Photography thread (5 Viewers)

[Gazolba]

I agree it is difficult

I caught these two green bugs (sure they have a proper name) with my canon sx510. Tried to get as close up as possible but lost a lot of focus! Think it partly them trying to keep their modesty given, with the change in colour I think they might have been getting up to some naughtiness and I was clearly intruding! I hope they were from the same household, getting that close! Although I guess they are outdoors

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Nice shots. Those look like Nezara Viridula (Green Stink Bug aka Green Vegetable Bug)
Fact sheet - Green vegetable bug (098)

 

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[sw88]

Nice shots. How did you take them?
I just bought a 60x telescope and am going to try taking some moon photos through that.
Won't be easy, it's so powerful it's difficult to focus on it even visually.
And the slightest movement sends it out of the viewfinder.
Will have to use my heaviest-duty tripod.

Thanks buddy! I have a small tripod (one with bendy legs!), just a cheap thing or may have even come with an old camera, not sure. Didn’t start using it til last year when I went away! But has helped me get some of my best shots (Only slow capture shots I’ve ever taken were in Budapest Last year - can’t remember if I shared them so will post in a second).
I then put a 3 second timer on the shot to try and avoid any movement. my camera is only a ‘super zoom’ but anything over 30 x (I think) the image usually got a bit skew
I am not of a point and shoot while hoping for the best kinda shooter

 

[sw88]

Until I visited Budapest in the summer and had time on my hands to test my camera, id never managed a long exposure shot. On that holiday over 2 days, I tested it against Trams! And was very impressed with the outcome!

Not sure who the old boys are;
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My favourite;
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Seems I did share them :emoji_smiley:

 

[mrtrench]

 

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[mrtrench]

... one year the field opposite our house grew opium poppies for some pharm company.

 

[Houchens Head]

Just had one of my photos used as a backdrop on BBC Midlands Today weather report with Shefali whatsername.
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[sw88]

Just had one of my photos used as a backdrop on BBC Midlands Today weather report with Shefali whatsername.
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excellent work!! And thanks for giving the backstory, otherwise I would have just thought ‘what’s Shafali Whatshername doing on here’, and ‘has HH got his threads mixed up! This isn’t the ‘not so obvious hot’ thread’

 

[Kneeza]

Just had one of my photos used as a backdrop on BBC Midlands Today weather report with Shefali whatsername.
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Ha. Noticed the moniker last night and thought it much better than most of the idiot handles you see on there.

 

[Kneeza]

A few years ago on a canal holiday on the Brecon & Monmouth. Me dawg on the towpath and our boat in the distance.

 

[Marty]

Seen a couple of birds (I think blue tits) yesterday, was intrigued by them, got a couple of snaps too.

 

[Houchens Head]

Seen a couple of birds (I think blue tits) yesterday, was intrigued by them, got a couple of snaps too.

I love the one captured in flight! Brilliant!

 

[Kneeza]

Snakes Head Fritillaries at the park.
Love 'em.

 

[Houchens Head]

Snakes Head Fritillaries at the park.
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Not seen these before?

 

[Kneeza]

They're great Houch. Come up every year about early April, but take about five years to first flowering from planting seeds, so a long-term project.
I've never had any success with them, sadly.

 

[Paul Anthony]

I took a few of the night sky when we had some clear nights a few weeks ago. Only taken on my phone using a selfie stick/tripod thing a d a night mode setting, so probably not the best quality but my actual camera has been stashed away in the loft for a while now, and I don't have a tripod for it.

 

[Houchens Head]

I took a few of the night sky a couple of weeks ago when we had some clear nights a few weeks ago. Only taken on my phone using a selfie stick/tripod thing a d a night mode setting, so probably not the best quality but my actual camera has been stashed away in the loft for a while now, and I don't have a tripod for it.

Lovely and clear, especially for a phone camera! I can easily make out Orion in the first pic!

 

[Paul Anthony]

Lovely and clear, especially for a phone camera! I can easily make out Orion in the first pic!

It was Orion that caught my interest. I was surprised how clear it was, considering the usual streetlight pollution you get in built up areas.

For a phone camera (Samsung S20 FE) it's pretty decent. It's got some quite useful tools and settings you can adjust, and when you can get it to stay steady, then the image quality is fairly good.

 

[robbiekeane]

New to the game but getting into it. Snap from the beach (had to compress I think so not sure what it’ll look like)

edit: readded below

 

[robbiekeane]

Higher resolution

 

[Houchens Head]

Higher resolution

Brilliant colours and a great reflective shot! Keep it Up!

 

[robbiekeane]

New York New York

 

[Evo1883]

Abbey fields today with the dog

 

[Houchens Head]

Well, if we're doing pets again........... (my little Chihuahua, Harvey!)
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[Evo1883]

My old man just sent me this picture of the Newlands team around 81/82

 

[Evo1883]

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That's me 18 years ago doing my ocean diver qualification

 

[wingy]

The chances.looks amazing IMO.

Peak District photographer captures 'one in a million' rainbow shot - BBC News

The picture is widely praised online after the photographer posted it on social media.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[wingy]

I think the TARDIS has turned up.

 

[Mcbean]

Just had one of my photos used as a backdrop on BBC Midlands Today weather report with Shefali whatsername.
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love those mountains !

 

[Evo1883]

Nice walk yesterday , took this

 

[Houchens Head]

Now the weather seems to be getting better, I'm looking forward to seeing some cracking photos soon!

 

[Kneeza]

Bleddy frogs are doing all sorts of despicable things in my pond at the moment. Counted sixteen of them tonight (edit: not including the plastic one my grandson put there ). Spawn everywhere. Dirty buggers

 

[Houchens Head]

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A few hundred tadpoles soon, then?

 

[Kneeza]

A few hundred tadpoles soon, then?

Thousands the way it's going. Same every year. The fish see a load of them off though.

 

[robbiekeane]

couple from the neighbourhood