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http://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/46369-important~-the-forum-its-future-and-finances/

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https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57184-202223-forum-finances-update-4th-july-2023/

 

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  1. I take it that's your garden? If so, lucky you - although it seems there's a lot of hard work just to stand still. I have some very nice dandelions growing in my garden - Lellow ones.
  2. Very nice indeed. Was that taken with your Laowa?
  3. Well worth the effort, Polly - a cracking shot.
  4. Such detail! Great set, Paul.
  5. The first for me - by a country mile.
  6. Fogey

    St Croix

    I like the tapering perpendicular. Gives a certain dynamism.
  7. Fogey

    POTW - WE: 2nd April

    Well done Cheryl, another worthy winner. A good choice Paul.
  8. Excellent set, Monkey. Minus 21 degrees in the wind? You do suffer for your art don't you?
  9. Isn't that a cricket, Cheryl? Amazing shot! Edited to say: Doh! just looked up Katydid - also known as a bush cricket.
  10. And therein lies the problem with this country. Us ancient old farts witnessed, when going for a drive in the countryside of an evening, the amount of bugs that splattered on the windscreen of the car. Now with the widespread use of insecticides to promote the artificially pristine standard of vegetables we see in the supermarkets, the decline in insect life has had an impact on the animals and birds that preyed on them, together with the raptors that preyed on the birds.
  11. What a difficult job this has turned out to be, with some excellent shots from Stevedevil's Miami Beach, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57845-miami-beach/), Ryewolf's Conwy Bay, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57849-conwy/) and Clicker's excellent shot of the Merlin, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57824-at-last-the-merlin-has-landed/), all deserving of a mention, for the difficulty of the shot from shooting into the sun, the photographer's 'eye' for the scene, and scrabbling to get camera and lens assembled to capture a very elusive raptor. Now this is where my problem starts as my POTW comes from Monkey's 'Cobra warrior' series. I have studied this set time and again and could pick any one of them for the POTW winner, such is the excellence of the series. However, choose I must and I have chosen the shot of the turbo-prop plane, because Monkey must have taken the shot with a slow shutter speed of 1/60th to 1/80th of a second to get such a brilliant blur on the propellers, yet the image is pin sharp and, even taking into account VR, shows Monkey's skill in panning on a moving subject. It's not so much the subject matter, but the photographer's skill in presenting the image as he has done, that I am applauding. Well done, Sir. See the full series here.
  12. Up to your knees in water? In Winter? I sincerely hope you had waders on Matt, just to make those lumps in the back of your neck to go down. A great shot and a great viewpoint. My Life! How we suffer for our art.
  13. Ah! yes! I remember it well. Beautiful little village, isn't it?
  14. Fogey

    Conwy

    Brilliant set, Geoff. Love the shot of the bay and am so pleased you found some place to park.
  15. Excellent set of shots. I really can't pick a favourite as they are all so good. I did notice the falcon, (of the feathered variety), in the penultimate shot and was a bit surprised as I know, certainly at RAF Shawbury, they try to actively discourage birds for fear of bird strikes. Unless, of course, it was a trained falcon/harrier being used as a bird-scarer.
  16. Congratulations Matt. As Cheryl says simplicity at its best.
  17. I have to say it took a lot of working out and assembling. You can put a ball head on the sliding camera attachments, but that raises the camera to an unacceptable height. I had to fix the camera directly to the attachment, using an adapter screw from 3/8 to 1/4 inch thread to get the right height. Then it was a case of positioning the legs of the tripod to counteract the weight of the camera. Once all that was done and the crossbar set up, it was easily manoeuvred to any situation. I could have used the ball head in the portrait position on the end of the bar, with the legs of the tripod spread a little wider to keep them from showing in the wide angle lens. A counter balance would be useful to keep the tripod steady on uneven ground, but other than that I reckon the crossbar works very well. It's all a case of trial and error, I suppose, but the possibilities are endless. The use of live view was a breeze - so easy to set up and use. I pre-set the camera's ISO number with the lens' aperture setting and used the shutter speed for a good exposure.
  18. Lovely shot, Polly - you've even caught the droplets of rain beading on the birds head.
  19. I recently purchased a cross bar for my tripod for the sole purpose of taking very low angle shots as gravity won't let me get up once I'm at ground level. This is the configuration I was after......... To get this kind of image........ This was taken in live view with my Laowa wide angle lens with the aid of a remote shutter release.
  20. Brilliant shot, Polly. Well done on being a fast thinker and mover. I don't think I've seen one in the flesh in all my years.
  21. I don't know if you are a car owner or not Fuji, but I have a hoist fitted to my little hatchback that enables me to lift my mobility scooter in and out of the car. I have had to lose the back seats of the car to enable me to do this, but is a small price to pay for my independence.
  22. Great set! Just goes to show how you suffer for your art.
  23. A great set Geoff, all of them very dramatic. The last one ticks all the boxes for me but mainly because of the low viewpoint, followed by # 2.
  24. I took my new Laowa lens out in the back garden to give its supposed debut. Bear in mind there was a perishing North wind blowing, so the sheltered back garden venue was very limited. I had to revisit a lot of lessons learned back in the day, on my film SLR, with this totally manual lens and it took me a few minutes to fathom out what was working on the camera, shutter speed, ISO, live view and the like. However, I managed to get some shots that were well exposed as well as well focused, so I set myself a challenge to see how the lens behaved shooting into the sun. This is a shot of a climbing Hydrangea flower from last year. I wanted to show the skeleton of the petals backlit by the sun and still have an image of my garden as a background. All in all, I'm quite pleased with it, though I suspect I have an awful lot to learn about the capabilities of this lens.
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