My new camera!

[Alpinestarhero]

This will be, without doubt, the first of many photo threads by me. I received my Nikon D60 SLR camera today (don't tell me its crap, i love it!) and here are some shots ive taken so far (most are crap while i get used to working everything out, but heres some i liked):

http://i26.tinypic.com/2db46lf.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2nlgw2u.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/295y728.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/w0i0xd.jpg

Matt

[Luckypants]

:D A HAPPY Matt!

[G]

Good camera :cool:

Wow you have a tortouise.....so jealous :(

Wow you have blue plastic plants in your garden lol

[Alpinestarhero]

lol yea, i used those to test the macro setting :D

soz for the images being so big, i'll crop them in future (sorry everyone)

More to come!

Matt

[Bluepete]

(Sulks)

Mine's not here yet!


(Sulks)

[ricky]

resize them pics lol

[K]

Wow - you've stolen my tortoise! ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Kodo/Gordon.jpg

[amarko5]

uhm fake blue flowers EHH :D

[missyburd]

Not................jealous...........at........... all :oops:

:D

Nice pics though :cool: What's your tortoise's name?

[Alpinestarhero]

Not................jealous...........at........... all :oops:

:D

Nice pics though :cool: What's your tortoise's name?

there are two; they belong to Maria's dad really; one is called delila (which is the one i photographed) and the other one is called sampson....but he was lost, and eventually found later on underneath a BBQ, sort of trapped. Silly torty!

My camera is awesome, took more pics today.

And yesm those are fake blue flowers...good macro though huh?

Matt

[missyburd]

there are two; they belong to Maria's dad really; one is called delila (which is the one i photographed) and the other one is called sampson....but he was lost, and eventually found later on underneath a BBQ, sort of trapped. Silly torty!


Shouldn't that be "Samson" ? Bit of Biblical correctness there #adjusts the imaginary dog collar# :-D

[stepheng]

Hey Matt!.... ye gonna have loads of fun wit that new damn picture box !!!!... sweet......:cool:

what lens(es) you using?

[Alpinestarhero]

Shouldn't that be "Samson" ? Bit of Biblical correctness there #adjusts the imaginary dog collar# :-D

Nope; Sampson :D

Stephen; I'm just using the lense that came with the camera (18-55 mm VR lense). I'm quite happy with it, and the VR dooda is more than a gimmick, it does work.

Matt

[silversurfer]

good camera, good pictures, cool tortoise...... where's the bike? lol

I have a D70 - love it

[Bluepete]

Mine arrived today! Mmmmmmmmm gold boxes! Gotta love Nikon boxes.

I'm out for a 300 odd mile ride tomorow so will test ride the D60 and post up later.

Pete

[jambo]

Very nice!

I bought an Canon 400d at the start of the year and have read quite a few bits since then. The D60 has yet to have a bad review as far as I can tell and seems to have been well thought out! Good luck with it :)

Jambo

[Luckypants]

I'm out for a 300 odd mile ride tomorow so will test ride the D60 and post up later.

Pete

Lucky git! :smt088

[Alpinestarhero]

Mine arrived today! Mmmmmmmmm gold boxes! Gotta love Nikon boxes.

I'm out for a 300 odd mile ride tomorow so will test ride the D60 and post up later.

Pete

Whatever tips you got, do pass them on to me :D

I should be able to work out a few things about how to get good pics once exams are over

And yes, gold boxes are great!!!!

[Bluepete]

Have you received your cash back yet?

My cheque for sixty quid arrived yesterday, making the cost of the camera and lens £362 including delivery!

[Paul the 6th]

Whatever tips you got, do pass them on to me :D


If you set your apeture to say f.stop/1.3 (or the lowest number possible) it reduces your depth of field (meaning there is a shorter area in focus with more of a blurred background) - wicked for macro photos and portraits where you want more emphasis on the person with the background less focused.

example (not taken by me but was a zoom lens with lowest aperture possible)
http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/H4Q0315.jpg

Erm, faster shutter speed means sports pictures will be perfectly still - get a friend to ride past you at 30mph, put your shutter speed at about 125fps and pan the camera as they ride past - release the shutter = background should be blurred but bike should be in focus & sharp... may take a little bit of practice.

night exposures, use a tripod (or stable flat surface) and stick your camera on an 8 second exposure. You'll get some good effects where there's both moving & still lights in the frame (like vehicles and lamp posts respectively).

examples (taken by me :)):

http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/IMG_0012.jpg

http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/IMG_0033.jpg
(below: with a blue filter and Black & White effect in photoshop)
http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/IMG_0033b.jpg

http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/IMG_0067.jpg

http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/IMG_0011.jpg

http://www.godesign.me.uk/images/pics/global-gathering-1.jpg

good forum for photography info: http://www.thephotoforum.com/

[gettin2dizzy]

A telephoto lens with f1.3! I'd like to see the price of that ;)

[Paul the 6th]

or am I thinking 2.1? i can't remember lol something low down

[Alpinestarhero]

Have you received your cash back yet?

My cheque for sixty quid arrived yesterday, making the cost of the camera and lens £362 including delivery!

how do you get cash back? I thought it was included in the price..?

Matt

[Bluepete]

Fill in the form on this page (http://www.nikon.co.uk/sites/cashback/spring2008_default.html) . I managed to get the extra purely by chance, I didn't realise there was a special Bank Holiday offer.

A lot of adverts did show a low price, but when the fine print is read, it transpires the price shown includes the cash back offer, you pay the extra, then claim it back to get to the offer price.

[Alpinestarhero]

Fill in the form on this page (http://www.nikon.co.uk/sites/cashback/spring2008_default.html) . I managed to get the extra purely by chance, I didn't realise there was a special Bank Holiday offer.

A lot of adverts did show a low price, but when the fine print is read, it transpires the price shown includes the cash back offer, you pay the extra, then claim it back to get to the offer price.

gotcha, im claming my money back!! cheers pete

Matt

[b_1_rd]

Nothing wrong with a D60. Nice one, happy snapping.