Recent content by Keith Butler

All help is appreciated thank you

Thank you all for your help, I will get the 35mm lens for her and give her a bit of help. The beauty of having an 8 year old to take party pictures is people are more at ease with the photographer

I would keep things simple for her so I would prefer no flash, would your recommendation work ok on auto ?

Hi I have a budget Nikon D3100, can any one recommend a low budget low light wideish lens that my intelligent 9 year old Granddaughter could use at an indoor family occasion

Mark, I checked the link out and you have explained possibly what I was looking for. I tried a water fall with the sun in front of me and your example picture is very similar but I had a greater variation of light and shade. Many thanks

Hi, When trying to get the light right, is this a balancing act when taking pictures outdoors, will certain objects always appear in silhouette?, and should we use this to our advantage?. I know what we see through our eyes has a brilliant sensor(your eye) and a magnificent processor(the brain)...

Hi, I really appreciate everybody's help. I suppose the time of day would have helped or on an overcast day, we were out for the day out and I was possibly there at the wrong time of day.

Hi, The picture of the Water fall was taken with the sun in front of me and was taken with Auto, the pictures I took with the sun at my back were fine, can you tell me three things I could have done to brighten the picture with out making the water to bright. If you tell me 100 things this will...

Hi, Wow I am a little bit dissey and realize I have a lot to learn, I appreciate your comments and the advice.

Hi, I can not remember If I tried M/F on the Dandelion. I have attached a picture of the falls is there anyway I could have improved this any advice is welcome.

Hi, The Camera is the starter Nikon D3100, I have two basic lenses and tried them both, the lenses are 18-55 3.5-5.6 and I think the min dist is about 60cm and the other is 70-300 4-5.6 with Macro and the min dist is 1.5m. I tried all sorts to get the Dandelion into focus, by the answers it...

Hi, I wanted to get close up, I have attached the picture what do you think is the problem.

Hi, I was trying to take a picture of a Dandelion seed head today and when I focused on it, it looked like an orb and would not show the seeds clearly, what could be the problem.

Hi, Thanks for your time and advice, we have lcd lights in our kitchen and we had ice white and had to change them to yellow warm so I get what you mean about the light.

Hi, I will have a go, if I can obtain a result like yours I will be pleased.