Christchurch Cathedral at night
Cathedral Square at night with the Cathedral and the rather strange sculpture. Best described as a giant metal ice cream cone I guess…
1 comment May 29th, 2007
Posts filed under 'Photography'
Posing Kea
The previously mentioned mischievous and mad alpine parrot. I suspect this one was trying to distract me while his friends were looking to steal my rucksack, but it made a cool picture!
1 comment May 29th, 2007
In the Clouds
Taken from a viewpoint over the Franz Josef Glacier, this photo shows the bush and the clouds - interesting view.
Part of quite a few new photos taken on my recent trips around the South Island - and finally uploaded to Flickr!
Add comment May 19th, 2007
Review: EN-EL3 Battery from 7Dayshop
I recently shopped round for a couple of spare batteries for my Nikon D50. In the end I decided to chance the superb deal from 7dayshop.com - EN-EL3a at £6.49 each. The genuine cell goes for £50 in some places. I also ordered a new cell for my Dads Olympus Mju Digital, a mini tripod and a BL-5C battery for my Nokia. This lot cost £3.95 to be delivered and turned up 2 days after I ordered, which is pretty fast (I ordered out of business hours).
The build quality of the cells is fine, and they charged up on the Nikon Charger without issue. So far I have only popped one in and tested it with some indoor flash shots, but the flash cycled fast and the cell showed no signs of discharge. I will update this review when I have had chance to use the camera for a thousand shots or so.
The BL-5c I bought for my phone has held up fine for 2 days so far and is still showing full charge. That was £3.60!
Have a look at the EN-EL3a from 7Dayshop here.
Add comment October 11th, 2006
Nikon D50 First Impressions
I have had my Nikon D50 for around a month now, and I have taken over 1000 photos already!
These are my first impressions (still working towards a big review) and most are based on the differences between the DSLR and a prosumer or bridge digicam - like my Kodak DX6490….
Continue Reading Add comment October 3rd, 2006
Photoshop Video Tutorials
I have recently discovered www.photowalkthrough.com - a site which offers free video tutorials for photoshop.
The quality of these tutorials is excellent. The most recent ones are available in 800*600 mov files or 320*240 ipod optimised files. They are clear, easy to understand and well narrated. All in all a very good resource, backed up with an active Flickr group.
I reccomend anyone with an interest in photo manipulation checks this site out.
Add comment September 20th, 2006
How to automatically copyright your images with the Nikon D50
The D50 (and other Nikons) is capable of placing a comment in the EXIF data on all images that it takes. This can easily be used to place a basic copyright notice on all your photos.
To use this feature, switch the camera on and enter the menu.
Go to the Spanner Icon
Find the menu item titled “Image Comment”
Enter this sub menu
Select “Input Comment”
Enter your comment - the copyright symbol is not available, so I used (c). Press enter to save the comment.
Finally Ensure the “Attach Comment” checkbox is ticked.
Thats it! All your images will now feature the comment within the EXIF data.
Add comment September 15th, 2006
Southport Pier
Sunset shot (can you see a theme here :-)) of Southport Pier. The pier now features a rather ugly modern coffee shop at the bottom rather than its old Victoran era buildings which were burnt down. Looks preety good from this distance though..
Taken with a Nikon D50, 1.6 sec at f/4.2 and the camera was rested on a handy concrete wall due to a lack of tripod.
Add comment September 12th, 2006
Sunset at Ainsdale
Sunset at Ainsdale beach. You can just see the lights of an off shore Oil Rig in the centre of the frame.
Taken with my Nikon D50 with the 18-55mm kit lens, and a Slik Tripod.
Add comment September 4th, 2006
Sunset
One of my first pics with my new Nikon D50, taken at sunset, just couldn’t resist stopping on the way home and taking this. There’s several other versions of this shot on my Flickr account.
Add comment August 30th, 2006