MattGrey

Great shot...budget lenses get a lot of stick, but use them right and you get some great results.

Nicely caught!  What's the little white critter in the second photo? If it is a critter?

Same little snail.

In the last two minutes....

Great choice! Well done.

Got back down there with more favourable light. 

I do like the new masking options, although I tend to stick to LR far more the PS, but being able to select a sky or subject with one click and then intersect the mask is very handy and it does a great job.

As for the shots, that first one is SUPERB! The colour is just spot on. Love it.  

Back to down Holywell Bay for a wander...not the best time of day as sun was very high, but gave me a chance to try out a few ideas for a better day.

@Clicker If it helps i will note time and dates it occurs and message you along with the error.  From memory its always a DNS failure but I never paid that much attention. 

Where is the site hosted?

If the forum is to actively seek new members, the pages up time does need looking at.  It isn't uncommon for the page to go down for an hr here, an hr there. Doesn't bother me so never complained, but I can see this putting off many new people....unless it's only me that has this issue? 

56 minutes ago, CMunzel said:

They looked like one person until I looked closely. 

I'll be honest....so did I when I took it!

Eggsalent shot....a real cracker.....(and other bad yokes...)   

Seriously, though, love this! Great work.  

Congrats! 

Managed to catch this little family in the surf at Holywell Bay.  Not sure how easy to pick out on screen they are, but there are two people there.  A dad and his child.

First time i've visited Holywell....what a beach and some of the biggest Dunes i've seen in Cornwall!

Loved this when I first saw it. Great choice!  

Went out with the intention of capturing a colorful sunset with all the joys of spring in the air....

Welcome, from another Matthew.

I like this!  Great shot.

I posted the old station last week that sits below the cliffs at Lizard Point.  This is the new station that replaced it, about 1 mile or so around the peninsula.  Not so easy to access by foot, and I wouldn't recommend standing where I was if it's too windy or you may get a closer look at the lifeboat than you intended. 

I really wanted to get a longer exposure from here, around 4 mins or longer but there just wasn't anywhere stable enough to put my tripod. 

At 200mm, focusing just 10m away is giving yourself a very small dof to work with, around 30cm. Great for bokeh, but on a moving target its gonna be near impossible to nail focus I'd say.

Check your focus mode and make sure your on Servo so the camera constantly adjusts the focus if the subject moves.  Back button focus may make it easier.

Stopping down will help.  Lenses down like being wide open and won't be at their sharpest.  Using a slightly shorter focal length will give you more dof to play with.  Less bokeh, but more room for error.

If you're not familiar with dof and what affects it, do a Google search for dof calculator and play with the options to see what I mean.

All that said...I'm no sports photographer so others may have better advice.  

Woohoo! Thankyou

Hello!

Any chance you could post an example image with exif?  If you could also give estimate to the distance of your subject and state where you focused I or another member may be able to offer some ideas?