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The second link (the G version) will focus on your camera, the first one (the D version) will not.

No Rob, because the window has the same reflection if you look closely. I’ve just noticed another problem - you can see the background in colour through the windscreen, that probably occured when you went around the car with the path and everything inside it will be the colour layer, so you...

^The only problem with using selective colour in that is that you’ve got the reflection of the grass on the car and it makes it green at the edges. One from the Yorkshire Dales today- Yorkshire Sheep by Niall97, on Flickr

Lovely mono’s A_Cro :)

I second what Luke said, when I look back at some of my old work it's shocking how bad it is compared what I thought of it at the time.

It’s easy to get carried away with Lightroom, I was the same when I first got it, I was a sucker for vignettes lol. The vintage exposure offset with the warm colours sort of suits the Camper Van photos though to be fair.

I've used cheap photo paper before, and that produced some gold prints, so that should be fine.

I'm going to a rally stage in a few weeks so keep your eyes peeled for the photos from that :)

Thanks Brazo, I was really pleased with recieving that, it must be high praise given the standard of work on there :)

Oh, well £100 won't get you far really, the kit lens is the only option for under £100 other than the 50mm F1.8 but that doesn't have IS which most find helpful when shooting video.

A good video lens is said to be he Canon 24-105mm F4L IS because it has a nice range and IS, however, if you want some nice shallow DoF shots then I'd reccomended a 50mm prime of some sort, or even an 85mm

Not like you to switch camera systems Ukaskew...;) Good choice though, I handled one in Jessops the other week and I was impressed with it. What is the issue with the lens by the way?

Just a quick re-edit- Seat Ibiza FR by Niall97, on Flickr

Haha! Cheers :p

This is currently standing at over 4000 views, and 124 favourites after appearing on explore. Today it also got the Staff photo of the week on Talk photography :D Architectural reflections by Niall97, on Flickr

Yes pretty much, it suits my needs better really, it’s rare that I need 400mm so I wanted the option of having F2.8 with me being a sucker for shallow DoF’s.

This is in the “This thread is useless without videos” thread already but it’s great non the less.

Just a quick shot of my brother’s Ibiza FR to test my new 70-200 F2.8L- Seat Ibiza FR by Niall97, on Flickr

Also worth noting just from Andy’s point that the 30mm F1.4 isn’t full frame compatable. The Sigma 50 is the way to go unless you can afford the 50mm F1.2L.

Do be careful with the Sigma though, some of them require some AF micro adjust so if you don’t have that on your body then I’d play it safe and get the Canon. If you do get a bad one then you can send it off to Sigma for calibration and they’ll even allow you to send the body in with the lens...

Yeah it's just a case of balancing the exposure so that you get the effect you want without destroying the image by blowing it out, ND filters are highly recommended for that.

The only tip would be to get used to using exposure compensation, that’ll give you some control on the overall exposure given that the in camera metering isn’t always exactly right.

I suppose the biggest con of that camera is that it’s not an SLR, it’s a bridge camera, meaning that it’s the bridge between a compact and a DSLR, so the lens isn’t removable. I’d look at say a lower end Nikon/Canon such as the Nikon D3200 or the Canon 600D.

​Mainly because we had a full flash studio set up though, if it was just the car and a camera nobody would have batted an eyelid.

Yes there is that, but on the whole not everybody on the course is at that stage, the artistic side is important but when it gets to the point of copying somebody's work I think it loses touch with your personal creative drive, and I think that your own creative drive is something that should be...

Awesome photos, Riad. I’m gutted I couldn’t make it to this too, it looked like a great day. As I asked on Flickr, what lens were these shot with?

Yeah of course, but I think that they should be teaching the technical aspects more so than just fine art with a different medium, fine art photography is more for personal use rather than real world photography and pro photographers that earn a living.

Yeah photography was a lot more technical and skilful back then, you not only had to be good at taking the photos themselves you also had to be skilled in the dark room, but just as everything else, things move on and make it easier for the user. GCSE photography is somewhat of a joke though...

You’ve hit the nail on the head with that! That’s why it was more practical for me to move to Canon FF, for instance I’ve just picked up a 70-200mm F2.8L on TP for £660, you try to get an OEM 70-200 F2.8 for Nikon for that price! That added to the fact that I prefer Canon’s line up of lenses...

Thanks guys, yeah from testing my 50 by looking through the viewfinder and then away again I think that 50 is closest to what you see with your eye, everything seemed the same just with the black box of the inside of the camera around it, but whether it is or not is irrelevant to shooting really.