Ryewolf

Yes, I've just checked the BBC, it forecates light rain at 7am, followed by thick cloud then light cloud, so likely to be a bit gloomy on the islands, also quite windy 16-17mph and not very warm at 11°. The weather gods did promise no rain, should have asked for clear skies and no wind as well.

I've thought about joining a camera club, weirdly though my 2 local town clubs, don't actually meet in the town they're named after, Acrington's Camera Club meets in Rishton (part of Blackburn) and Blackburn's meets in Samlesbury.

So predicted forecast for Sat (Weather .co uk, Met Office) Sat 13. Jun: Cloudy - 11° High - Chance of Rain: 20% - Wind: NNE at 17 mph Overcast - 10° High (feels like 7°) - Chance of Rain: 10% - Wind: NE at 16 mph Of course it could all change by Sat.

I was thinking off arriving at about that time to Geoff, it's gonna get confusing as I'm also called Geoff.. Anyway we need to pin down a time and place to meet.

Yep, I'm all booked on the Inner Farne trip. There's a couple of coffee shops (according to Google maps anyway) Rosemarys and Koffee & Kreme, we could meet outside there. I thought I'd make a badge to pin on me we TIPF and my screen name. What time?

Yep, conrats Paul, lovely blue eyes, I'm often surprised when I see them in dogs.

Here's mine: Can Opener

A couple of big big umbreallas and a camera storm jacket.... never photographed in the rain before, but I'd imagine you get a different sort of shot. I've appealed to the weather gods, it worked when I went with Leon to Ingleton... Coffee shop, there cam't be that many of them, I was thinking TIPF Badges to help recognise each other..

The Inner Farne boat trip at midday is fine with me.

Actually, I might bring the Venus lens, maybe we could have a 30 minute challenge and see what we got. I don't mind bringing it, if you've got a Canon camera it will fit. It is maually everything, though....

I never got the sport gene either, when I was at school, in winter we had a choice of football or cross country running, in summer it was a choice between cricket or cross country running. I was rubbish at cross country running, but worse still, I had even less talent at football or cricket, which meant I always ended up doing the cross counrty running - I hated that almost as much as football or cricket, but it was a case of the lesser of two weevils.... I'll get my coat....

Ive never seen puffins, cormorants, shags, terns, seals, guillemots or kittiwakes, I'd like to see a puffin and seal though. About the only lens I won't be bringing is the Venus 60mm 2:1 macro. I'm making a long break of it as it's quite a distance across country, so I'm staying 3 nights at Berwick and a further 2 nights at Middleham.

I'm planning on taking the Sigma 150-600, I do have a camera storm jacket that I've yet to use. I'm appealing to the weather gods for calm seas and good weather.....

I must have missed this, some really great shots, well deserved.

Welcome to the forums Clive

Thanks everyone, for your advice, I was using a cloth for glass, which is lint free, to clean each time I re-arranged the shot - having come across this problem before, I think this was airborn dust settling back again. The softbox and anti-static cloths sound like a good idea. I think it looked worse because they are quite small, requiring it to be closer in focus. I didn't use this image, as Colin pointed out is point of focus is a little off - I'd used autofocus, rather than selecting a focus point, but this image had the most dust specks. Many thanks, the way I look at it, the better I can capture in camera, means less time editing and touching up, particularly for something that is always going to be web-based. After all, time is money....

Thanks Colin and Phoenix. They do look fun to use, and quite considerably cheaper than Canon's T/S lenses, I've seen quite a lot of images taken with it, from portraits to buildings. I suppose it all boils done to how much use I might get out of it.

Thanks Fuji, I have been looking at investing in one of those soft boxes, saw a 90cm one that came with 3 lights for £99, so that might help. I think it's just general dust that's in the air, so maybe some antistatic spray would help. Thanks Colin, they are only going to be used on a website so no larger than 1000pixels on the longest length, that said it's still noticable, so anything that reduces the time I have to spend touching them up is a bonus. On larger products I've done it's not as bad. The grinders, however were only small - 50mm, so I did have to get fairly close in to fill the frame. I've added an image, we're not talking massive amounts of dust, but hopefully it's visible... (I thought that might happen, uploading the image to the forum - and it rescaling it has reduced the effect.)

Today, I've mostly been taking product shots as part of my work - I'm a web developer/designer, so I often get asked to do product shots, if it's a jetski it's not much of a problem, but small products, such as todays black metal herb grinders, I often find despite trying not to handlie them to much - fingerprints and smudges do show up - and using a cloth used for cleaning glass and optics - I'm still getting dust particles. Other than editing them out, just wondered if anyone had any tips for avoiding dust? - Well, other than building a clean room.. I suppose it one of those things, it's just that you can't can see them from the viewfinder and it's only after viewing them on a 24inch monitor that they become fairly obvious.

Just wondered if anyone has used Lensbaby optics? I've been looking at a Lensbaby Kit, which has the Composer Pro, plus Sweet 35 and Edge 80 optics - I know I said I'd burn the credit cards.....

​The Drake Circus one, I used to live on Union St.

I also paint and draw too. After that one I got even more complicated and did a circular repeating pattern that needed around 20 pieces per circle - these were all done in greens and kinda ressembled stained glass windows. Alas some of the pieces have fallen off - I know I kept them but can't for the life of me think where I put them. They are probably under the stairs in a box ..... labelled stuff... Yes, we are - though photography involves a lot of creativity too. It was actually your 1st painting post that got me thinking about my own paintings, which in turn led me to finding the picture of Katrina - which I thought I'd lost, now all I need to do is find all the others pictures I took at the same time.... They are probably under the stairs in a box ..... labelled stuff...

One I did whilst I was at Pymouth Art College. Oil on card, approx A2, using thinned down oil paint scraped over card using different sized 45 degree angled mounting board the apply the paint, cut into 12 squares, with each square being cut into 6 pieces then re-assembled. Tiger in the Jungle

Thanks BP, cracking shots there, particularly the first one.

There's two of them on the ledge at the moment. I remember from last year they often sat out of sight of the cameras.