A walk along the beach

Bank holiday weekend and some sunshine, who would've thought it? Here, are a couple more from Southerndown Beach:

Ok, first one up shot at ISO 100, 18 mm, f/5.6, 1/320 sec

View from the cliffs

 This one was a bit of a mistake to be honest, I'd forgotten what settings I had left the camera on, but I kind of like it. It's got a real sense of motion. ISO 100, 55 mm, f/36, 1/4 sec

Gull in flight

Finally: ISO 320, 32 mm, f/4.5, 1/250 sec

Pebbles

Blaenafon Triathlon

A friend asked me to shoot a triathlon he was involved in on the weekend so I've put up a few shots from that. This was my first attempt at shooting this sort of thing so I don't think I did too badly :) I decided to just stick the camera on continuous high and just take as many as possible then edit them down so I would have as many decent shots as possible. This was a good plan but it did mean I was left with nearly 1,100 shots by the end of the day that I had to go through (thank goodness for lightroom). I ended up with about 150 odd pictures that I was happy with and I actually got some good feedback from the event organisers which was nice. In fact if you head over to a website called Tri247 you can see one of my photos next to the race report, it also tells you a little about the race.

Anyway here are a few shots of the cycling:

This one was shot at ISO 100, 55 mm, f/13, 1/40 sec

ISO 100, 55 mm,  f/14, 1/25 sec

ISO 100, 55 mm, f/4, 1/400 sec

This one is my favourite I think ISO 100, 150 mm, f/6.3, 1/80 sec 

All the fun of the fair

I've just started a new photography course so should be getting stuff up on a weekly basis over the next 5 weeks. I find it so useful to have a professional photographer to give critique and tell me what I'm doing wrong so I'm really enjoying myself. The first session had us walking round the fun fair in town, I don't think I really got anything outstanding but here they are:

ISO 100, 50 mm, f/1.4, 1/200 sec

No Leaning Over

ISO 100, 50 mm, f/1.4, 1/800 sec

Bungee

ISO 200, 10 mm, f/4.0, 1/25 sec

Big Wheel

Got me a new camera!

Finally pulled the plug on a new camera and boy am I glad that I did! Went with the Nikon D7000 and let me tell you, it's is a significant step up from my old D40. Of course with a raft of new features it also comes with a pretty substantial manual and I'm still working my way through the 330 pages of it (all English). The feature I am loving most at the moment is the internal focusing motor in the body meaning that I'm getting so much more use out of my 50mm f/1.4 and my new 105mm f/2.8.

Hopefully I should be able to get some more stuff up in the coming days as I've been a bit slack lately. Anyway here's what I've got so far:

First up was taken with my 105mm micro at ISO 100, 105mm, f/11, 1/250 sec

Dandelion seeds

Second with my 50mm 1.4 at ISO 100, 50mm, f/1.4, 1/5000 sec

Cathy

Finally, this one at ISO 100, 50mm, f/1.4, 1/1600 sec

Phil

Phew.. 16mp files take a lot longer to upload than 6mp!