep her interested though smile also these were all taken with a new 50mm lense i aquired from the mrs's unused old slr with an M42 adapter












_dobbo_

14,619 posts

278 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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I like the first one, you do seem to be improving from your earlier efforts.

The ones of you niece all look a bit under exposed and in almost all of them the focal point is wrong - i.e. not your niece.

If it's a manual focus lens then more practice required - if it's AF then maybe your subject is moving around quicker than the focus can keep up, or you need to use continuous focus rather than single.




andy-xr

13,204 posts

234 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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Give it a whack in Levels. Hope you dont mind but I nicked the lo-res to give an example


curtisl

1,406 posts

236 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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and just to add, there is fens flair on the ones with your niece, a les hood will fix that. the sun flower ones are nice. good depth of field

The Tea Boy

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Friday 14th August 2009
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Thanks for the C+C guys its appreciated. not been ableto post may photos recently due to only having mobile broadband and also my laptop died and cant get any of the 3000+ photos i had off it. Although i have put some on photobucket but no all of them.

As to the pics of my neice, yes its manual focus its deffinatley taking some getting used to :s but i love the fairly shallow DOF on the lens, its only a Miranda 50mm 1.8 but seems to be nice to work with, im now upto 3 M42 manual focus lense's have a 300mm and a 200mm.

Im looking forward to going to sicily again at the end of september to see how i can improve on my photos from last year before my experiance of a DSLR from taking all the others with a compact so could be interesting but then again i might be disapointed.

Dobbo thanks for the compliment, ive actually been out in the field for the last 9 days trying to get a few decent shot (been out of a job for the last 3 weeks so was trying early retirement for a while till i realised i cant afford it hehe

Regards
Matt