Recent content by Mark Yates

thanks folks i will explain the roundabout think of a waltzer ( fairground ride ) car and it's quite similar in it has closed in seats but with 2 openings to get in or out so when the child / children are sat in it they are enclosed apart from where you can see them through the gaps/openings...

took this this evening of my son and daughter playing in the park and converted to black n white looks ok to me but a second opinion wouldn't go astray thanks for looking and your thoughts would be appreciated

thats what paul gadd ( gary glitter ) thought but it wasn't just a bit of pirate software that was the issue on his pc ( BBC News | UK | Glitter jailed over child porn ) and rightly so i would have shopped him in a heartbeat pirate software i don't care about thats up to them as...

nothing wrong with those Hamish considering it's not something you normally photograph there pretty good

it does with the 1.4 extender because you only lose 1 stop bringing it to F5.6 but with the 2x extender you lose 2 stops making it F8 and if your using a canon 2x extender it will disable auto focus unless you mask off 3 of the pins to fool the camera 3rd party extenders however ( kenko etc.. )...

well if you want to get the best out of wildlife i think you do jim but i'l struggle on :) the 1.4 extender does quite a reasonable job without too much loss chris so i don't mind using it the 300mm F 4L are pin sharp to start so you can afford i little softening i havn't tried a 2x converter...

what size prints do you plan on selling ? it is getting to the stage where printing your own images on an inkjet printer is more costly than having them printed by a 3rd party for example a 10 x 8 print can be had by the likes of snapfish for as little as 99p and 6 x 4 prints done in bulk (...

love the 2nd photo i don't see that many round the areas i generally go for wildlife iv'e been meaning to get myself to tatton park during the rutting season we will see if it happens this year

thanks for the warm replies i used a canon 50d with the 300mm F4 L and a 1.4x converter it just about gets you close enough for the more common stuff but the species i really want to capture could do with an extra couple of hundred mm at least for example while i was photographing the usual...

took the camera out today to one of my local spots so i thought i would post a couple of the results Male Bullfinch female Bullfinch Bluetit male Chaffinch and finally the inevitable Robin cheers for looking

i enjoyed reading through this thread but some of the stuff i have never heard of i when't through the HIFI stage back in the 80s / 90s and more or less gave up in the 00's during the early 80's i was dabbling with hifi and settled for an odd system consisting of an LP12 with the alphason HR...

thanks for the warm welcome :) it's the northwest UK Ralph and i don't really bother with football Rob i suppose if i had to choose a team it would be bolton wanderers just out of town loyalty but thats about it i'l get round to a few photos in the near future iv'e noticed a lot of you are...

hi everybody just thought i would say hello my main interest is wildlife at the moment but have a large enough family to keep me going on the portrait side ( if i can get them to sit still long enough ) any way i will try to join in when i can cheers