Show us your amateur photos - not dial up friendly

[Lukey]

haha yeah thats the one, didn't even see it in the list there!

As far as I know, this thread is more to show off your photography skills, not post heaps of your car show pics. Someone correct me if i'm wrong please.

ok, ill spam them there then, lol.

[mikepologti]

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?

thats the problem with a full frame camera, theyll make all but the best of lenses look like sh#t, while shooting with them.and shooting with a tamron or sigma lense probably didnt help that much with your experiances with canon.hence i dont own a single lense made by tamron or sigma,...........sure they do the job but unfortunatly when you want the best results, more often then not youve goto pay for tht privelige.

very nice pictures btw.

[rayray086]

Liked this picture for some reason:

[benno]

thats the problem with a full frame camera, theyll make all but the best of lenses look like sh#t, while shooting with them.and shooting with a tamron or sigma lense probably didnt help that much with your experiances with canon.hence i dont own a single lense made by tamron or sigma,...........sure they do the job but unfortunatly when you want the best results, more often then not youve goto pay for tht privelige.

very nice pictures btw.

Actually, I'd kinda disagree with you on the full frame/lens thing. For various optical reasons I don't understand, a larger film/capture format is less demanding of it's optics. I get pretty good results with the Canon and the ****ty 28-200 considering how low end the system is. This is even more true for medium format systems.

The reason I hate the Canon is the ergonomics and functionality. It just doesn't agree with me.

[rayray086]

The reason I hate the Canon is the ergonomics and functionality. It just doesn't agree with me.

I chose my Canon because of THOSE reasons!!!! Different strokes for different blokes I guess.

[benno]

Of course

I just happen to think the thumb wheel is retarded, the menus counterintuitive, and the handling exceptionally clunky.

Note that I am talking about an old 35mm slr, but I feel many of these issues apply to the current canon digital range, particularly the entry level models. The 400/450d in particular has terrible ergonomics; if you used it side by side with it's competitors from nikon or pentax you'd be in for a treat. Unles you have really really tiny hands.

[rayray086]

Unles you have really really tiny hands.

Yeah I think that's what made me choose the 450D over the Nikon and Pentax... They felt a little chunky to me, especially the Pentax.

Haha, Canon for little people?

[Golf Houso]

Yeah I think that's what made me choose the 450D over the Nikon and Pentax... They felt a little chunky to me, especially the Pentax.

Haha, Canon for little people?

Haha, definately user friendly, got myself a hand me down 30d for a few hundred bucks the other with a nice lense. Never realised how much of a skill it is to take pictures

Might post a few up if I get any 1/2 way decent ones...

[Cupra]

Something I just finised...



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Cheers

Phil

[Preen59]

Phil, you've got serious talent.

[Blitzen]

Very nice Phil...Is it a Yak or a La??

I'm in the process of finishing off an Aussie Beaufighter from the Tamiya 1/48 kit atm.

[Cupra]

It's the Academy La-7 in 1/48, here is my Beau

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& thanks preeny, there are many that are far better than I, I just build what I like to the standard I want, which is why I've been in a slump for 2 years. For some reason I lost confidence with my airbrush ( around the time I found this forum!) & just stopped. I'm not the type of modeler who will have multiple builds on the go at once so if something stops me everything stops.. & sometimes its hard to get started again.

In this case, I walked into my model room one night a couple of weeks back, walked to my stash of kits ( I have several hundred to build before I die..)without the lights on & selected a box! The La-7 is the result...

[Blitzen]

I've been in a slump for 2 years. For some reason I lost confidence with my airbrush ( around the time I found this forum!) & just stopped. I'm not the type of modeler who will have multiple builds on the go at once so if something stops me everything stops.. & sometimes its hard to get started again.

In this case, I walked into my model room one night a couple of weeks back, walked to my stash of kits ( I have several hundred to build before I die..)without the lights on & selected a box! The La-7 is the result...

I know what you are saying there too...I havn't touched a kit in about 18 months, but last weekend, I dragged the air compressor inside, and went to my stash of kits(I have about 300 inbuilt kits in DHA packing boxes).
By looking at your very nice Beau, I have put the wrong rear gunners position on, so I will have to remove it...Bugger!!

[Cupra]

By looking at your very nice Beau, I have put the wrong rear gunners position on, so I will have to remove it...Bugger!!

You need to check the reference for the a/c you are doing, the ozy beaus had a range of combinations. This one was built for a friend & he wanted this particular a/c to look like this, I would have weathered the daylights out of it if it had been for my own display!

[rayray086]

Paint on that Beau looks fantastic!