Kiwi - GKPE - General Ramblings (3)

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scotttnz wrote in post #4633371
Happy Birthday Mark!

Congrats on the new gear Wendy! Have fun with it!

Thanks Scott. I got this as a birthday present www.flightexperience.c​om

jasestu wrote in post #4633393
How to scare yourself. Take one 'clean' lens. Fire flash through it and photograph:

hmm that's interesting also scary. so are you going to take apart your lens to clean all the glass elements ?

Thanks very much everyone. Dave you werent kidding when you said this lens is sharp!!! Its a beauty . Now I have to try and do it justice

Damn! They banned him, and i REALLY wanted some of those Uggboots

LOL

wendyc wrote in post #4633648
Thanks very much everyone. Dave you werent kidding when you said this lens is sharp!!! Its a beauty . Now I have to try and do it justice

Glad you like it. One of the gang that took my camera out down here recently seems to have got sand into the focusing ring of my 24-70. Makes a grinding sound, still works but I doubt it will ever be a 'minter' again!

Wendy - new gear - Awesome

Mark, still hope you had a grand day yesterday

I just went up to Shelly Beach - flatty, friend and flatty's son are camping / fishing etc. Man cave boy stuff.
But they forgot chairs, food, pillows etc, so I was off to the rescue. 2 hours of driving later, and a few beers in between, I'm home

Off to photograph outdoor Pizza ovens in action. Anyone got any tips?
I've been looking forward to photographing this place, it's an uber entertainment set up.

manipula wrote in post #4633677
Glad you like it. One of the gang that took my camera out down here recently seems to have got sand into the focusing ring of my 24-70. Makes a grinding sound, still works but I doubt it will ever be a 'minter' again!

B@stards!

Gutted, Dave

manipula wrote in post #4633677
One of the gang that took my camera out down here recently seems to have got sand into the focusing ring of my 24-70. Makes a grinding sound, still works but I doubt it will ever be a 'minter' again!

Thats not good, can Canon service it and get it mint again? What one of the gang, who? Like a mate of yours borrowed it?

Dont worry about it Dave. Eventually the focusing ring will grind the sand into small enough particles. lol... My Sigma has got a lot of sand in the focusing ring

So this GKPE events thing. Where are we heading for the one coming up?

Oh yeah and Wendy ill see how things go, about those magazines. Might be away, then have job interviews coming up. Wow you work at ACP media. I applied for a job there and got denied my cv was not good back then. Nice to know you work in the media industry though. Ill be working in advertising if all goes well.

iKirst wrote in post #4633706
Wendy - new gear - Awesome

I just went up to Shelly Beach - flatty, friend and flatty's son are camping / fishing etc. Man cave boy stuff.
But they forgot chairs, food, pillows etc, so I was off to the rescue. 2 hours of driving later, and a few beers in between, I'm home

Off to photograph outdoor Pizza ovens in action. Anyone got any tips?
I've been looking forward to photographing this place, it's an uber entertainment set up.

Thanks Kirst, man cave boy forgot all that stuff? Nice of you to help out.

Is it going to be dark when you do the pizza oven shoot The only time I did a pizza oven photo was here, I wanted the guy blurred tho, for effect, honest.
f5.6 ISO200 and 1/15secs. No flash. Up the ISO and the shutter speed if you want peeps in focus then. Hope that helps a bit, but youre prolly gone by now

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Sancho wrote in post #4633669
Damn! They banned him, and i REALLY wanted some of those Uggboots

LOL

who?

iKirst wrote in post #4633706
Wendy - new gear - Awesome

Mark, still hope you had a grand day yesterday

I just went up to Shelly Beach - flatty, friend and flatty's son are camping / fishing etc. Man cave boy stuff.
But they forgot chairs, food, pillows etc, so I was off to the rescue. 2 hours of driving later, and a few beers in between, I'm home

Off to photograph outdoor Pizza ovens in action. Anyone got any tips?
I've been looking forward to photographing this place, it's an uber entertainment set up.

mental note, never go camping with Kirst. Wait I don't go camping ever.

Mediation wrote in post #4633779
So this GKPE events thing. Where are we heading for the one coming up?

Well the only way figure that out is to start a thread. off you go.

Mediation wrote in post #4633779
Dont worry about it Dave. Eventually the focusing ring will grind the sand into small enough particles. lol... My Sigma has got a lot of sand in the focusing ring

So this GKPE events thing. Where are we heading for the one coming up?

Oh yeah and Wendy ill see how things go, about those magazines. Might be away, then have job interviews coming up. Wow you work at ACP media. I applied for a job there and got denied my cv was not good back then. Nice to know you work in the media industry though. Ill be working in advertising if all goes well.

I got sand in my polariser filter and eventually it ground away too, and its fine.

Yeah Im a web developer at ACP and work in the online area. Advertising is great to work in, good luck. You have only started out so hang in there, it takes a lot of time and perseverance and hard work to get there, a pinch of luck to. And just when you do, you get retrenched like me, last Xmas, from Xtra/Telecom, after 7 years there. So you have to start out again....

Geez I have to go back to work monday after 5 weeks off, my brain will be like mushy potatoes. I should have gotten my new gear at the beginning, not the end of the break

wendyc wrote in post #4633836
I got sand in my polariser filter and eventually it ground away too, and its fine.

Yeah Im a web developer at ACP and work in the online area. Advertising is great to work in, good luck. You have only started out so hang in there, it takes a lot of time and perseverance and hard work to get there, a pinch of luck to. And just when you do, you get retrenched like me, last Xmas, from Xtra/Telecom, after 7 years there. So you have to start out again....

Geez I have to go back to work monday after 5 weeks off, my brain will be like mushy potatoes. I should have gotten my new gear at the beginning, not the end of the break

Just think how I feel, start work on monday after not working for 11 months.

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #4633848
Just think how I feel, start work on monday after not working for 11 months.

Poor you! I love being home and doing my own thing, dreading going back

wendyc wrote in post #4633860
Poor you! I love being home and doing my own thing, dreading going back

I havnt had a holiday since april... altough I had 2 weeks off with an injury a few weeks back, but that was NO fun!

Have 25 days off in feb/march... CANT WAIT