Just as we pulled up in the car in Blackpool having driven over from Hull announcement on the radio, tonights international fireworks have been cancelled due to high winds.



Gutted!!

Nice pictures, BG. The last one though is a leopard, not a cheetah.

Thanks and yeah the wife has already pointed that out, it's a Sri Lankan leopard.

are you using the 7D "freehand" or with a tripod of some sort, it's a cracking camera but fairly heavy??

All those pics were handheld with a 70-200mm f2.8 plus a 1.4x extender and the battery grip, yes it's heavy but not overly, I can happily walk around all day with it on a Black Rapid strap without breaking a collarbone.

just need to sell an I4 and an ES550 to finance the purchase now!!!

So do I Standee but if I'm away I don't have access to my PC (don't have a laptop unfortunately!)

I know the feeling, recently got 5D Mk 2 and 16GB is all of a sudden a 'small' card haha

Whats your thoughts on the 7D at high ISO's Graeme?

Needs to be partnered with a top quality lens to get the best out of it I've played about with it and go decent results with both my Sigma DG f2.8's but I wasn't too impressed with the Nifty 50mm f1.8, the new firmware gave a significant improvement too.



Stepping up from a 400D meant more fine grained control of ISO speeds rather than full stop jumps, those stuck with 100, 200, 400, 800. 1600... jumps would see good good improvements at 500, 640, 1000 and 1250.

Have you shot much at ISO 6400 or above?

No, not my style.

Players in step ...







Nikon D300s; Nikon 18-200 @ 200mm; Manual mode: f/8; 1/500s; auto-ISO.

I've been told to add, Julie was able to get good results hand holding the above set up.

saw some gig photos previously, not done much in a while but got a few I'm happy with.





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^ Single Artwork

Well, fireworks were cancelled so had to go find something else to take photos of!



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I really like that first one RoversTrace!

Thanks, was one of my favourites, love playing with light trails

Anyone know anything about digiscoping with a DSLR, rather than a compact?



It seems to me that the light entering is what it is through the 'scope (so no control over aperture). Need to set a reasonably high ISO, so is there a way then of automating shutter speed to get the correct exposure? Do you just have to guess maybe (which I find hard to believe given all the electronic wizardry)? I appreciate each camera will have different settings (mine is a Pentax) but any help with the principle would be gratefully received. Web searches for my camera model and digscoping with my camera have drawn a blank - save example results. I am pretty sure it needs to operate on manual (or even aperture priority) but the problem is without a lens I get no aperture reading.

Anyone tried a SD to CF converter in their camera?

Looking at 32GB cards I can get SD cards at half the price of CF's and I would also like to try an Eye-Fi card which they don't do in CF.

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One from a little trip today.

Cool effect.

Very nice.



HDR without the dreaded "HDR look".



Many photographers / software writers are trying to achieve that, and I think you've shown that a light touch and understatement is the key.

I'm thinking of moving my organisation and post-processing workflow from a rag-bag of different programs to the all-in-one system of Adobe Lightroom and I'm currently on day two of a 30 day free trial.



Does anyone have any comments, advice, tips etc that might influence my decision?

My pic above was handled completely in Lightroom, the only time I opem Photoshop now is if I need to do a high pass sharpen or a complicated edit.



There are so many good features it is hard to list them all but the all-in-one'ness of it is fantastic from import through to the final image, you can add scripts, plugins and presets that extend and improve the basic program.



It's also cross platform and identical on both Windows and Mac meaning if you grab a book or course on it you can just dive right in rather than have to work out what one version an and can't do.



Search YouTube for Jared Platt to see just a fraction of what it can do.