Recent content by ColinB

Well i'll be - I tried this earlier today at work with no luck at all - With your links on my home machine it works a charm, this is most odd. Thanks Nass - now I know this feature does actually work, i'm sure it will now prove more useful than my earlier attempts. :clap:

Its good if you already know what you want to do and where - i.e ruins, but if I want landscape locations, if I don't already know where I want to go, there is no easy way to find suggestions with images and notes. For example, if I want to shoot some coastal landscapes, I would have to go...

I think the fundamental problem with those kind of websites is that the success is built upon the critical mass of people to submit enough information. A mashup site to scrape public sites like flick would be ideal. Flickr River is quite good but only when you search for a specific place, I...

Thanks for the suggestions so far chaps, I'll take a look. It seems there is a gap/niche for an easy to use location photographer database online.. I wonder if it would be possible to scrape flickr images geo-information via their api and have them on a searchable map... Edit: Just tried Treckr...

Does anyone know of an online resource for finding photographic locations? Is there a database anywhere that is searchable with pictures from the area? At the moment to find interesting locations, I'm having to go through a list of potential places via flickr and see if it's photogenic, but...

I happen to prefer wider than 24, whether my photo's are crap or not is a different matter. Also in terms of sharpness (which is my main criteria) it seems from the reviews/tests that the 16-35 outperforms the 24-70 and any other wide-zoom from Nikon, so I think at the moment that's my main...

Of the reviews I've read, the zeiss 21mm seems superb, but I'm thinking the extra facilities of the nikon make it compelling (being a zoom and having VR), I can't seem to find a direct comparison between the zeiss 21 and the nikon so I can't tell which would give best IQ and sharpness. Thanks...

the benefit of the cokin/kood p square filters is that they are very quick to change from lens to lens and works out cheaper than buying a bunch of step-up rings. Also, you can use grad filters with a much higher degree of control than screw on ones as you can move the square p filters up and...

I currently have a D40, but will be updrading to a full-frame Nikon body within the year. I currently shoot with the 18-55mm kit lens which seems ok, but I'm sure I could do better. What is the very best wide angle lens (in terms of sharpness and contrast) for nikon that is available to buy...

Photography is an art-form. Depicting 'smokey' or 'silky' water is a way of getting across the feeling of water-movement, or atmosphere felt at the time of the shot. The image from a photograph isn't just a snapshot of the scene in front of the taker, if it's being used as fine art as...

One thing to remember, is that if you have spent 5-10 mins or so taking out dust, and adjusting exposure, these setting can then be applied to any number of pictures, so for wedding togs, I'd imagine that once one or two are sorted, it's pretty easy to spread that across the entire set (as the...

Well done with the panel, a nice collection of images, and they are well balanced and matched, makes a nice set. Out of interest, what is the benefit of being an associated of the BiBB?

As mainly a landscape photographer, it takes considerably more than a few minutes for a good conversion, and I'm referring to RAW files, I don't bother with jpegs. To suggest anything more than a few minutes isn't worth rescuing is naive in my opinion. Digital conversion is no different than...

I bought a Nikon D40 with kit lens in mint condition for £205 a month or so ago. It's about as good as it gets at that budget, and you buy into the excellent Nikon system of great optics. It has a 1/500 flash sync (better than 40x and D60), excellent low noise, RGB histogram, back button...

I'm aware of Maslow's theories (I've studied psycology), and to a degree you make a valid point about the hierachy, but this is a very simplistic manner in which to view the human's needs/wants, his theory only explains a small degree, and his hiarachhy doesn't take into account personality...