What lens are you using and what are you shooting?

Just the lens that came with it, a Nikon 18-55 AF-S DX VR...



Well I was away last week, and trying to shoot buildings, bridges and tourist spots that are lit up in the evening, but lit in low light rather than bright spots lights or similar.

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Just the lens that came with it, a Nikon 18-55 AF-S DX VR... Well I was away last week, and trying to shoot buildings, bridges and tourist spots that are lit up in the evening, but lit in low light rather than bright spots lights or similar.'" Right you missed out one vital bit of info from that lens spec - f/3.5-5.6 You are not going to get a fast enough shutter speed to shoot hand held even wide open at f3.5, you are going to need to use your tripod or buy a faster lens, f2.8 is good f1.8 better. Canon users have access to what they call a Nifty Fifty, a cheap 50mm lens that is actually a bloody good lens, tack sharp and f1.8, check see if Nikon do something similar. See if these fit your camera tinyurl.com/begehoj

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Just the lens that came with it, a Nikon 18-55 AF-S DX VR... Well I was away last week, and trying to shoot buildings, bridges and tourist spots that are lit up in the evening, but lit in low light rather than bright spots lights or similar.'" Right you missed out one vital bit of info from that lens spec - f/3.5-5.6 You are not going to get a fast enough shutter speed to shoot hand held even wide open at f3.5, you are going to need to use your tripod or buy a faster lens, f2.8 is good f1.8 better. Canon users have access to what they call a Nifty Fifty, a cheap 50mm lens that is actually a bloody good lens, tack sharp and f1.8, check see if Nikon do something similar. See if these fit your camera tinyurl.com/begehoj

Quote ="Big Graeme" Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Just the lens that came with it, a Nikon 18-55 AF-S DX VR... Well I was away last week, and trying to shoot buildings, bridges and tourist spots that are lit up in the evening, but lit in low light rather than bright spots lights or similar.'" Right you missed out one vital bit of info from that lens spec - f/3.5-5.6 You are not going to get a fast enough shutter speed to shoot hand held even wide open at f3.5, you are going to need to use your tripod or buy a faster lens, f2.8 is good f1.8 better. Canon users have access to what they call a Nifty Fifty, a cheap 50mm lens that is actually a bloody good lens, tack sharp and f1.8, check see if Nikon do something similar. See if these fit your camera tinyurl.com/begehoj'" Sorry about that, am in work and don't have the lens on me to remember what the spec was... Cheers, I will have a look at those when I get home later and see what I can find that hopefully isn't too expensive.

Quote ="Big Graeme" Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Just the lens that came with it, a Nikon 18-55 AF-S DX VR... Well I was away last week, and trying to shoot buildings, bridges and tourist spots that are lit up in the evening, but lit in low light rather than bright spots lights or similar.'" Right you missed out one vital bit of info from that lens spec - f/3.5-5.6 You are not going to get a fast enough shutter speed to shoot hand held even wide open at f3.5, you are going to need to use your tripod or buy a faster lens, f2.8 is good f1.8 better. Canon users have access to what they call a Nifty Fifty, a cheap 50mm lens that is actually a bloody good lens, tack sharp and f1.8, check see if Nikon do something similar. See if these fit your camera tinyurl.com/begehoj'" Sorry about that, am in work and don't have the lens on me to remember what the spec was... Cheers, I will have a look at those when I get home later and see what I can find that hopefully isn't too expensive.

They do.



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It's generally regarded as the best value-for-money that Nikon offer.



You could also try setting the ISO to 800 or even 1600. The amount of noise / grain will inevitably increase but modern DSLRs can often cope quite well. Try it and see.



Set your camera in Aperture Priority, select its largest aperture (smallest number), set ISO to ISO800 (initially) and see what shutter speed the camera calculates. Also try substituting any reasonably solid surface for a tripod.

Having a bit of a play with wire wool spinning. Remarkably easy to create pretty spectacular effects. Less easy finding locations that don't cause alarm or attract unwanted attention.



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Some more American Football snaps



UCLan Rams vs Sheffield Hallam

Will this AF with my body (D5000) as I've read a few forums and reviews of lenses that say most won't AF and I'd have to manual focus if I did get one...

Why wouldn't a Nikkor lens AF on a Nikon body?

I don't know. Been reading about a few and looking on ebay for some, and most sellers say they won't auto focus with some of the entry level bodies like the 3100, 5000, 5100 etc

This taken from the review that I linked to in my earlier post ...



"The Nikon AF-S 50mm f1.8G lens features a Silent Wave Motor (SWM) that allows near-silent auto-focusing on all Nikon DSLR cameras."

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European Griffon Vulture (Amsterdam zoo).

Went to see McFly at Leeds Academy on Wednesday night, no professional cameras allowed, but hate going to live gigs and not having a record of the event, so I decided to take along my old Minolta Dimage Z2 that I bought off ebay about 7 years ago and haven't used for quite a while. Was up on the balcony at the back, so wasn't holding out too much hope of any decent shots, but I think the Minolta did okay really, especially given the low light conditions





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Nice shots as usual Trace, not sure about your taste though

Thank you. Expected the comments, but seen them live four times now and they've put on a fantastic show every time, they play their instruments and do it very well live

great shots Trace, but I think a high velocity rifle would have done the world a good deed.

Thanks Standee, but that is mean, come on humour me, they make an old(ish) woman very happy

so do Valium and chocolate!!!

If an old(er) bloke went to see a teen girl band they'd be called perverts !!!!

My reputation preceeds me, this is the mortonstalker you're talking to!!







I just like music and rugby

Anyway, back on topic, I did B & W conversions on a couple, think they work, give them a more 'rocky' look





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Anyway, back on topic, I did B & W conversions on a couple, think they work, give them a more 'rocky' look





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anyone know the best place to order decent A3 size prints online?

I haven't used them (yet) myself, but this company come highly recommended ...



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Was working over in Crosby for two days so I thought I'd take my camera kit to do some of Anthony Gormley's 'another place', fancied some nice sunsets and morning ones. Pissed down and overcast the whole time, went at 9am today and it was high tide. Hopefully next time.