Recent content by geoff-d

Hi all Planning to visit Somerset Levels nature reserves Shapwick Heath (RSPB) and Westhay Moor (Somerset Wildlife Trust) sometime soon - I haven't been there for many years (Westhay Moor wasn't even a nature reserve then....) Can anyone offer any info on what the various hides are like...

A bit too far! Thanks anyway Geoff

Hi all Ramsons/Wild Garlic will be flowering soon and I'm looking for a woodland location with extensive covering of this which is within about 40 miles of Bournemouth (where I live) I already know of a few sites in this area but have yet to find what I want - namely: extensive and dense...

Wrong thread reply? :thinking: :thinking: Geoff

Dear Scott Many thanks for clarifying Your sincerely Geoff

Hi all At Blashford a couple of days ago and had to have a go shooting through the hated one-way windows when I saw this Moorhen atop a Reedmace head, pulling at the fluffy seeds: Hilarious watching it trying to balance up there! :lol: I was laughing so much I had to use VR (Vibration...

??? what the fudge is that supposed to mean?? :thinking: Geoff

Hi again Rich - may be my fault because I set it going in two different sub-forums (well, I'm still new here :lol:) Perhaps part of me is hoping that, because 'everyone' is doing it, it will justify doing it myself.... :D ;) Geoff

Rich - I would say you've done a really good job of fulfilling your requirements! - your mono version looks well retouched but not over-retouched. Speaking with my girlfriend (who is a woman :lol:) she agrees that an 'over-done' retouch job amounting to a glamour makeover may possibly be taken...

Hi Mark - absolutely! Fair enough :clap: Should you not declare it anyway? for those who don't ask? :thinking: Ah, now you're just being silly! :nono: ;) Cheers Geoff

Hi Gary - thanks for your considered response - you've slightly contradicted yourself there regarding composition and cropping - some single images may work well by cropping to both horizontal and vertical, giving two entirely different-looking images compositionally. I guess you mean the actual...

Hi James - thanks for response Re photo competitions - naturally the rules should be followed! In 2009 the prestigious international 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' competition winning image - a 'wild' wolf jumping over a picturesque wood gate - was subsequently deduced to be of a captive...

It's more to do with zoom lenses - with some, the front of the lens rotates as you zoom in and out to change compsosition, which means having to re-rotate the polarizer each time - not a huge problem, too much fuss is made about it :lol: but just another thing to remember I guess, though it...

Yes, should be easy to do a quick test - I'd have thought that best order would be - lens/1.4x/2x/body - if they physically mate ok in that order Geoff

Well, until as and when the mirrorless dslr coms about, I'd just like a camera that's quieter! :| great shooting at 8fps but sounds like a machine-gun - terrible when several photographers shooting together :| Geoff