Show us your amateur photos - not dial up friendly

[Blitzen]

Great pics Cam...How were you able to get to Point Perpendicular lighthouse?? Do you need special permission from the Navy Range Control to get out there?

[Cam]

Thanks guys.
Yeah the Point is my fav photo.


To get out there you've gotta go along Currarong Road and then chuck a right onto Lighthouse Road. From there you go through a Navy checkpoint with boomgates. You basically just say you want to go for a drive and take some photos and they let you through.

Its a shocker of a road though.
I went down it in my first car a 92 Laser. And it never quite felt the same after that...lol

Its a very bumpy, winding and muddy road.

[RhysQ]

a few more of the 2 GTI....

[RhysQ]

a few pics from Grafton on Saturday afternoon:


storm's a comin'


storm's a goin


grafton bridge


grafton bowls club deck


bridge and train at night - no tripod used (used a fence rail )

[alex g]

a few from the past weeks

[benno]

MOAR!!!

Some of these pictures are available for purchase as framed or mounted prints at RedBubble.

[greasykitchen]

Great shots benno! I especially like the iceburgs.

[benno]

Great shots benno! I especially like the iceburgs.

Cheers mate.


BTW does anyone in Brissy have a car rig they'd be willing to lend me?

[dubbed]

That last shot is fantastic. Where was that taken?

[benno]

Cambodia mate. Angkor Wat to be precise.

[RhysQ]

this is amateur photo's, not professional!

great photo's there benno, what camera and lens are you using.

i want to be snapping pics that good at some stage.

[benno]

this is amateur photo's, not professional!

great photo's there benno, what camera and lens are you using.

i want to be snapping pics that good at some stage.

Haha mate, given that I've made a total of $9 from photography so far, I'd have to rank myself as a definite amateur!

Q: What's the difference between a photographer and a pizza?

A: A pizza can feed a family of four.

I shoot with a variety of cameras, none of them particularly fancy.

1. Leica M3 with 35, 50 and 90mm lenses. Here's a few pics taken with this camera.

2. Olympus 35RC with a fixed 42mm lens. Here's what it looks like from the back. Here are some of the pics I've taken with it.

3. Some godawful ****box friggin Canon 35mm SLR with a crappy Tamron or maybe Sigma 28-200 lens. I took these photos with it. Can you guess I don't like it?

[DaveMack]

BTW does anyone in Brissy have a car rig they'd be willing to lend me?

What exactly do you mean by a 'car rig'?

Dave

[rayray086]

Top shots benno, those are incredible! Love the effect of the background with the motorbike racer - did you zoom in/out as you took the photo? And really like the shot that you took @ Cambodia!

[benno]

What exactly do you mean by a 'car rig'?

Dave

A car rig is something kinda like a tripod that stick to a car with suctions caps and enables rolling shots at fairly unique angles. A lot of the really cool shots with a blurred road/background that you see in magazines were shot like this.

Top shots benno, those are incredible! Love the effect of the background with the motorbike racer - did you zoom in/out as you took the photo? And really like the shot that you took @ Cambodia!

Thanks mate! I took the bike (MTB, not moto ) shot with the old 'slow shutter and zoom' method with the extra twist of two flashes bungeed to trees either side of the rider. The flashes help to freeze and really define the rider, while everything not lit by the flash gets blurred.