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New Camera!

How exciting I have just upgraded from compact to a Nikon D60 lots of learning and fun times ahead.

Posted on May 3rd, 2009 at 3:32pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 12:47am on January 11th, 2010, Cress said…: I love your tractor pic. The colours are great, I love the composition -- and it's so sharp!
I'm new to this photography thing and I can see there is some way to go. Thanks for sharing your pictures

At 6:20pm on January 4th, 2010, Sheila Mackay said…: Thanks Susan. I've signed up with MyShutterSpace too. Looks interesting as well.

At 8:42pm on January 2nd, 2010, michael j callaghan said…: hi susan how are you. hope the photos are still turning out great.

how do you get to put a picture on the featured photos.

At 11:29am on January 2nd, 2010, Sheila Mackay said…: Some really interesting shots. What image editing software are you using? I've also recently upgraded but to a Canon EOS 450D I'm trying Gimp image editing but still have much to learn.

At 10:53pm on June 30th, 2009, Maureen Leitch said…: Hi Susan, how are you? just uploaded my photos to my computer and David is right, you do need to take an awful lot to get a few good ones!

At 12:05pm on June 24th, 2009, michael j callaghan said…: fingers crossed for the sunshine. its fab weather just now.

At 8:28am on June 22nd, 2009, michael j callaghan said…: hey susan if you are over with the car its great to get pics down in to harris, head out to tolsta as well.
the standing stones are fab to.

At 5:18pm on May 28th, 2009, Frogwell said…: Hi Susan, Just noticed you said you have a 70-300 mm lense on your D60. Do you have anything with shorter focal range? I think even with it set to 70mm you'll struggle to eliminate all the blur. I use an 18-70mm lense and anything above about 45 or so really requires very bright subject matter.

At 10:25am on May 28th, 2009, Frogwell said…: Hi Susan, aerial photography is very different to your normal land based stuff, I'm still pretty new to it myself and still find most of my photos don't turn out the way I want. If you're in an enclosed glass cockpit you have reelections to deal with, so you have to keep the camera at certain angles to the glass to avoid this too much. A circular polariser can help reduce that to a certain extent. You can also practice by sitting in your car and taking pictures through the windows :)

Blur is also a big problem, vibrations from the plane engine do tend to add quite a bit of camera shake, so you need to keep your shutter speed faster than normal. When flying I generally set the camera on P and then use the exposure compensation button to dial in -0.3 to 0.7 (although as a passenger you might have more time to experiment with settings of course). Similarly if you try and zoom in on a subject it will often turn out too blurry unless it's super bright.

It can also be difficult to get a shot without part of the aircraft in the frame, so it might be helpful to sit in the plane on the ground to begin with and look through your viewfinder and the various angles to see what your best view is.

There's probably other things too that I'll remember, but that's a bit to be considering at the moment. Oh - try not to spend the whole flight looking through the viewfinder - you'll get motion sickness very fast that way!

Most importantly - enjoy the flight - Scotland is very different although just as beautiful from the air.

Regards,

Mark

At 3:46pm on May 27th, 2009, Frogwell said…: Hi Susan, Thanks for the kind comments. I had a look through your gallery - a fine collection! You have some great composition in there.

Thanks,

Mark

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