Recent content by Superape

I like guybrush & Quantum Sprite's answers better than the first one :D What sort of price should I be paying for a replacement battery? I do have a friendly camera shop (Bradford Camera Exchange). I may take it down there & ask them, but I'd ike to have the funds handy to be able to back up...

I'll try & give as much info as possible here as I want to get to the bottom of it! I have a Canon 450D. It's now about 2.5 years old. It gets used irregularly, but when it does get used it gets hammered (ie holidays, trips, that kind of thing). I have a 70-300mm Tamron DI lens that came...

It's do-able, but you need to do some fiddling around in order to minimise the amount of cloning out you need to do: As the lady on the phone involves the least work, I copied her on to the other photo. I then rotated and stretched a bit to get the best possible fit with the other...

Nope. Completely ridiculous. It was a bear.

Well if we're going to have fun... Pasted the original onto a Lord of the rings one. Use the magic wand to select and delete the sky, then mess with colour balance & so on until pleased with it.

Get the one you like. When I bought mine it was a toss up between the Canon 450D and the equivalent Nikon. I went to the shop and had a good old play around. The specifications were broadly similar (although the Canon had better MP), but in terms of bang per buck, the Nikon was clearly better...

I was also disappointed, and shouting out what pictures I would have taken. If I wanted a 'funny' photo of the guy with metal legs, for example, I'd have taken a shot of him from behind actually buying the ice-cream. Anyone else rather sceptical about the apparently amateurish nature of...

Good enough at first glance if you didn't know. As for the OP, it indicates that even with the subject's actual eyes shot from pretty much the same angle, it doesn't take much for it to be noticeable that it's been faked.

I had a similar problem from my daughter's graduation day. James May from Top Gear was receiving an honorary doctorate, and we were lucky enough to grab a photo with him, which totally made her day. My daughter looks lovely in the first one, but stupid Captain Slow blinked: In the next...

I take your point, and I've zoomed & cropped insect photos for my own amusement for exactly that reason. Here's an illustration of what I mean: I printed out a photo I was very pleased with. I showed it to a photography nut at work, and he suggested he would have cropped to remove a small...

At Glastonbury Festival (and I'd guess others) the terms & conditions on the ticket state that you "consent to being filmed and photographed" as part of the deal :)

Thank you all for your help, it's cleared up a few mysteries. When I said I understood DOF & F-stop, it was as far as 'small f-stop = wider aperture = faster shutter = less in focus' & vice-versa. The nitty gritty of how lens & camera & focal length interact with each other was obviously the...

Aaaah, so what I'm doing is misunderstanding what the lens can do! I was looking at the numbers on the lens and in its product description and assuming that was the limit of its operation. I had noticed that the kit lens and the Tamron will go to different lower f-stops. The other thing...

I was using the Tamron and was trying to set the camera at F16 (as an experiment) and it quite happily let me do that.. I usually shoot in full manual mode, if that helps.

Probably this :D I have two lenses that were part of a 450D bundle - the standard kit lens (18-55) and a Tamron 70-300mm f4/5.6 DI LD Macro. Enlighten a noob!