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It's a good feeling, for sure. I would recommend Flickr to get your stuff out there a bit more as well (it's free!). It can take a while but I've built up a great list of contacts, and people start to look out for your work from certain events. I've had loads of requests through there, always...

I agree, for my last New York trip I would say I spent about one hour in total over the week with my camera out actually taking photos, and most were a case of seeing a potential pic coming up, getting the camera out whilst walking, standing still for a second, grabbing a shot and then catching...

It will, trust me :) I read a lot comparing the Nikon, Sigma and Canon ultra-wide lenses, and I don't believe there is actually a huge difference in terms of distortion when they've done head to head tests. 10mm will distort to some degree, regardless of the brand of lens. Some photos show it...

I love #3. Something I'm not brave enough to do, but always love looking at the pics of those with bigger balls than me who do do it!

Avoid at all costs, imo. There are hundreds who happily give their work away for free (I'm one of them) which has squeezed the market into almost non-existence. Without a commercial license you can't sell your images to drivers, teams or sponsors (although many people do), which means the only...

Just didn't realise compacts were still going with the megapixel wars, seems ridiculous.

14.7mp compact camera? Oh my dear god. The user manual for the NV100 states that a 1GB card will hold 136 images, the camera takes up to 4GB SD cards or 8GB SDHC cards, I would be inclined to get a SanDisk 4GB SD HC Memory Card (£7.99 each on Play), which is going to hold at least 500 pics, if...

Have you considered going outdoors? Beautiful light at this time of year, find a nice location and most of the hard work is done for you. Go out for a day, and particularly in the morning or 4-5pm on a clear or slightly cloudy day you should get very nice light. Something like this wouldn't...

Some people like doing this and others don't, but for a bit of inspiration check out some Peru pics on somewhere like Flickr, at the very least it may give you some inspiration or some slightly odd ideas you may not have thought of.

The close-up of the swans head/beak is as good a test as any, and on viewing the full size image it doesn't look like you have anything to worry about from a technical point of view (I assume if anything Photobucket makes things a whole lot worse anyway) Are you using a CP Filter? Skies look...

Been seriously researching this camera this past few days, found this nice little feature of some real life shots which is pretty interesting. I don't go for all the technical graphs, colour charts and stuff, so seeing some true-to-life images is good... D90 High ISO Test D90 Sharpness...

First vid was all about depth of field and low light, which I think is very very impressive, and I love the manual focus change at the start from the lights to the aircraft, the sort of thing that you simply can't do with a consumer video camera. The Nikon system utilises VR is the lens has...

Plenty of real life footage from the D90 floating around already, so that's a good start, and for me it's just as impressive as the 'professional' movie posted, because you can clearly see that all those benefits (depth of field etc) are there and apparent in 'normal' filming as well. Although...

The 5D records at 30fps, surely that's more than enough for motor racing and the like? There is also hope that 24p will be available, which puts it ona par with film cameras.

You can zoom (on the D90 at least, I've checked), and you can flick back and forth between filming and stills in an instant, so there is no reason why you can't put together a good days filming with a normal set of photos. Worth a watch, a bit of real life handheld D90 video (heavily...

I'm just quoting the pros. Can that £1600 camera really do selective focus / depth of field to those levels? I would be very, very surprised if it could. If you are a photographer and you have some fairly fast lens anyway, chances are the depth of field control is going to be far more...

Not sure if you like 197s, but I've thrown a few in... http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/photos/251997660_9wG9o-O.jpg http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/photos/306715742_Y3WcV-O.jpg http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/photos/220032532_AF3Uf-O.jpg...

pmsl, I just spent half an hour looking at early reviews and checking out prices for them :) D300 seems a little overkill for my needs, would probably have more fun with the D90.

Just the start, I imagine. Sure a good lens is always going to cost money, but as this technology filters down it should become available in far more affordable bodies. Nikon already have the D90 (£700), which is 720p and will still produce very very impressive video. Just a few minutes of...

Yup, but we buy lens for photography anyway, so it's not as though we have to do anything differently. If I had the talent, I imagine my 50mm 1.8 and 120-300 2.8 would be able to capture the majority of that footage to a similar standard. The beauty is that he was given the camera body by Canon...

Watch, be amazed (and remember this is at 1/4 resolution)... http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086 Shot in 72hrs, no training, no manual, small budget and all the footage is completely raw from the camera. 'Making of' is...

Play.com do 2GB Sandisk Extreme IIs for £5.99 each, I swear by them (all my memory is Extreme II), I bought a few this week. In fairness though, that's a heck of a price for a bricks and mortar store, the same card is £20 in Argos!

Yup, that's the idea. Although I only took 10-20 & 50 last time, I got everything I wanted. And I know if I take the same again I will end up doing the tourist shots again to see if I can improve, would rather do something different though.

Some beauties there and it's great to see some of the pro angles, Brands really does look like a great circuit for a press-tog. #2 is the standout image for me, love the atmosphere with the big crowd in the background and the sunshine. Superb (7 & 8 are very nice as well)

I absolutely love lo-fi Lomo photos, and they work so well with New York, it does seem to have been done to death though, Lomo+New York is everywhere. However the other half has been considering getting me a Holga for quite some time now, so if I do get one I would give that to her to shoot NYC...

That's the exact opposite of what I want to do :) I want to be seriously limited, I'm thinking along the lines of a Sigma 30mm 1.4 and nothing else.

Amazing. What's your complete flash set-up, out of interest?

What would it be? I did the whole tourist thing last year and got pretty much every standard shot I was after (most with my Sigma 10-20) at a level of quality I was more than happy with, so this year I'm putting my Christmas money towards one lens to take to NYC with me in February, everything...

The clever (and right) answer is neither, if you had those two choices I hope you would say sod it and stick with a completely standard seat belt setup. Do it properly or not at all imo, it's a safety device not a visual mod.

and a bit of 90s drug dealer p**n...