Recent content by jonjay3012

I've only had mine 6 months so I hope it's not pushing up daisies just yet :)

Cheers for all that. Very useful. I really need to try auto ISO, its the one thing I still often forget to change and has ruined several potentially good shots.

Excellent I was hoping you would say that as its likely to be my next lens. Nice tip with the VR too. Cheers.

Beautiful shots Dan. Out if interest what lens did you use for the tiger.

I've got the 35mm 1.8 on my D3100 and for the moey its great. Not been off my camera since i bought it.

Love smoothies and Mars milk. Cherry 7up or a real treat a peanut butter malt milkshake, which is just the greatest liquid beverage there is!

Cool thanks for the advice. Time for a play.

Thanks for that link. Some good reading and I managed to get a couple of ok shots last night by following the suggestions in there, although it does seem more suitable for off camera flash. If I get results with a nearly decent black background, are there any straight forward ways in PP to...

I love looking through this forum, some of the pictures people put up are incredible and really inspire me want to take better photographs, rather than just snap shots. With these dark nights at the minute and being stuck indoors everything is still life practice and trying to learn the...

I've recently bought the 35mm and really like it. It's a massive low light improvement over the kit lens and you can get some very good shallow DOF shots it that's your thing. I wouldn't go for the first one as there is no autofocus with it in the D3100.

This is one from when I first got my D3100 and was just messing around learning what things do. I know it's not a great shot but does show that you can get some shallow DOF with the kit lens, but you do need to be fairly close to your point of focus. DSC_0035 by Jonjay3100, on Flickr

I was in exactly the same boat having bought a D3100 with kit lens seeing the great shots people were getting with these primes. Best advice I got was to use the kit for a day at 35mm and then a day at 50mm, don't use the zoom at all, and see which length suits the pictures you want to take...

I had the same thing had been mulling over a 35mm 1.8. Had been £145ish for ages then jumped to £156 one day and £169 the next. Two days later was back to £144, which is when I hit the buy button.

JD little bit of ice. Had a double pepperoni pizza just now.

Just finished reading this and wanted to say thanks. Very well written, easy to understand and examples and diagrams exactly where needed. Although I had a basic understanding of shutter speed/appature, this has really opened my eyes and helped me understand basic exposure ideas better. I...