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*looks for other DD* Me? I've always had this username on this forum :p I was refering to the OP. :laugh:

I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but I don't think Nikon make a micro lens that is 50mm I think their shortest micro is 60?? If it is the 50mm 1.8 or 1.4 and your trying to do macro work with it, it won't focus real close. But if it is one of those lenses they are awesome, I had the 50mm 1.8 when I had my Nikon it was my favorite lens. Can you pop up a link of the lens you have? is it listed HERE

DD, I must be a bit slow on the uptake, just realized who you were. :laugh: how long have you had the new User name? I had thought recently you were a new poster, shows how much notice I take, I just realized your post count and the bit under your avatar! :laugh:

One comment and probably the funniest I have had to date, was a guy watched me in a car park while he was getting his bike out of the car and I was putting my dogs in after a walk and he said. "Why didn't you just get one big dog". :laugh: I'm not even sure what the logic is behind that comment but I thought it was funny and he thought it was funny!

That poor Lady and poor little dogs. What an awful way for the little old dogs life to end. I wonder why they didn't immediately euth the GSD? So sad, RIP little dog.

Thats lovely, love the background. EF, which Macro lens did you get? Lots of Macro shooters manual focus by choice. I have to 100mm Macro (canon) and it is both, I use auto unless I am having trouble on the bit I want the focus to be on then I will go manual. Refresh my memory again, which camera did you get?

I'd like to add that for every person I feel is saying something negative there is probably 10 that stop for a chat and are genuinely interested in the dogs as they are dog people themselves. I also get stopped all the time by people who 'want' one like mine. It's a great opportunity to educate about pet shops and puppy farms etc. Just the other day we did a walk with our dog obedience group, we had, labs, GSD, Malamute, Boxer, and more and a lady was only interested in my cross breed, she asked me lots of questions and seems she wanted a non shedding dog and had 'heard' crosses were non shedding. I simply told her there is no guarantee with cross breeds, you are by far better off to buy a purebred from a breeder and then you have a guarantee of type and temperament. It is quite amazing how many people out there are totally uneducated!! Mostly people are nice though there is only a small percentage that has something negative to say.

reply..................... "Oh, Thank you :) I just knew I had to buy a new red globe for that outside light :) " That's what I was referring to, not the limit you own, the limit you can walk in public on your own.

I get the same comment all the time, think I even started a thread about it. Those sort of comments have become common place. The ones I get annoyed about are wow it must cost a fortune to feed them? One nasty lady said one day in a scouley voice how could you possibly afford to feed all those dogs. I was gobsmacked. I have few standard replies for standard comments but for this lady I was just lost for words, I ignored her! What annoys me about the 'gee you have you hands full' comment is, people say it without seeing, my guys 2 each side walking perfectly nicely not a tight leash in site what hard about that? Fair enough if they were acting like ferrals (which they can do) :laugh: I usually say nanot really, I'd ha have another one tomorrow if I could! Not sure about NSW but I think the law here is 4 dogs per person is allowed no more.

He looked like a gorgeous boy Pers.

Thanks Stans Mum, look forward to seeing your shots! MM, fantastic shots, they are all so cute!!

I wondered if it was too early to start posting doggy Christmas Pictures then I thought what the heck it's never too early for Doggy Christmas photos. :laugh: I usually do a few pics of the dogs in their Chrissy hats etc and make some cards for family so we had a bit of a photo shoot today. I played with some textures too for something different. Paws up for Santa! Master Cooper as Santa Paws! I hope others will add some as they get them, or old ones if you like!

That's a really funky photo. Can you download your photos to your computer and upload them to photobucket?

Not much traffic in here but I just thought for anyone who pops in here might be interested in a series thats airing, not sure if its on cable or regular tv but its ep 1 is up on ezy tv today. Its called Witness and it is about photojournalists, It sounds really good, its 4 parts only 30 mins each. A short run down of each episode. Photojournalists head into combat zones to document atrocities. Drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. Witness follows our current generation of photojournalists into these conflict zones in Mexico, Libya, Brazil and South Sudan. In the four-part series, war photographers carry us into the heart of the human drama of the people in the action on the ground. We see what compels the photojournalist and experience why, when everyone else seeks cover, the photojournalist stands and moves closer. A Blue Light Media/Little Puppet Production. Executive producers are Michael Mann and David Frankham. It features photojournalists Eros Hoagland, Michael Christopher Brown and Veronique de Viguerie. Cinematographer is Jared Moosey and composer is Antonio Pinto. An HBO Documentary Films presentation. 1x01 -- Witness: Juarez -- Pro journalist Eros Hoagland has worked in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti, but his focus, here, is Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the world. Drug violence in Juarez has left over 10,000 dead, and the drugs are still flowing north. Eros began work as a photojournalist in 1993, covering the aftermath of El Salvador's civil war. He has since worked in Iraq, Haiti, Afghanistan and Columbia. His father, Newsweek photographer John Hoagland, was killed in El Salvador when Eros was a boy. Eros looks for an emotional narrative within the subjects. In a grim locale a man is shot in his car and dies. It is Hoagland's capture of the incongruity of the quietness of death and the waiting of the police that conveys the absurdity of accident and the deepest of feelings. Eros' search is always for the emotional narrative. Directed by David Frankham; produced by Ike Martin, Alison Kunzman and Youree Henley. Source: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/witness-juarez/ 1x02 -- Witness: Libya -- Michael Christopher Brown has been to Libya five times during the conflicts that brought down Gaddafi's rule. Now, the revolution is over, but the chaos has only begun; the current situation in Libya is even more complicated. Internecine fighting continues, not unexpectedly. After 42 years of Gaddafi and no democratic tradition, Libya was not going to magically turn into Connecticut. On an earlier trip, in April 2011, Brown was in Misrata with veteran photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. He remembers having an uneasy feeling, saying, "The city was like a shooting gallery that day." Then a mortar round struck nearby, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed, and Brown was wounded. In WITNESS: LIBYA, Brown is in the extreme moments of present-day chaos and reliving the loss of his friends and mentors. Directed by Abdallah Omeish; produced by Julie Herrin and Josiah Hooper. Source: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/witness-libya/ 1x03 -- Witness: South Sudan -- In South Sudan, thousands have been killed, abducted or displaced by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. French photojournalist Veronique de Viguerie travels with the Arrow Boys, an unpaid militia of farmers who took up arms to protect their families from the LRA. For the last two decades, Joseph Kony has led a campaign of unfathomable brutality in an attempt to impose his command as the law of the land. His forces have kidnapped and forced into sexual or military slavery an estimated 60,000 children and driven two million of Uganda's people from their homes. The pregnant de Viguerie treks through wilderness with the Arrow Boys, as well as with the Ugandan Army. On a night patrol she is asked if she ever gets scared. She replies, "Sometimes...but here there is no time." Directed by David Frankham; produced by Julie Herrin and Josiah Hooper. Source: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/witness-south-sudan/ 1x04 -- Witness: Rio -- Though Rio de Janeiro will host the Summer Olympics in 2016, the city currently remains crippled by a war raging between police and powerful drug gangs. Over 2,000 Brazilian military have taken to the streets in a largest offensive in decades. They are taking on the Red Command and Amigos de Amigos, two powerful gangs, in an attempt to regain control of the city's hilltop favelas before the world's eyes focus on Brazil as it hosts the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. The powerful drug gangs have fought back with a series of urban terror attacks on cars, buses and police stations. Several journalists have been murdered. Photographer Eros Hoagland is one of only a few willing to venture into the dangerous favelas like Mangueira, which overlooks the Olympic stadium. Mysteries are revealed: In some areas of "pacification," Red Command have been warned in advance and have already left for more remote parts. Rio's murder rate is said to be falling, yet missing persons cases are dramatically on the rise. "Is this 'social cleansing'?," Hoagland asks. "Where are the bodies?" As he journeys deeper into the dangerous streets he finds some of the answers - disturbing images of bodies in alleys, buried in wells or burned beyond recognition. I will report back after I've watched the first one but it sounds really good. :)

I was hoping you would pop back in here! I have made up my mind my next lens will be the 85mm 1.8 (canon) I have to compromise as money is tight, but I think it will suit my needs for now, its nearly half the weight of the sigma and half the price. :laugh: It's under $400 at DWI (can't remember exact price) and I had a look at Teds and it is $599, the Sigma is a lot more. So 85 next then the 70-200. Just hoping I win some of the tattslotto from tonight then I can get one of everything! :laugh: *says she who hasn't even checked her ticket yet!!* I went in search of testimonials on the Canon and have not found a bad one on the 1.8 yet and seen some great sample pics from that lens on a 7D so I'm pretty convinced. Thanks for the reply.

Great shots LP, love the action, they look like they are having a ball!! CM, I'm sure you will have a few to contribute here too! :)

Hunter looks like a lovely boy. Is Maya your dog to? You can put your photos in the same post, I think you can put 10 in one post, perhaps not the way you are doing it. If you use a site like photobucket you can add more than one at a time. I'm pretty sure the comment in post 6 this ----->blind uneducated pet owner expecting the food brought was not as harmful to the dogs overall health and development as it really is. might be offensive to some people here as there would be a huge portion of members here that feed their dogs commercial run of the mill food and 'dry food' I know this comment is your perception but could be taken in a different way. As its been proven time and time again especially on a forum such as DOL so many dogs do so well on so many different foods. Our old dog lived till he was 16, had a diet of nightly vege left overs, pet mince and goodos. He was extremely healthy, shiney coat and beautiful teeth. Sounds like Hunters conditioning to the gun shooting is going well and your right, if you spend much time with your dog then expect them to be on their own it doesn't happen easily and a hard habit to break. edited to add, are you training Hunter to excel in any type of dog sports or hunting?

Perfect, When ping mentioned this I thought of your shots of Luka and crew right away. :laugh:

Done. :)

Sorry I tended to skip over the writing and right onto the photos! :laugh: Thanks for the info I'll tell my mate!

Thats awful, just as well you had already left too.

Looks like you had a fabulous time, great photos, gee that camera takes some good underwater shots, did you have to use the flash for any of them? Which camera is it exactly, I have a mate who has just got his diving licence and wants an underwater camera, he wants one that goes down under the water a long way. Gee the horses look extra skinny and I always feel sorry for the dogs in places like that where they seem so unloved.

Ping came up with the idea of high speed or motion blur. I know we have done this one before but it was a long time ago now, so might be good to revisit. So anything going fast, either frozen in motion or panning, so subject clear and back ground moving. Things you can try FROZEN MOTION This is where you want to capture the motion with perfect sharpness and clarity. For this you will need a fast shutter speed (usually over 1/500th of a sec), wide open aperture (the lowest numbers you can get to) and depending on how much light you have, you may need a high ISO. The goal for frozen motion is to have every part of your subject sharp. PANNING This is where you want to capture motion that has a blur to give it a sense of movement however successful panning shots will have a point of focus that is still clear and readable. The best thing to get some initial practice on is cars driving down the street. Set your camera to a shutter speed of about 1/30th of a second (or even slower). You may need to make your aperture smaller and have it around F8 or greater. The trick is to move at the same speed as the subject while pressing the shutter button. Ultimately there should be a point of the subject that is sharp and clear but sufficient blur of the image to show the movement that occured. I'll start.

:laugh: Love these! Hey I know your going to hear this one million times when Luka gets older but bloody hell that boy is going to be as big as a horse!!!!!!!

The Nikon D5100 is a great camera, you will l love it! My friend has it and loves it!