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Have recently got a DSLR because I enjoy taking photos but still really learning the basics. Had fun messing round with the panoramic settings on holiday in South America this year, and got a decent sunset in the Andes:

A llama at Machu Pichu grazing:

And here's a few photos I took at a bird park that came out quite well:

Bonus picture: Llamas posing for their photo

Hoping to really get into it next year and actually fully understand what the camera can do.

Messing around with new equipment:

Can you tell me how you got that moon shot, please?

Poser wrote:Can you tell me how you got that moon shot, please?

Took the opportunity on a clear night (for London) last week. That's at 300mm, f/11 and 1/125, which is pretty much exactly what this guide says to use as a starting point. Even with a tripod it didn't come out as sharp as I'd like though. I might try again the next night or two since it's a full moon, depending on the weather.

Few more taken over the weekend:

Cheers for that, and the link. I've always fancied giving that a go. I have a (cheap) 300mm lens so I'll try it when we get a clear night.

Trouble is, it's bloody windy in Newcastle all the time at the moment :lol:

Even if I weigh the tripod down and delay the shutter release, I get a bit of wobble.

Just had a scan of that guide. Love that website; wish I'd discovered it before now. Thanks!

A few pics from around my neighbourhood in Berlin over Christmas and NY.

Reptiles are cool.

Birds are weird.

Case in point, chickens. Up in a tree:

Edit: 23. feb:

A couple of shots that I'm quite pleased with:

Another trip to the cemetery:

Night sky + northern lights and gooseberry fool:

The second is amazing! Where did you take these?

Mr Yoshi wrote:The second is amazing! Where did you take these?

Thanks. I took these photos down by Ægisíða.

In Reykjavík, Iceland.
I was actually surprised the stars and northern lights were as visible as they were considering all the lights around. I can't imagine what it might look like if I was somewhere out in the wild with no lights anywhere nearby.

Anyway, just got a new camera and lens (Olympus OM-D E-M1 & 12-40mm f2.8) so I may overload the thread quite soon with some test shots. Just gotta strawberry floating wait for this God-damn strawberry floating battery to strawberry floating finish charging.

Edit: Alright, some test shots. All straight out of the camera, and I uploaded the full-size jpegs so click through to my Flickr if you want to see the originals.

But enough gushing.
The menu system is taking a while to get used to. I still don't know how to assign the function buttons to something other than the default. Also the menus are kind of a clusterfuck, or at least at this point they feel like that to me.
The shutter-release button is a little too sensitive for me. I keep accidentally taking shots when I only intended to press it halfway, or I just brush it with my finger and it gets pressed halfway. Just a bit annoying.
The included strap is pretty bad. I may simply use the one from my EOS 550D (or buy a higher quality custom one).

But overall I'm pretty damn happy with this camera (so far at least). I better be in the long run, too, because it cost kind of a lot of money.

The pics all look pretty good, and the depth of field is surprisingly nice for a Micro 4/3 camera.

Mr Yoshi wrote:The pics all look pretty good, and the depth of field is surprisingly nice for a Micro 4/3 camera.

Well, they are taken very close with the aperture wide open (f2.8). Even a phone camera can get some foreground/background seperation if the subject is close enough.
The depth of field is certainly shallow enough for me, and if I want even less I can always get a Voigtlander f0.95.

Anyway, some more pictures. The first two are taken with an old 70-210mm Canon FD lens. So, equivalent to 140-420mm on a full frame camera... yikes!

In case anyone's interested here are the highlights from the last few days:

Nice photos

Thanks.

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