UK South-East Thread

Hi guys
are any of you going to Goodwood festival of speed (11-13 july) or revival (19-21 september).

That's a long way out! But quite possibly.

I've just updated more on my blog.

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Wow! Did you remove your window to take these shots?! They're so crystal clear and undistorted! ... either that or you fly on aircraft which have very good quality windows

Awesome!


David

There's a trick to all these shots (No HDR or anything like that)
Shot with the 1DIII and 24-105 which was a great multi purpose lens for flying.

Clean the windows. Shoot up against the plastic window. And cover the sides with the blanket, to eliminate reflections

Wazza wrote in post #5051292
Shot with the 1DIII and 24-105 which was a great multi purpose lens for flying.

I'd have thought you'd use a 17-40L etc for a wider perspective?

Wazza wrote in post #5051292
Clean the windows. Shoot up against the plastic window. And cover the sides with the blanket, to eliminate reflections

Top advice that. Will have to remember on my travels this year.

Best photo I every took from an aircraft was 4 years ago flying from Mt Isa to Brisbane. Only had my Canon S45 digicam then, but got this sunset:

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Bored today, so popped over to the Thames Barrier Park, shame I had to shoot into the sun, oh well. Kept me busy!

Pity you didn't go at sunset as there was a nice one tonight (at least it was in Canterbury!)

I use the 24-105 as it's the only lens on the camera, out of the bag. Always on a window seat, generally passengers sleeping, and would get very annoying to swap over or get by.
24 is pretty wide on a 1D, but the Image Stabilisation helps

Just bought the new Macbook Pro 2.5ghz 250GB. Just transferred my old settings to it last night.

I've also bought a remote firewire 800 harddrive which I will boot from and bought more ram from dabs at 1/4 the price of Apple's ram. I'm just finding my way round at the mo.Trackpad takes a bit of getting used to.

Mstar wrote in post #5054712
Just bought the new Macbook Pro 2.5ghz 250GB. Just transferred my old settings to it last night.

I've also bought a remote firewire 800 harddrive which I will boot from and bought more ram from dabs at 1/4 the price of Apple's ram. I'm just finding my way round at the mo.Trackpad takes a bit of getting used to.

Worth backing up the OS partition as an image to your external hard disk (you can boot from it). I've found it a lifesaver when things go bad... like when I installed a OS security update and my MacBook Pro failed to boot up afterwards.

Dr D wrote in post #5054302
Pity you didn't go at sunset as there was a nice one tonight (at least it was in Canterbury!)

Hey I was in Canterbury with my wife today, spent the whole day on Stodmarsh Nature Reserve. Great place!!

Saw this thread and thought I'd say, "hi". I'm based down in Deal on the lovely cold Kentish coast. No photos to share as yet mind as I've only had my 400D a few days and still learning what this SLR malarky is about.

SwitchBlade wrote in post #5054858
Saw this thread and thought I'd say, "hi". I'm based down in Deal on the lovely cold Kentish coast. No photos to share as yet mind as I've only had my 400D a few days and still learning what this SLR malarky is about.

Welcome aboard!! Any pics of your neck of the woods to share?

Not really, been mostly pointing at things in the garden to get the hang of all the settings of the camera.

Jasmine in my garden:

SwitchBlade wrote in post #5054887
Not really, been mostly pointing at things in the garden to get the hang of all the settings of the camera.

Coming from a Minolta Dimage Xg to a Canon EOS 400D is a fair jump

Its a nice start, and you're in the best possible place to learn everything about your new habit

Ask tons of questions and post loads of pics and you'll be an expert in no time