I have a friend who's an artist and she wanted to do a painting of a flower with water droplets and couldn't find one. So I went down to the local nursery to see what I could put together for her... Now flowers are not my thing but I had fun doing it. I was wandering with a spray bottle spraying the flowers before photographing them (and probably looked like a weirdo doing it)...

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A couple more flowers...

I want the new Sigma 50mm 1.4  ART lens...

Look guys... I promise to take a photo of the camera and show you guys when I win :-D

Sigma 50-500mm. I shoot a variety of shots in manual mode playing with the aperture and shutter speeds until I find an exposure that I like and fine tune it. Mine has some sharpness and brightness/contrast done as well but pretty much as shot. I shoot a very narrow aperture so I can use a slower shutter speed. I do it on my tripod and use my remote to trigger the shot.

Interesting...

Very interesting... Obviously main main camera is an FF camera, but talking to several wedding photographers these seem to be the main lenses that they use... (these are of course FF lenses and not cheap).

24-70mm f2.8

70-200mm f2.8

85mm f1.4

Naturally the Zoom's a for versatility indoor and out. The 85mm is used for Portrait work. Naturally you can have more lenses, as mentioned I've also seen 50mm and 35mm lenses widely used as well.

It's something I'm interested in as well. The 50mm (FF) on a DX camera would translate pretty much to the 85mm FX combo. Having 2 camera's seems to also help (I used my double shoulder strap camera harness yesterday and it's awesome).

Good luck with it.

Haha you guys crack me up.    Single and ready to Mingle

LOL the advantages of being an ex Pro Fighter and enjoying keeping fit.

Actually I figured I'd better show a smiling one or you'll think I'm a meanie...

I did a Selfie Photo shoot and there was a great suggestion in there... Lets see who we all are... I'll use one of my Selfie Photo Shoot Shots... :-)

So now it's everyone else's  turn to show themselves...

Don't make New Years Resolutions... I make a resolution every morning when I wake up to be better than the day before... :-)

I got given a Lighting Kit to play with over the holidays. So I decided I'd start the New Year doing the things I love, training and taking photos. Being New Years Day it's not easy to find suitable models so I figured I'd use myself for the photo shoot after my training session.

Here are some of the photos that I took

(I also left my tripod at home so had to use a lighting stand which worked but limited the angles at which I could shoot).

Here are a couple other photos that didn't involve me as the subject.

So how are Shutterfly and Smugmug? I have tried to set up a Shutterstock account and I am waiting to hear back after submitting 10 photos.

Fanduckulous!

The comp finishes when their a 6 entrants. Then the next one of the same category starts up. It appears to be a peer voted system. You can't vote once you have an entry.

Who has a Flickr Account here? I know some have as it's been mentioned in previous posts.

Here is my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.co...s/95114267@N07/

Now I've also discovered there is a website for Flickr competition which is pretty cool. You link up and can use your Flickr photos... It's worth checking out and is a good chance to see how your photos stack up. Comps are small (6 entries) and easy to do once you get the hang of it.

http://www.flickrawards.com

Hopefully I'll see you guys on there!

Elvis

Thanks guys. It was lots of fun... I would've stayed longer and took heaps more photos but I think my hosts were getting impatient... LOL

The peacocks were in Tasmania (an island state of Australia for Pretty Cranium). They were wandering around as if wild, but obviously partially domesticated and used to people (as lots of people around taking photos). They were seriously amazing to watch and I felt lucky to have been able to photograph them.

Some great shots in there. Good work.

Very cool

I went down to Tassie for work, I figured I'd take some extra time for myself so I brought my Camera along and took some photos. Along the way I came across some cool Peacocks roaming around...

Moon shot with 2 x Teleconverter and Sigma 50-500. Slight sharpening and colour/contrast adjustment.

Prices are coming down for Christmas...

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Ok, now with a grey camera... (the Latest Nikon Retro FF)