The 15th UK South-East "Has anyone seen Wayne?" Thread (All Welcome)

I'm up for the animals trip.

Let me know if you need any props etc, I know Mark must have the set ups down to a tee now.

sadly I work every Saturday sounds like it will be great, well done for organising it.

I'm up for the animal meet, although I believe the 25th March has been arranged as a Howlettts meet. Might be best to make it one of the other dates.

I have a couple of Elinchrom dlite 4's I can bring if studio lights are needed.

bridge99 wrote in post #13974757
Adrian and Laurence glad you made it to Wisley before the end of the butterflies and really nice pics, I nearly went yesterday but went up the park instead then to the allotment for a big bonfire, which thinking about it now I should have taken a shot of it for my 52 week thing, bugger...

anyway if anybody feels like clicking my link as i could do with a small boost I would be grateful
http://500px.com/photo​/5367903

It was worth the visit, Wisley is nice place all year round but the Butterflies event adds that extra

As for the 500px, support...............​oh alright then

PS my most recent upload was here....>>> http://500px.com/photo​/5357696

Bodmin636 wrote in post #13975762
Can I pester you all for some 500px likes please

http://500px.com/photo​/5374766

Done!

bridge99 wrote in post #13975034
with this chap we used two lights/softboxes but only one CL in each eye, perhaps its different with people, not that it looks odd or anything I just wondered

Lovely shots Mark

bridge99 wrote in post #13975125
couple of owl pics while im on my own in here..

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LindaB wrote in post #13975172
Adrian, they dont look that bad. What lense and settings were you using then? Did you use a flash at all? (I tried to look at your exif but its not viewable).

Sometimes the DoF is so shallow anyway that the only way round it is to photo stack (but Im sure you already knew that).



Sounds like the poor little thing has had quite a tough time. At least she picked the right drive to wander up Do let us know more when you are able to. If its the breed that I think it could be, they are beautiful cats.

Linda

LindaB wrote in post #13975210
Some recent macro's from me:

One of my orchids:


A darker variety of crocus in the garden:


Linda

Love those orchid pics

Re the butterflies I was using a 5D and 70-200 both mkII with flash, took Marks advice, almost all at 2.8 but think it should have been f4 or 5.6 which I could have done as there was plenty of room scope with the shutter speed

some nice kingfisher shots

http://500px.com/photo​/2140482

http://500px.com/photo​/2085874

I wonder why Rich is now following me on Twitter.

Must be years since I last looked at that account.

Layyz wrote in post #13976083
Ok. I have some great news for you guys. I have managed to arrange weekend access for 15 people to my college exotic species collection. The cost of the event will be £50 each (or more if you feel willing, it goes to the animal unit which is a charity). For this we get access to take photos for the whole day. It's at the Berkshire College of Agriculture (just off the m40 at high Wycombe). The access is fairly flexible for dates (basically I would like to fill all 15 slots, so it's in our interest to agree a mutual date). Preferably a Saturday for me and the staff. Please send me a pm if you are provisionally interested and I will compile a list. If this event goes well, I will see if I can make it a regular meeting. The collection has a variety of exotic species, which should appeal to everyone.

I'm proposing the following dates, 24th march, 31st march, 7th April say which one is best!

So what's peoples thoughts?

Me please!!!!

Quick reworking from BWC

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Layyz wrote in post #13976083
Ok. I have some great news for you guys. I have managed to arrange weekend access for 15 people to my college exotic species collection. The cost of the event will be £50 each (or more if you feel willing, it goes to the animal unit which is a charity). For this we get access to take photos for the whole day. It's at the Berkshire College of Agriculture (just off the m40 at high Wycombe). The access is fairly flexible for dates (basically I would like to fill all 15 slots, so it's in our interest to agree a mutual date). Preferably a Saturday for me and the staff. Please send me a pm if you are provisionally interested and I will compile a list. If this event goes well, I will see if I can make it a regular meeting. The collection has a variety of exotic species, which should appeal to everyone.

I'm proposing the following dates, 24th march, 31st march, 7th April say which one is best!

So what's peoples thoughts?

I would be intrested, not the 24th.

Aardvark101 wrote in post #13977515
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BWC Fox Tone by the aardvark, on Flickr

Fantastic Mr Fox.

Very nice fox shot Paul.

adrian5127 wrote in post #13977277
Love those orchid pics

Re the butterflies I was using a 5D and 70-200 both mkII with flash, took Marks advice, almost all at 2.8 but think it should have been f4 or 5.6 which I could have done as there was plenty of room scope with the shutter speed

Glad you liked the orchid shot - thanks

Oh I see. Yes, F4 or above would have been better obviously, but considering you were using F2.8 they really arent that bad.

Layyz wrote in post #13976083
Ok. I have some great news for you guys. I have managed to arrange weekend access for 15 people to my college exotic species collection. The cost of the event will be £50 each (or more if you feel willing, it goes to the animal unit which is a charity). For this we get access to take photos for the whole day. It's at the Berkshire College of Agriculture (just off the m40 at high Wycombe). The access is fairly flexible for dates (basically I would like to fill all 15 slots, so it's in our interest to agree a mutual date). Preferably a Saturday for me and the staff. Please send me a pm if you are provisionally interested and I will compile a list. If this event goes well, I will see if I can make it a regular meeting. The collection has a variety of exotic species, which should appeal to everyone.

I'm proposing the following dates, 24th march, 31st march, 7th April say which one is best!

So what's peoples thoughts?

Layyz wrote in post #13976177
Indoor, snakes, lizards, geckos, spiders, frogs, toads, mantids, stick insects, scorpions, millipedes and lots more I've probably forgotten.

Plenty to keep us busy for the day. There's also exotic outdoors too, I will ask about that, but indoors would keep us busy probably.

Outdoors, llamas, alpacas, kune kune pigs, emu, wallabies. Plus other livestock. It's basically a large collection of animals.

I will visit exotics tomorrow and get a full species list, if that helps.

Sounds very interesting...........​....so please keep me in the loop and once there is a date consensus I will be able to say 100%