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Any comments / critiques welcome !!

from today ;

http://darb.net/pipidinny the "V" series ... mainly page 1. Others are older.

from fridee ;

the "C" series. (others are older.

http://darb.net/wakeboarding/

work tommorow. sweet. Seeya tommorow.

WOW Brad, Life really is fun, lol can i come hang wif you lot?? HAHA
Nice pics as usuall Brad and well looks like you all have a ball and enjoy it and of course what better way to capture these moments is you there getting great pics of all your adventures. Well done.
Cheers
BBJ

lol if you want!

i liked teh sunset portraits from pipidinny ... was a pretty nice sunset yesterday!

Nearing end of day is stunning Darb - I always have believed in giving a good photo a good byline - this works

ahh yeah i quite liked that shot too ;


A few other faves of the pipidinny ones ;

Darb, beautiful shots, especially the last

darb wrote:ahh yeah i quite liked that shot too ;

All of these are very good shots, but the one above is exceptional, IMO. Very nicely done, darb.

interesting ... what do you like about it?

funnily enough it was taken as we screamed past at about 70km/h (on sand.)

Last one for me...
You must have been pretty happy when you saw that on the LCD Brad!

last one should be titled "wogs in love"

yeah ... the sun setting was great, flash filled it nicely ... flash is something im yet to comprehensively understand, mainly because i dont have a speedlite (i shoot mostly landscape or daytime sports.) but i took a couple of snaps and just moved close enough to get a nice smooth exposure ... flattering tones too (cloud WB.)

great shots, great beach, great women, great 4x4's (im a 4x4 toyota fan), great fun!!!

I'm jealous

darb wrote:interesting ... what do you like about it?

funnily enough it was taken as we screamed past at about 70km/h (on sand.)

Well, so now I'm an art critic.

It's quite artistic, IMO. Much of the lower frame leads you directly to the 2 people, specifically the 2 tire tracks on the left and the slope of the dune on the right. They are obviously a couple, but their separation and postures suggest that they're totally engrossed in the sunset, oblivious to one another.

The only distraction is the mirror or whatever in the lower right corner.

Great stuff Brad,

Makes me sick ! do you ever work

Well done,

Mic. in his little dark Cave.
Call me : Gollum

No mate, retired when i was 20. Just laze about yachting in summer, skiing peaks in winter.


*obligatory fine print*

9-5, monday to friday my man !

Just i always try and do *something* whenever i have time off.

KerryPierce wrote:

darb wrote:interesting ... what do you like about it?

funnily enough it was taken as we screamed past at about 70km/h (on sand.)

Well, so now I'm an art critic.

It's quite artistic, IMO. Much of the lower frame leads you directly to the 2 people, specifically the 2 tire tracks on the left and the slope of the dune on the right. They are obviously a couple, but their separation and postures suggest that they're totally engrossed in the sunset, oblivious to one another.

The only distraction is the mirror or whatever in the lower right corner.

Like somethign out of a Dean Koontz book, paralysed in awe by some foreign and intangible invader of earth's space.

darb wrote:last one ... yeah ... the sun setting was great, flash filled it nicely ... flash is something im yet to comprehensively understand, mainly because i dont have a speedlite (i shoot mostly landscape or daytime sports.) but i took a couple of snaps and just moved close enough to get a nice smooth exposure ... flattering tones too (cloud WB.)

Interested to hear your comments here Darb - that shot had SB800 written all over it. I was surprised to read you ain't got such a beastie.

We're all stuffed when you DO get one!!!!

nothing tricky mate, A mode F7.1 for sharpness, matrix metering, shutter limits to 1/60th in A mode (there's a reason for this, but i cant remember what it is.) ... metered off the sky then composed on my subjects (not that it probably mattered) and fired away ... i did keep them and the dark foreground in the picture somewhat so that at least 1 or 2 segments registered as dark.

I find i have trouble understanding the flash metering, i tend to just wing it more often than not with flash ... sometimes the behaviour of the camera had me a little confused. (plsu with things like locking AE i never know if im locking the bright background, or a dark foreground, likewise whether the flash will know to compensate for the bright background, or whether it will think "hey its bright as, flash only needs to be 10%)

I need to sit down and figure it out ... but i do very little flash stuff except the odd flash fill or party photo, at which time the technique is unimportant as its not hard to "wing it".

In other words, ive been havign too much fun shooting other things and havent delved into flash too much ... might borrow a speedlite or my boss's old nikon flash and have a bit of a fiddle further

Im thinking however it pays to be in full manual mode when doing flash stuff, to avoid confused metering ... or just rely on the matrix.

... but even so, in full mannual, the camera still meters for the flash level, doesnt it?

I generally shoot my stuff in full manual anyway so I really don't know the difference...

Happy to hand over to Jedi Flash Experts....

i usually get the results i want pretty quickly.

its just that *sometimes* i walk away thinking "hmm not too sure how i got that perfect, but oh well i did."

Geez....that attitude with the sort of great shots YOU take?? God forbid we should all walk away wondering!!

Manta wrote:Geez....that attitude with the sort of great shots YOU take?? God forbid we should all walk away wondering!!

Only with the flash mate ... and i get teh shot i want always, just sometimes im a tad confused over WHY it worked ... i dont shoot with flash much, usually prefer a tripod and 3 second exposure if its at night !

Okay - now I'm with you.

I guess sometimes I find my results with flash a little inconsistent, so therefore i get a bit confused about why / what works.

With the shot of jason and jess at sunset, i just locked everything, took a shot, reviewed quickly, took a step closer (going a tad wider on the zoom), another one, same again till i had it exactly how i liked it ... the first shot had the sky perfect but subjects dark so thats why i jsut went a bit closer to them ... its hard to get subjects to willingly stand there posing while you fart about and try different things ... so i jsut locked it, snapped, reviewed, step closer, snapped, reviewed, step closer, snapped ... winner. (while instructing them to stay and keep smiling ... i have a way with people hahahaha ... or the gun in my other hand.)

"thats it baby work it work it, keep smiling , one more, thats it , great stuff"

oh wait, that was the late saturday night photos ...