Recent content by sowen6

Like your thinking!!! Would never have thought it would have worked on a 30 second shot though. Would have thought it would need longer but as the picture shows................. :-)

Welcome, you are in a great place for taking photo's :-)

Hello, had a quick look at the flicker photo's there great!!!!!! :-) Welcome :-)

Welcome, Not far from me either, I'm over Great Whitley way a lot and there are so many things I keep meaning to get photo's of that way so I will keep an eye out to see what you post up :-)

Welcome :) there are indeed some fantastic photo's on here!! enjoy :woot:

I would go with reducing the aperture and use a tripod if your not already, If your after the shallow depth of field maybe you will have to compromise between the DOF and image quality!

Like this image and when you find a fish eye lens for £20 you let me know I'm next in the line at that shop :-) Well done it really is worth £20 and the rest!!

Are you using a dedicated Macro lens?? What Aperture (f) number you using or are you going for the narrow depth of feild look??

Ok so not the greatest of night time shots but I was quite pleased with the way this has come out. It is a long way from my 1st northern lights picture I took a few years ago and it is still a long way from the image I have in my head. So I have to say a big thanks to all you guys and girls who...

I would think that you will need to focus manualy, for this you will need to set the lens and the camera to manual focus, I still get the focus wrong some times its trial and error in situations where there is not enough visable light. There are a lot of guys on here that have helped me...

Have you checked that the Auto is set on the lens and in the camera settings?? Also can you hear the lens trying to focus when you change between an object that is very close and then very far away? Another thing I found with my old compact (though you should not have the same problem with this...

welcome!! you'll find this a very friendly and helpfull site :-)

Well here is my shot, and just to prove that you dont need the best equipment this was taken with my old Sony DSC-W1 compact resting it on top of a pair of gloves on the roof of a car. Two 30 sec exposures put together. I took this before I started to get into photography a bit more...

Welcome, I've got the feeling I should dust off my Webley in the loft and take some photo's!! hhmmmmm I think I will!! Welcome you will learn a lot here, I have and I have the D40x so I know all the information you need is here! :)

Well from what I have gleaned (and its not a great deal) is that the wider the aperture the better maily because of the noise generated by high ISO settings required with smaller apertures (unless ou have an astro tracking mount) So I figure a 50mm f1.4/1,8 would be a great option if it is...