Brisbane POTN: General Ramblings Thread

Kelsey-Lee wrote in post #3116166
I'm doing my presentation at the Brisbane Camera Group this Tuesday! *is excited but nervous*.

I am still alive... just busy. Gosh, and I don't even have a part time job yet.

Hey I've got an idea. Why don't all the people from this forum turn up for your talk and we'll all sit up the front and try to make you laugh while you're giving your presentation? Then we'll all ask REALLY hard questions.

Seriously....good luck...I'll clap loud

I wish I could AL, we've got/had more than our fair share of rain. It's amazing what a couple of hundred k's make!

Here's a couple I prepared earlier

Wow great photos there KInnon ...

Wondering how did you get the second water drop picture. So nice and clear !!!!
Amazing ... fast shutter speed ? what else ? trripod ? what else ? zoom lense ?

Thanks for showing ...

AL

Everyone has been quite talkative lately haven't they.. I went to Mt.Cotton on Thursday afternoon. Here are some photos .
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wow, great shots kinnon and justin.
good luck tuesday night kelsey, i am at a meeting in ipswich, so i can't come.
kinnon, curled up with a doonah? God, i never have time these days. I have finally started playing properly with proshow gold. Going to an av meeting tomorrow, hopefully i can get some tips on music. I have resized my images, chosen the transitions, just need to choose the music. I have worked out how to put the music in, etc, just need to think of a song. I am doing an av on birds, any thoughts guys on a suitable song?
Hey, it's raining!! Well, sort of, i can actually hear something light. Might be a centimetre in that if lucky!
Oh, and i got a third and 4 merits out of my 6 entries into the ipswich show! I am chuffed.

Al, with the water drop I took probably about 300 pictures that night, how I had it set up was a black background and blue glass bowel. I was just usinga drink bottle to drip the water in. I used my 100mm lens and.....wait for it.....on board flash (shock horror! I didn't have my 480ex at the time). Can't exactly remember my shutter speed, but it was fairly fast. For focusing I just stuck my finger where I thought the water would be and just manual focused on that and all I did was just drop the water in and try to time my shots, I missed a lot but got a few alright ones. The actual height of those water droplets were only a couple of centimeters high.

Hope this helps.

Kinnon .. thanks heaps for the info .. i would experiment a little once i have my monopod set up securely.

Did you use a timer and intervalometer for the shots ?

I am yet to capture nice sharp butterflies. Nice shots Justin.

BWT, has my black sense of humour turned people away hmmmmm ...

Cheers
AL

just need to think of a song. I am doing an av on birds, any thoughts guys on a suitable song?

Hey Tina, I know often times people just want instrumental music with their AV's, personally I enjoy finding songs where the words suit as well, There's a song by Seal called "fly like an eagle" it was on the soundtrack to the movie Spacejam, also on that sound track is the song "I believe I can fly" by R. Kelly, either I think would work well with birds, Av's are great fun, look forward to seeing what you come up with.

thanks for that andrew, there is also an abba song called eagle, but not too many of my bird shots are in flight, 90% are poses. Really hard when one has to think of a song! I too want a song with words, i am not into listening to birds chirping on an av. I prefer to listen to that in nature. My problem now is that i have downloaded from limewire and put the songs into my music, but my files are coming up as rar, not mp3 (at least, where i can find them, can't find my other limewire folder, even though it is staring me in the face!)
Did that make sense? it did to me!sort of.

Al, you havn't chased us away!

Hi guys, great shots everyone.

@Tina. rar is a compression format like zip. You'll need to look for a progy to decompress it. WinRAR is one that comes to mind. There may be a trial version of it.

Al, no timer no nothing, just water in one hand and shutter button in the other. I just dripped some of the water then hit the shutter button, I got practised at it by the end.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, but I like to do things the hard way

if you want winrar, I have their promotional free copy (fully legit) which was given away free by them.

PM me if you want a copy. It's v3.51 only, but it does the trick for me and it's free free = win

-Pleiades- wrote in post #3120455
Al, no timer no nothing, just water in one hand and shutter button in the other. I just dripped some of the water then hit the shutter button, I got practised at it by the end.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, but I like to do things the hard way

Hi Kinnon, the only thing I can add is to use a shish kebab stick with a pencil mark on it as your focus point. I never seem to have enough hands when doing these shots. It takes HEAPS of practice before you get good shots with this. Lots of trieal and error, ie lots of errors.

Thanks KInnon .. Just make sure dont drop the camera LOL. Yes I do tend to do things the hard way .... trial and error and at the end find the easier way LOL.

But that is life right .. why spoils it ?

Thanks AL

catsith wrote in post #3120141
thanks for that andrew, there is also an abba song called eagle, but not too many of my bird shots are in flight, 90% are poses. Really hard when one has to think of a song! I too want a song with words, i am not into listening to birds chirping on an av. I prefer to listen to that in nature. My problem now is that i have downloaded from limewire and put the songs into my music, but my files are coming up as rar, not mp3 (at least, where i can find them, can't find my other limewire folder, even though it is staring me in the face!)
Did that make sense? it did to me!sort of.

Al, you havn't chased us away!

Phew .. it is good that some of you are still here LOL ... otherwise I would be a bit lonely talking to myself ...

Some idea ...

Westlife ... I believe I can fly ... I believe I can touch the sky ai ai ...............

HEHHEHE not sure it is suitable ... just a thought ...

Cheers
AL