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my local woodland area is really starting to look nice again, with winter in decline...(ehhh?) Anyway, here's a snap of the various moss down there. Was the image taking at the woods, or at home? :snaphappy: woodland-moss by saintly's pics, on Flickr

Sorry for the rehash of an old tank. I've re-edited this with hopefully, better colour management. I've got to grips with Edius colour management, and correcting W/B is quite easy now. Best to watch @ 720p or higher, and Preferably, on a mobile device....(cough*Samsung* cough)

Sorry to use the forum as a sounding ground, but i just wanted to test a video. I've worked out how to add multiple files, and also combine Edius and Photoshop to work at the same time. Anyway, i wanted to see how it looks in a youtube window. Thanks.

Here's what i managed to put together before my tripod fell with my camera rig attached! :twisted: It's bit of a randomvid, but theres a few trees, a bit of water so i thought it'd suit the forum. I went with my wife and son, with my son just learning to ride his bike. Always watch in 720p...

Here's a snap of the Gouramis. I thought they looked kinda nice against the halo. Shot taken during a shoot of the 90cm Gouramis-blue by saintly's pics, on Flickr

Guys! I know there is one or two that shoot video, on their DSLR's I for one am a massive fan of videos on DSLR's, but live view mode in bright light can be unusable at times. Focusing and exposure are near on impossible. (That's why you never see videos from me, that feature outdoor shots)...

For anyone running an older version of Canon's DPP and shooting in RAW, I'd maybe look at an update. I've just installed a newer version and the 'sharpness' tool has been revamped...for the better. Much nicer sharpening than previous :thumbup:

My Aponogeton crispus 'Red' is really taking hold now, and looks rel nice. It's becoming my current fave plant.

Here's a collection of pics. Best viewed@ 720/1080p Could i have some feedback on whether it'd be worth doing properly? For this one, i just grabbed images from different folders and compiled it quite roughly. I've also used one of my fave tunes of all times, The Beatles, here comes the...

Yeah, yeah, I've done this before, but believe me i'm bored :lol: just sifting through old pics. I dont think I've posted these, and they help to inspire me. Thanks for looking, and sorry if some have seen the last one before. :oops:

I think i've covered this shot before, but i was bored and re worked it. It's actually a crop of a bigger image that i took some time back.

A snap on the way home from town. I've eyed this wall up for some time, and it's just coming good. well, thanks for looking. I was reluctant to get the skew tool out to straighten lines, taken with sigma 15-30

After a delightful day at George's pad, I've now come back to sort out the many images taken. It's been a rather great afternoon, talking lenses, cameras, lights and aquariums. I could see that Janine was digging our 'technical' talk to :hilarious: Before I go any further, I must say...This...

this is well worth the load times. :wink: done on a 5d mk2 :shh:

As per title :D maybe an A1 print? :lol: the wife would just luuurv that :shh:

Thought I'd share some forest floor randomness.

anyone doubt there iphone camera? :hilarious: phillip bloom really is a god when it comes to video.

Summers here and I'm on mini flower mission :D i've done this flower before, but I'd thought I'd do it again.

Here's why i love this lens so much....oh and the wife :eh: This was just before she says ' the nano has to go' :twisted: ISO 100 F2

There's a few fields starting to look nice now spring is here. There's also a few shots i want to try and get, but I'd need more than the 3 seconds I had for this.

This is my boy watching lazy town. The natural light coming through the window was flattering. he was grumpy initially, then realised I was taking pics of him, he then perked up....poser!

Here's a flower from HM. for anyone that's seen this flower may realise how small these things are...size of a pin head.

so, the perfect host for some macro images....A dead shrimp. DONT PANIC! i didn't kill it! well not deliberately at least. The little sucker died of something, but of what I don't know. Now this has confirmed what i've always thought about the eye. it's not possible to get it sharp throughout...

A boring Sunday afternoon.

well, for those few that are experimenting with their canon HD mode (stu :shifty: ....erm..thats it i think... Tonser in the wings I think. oooo, viktor has a 550d) I know it's not everyone's cup of tea...videos and stuff, so please forgive me. I've been trying out a few things. This was how...

for the new canon HD users, were all aware of the capabilities from these cameras. I thought I'd share a roughly edited vid from this morning. I shot for about 45 minutes before Daniel, my son, wanted to go home :evil: bless him :angelic: .... some shots are ok, some are crap, some wonky...

Here's a solitary shot of rotala rotundifolia from my Nano. hope you guys like it.

pretty little thing :D

I drove past this shed on the way home from work. TBH, i shot at the wrong angle. (should of been more to the left) I didn't have time, as my labourer had to get home. Using the wall as my as my aid, i shot 3 shots. The DOF is what I'm liking the most about it. If I had time, I would of waited...

Following on from my previous thread, I revisited Rufford park to try and highlight things that, in a way, we can combine within our aquariums. or at least borrow ideas. This is more of a pictorial documenting thread. Just my observations. This time of year seems to be a great opportunity...

went to rufford park with young daniel today. as you'll see, the robins played ball. tempting them with seed always helps This one was watching Dan place the seed. Rufford is a great place for birds and wild life in general. thier rather tame which helps. there's some great...

the title says it all :D

here's some more pics it's a non co2 tank, but putting 200w of light over it soon brings on the bubbles. i've used f 2.8 for the first to try and create something a little more arty.

Dull days dont allways inpire me when it comes to photography, but recently, i've found my self going out in any condition. Black and white has never been a strong point of mine so i tend to stay away from it and leave it to the likes of George and Dave Spencer who seem to produce great B/W...

here's a few from a walk in the woods. it was rather damp and dreary, but the mosses looked radiant in the wet.

here's a head shot of one of these things. I got the 'butter cup' effect put with hydracotle :P (the green under the lower mouth) click for a larger view hopefully over time, I'll expand my fish images as well as shrimp images.

i've got a similar shot in my nano journal, but here's a close up of a pearling bubble.

yes, another cherry shot. This one stayed still for an age. so I was able to get the shot i've been after for ages :geek: because the eye is spherical, it still is difficult to get a pin sharp shot of the eye because of DOP. crazy eh? i think this is as good as it's going to get.

here's a shot of one my endlers. I actually find the female much more interesting than the overly coloured male :geek: thanks for looking

not sure if this is in the right section....here's hoping. the flickering is from the ripple from the water. still in learning mode, before i try and make things a little more complex.

A few to share. I must admit, using a lens so close to the glass is tuff! The more I zoom in the harder it gets, but here goes. The first 2 are normal ish kind of pics and the 3rd is my fave. not the sharpest, but one a bit more 'arty' controlling DOP field is near an impossibility, but i...

some may recall the 'raging planet of dandelion' shot i did. well, there's a moss version now. :lol: just look to the stars and see....it's there on a clear night :wink:

nothing has been arranged in this shot, and it's straight from camera. I went walking by the river and collected a whole host of mosses. The 2 blades of grass were growing naturally.The other things surrounding it are various moss species. i've placed all the collected moss into my moss pot.

I've covered this subject (moss) a few times on here. I thought I'd try to give a sense of perspective or scale through a progression of images using 3 different lenses. The lenses used were sigma 24-70 f2.8 sigma 70-300 macro. canon MP-E 65mm macro for me, the sigma 70-300 is real bang for...

A quick walk in the woods today. The backlit trees just looked so inviting. I did lose my bearings and got lost though. it's kind of a nature shot i guess.

A standard shot of Newark castle by night. I love this building. There are some great shots to be had inside, but they now shut the gates due to vandalism. iso 100, f8, 2 second exposure. Sigma 24-70mm

I'm by no means a pro photographer, neither do i know the correct ways to test cameras or lenses. I just know certain things to look out for. Tonsers the man for all things pro else :D i thought i'd have a go at seeing what this camera is like for picking out detail in shaded areas, especial...

here's a slice of moss I got from outdoors. i've looked at moss and liverworts pages on line, and from what I can gather the long thing is it's spore bearing part. :shifty: I'm not the best on technical and factual stuff.

I don't know the name of this flower, i will find out though. cheers.

A shot of riccia.

here's an image from yesteryear I took with this lens. I've always realised that glass is important, but over the last year I bought cheap, and the difference is bigger than I initially thought it's enough to make me want to re-buy it.

I thought the chance to shoot aquatic with the new canon lens may prove to be difficult or even impossible. a few others did i reckon too. to focus, you simply move the camera or the subject and even @ f 16 there's not much room for error. I nervously went down to MA east bridgford to see if i...

OK, i took Tonsers advise from my previous thread (thanks mate :wink: ) cooling down a critter then waxing his ass to some card. all harmless it appears. i let him go no probs. I must say though even chilled down, I grabbed him with my tweezers and i could here his jaws going on the...

my wife capture this house fly, and came up with an ingenious way of keeping it in one place whilst keeping it temporarily alive.....must be the Russian in her. anyway, pics weve all seena million times before, but it was great to do it myself.

well, like i say. I'm luckiest git in the world :wink: i found this little moth in the garden earlier this afternoon. went to pick natt and dan up from train station, came back shone a torch and bingo! instant wildlife action. :shock: the little thing was preggers. Now, my neighbour...

I'm attempting to get a few shots of this old plant pot from mums house. kinda bonsai nature. one thing, this is inspiring so much for my next tank. i can see why amano loves moss!

here's the first shot from my new Canon MP-E 65mm f2.8 1-5x Macro Lens. it's a dedicated macro lens, which give stunning results. before judging this, just go and pick a dandelion head and look at closely, then look at this shot. this was @ 1x the lens go's up to 5x! I'm blown away with what it...

I was browsing my images from the past and came across many images i forgot i had. nice to look back actually anyway, i found one or 2 that may help a few struggling with lighting there tanks for photographic purposes. continuous lighting, i think, is a cheaper option by far. you can pick up...

I wasn't sure where to put this...photography, my journal. anyway, it's here. i'm playing around with back lighting and I'm obsessed now with achieving a certain look for this tank. although it goes against the title "autumn blush" it's been said that some of my "high light" images are a tad...

OK, 2 birds one stone. this is my fish choice for autumn blush and also an image that i like, rolled into one post. i've bought 12 of these little things. I'm an absolute noob when it come to fish, i just struggle to see them in a scape so i always end up buying loads of fish and it becomes...

i'm practising different themes for "final layout images" etc etc. of course this is still in it's early days, but it's giving me a good chance to see how this may pan out....i'm liking the gap i the middle :P ...no foresight there :lol: anyways, what ya reckon? text and stuff would go at...

as the title suggests.....on the way to my local MA store this morning. there was a field full of poppies, but i felt this was a stronger picture. 2 ways of looking at this image....

well, some maybe aware, but for those that are not my wife is from said country. (actually Russian) i've been across about 3 times now and every time it takes me by surprise. this is the way the locals, including myself while i was their had to collect water..... a trip to the market...

today I did something I have not done in an age...take some non aquatic photos. unfortunately I didn't charge my batteries so I only managed to grab not even a dozen photos. this is a newly designed (if you can call it that) nature walk near to where I live. I took my boy too who was into...

now these are not the most amazing technically right photographs. there straight from the camera i've literally just taken them. its pretty dark so bumped up the iso. but these starlings do this most nights, but i've never seen so many as there were tonight! i love what they do!

ok, basics. if you right click on the big UKAPS logo on your screen and save images as.... now you've got the ukaps logo....in grey! to change the colour you do this. open it and drag it on to your image.... now, underneath the ukaps logo (in the above image) there's the layers box, double...

this was taken when i first started getting in to photography. this was with window light if i remember rightly

now before i start this,this si not up to the standard of some of the others for showing different techniques and i've thrown this together really. now these/ this image was taken a few months ago at...yes youve guessed it,....a boxing match! i took near on 700 pics that night. anyway, i...

ok, im seeing so often on other websites too that people love taking macro shots. now theres nothing wrong with it, but people seem to be taken in by it. wow, look how close he is to that fish etc etc....its easy! it would be great if people were to start switching the macro function off and...

this is my boy this morning.

loving these fish.

nothing special realy. point and shoot. origanal and cropped image. the moon is an amzing thing dont you think?

just got back from twycross zoo. here's some pics its a pain trying to shoot through scratched thickened glass, but you have to try.also i cant help but feel a little saddened for some of the monkeys. im sure there well looked after. oops pressed wrong button, waiting for download to pbucket...

the one thing this site has given me?...the want to take pictures again. i have not done this style of photography in years. this is a great way of learning.shove your daughter, son mum dad infront of a window and practice...or a rose bush :lol: edited version.you cant beat window light...

this is a picture that i took of 2 friends of mine. it's just to show you the photography style that i used for my weddings. a bit different to the norm. i specifacly asked them to get changed (it was all pre planned) into black. my wife did the stone arrangment. i'll try and dig out some pre...

just a quick pic of my cardianls. i even got my tripod out for this! :lol: im even tempted to get another lens, i just hate buying back what i already owned :? [][/img]

i know this isnt fish related but just to show case a raw file. no photo shop at all. this is my son daniel, he just sat infront of the back patio. straight from camera and adjust highlight contrast and re adjust exposure. you'll never take a bad photo again. you can under or over expose by...