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[jtbo]

Yeah, theres giant wasps. None in Engerland though.
Looks scary.

Them are actually qutie harmless, almost none aggressive at all and all they do is build gigantic nests.

Poor thing has gone into warehouse and now tries to escape trough window glass, even there is big gap between door and door frame, but he is too stupid to get that.


Thing won't stay on one place so had to take photo from free hand, now in macro mode focusing becomes tad difficult so best is to set it auto and change focusing mode to constant, so it turns motor all the time when you have shutter half pressed, ISO mode needs to be ramped up to maintain decent F-number.

So good old England has none of those things? I guess those prefer dry land

[jtbo]

You got to have these at least?


Hopefully no one had araknofobia, well it is surely cured by now

[volvosneverdie]

We've got billions of the tiny angry ones. But none the size of a dog.
Which is good news.
Anything with more than 4 legs gets destroyed if it comes within arms length of me.

i dont like creepy crawling things.



Upate pic while I was posting ^^^^^^^ wtf!!
I killed one of those this morning.
A spider anyway.
It came at me with all its legs when I was in the toilet.
It took about 15 stamps to the thorax then expired.

Let that be a warning to ALL insectoids.

[jtbo]

We've got billions of the tiny angry ones. But none the size of a dog.
Which is good news.
Anything with more than 4 legs gets destroyed if it comes within arms length of me.

i dont like creepy crawling things.



Upate pic while I was posting ^^^^^^^ wtf!!
I killed one of those this morning.
A spider anyway.
It came at me with all its legs when I was in the toilet.
It took about 15 stamps to the thorax then expired.

Let that be a warning to ALL insectoids.

Awww, he was just looking nice warm and damp place to make nest for minispiders

[jtbo]

Oh look, it has tentacles inside of it's mouth, surely must be some sort of alien bug?

[volvosneverdie]

Kill it!

[Chris_C]

Some of mine from this morning, after driving round in Landrovers till 2am, I had a great idea to drive to Corfe Castle... ffs. I need sleep now

I've no idea how to get good metering in that situation, so most are a bit fail. Also, how do you make HDRs look good? I just can't!.. I think this is too much contrast maybe.



Then off to Swanage for bacon sarnies on the beach

[volvosneverdie]

well all of those look staggering to me man.
What were you shooting for?
Whats the actual problem with them?
in leymans terms.

[Chris_C]

Those are the better ones I shot ~200 at different exposures as I didn't really know what I was doing, and most the sun burns out really easily and the castle is really dark. I thought (hoped ) that with the redness of early sun you might be able to get both in the picture but it seems not! I'm pleased with those though, I don't normally shoot landscapes. HDRs just always look wrong to me, apart from when other people do them!

[volvosneverdie]

I recon theyre class like.
highly atmospheric dude.

[jtbo]

Great looking places and photos Chris, that red sunset is just too nice, I must wipe kb again, too much drool

I have not even idea how to make HDR shots, I just point and shoot, mostly with Aperture Auto, I can only dream of using F20 with my 300m glass, at brightest time of day I can use F9 and ISO200, that gives me ~1/320 which is already so slow at 300mm end that shake comes to issue.

With kit glass I can do lot more, but it is seldom that I get good photo ideas where to use that one, like scenerys.

In first one of your shots, Chris, I can clearly see trouble that you did describe as it seem to be much darker than my brain says that it should be, I find those situations almost impossible so I just shoot with almost any setting and try to see which one looks best, then use that for final shot and at home I find out that I did pick wrong

[Chris_C]

Thats what I do mate, hence the 200 odd shots here! I'm so glad the camera stores the settings used, you can look at the one that looks best and remember it for next time

EDIT: I forgot to mention, great focusing on the insects! Those are really hard I find, let alone as close as you've managed to get!

[SteveP]

Awesome pics Chis, know what you mean about HDR sometimes it doesn't quite look right for some reason buy nevermind...

[SteveP]

Here's a couple I liked from PPC in the Park

[volvosneverdie]

That Kitten rocks.
Anybody see what he had in it?