Recent content by Braidsta

Cheers for that, and yeah I've bookmarked that page and many like it over the weekend! I've never had so much fun and been so proud of myself in learning photography (a couple of months ago, I was struggling to fit my kit-lens to my camera!), but yeah, with this manual focus lark I felt like...

hey there, ah, unfortunately I gather that manufacturers have done away with that very useful feature in recent years, so no f. markings at all. I think I have sussed it though - just had a walkabout on my lunch break and at f.8 and with the focus set to infinity, I appear to have some sharp...

Good morning all, Been ages since I've been here, I've been too busy out taking photos! I've just bought the Tokina 11-16mm and love it, but I'm having a mad struggle trying to understand manual focussing (doesn't AF on my D3000). I've been reading about / studying hyperfocal charts and they...

nice one mate cheers!

Happy lunchtime all, Just wondering if anyone has experience using the Cactus v4 with their D3000 to get the flash off-camera? Any experiences good or bad? lol, admittedly it's only for a super-muscly shot of myself that's inspired this but after a bit more reading on flash I'm starting...

Evening all, The photos from Snapfish arrived today, gotta say I won't be using them in future. I can't moan over the cost though - it was a 20 prints for free deal and I only paid 99p P&P. I picked out a few from different collections to check out colour etc. Pretty useless without pics but...

cheers mate but I'm Essex lol it's all good:thumbs:

Cheers for the advice! I'm giving Snapfish a shot on their free trial - didn't see the bad feedback on them till I'd ordered but fingrs crossed! Really, they're only so I can give a few photos to the old ladies in the sandwich shop! It's going to be rare I print so I'm gonna go to a pro lab...

Bit early to be sure as I'm new to filters too, but I have a KOOD 0.6 ND grad and as far as I can tell there've been no colour casts. They are around the same price as Cokin and fit the P series holder I bought before hearing the bad news on Cokin filters. Of course, I'm sure they don't...

Hey all, Another basic question for you guys if you could lend an eye... I want to get some pictures printed. I shoot in JPEG and use (camera's at home so can't be sure) SRGB colour. After post processing the pictures are varied sizes after cropping etc. Is it as easy as giving in the...

and I just remembered I didn't get a Cokin GND, it's a Kood. Looked ok but more testing will tell! Will avoid Cokin then!

cor! :( cheers for the heads up mate. I just tried out the GND and it looks ok so guess I'm alright this time. Those Lee ones sound like they're the way to go.

hi thanks for checking it out - yeah I've really fallen for IR photos since seeing a few on Photo.net so figured I'd have a go :D DaydreamJay I'm puzzled to hear that, I've read nothing but good about them - no personal experience though but I'm testing out the grad I just got tomorrow...

Avast me hearties! I'm keen to get an infrared filter for my cokin P series holder (please excuse errors in terminology here - I'm new to the world of cokin!). My question is: Is the P007 a good start? (as in ND4 / 0.6 is a "good start" for ND filters). I'm not overly worried but...

Bruva that "Rails" at the stairway in Natural history museum is breathtaking, and here's me thinking I'm headed down the wildlife path lol. Supposed to be going NHM next thursday and hadn't thought of photographing anything other than dinosaurs!