Just back from Scotland, been Diving there for the last 4 years and the challenge is to photograph Guillimots as they dive for food! these things move so quickly it's almost impossible to be in the right place at the right time but this was my best effort this year
Little jelly fish with tiny little fish that follow it about...thought it looked like something from a sci fi movie
hi Bradders....as much as I would love this to be a commercial enterprise it is virtually impossible to make a living from Underwater Photography. The few that do supplement their wages by doing "workshops" books etc. The real reward for me is the challenge to take these as you have to battle bad weather, sea sickness , etc etc. I do enter competitions etc and do ok but I have so much to learn
Quick shoot around the peace pagoda in Milton Keynes today. I've just bought an old 70's Russian Zenit 35mm with the intention of using it with expired film, took some shots with the DSLR, then with the Zenit to check it actually works before taking it to Spain next month along with the DSLR. The results were excellent. DSLR Zenit The Zenit was using Fujifilm Superia 200, expired 08/2003. Love the vintage looking colour shift on the F11 landscape shot. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
One more from the Zenit, again you can see that pinky hue in the footpath, where it's actually a rich tea biscuit colour. The hue shift seems to affect the greens a lot less, but it's a neat deviation. Very good comrade... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
That was at F2. It appears the old soviet Helios lenses are famous for this. Interestingly there are adapter rings to mount an M42 lens to a canon EF mount, so in full manual mode its theoretically possible to put the Helios on the DSLR.. Might be worth £9.99 to experiment.
you can also use these type of lenses on modern DSLRs backwards using a special adaptor to create a totally bokeh pic! its called "Reverse ring Macro" i will ask one of my fellow Divers for the info as she uses this set up
Thanks. [emoji106] The Zenit hails from the mid 70's, so it's slightly older than me! Everything in life is spectrums, be they cars, bikes, or cameras. Using one type doesn't exclude you from another, and I've always believed you can only truly appreciate where we are if you have an appreciation of where we've come from. When old film cameras are so available for so little money, why not? The Zenit cost £9.99 plus postage, with the Helios as £18. I got a longer lens with the Zenit but it has a problem with the aperture petals. At some point I'll do some research and see if it's fixable. [emoji846]
Hmmm, inspiring me to dust off my trusty DSLR, reread a few books on light room and get snapping again. I am however impressed with what you can get out of a phone camera nowadays.... with post processing but even so PPing a JPG is not ideal.
Took DSLR on tour of Scotland last year, took it out of the pannier once where it and a tripod were taking up quite a bit of room. Crap weather didn't help mind you. Usually on tour I stick with phone camera and, as you say they are now capable of some pretty impressive photography. Will only be taking my Samsung S6 phone to the Picos later next month, good enough for the memories and takes up no space as I'd have it anyway.
I bought the wife a camera 2 years ago Best Compact & Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera | DSC-RX100 | Sony UK Fits in a pocket shoots raw, finally reading up on it so will be in my pocket on ride outs now.
